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Encyclopedia > Sunningdale School

Sunningdale School is a family run boys' preparatory school of around 100 pupils. Founded in 1874 it stands in 25 acres of mature gardens and grounds. The school is situated in Sunningdale, Berkshire, close to London. A preparatory school, or prep school in the United Kingdom, and previously in the British Empire and so the Commonwealth in current English usage, is an independent school designed to prepare a student for fee-paying, secondary independent school (public school). ... This page is about the town. ... Berks redirects here. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...


The school has its own chapel, and a house in Normandy, France to which each boy goes for a week three times during his time at Sunningdale. The school's major sports are football, rugby and cricket in the Michaelmas, Lent and summer terms respectively. Boys also play tennis, squash, Eton Fives, basketball, indoor hockey, golf and table tennis against other schools. Fives has been played at Sunningdale since at least 1892 and the school has 3 courts on site. They also compete in athletics, cross-country, fencing, judo and air rifle shooting. There is a heated indoor swimming pool which means that the boys can swim all year round. The sports hall includes two full-length cricket nets and an air rifle range. There is also a 7-hole golf course in the grounds. Boys can also ride and do clay pigeon shooting and in their last term they do an outward bound course on Dartmoor. Indoor activities include chess, model railway, cooking, bridge, snooker, Scottish dancing, drama, model making and board games. A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ... Flag of Normandy Normandy (in French: Normandie, and in Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region in northern France. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A rugby union scrum. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Michaelmas (pronounced ), or the Feast of Ss. ... In Western Christianity, Lent is the forty-day period (or season) preceding Easter lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (Easter Even). ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... Squash racquet and ball Players in a glass-backed squash court International Squash Singles Court, as specified by the World Squash Federation Squash is an indoor racquet sport that was formerly called Squash racquets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball... Eton Fives, one code of the British game of Fives, is a hand-ball game, similar to Rugby Fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Minnesota State High school Cross Country Meet A cross country race in Seaside, Oregon. ... Fencing advertisement for the 1900 Summer Olympic Games This article is about the sport, which is distinguished from stage fencing and academic fencing (mensur). ... 50 meter indoor swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bath, or wading pool is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for recreational or competitive swimming, diving, or for other bathing activities that involve swimming, e. ... Cricket nets are practice nets used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their techniques. ... The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, generally regarded as the worlds Home of Golf. Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the few ball games that does not use... Clay pigeon shooting, formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, is the art of shooting at special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or clay targets, with a shotgun or spitball. ... High Willhays, the highest point on Dartmoor and southern England at 621 m (2037 ft) above sea level, with Yes Tor beyond. ... Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Cooking is the act of applying heat to food in order to prepare it for ingestion. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance (the relative proportions depend on the variant played). ... Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large (12 feet × 6 feet, 3. ... The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... A scale model of the Tower of London. ... A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ...


The school is known as a feeder for Eton, Harrow, Marlborough, Radley, Stowe and Wellington. Very nice! The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for male students, founded in 1440 by Henry VI. It is located in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor in England, situated north of Windsor... It has been suggested that Houses of Harrow School be merged into this article or section. ... Marlborough College is a British boarding school in the county of Wiltshire, founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, although it now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. ... Mansion, Originally Radley Hall Radley College (founded as St Peters College, Radley) is an English public school situated on the edge of the village of Radley near Abingdon in Oxfordshire. ... Stowe School is a well known British public school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. ... Wellington College, the national monument to the Duke of Wellington, is an English public school, located in the Berkshire village of Crowthorne. ...


1 boy won an Eton Scholarship. Great Success!


Some boys are also complete dicks, such as Ansell, who thinks Harry Potter is true, and Isaac Inglis, who is a stupid American fatty.


External links

  • Sunningdale School website

Tom Carter works their as a gap student. He is from Australia. Crikey!

Berkshire Secondary Schools
Comprehensive: The Bulmershe School | Denefield School | Desborough School | John O'Gaunt Secondary School | Kennet Comprehensive School | Little Heath School | Newlands Girls' School | St. Bartholomew's School | St Crispin's School | The Downs School | Trevelyan School | Trinity School | Waingels College
Grammar: Herschel Grammar School | Kendrick School | Langley Grammar School | Reading School | Slough Grammar School | St Bernard's Convent School
Independent: The Abbey School | Claires Court School | Crosfields School | Dolphin School | Downe House | Lambrook Haileybury | Leighton Park School | Ludgrove School | Sunningdale School
Public: Bearwood College | Bradfield College | Eton College | Heathfield St Mary's | Pangbourne College | Reading Blue Coat School | St. George's School, Ascot | St Mary's School Ascot | St. Piran's | Wellington College


 

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