Scaitcliffe

Scaitcliffe was a day/boarding prep school for boys aged 6-13 in Egham, Surrey, UK. After merging with Virginia Water School in 1996, the school is now co-educational and known as Bishopsgate School. The school is located in a small village in Egham called Englefield Green near Windsor Great Park.

In post-war days, boys were allocated to four 'houses' each named for British military heroes. These were Jellicoe, Beatty, Haig, and Kitchener.

Former pupils include Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group; Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, the former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, patron of the Arts and architecture connoisseur; Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the opposition Democrat Party in Thailand, who subsequently went to Eton College and Oxford University; Charles Philipps, CEO of Amlin, who also subsequently went to Eton College; Bim Afolami, MP; and Michael Holroyd, biographer, who describes it in his 1999 book Basil Street Blues.