Cheam School

Cheam School
Established 1645 (1645)
Type Independent Preparatory school
Religion Anglican
Headmaster Mr Martin Harris
Founder George Aldrich
Location Headley
Hampshire
RG19 8LD
England
Coordinates: 51°21′13″N 1°15′28″W / 51.35364°N 1.25764°W / 51.35364; -1.25764
DfE number 850/6006
DfE URN 116520 Tables
Students 428 as of February 2016
Gender Co-educational
Ages 2–13
Houses Aldridge, Beck, Gilpin, Tabor
Colours

Red and Blue

         
Website School website

Cheam School is a mixed preparatory school located in Headley, in the civil parish of Ashford Hill with Headley in the English county of Hampshire. It was founded in 1645 by George Aldrich.

History

The school started in Cheam, now a museum visited on an annual basis by the younger children. The move from Cheam to the present site, previously a country house known as Beenham Court, took place in 1934, when the area was developing from a quiet leafy village to a busy suburb. Just before it moved, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was a pupil there. His son, Charles, Prince of Wales, was also a pupil at the school.

Present day

The school has occupied its present home on the borders of Hampshire and Berkshire, with nearly 100 acres (400,000 m2) of grounds, since 1934. There are four houses (known as divisions): Aldrich (yellow), Beck (green), Gilpin (red), and Tabor (blue). The school colours are red and blue.

The current headmaster is Mark Johnson, who has been in post since 1998, and in 2007 he won the Tatler Magazine award for 'Best Headmaster of a Prep School'. Cheam now educates both boys and girls between the ages of three and thirteen and takes day-pupils as well as boarders.

Headmasters

Notable alumni or former pupils

See also

Notes

  1. "William Gilpin 1724-1804". Hantsweb. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  2. "PETER BECK Headmaster who caned Prince Charles — twice" (obituary) in The Times dated 4 June 2002, p. 27, from The Times Digital Archive, accessed 16 September 2013
  3. Screeton, Paul (2010). John Michell: From Atlantis To Avalon. Avebury: Heart of Albion Press. p. 2. ISBN 1-905646-16-X.

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