Woldingham School
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| Established | 1842 |
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| Type | Independent school |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Headmistress | Mrs Hutchinson |
| Chairman of Governors | Ian Tyler |
| Location |
Marden Park Woldingham Surrey CR3 7YA England |
| Local authority | Surrey |
| Students | 600 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses |
Barat Digby Duchesne Stuart |
| Campus size | 700 acre |
| Website | www |
Woldingham School is a Roman Catholic independent school for girls, located in the former Marden Park of 700 acres (2.8 km2) outside the village of Woldingham, Surrey, in South East England.
It is a member of the global Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
The school was founded as the Convent of the Sacred Heart in 1842 in Berrymead, London by the Society of the Sacred Heart; the first Convent of the Sacred Heart in England. The Society had been founded in France in 1800 by Madeleine Sophie Barat (canonized in 1925) immediately after the French Revolution (1789–1799). The first Sacred Heart school had opened in 1801 at Amiens, France; others were soon established in France and across Europe.
The Convent of the Sacred Heart moved to Roehampton, London, in 1850. Shortly after the 1939 outbreak of World War II, the school was evacuated, first to Newquay and later to Stanford Hall, near Rugby. Because the Roehampton site was damaged during the air raids of 1940, the school decided, at the end of war, to find a new location. Marden Park was purchased by the Society in 1945, and the school moved in one year later. Early in the 1980s, the Society decided to commit the school to lay management under the trusteeship of the Society. In 1984, Philomena Dineen was appointed first lay Head of School for the newly renamed Woldingham School; she took up her duties in January 1985.
Girls in different year-groups live in different boarding houses: Marden House (Years 7 and 8, i.e. 11- to 13-year-olds), Main House (Years 9, 10 and 11, i.e. 13- to 16-year-olds). Sixth Form girls are accommodated in Berwick House and Shanley House, named respectively after Dr Edward Berwick, Chairman of Governors (1989–1994) and Sister Claire Shanley, Mistress General (1947–1968).
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