Maltman's Green School

Maltman's Green School
Address
Maltmans Lane Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, SL9 8RR,
Information
School type	Private Preparatory
Established	1918
Headmistress	Mrs Joanna Pardon
Gender	girls
Age	3 to 11
Website	http://www.maltmansgreen.com/

History

In 1918, the school was set up, ‘to provide a unique educational experience to girls from the age of 8 to 18’.

In 1948 Miss Lowe (Headmistress) stopped the practice of academic freedom which allowed girls to choose which lessons they went to! She also introduced the purple uniform, a favourite with the girls to the present day. Miss Burke, who had been teaching at the school for four years, succeeded Miss Lowe as Headmistress in 1958.

Miss Burke and Peter Ewen, the owner of Maltman’s Green, then proposed a radical change to the school. Instead of taking girls up to the school-leaving age of 18, the school was changed into a preparatory boarding and day school for girls from the ages of 5 to 13.^[1]

School Houses

The girls in the senior school are divided into four houses named Aylwood, Bronte, Johnson and Pankhurst. Each house has a colour and displays its information on a notice board decorated in that colour.

Sport

All girls from Reception upwards have a forty minute lesson of physical education every day.

Junior Curriculum (Reception -Year 2)

Winter - games (multi activity skills and individual, group and team tasks), formal and creative dance, modern and Olympic gymnastics, and swimming (once a week).
Summer - athletics, mini-tennis, swimming (once a week), and games/activities (kwik cricket/square rounders/potted sports).

Senior Curriculum (Years 3-6)

Winter - netball, one term blocks of hockey/cross country/dance for Year 3, trampolining, dance (formal and creative), gymnastics (modern and Olympic), a diverse programme of weekly swimming, and hockey (Year 6 only).
Summer - athletics (track and field), rounders, tennis, and weekly swimming.

References

1. ^ "History: url=http://www.maltmansgreen.com/5-history-of-the-school/".