St George's School in Switzerland
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Chemin de St. Georges 19, CH-1815 Clarens / Montreux Switzerland |
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| Type | Independent, non-denominational, co-educational, day and boarding school |
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Levavi Oculos ((I Have Lifted My Eyes)) |
| Established | 1927 |
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| Principal | Mrs. Jenny Aviss |
| Enrollment | ~480 |
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| Alumni name | Georgentians |
| Website | www |
St. George's International School, Switzerland (commonly referred to as St. George's) is a private, co-educational international school for boarding and day students aged 3 to 18. Its main campus is located in Clarens, Vaud, at the foot of the Alps and on the shores of Lake Geneva, approximately halfway between Vevey and Montreux.
Founded in 1927 as a traditionally British school, St. George's has evolved to become distinctly international, offering International General Certificate of Secondary Education and International Baccalaureate curricula in both French and English. The student body consists of more than 400 pupils, representing over 50 nationalities. The boarding section is available to students over the age of 9, and currently comprises about 70 students.
Situated in a 45,000 square metre campus overlooking Lake Geneva/Lac Léman and the Chablais Alps, the school's main building complex houses administrative offices, an assembly hall/theatre, a library, the boarding section, and purpose-built rooms for art, music and information technology as well as general-purpose classrooms. An extension to the main building houses classrooms, laboratories for practical work in biology, physics and chemistry as well as a kitchen and dining room, in which students are served a sit-down lunch every day.
The Senior School is based exclusively in the main building, while the Junior School uses both the main complex and a restored, traditional Swiss Chalet located on campus. Sports facilities include a large multi-purpose sports hall, seven outdoor tennis courts (including clay courts), basketball courts, and playing fields.
The Junior School is a self-contained unit with Early Learning School and Foundation Stage to year 3 classes based in the Chalet and year 4 to 6 classes in the ground floor of the annexe in the main school building. This helps the students to integrate smoothly into the Secondary School.
The various sections of the Junior School can be referred to in the following ways: Early Learning School - from 1.5 years old. Foundation Stage – Year 2 is known as Infants or Year 1 and 2 are known as Key Stage 1. Year 3 – Year 6 are known as Juniors or Key Stage 2
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