Marlston House

Newbury

Day and boarding for girls aged 8-13

* Day and boarding for girls aged 8-13 with pre-prep
* Separate boys' school
* Extensive grounds and sports facilities
* Chateau in France for educational visits
* New indoor swimming pool and teaching block opens 2004

Marlston House is set in the grounds of a glorious Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in the Berkshire countryside where pupils can grow up and learn in a stimulating and picturesque location. Together with its sister school, Brockhurst, it offers an enterprising combination of traditional single-sex and co-educational values.

Facilities include a modern Science and Art classroom block, three all-weather courts and one indoor court, a large multi-purpose sports hall and an outside swimming pool. Opening in late summer 2004 will be an indoor swimming pool and further sports and teaching facilities. The school also owns a large chateau in France where pupils are able to spend time to improve their French and indulge in the Gallic way of life.

   On moving up to the senior school from the co-educational pre-prep department aged six years, girls are taught in small single-sex classes because we believe this best enables them to realise their academic potential and to develop their self-confidence.

  However, in order to foster the social development of the girls, which we see as the great attraction of co-education, they join the boys of Brockhurst for Music, Art and Drama, and a wide range of extra-curricular activities. In this way, Brockhurst aims to offer a first-class all-round education founded on Christian principles and a disciplined, happy family atmosphere.

A short morning assembly is held each day in the school's Great Hall. Marlston Church, which stands in the school grounds, is used as the school chapel. Services are conducted by the Vicar of Bucklebury and lay readers or visiting preachers are invited to the school.

The school is non-denominational but the majority of girls are Church of England and religious worship is based on its teaching. Girls of other denominations are welcome in the school and their parents may make special arrangements with the school for them to attend a service elsewhere if they so choose.

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