Claremont Fan Court School

Coordinates: 51°21′29″N 0°22′16″W / 51.358°N 0.371°W / 51.358; -0.371

Claremont Fan Court School

Motto	Be Strong in Understanding
Established	1922 (Claremont School) 1934 (Fan Court School) 1978 (CFCS)
Type	Independent School
Chairman	Dr Adalbert Kather
Location	Claremont Drive Esher Surrey KT10 9LY
Students	650
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	3–18
Houses	Esher, Longcross, Norwood, Radnor
Website	Official site

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.

History

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 Sydney Camm produced the Hawker Tempest fighter.

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

The National Trust acquired 50 acres (200,000 m²) 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 join 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 union 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
• 2007 Salad Days
• 2008 Oh, What a Lovely War!
• 2011 The King & I

Notable former pupils

See also: Category:People educated at Claremont Fan Court School

• Michaela Strachan, television presenter^[1]
• Kate Staples - former Gladiator
• Clare Staples
• Joyce Grenfell
• Henry Friend

See also

• Claremont (country house)
• Church of Christ, Scientist

References

1. ^ "Michaela Strachan"

External links

• Official site