CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL

'Claremont Fan Court School' is a co-educational independent school, for boys and girls from 3 to 18. Situated just outside Esher, in Surrey, only sixteen miles from London, it is set in the historic grounds of the Claremont Estate.
Claremont Fan Court is owned and run by an educational foundation with charitable status, and is inspired by the principles of Christian Science.

Contents

History of the school

Claremont

Fan Court

The amalgamation

Estate

Houses

Sports

Girls

Boys

Senior School Productions

Notable alumni

References

See also

External links

History of the school

Claremont

In 1931, a school for girls from Christian Science families moved into Claremont and adopted its name. During the Second World War, the school was evacuated to Llandrindod Wells in Wales, and Claremont was let to the Hawker Aircraft company, whose design team under the aeronautical engineer Sidney Camm produced the Hawker Tempest fighter.

Fan Court

The amalgamation

In 1978 Claremont amalgamated with Fan Court School in Chertsey to form Claremont Fan Court School, a co-educational establishment based on the teachings of Christian Science.

Estate

The National Trust acquired 50 acres of the Claremont estate in 1949. In 1975, with a grant from the Slater Foundation, it set about restoring the eighteenth-century landscape garden. Now Claremont Landscape Garden displays the successive contributions of the landscape gardeners who worked on it: Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgman, William Kent and Capability Brown.

Houses

On joining the school pupils are put into one of the following four houses:

★ Longcross, yellow

★ Norwood, blue

★ Radnor, red

★ Esher, green
Various school interhouse activities take place throughout the year in addition to the House point system and sports day.

Sports

Girls

In the Autumn and Spring terms girls play lacrosse and netball, and in the Summer term they play rounders and athletics.

Boys

In the Autumn and Spring terms boys play rugby and football, and in the Summer term they play cricket and athletics.

Senior School Productions

★ 2003 Anything Goes

★ 2004 Sweet Charity

★ 2005 Man of La Mancha

★ 2006 The Princess, the Palace and the Ice Cold Bath

★ 2007 The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew

Notable alumni

★ Michaela Strachan, television presenter^[1]

References

1. "Michaela Strachan"

See also

★ Claremont (country house)

★ Church of Christ, Scientist

External links

★ Official site