Windermere School
Crest of Windermere School
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| Motto | Vincit qui se vincit (One conquers who conquers oneself) |
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| Established | 1863 |
| Type | Independent day and boarding school |
| Chairman of Governors | Michael Dwan |
| Founder | Elizabeth Hall and Catherine Sharpe |
| Location |
Patterdale Road Windermere Cumbria LA23 1NW United Kingdom Coordinates: 54°23′38″N 2°54′48″W / 54.3939°N 2.9133°W |
| DfE number | 909/6008 |
| Students | 400 (approx.) |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 2–18 |
| Houses | Cavendish, Flemyng, Lonsdale and Strickland (red, blue, green, yellow) |
| Colours | Navy and cyan |
| Former pupils | Stannites |
| Website | www |
Windermere School is an independent, co-educational boarding and day school in the English Lake District. It has approximately 400 pupils between the ages of 2 and 18, a third of whom are boarders. Windermere Preparatory School caters for pupils up to the age of 11, after which they transfer to the senior department. Originally a girls' school, boys have been admitted since 1999. Windermere was previously known as 'St Anne's School, Windermere'. It is a member of Round Square and the Society of Headmasters & Headmistresses of Independent Schools. The Good Schools Guide describes Windermere as 'a school which revels in a hearty approach to everything from academia to friendships'.
The school was founded in 1863 in the Lancashire coastal town of Lytham, by the young schoolmistresses Elizabeth Hall and Catherine Sharpe. Its first premises were rooms in Hall's parents' house, 'The Coppice', near the Lytham seafront. The school moved into its own house on Agnes Street two years later. It was named 'The School for the Accomplished', and catered for the daughters (and a few sons) of wealthy Lancashire industrialists. Hall and Sharpe later moved it to Belgrave House on St Anne's Road West in the new town of St Annes-on-Sea, two miles up the coast. Boy pupils were phased out during this time and the ever-expanding girls' school eventually moved again to a purpose-built house at 40, North Promenade, St Annes, in 1887, as 'St Anne's High School for Girls'.
The biggest upheaval came in 1924, when the school left Lancashire for the Browhead Estate in Windermere, Cumbria. The then vacant house had been acquired by joint headmistresses Helen Leigh and E.M. Morrison, possibly with financial assistance from Leigh's husband. The name was altered to 'St Anne's School, Windermere' and it has remained, and expanded, at Browhead ever since. The neighbouring estate of Elleray was acquired in 1944 to house the school's preparatory department.
Young boys had been educated at Elleray since the 1970s, and boys were finally admitted to the senior school in 1999. Boys now make up half the school roll across all ages.
The school's name was simplified to 'Windermere School' in 2010, at which point Elleray became 'Windermere Preparatory School'.
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