St Andrew's School, Pangbourne
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| Motto | Altiora Petimus (Latin: "We seek higher things") |
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| Established | 1934 |
| Type |
Independent preparatory school Day and boarding |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headmaster | Jonathan Bartlett |
| Founder | R. W. Robertson-Glasgow |
| Location |
Pangbourne Berkshire RG8 8QA England Coordinates: 51°27′56″N 1°08′00″W / 51.465634°N 1.133214°W |
| DfE number | 869/6001 |
| Staff | 50 |
| Students | ~300 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 3–13 |
| Houses | 4 |
| Colours | Green and white |
| Publication | The Chronicle |
| Former pupils | OSA's |
| Website | standrewspangbourne |
St Andrew's School is an independent preparatory school in the hamlet of Buckhold, near Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. Together with its 'Pre-Prep – Early Years' department, the school now educates girls and boys aged between three and thirteen. In 2011, there were 266 children at the school, of whom 155 were boys and 111 were girls. The school has a Christian ethos, and its chapel services are reported to be "broadly Anglican in style". The most important religious event of the school year is the Advent Carol Service, which because of the numbers attending is held not at the school but in the larger chapel of nearby Bradfield College.
Scholarships are awarded to some children above the age of eleven, based on merit. St Andrew's has a School Council to involve its children in decisions affecting them.
In March 2011 an Independent Schools Inspectorate report endorsed the school's success.
The school was founded in 1934 as a boarding school for boys, and consisted of just two staff and eight boys. Historically, as the school grew, boys would leave to go onto schools such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester, however its ties with these schools slowly deteriorated after it first admitted girls in 1971, going on to become fully co-educational. The school's main building is a listed Victorian Gothic country house called 'Buckhold', designed by Alfred Waterhouse set in fifty-four acres of woods and playing fields.
Following her family's return from Amman in 1986, Catherine Middleton was enrolled at the age of four at St Andrew's. Middleton boarded part-weekly at the school in her later years. It was at St Andrew's in 1991 that Middleton first saw her future husband Prince William when he was part of a Ludgrove School hockey team that came to play a match at Middleton's school.
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