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THE SCHOOL: PAST AND PRESENT The school's foundation Nathaniel Woodard was reluctant to start a school for girls, and even after the foundation of the School of S. Mary and S. Anne , he continued to express the view that his foundation might be wasting its efforts in promoting the education of women. However, some of his closest friends strongly disagreed (notably Edward Clarke Lowe, who believed that University education should be open to women), and they eventually prevailed upon Woodard to secure his blessing for the foundation of the School of S. Anne in 1874 . The School of S. Anne represented an extension to girls of the Woodard project to provide education for the Middle Class es. Its location is partly the result of its proximity to another Woodard school, Denstone College , which had been founded a few years before. Its location in the Anglican Diocese Of Lichfield also helped to secure for it the goodwill of Bishop Selwyn . Central to the evolution of the vision that resulted in the school's foundation was the role played by Alice Mary Coleridge (Lowe's sister-in-law), who had been greatly influenced by Anna Sewell and her godmother, Charlotte Yonge . Alice Coleridge became Lady Warden of S. Anne's in 1878 and instituted a spartan regime and a broadly based Curriculum . Given the Missionary ethos of the school's foundation, Alice Coleridge also tried to make some educational provision for girls from families who were unable to afford the fees required by the School of S. Anne. As a result, the School of S. Mary was founded in Abbots Bromley in the 1880s on a site immediately opposite the School of S. Anne. S. Mary's did not prove to be viable, so the schools were amalgamated in 1921 . The school today Statistics The school currently has 281 pupils, of whom fifty-seven are boarders.1 In 2000 the school had 237 pupils in total, made up as follows:
In 2000 numbers were reported to have declined substantially in recent years.2 However, it would appear that the decline has bottomed out, and there are considerable signs of growth. The school is not academically selective but achieves academic results that are generally regarded as outstanding for a non-selective school.3 Its academic, social and sporting provision is normal for most independent schools for girls in the UK. However, it does have two specialities in addition to the norm: it has a well-developed Equestrian centre, and it incorporates a dance school (Alkins School of Ballet ). The school occupies 53 Acre s split between two sites on either side of the village High Street. Ethos Historically, the school was a Boarding School , but for some time now the majority of girls have been day pupils. However, the school offers a range of boarding alternatives, including flexi-boarding, occasional boarding and weekly boarding. Academic teaching takes place from Monday to Friday. There are occasional activities on the weekends that are compulsory for all pupils, including day girls. |
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