Orley Farm School

Orley Farm School
Orley Farm School
Established 1850
Type Other Independent School
Location South Hill Avenue
Harrow
Middlesex
HA1 3NU
 England
Local authority Harrow
DfE URN 102248
Gender Coeducational
Ages 4–13
Website orleyfarm.harrow.sch.uk

Coordinates: 51°33′45″N 0°20′37″W / 51.56255°N 0.34368°W / 51.56255; -0.34368

Orley Farm School is a fee paying school in the London borough of Harrow, at the foot of Harrow Hill on South Hill Avenue. It was founded as the preparatory school for Harrow School, although now only a few leavers go on there. It currently has a little under 500 pupils, and ages range from 4 (Reception) to 13 (Year 8). The school grounds cover over 36 acres (150,000 m2). The school is a mixed school until year 6, when girls leave and the school usually becomes almost exclusively boys until Year 8.

The current headmaster is Mark Dunning, who took over the post in September 2006 after the retirement of Ian Elliott.

As "Hastings School", it was founded in 1850 by the first headmaster, Edward Ridley Hastings, who was head for 47 years. The school houses are named Hastings, Hopkins, Broadrick (after former headmasters) and Julians. The last was the name of a property purchased by the school which happened to have been owned by the family of Anthony Trollope. Trollope described the house in his novel Orley Farm and Hastings, recognising the description, gained permission to rename the school "Orley Farm". Each of the houses has a house colour; Hastings - maroon, Hopkins - blue, Broadrick - yellow and Julians - green. However, the current headmaster has abolished the house ties and the tie has been standardised to the maroon colour. The only exceptions are the people with 'colours' for exceptional contributions to music or to the school. Their colours have the crest embossed onto the centre of the tie (music) or have acorns in neat rows all over the tie (school).

Notable former pupils include Robin Butler, a retired senior civil servant, Dale Winton, Martin Stevens (former Conservative MP for Fulham)and Anthony Horowitz, the author of children's books. (Although he claims to have been 'traumatized' by this part of his life after being beaten, and it is widely believed to have been the basis of his book Gruesome Grange). It may be possible that Horowitz's brother may have attended the school, as a L.P. Horowitz is mentioned on the scholarships board.


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