Lingfield Notre Dame School
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| Established | 1940 |
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| Type | Independent Day School |
| Religion | Non-Denominational Christian |
| Headmaster | Richard Bool |
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Racecourse Road Lingfield Surrey RH7 6PH United Kingdom Coordinates: 51°10′18″N 0°00′04″E / 51.1717°N 0.0012°E |
| DfE number | 936/6255 |
| Students | Approx. 940 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 2 ½–18 |
| Houses | Yeates (yellow), Bell (blue), Clubb (red), Higgins (green) |
| Website | www |
Lingfield Notre Dame School is an independent school situated in the English county of Surrey, for pupils aged from two-and-a-half to eighteen. It is co-educational and in total has approximately 940 pupils, spread over two sites situated next to one another: the Junior School (catering for the two-and-a-half- to eleven-year-old pupils); and the Senior School (catering for the School's eleven- to eighteen-year-old pupils).
Lingfield was founded in 1940 by three members of the Roman Catholic School Sisters of Notre Dame as an all-girls school. They had arrived from Faversham, Kent with fourteen young evacuees and set up a school. The School originally occupied houses in Lingfield, before the purchase of Batnors Hall (the current site of the Junior School) and Ivy House (the current site of the Senior School), both on the edge of the village, and close by to Lingfield Racecourse. Ivy House was renamed Le Clerc House, after Alix Le Clerc, the founder of the sixteenth-century order from which the Sisters' order was descended.
The School was expanded over both sites in the 1950s and 1960s; however by the early 1980s, a decline in vocations made the Sisters feel the need to focus their now more limited resources elsewhere in the world. They left Lingfield in 1986. The School's governance was turned over to a lay educational trust, after which boarding was discontinued and lay senior staff and a board of governors were appointed to replace the nuns. In 1996 the school became fully co-educational, after the appointment of Nuala Shepley as Head Mistress in 1992.
The 1990s and 2000s saw the rapid construction of further classrooms, Science laboratories, a Music/Drama block, Sports Hall, an Art/Technology block, and the development of further playing fields on former farmland adjacent to the Senior School. The old gymnasium was converted to a dining hall and kitchens, the School Library was enlarged, the Home Economics room was updated, and a new VI Form Centre was built to cater for the growing numbers of pupils. A new cricket pavilion and an Astroturf surface were built, and in 2008, the main Senior School building was refurbished, a separate dining room was created in the expanded VI Form Centre and the Fitness Suite at the Sports Hall was expanded.
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