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Request our information packet and tell us about your child. We offer preschool through high school Waldorf education on our beautiful 38-acre campus and farm in Sonoma County. The school was established in 1974 and is the only school in the state with a working Biodynamic farm on its campus.
Thank you for considering Summerfield Waldorf as you embark on the journey of choosing a school for your family. Summerfield is uniquely positioned to engage its students and faculty, creating a learning environment that fosters the awakening consciousness and abilities of students academically, socially and artistically.
Join us for an immersive, hands-on experience, featuring the opportunity to participate in a uniquely-designed sampling of hands-on demo classes from a variety of departments, facilitated by our experienced faculty. Student, alumni, and faculty voices will share about their experiences across the grades, as well as the strong sense of connection that our school community offers to students and their families!
Welcome to Summer Fields. We are a boarding and day school for boys aged 4 -13. Set in more than 70 acres of stunning grounds, we are five minutes from the centre of Oxford and about an hour from London.
Summer Fields is a fee-paying boys' independent day and boarding preparatory school in Summertown, Oxford. It was originally called Summerfield and used to have a subsidiary school, Summerfields, St Leonards-on-Sea (known as "Summers mi").
Summerfield became a boys' preparatory school in 1864, with seven pupils. Its owner, Archibald MacLaren, had been educated at Dollar Academy and was a fencing teacher who ran a gymnasium in Oxford. He believed strongly in the importance of physical fitness. His wife, Gertrude, was a classical scholar and teacher, a daughter of David Alphonso Talboys.[1] The school motto is Mens sana in corpore sano, "A healthy mind in a healthy body".[2]
The school grew and needed more staff, two of whom married into the Maclaren family: the Reverend Dr Charles Williams ("Doctor"), who took over the scholarship form from Mrs Maclaren and married Mabel Maclaren in 1879, and the Reverend Hugh Alington, who married Margaret Maclaren in 1885 and took over the boys' games. The school remained in the hands of the Maclaren, Williams, and Alington families for its first 75 years.[2]
During the 1960s, Pat Savage was headmaster, with the assistance of Jimmy Bell and Pat Marston. By the centenary year in 1964, the school's appearance had changed relatively little (see illustration), but it was thriving and energetic enough to celebrate with a hardback book of 332 pages, with contributions from "O.S.", or Old Summerfieldians, including stories about Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, and Harold Macmillan, and a friendly greeting in verse from the arch-rival Horris Hill School.[2][3] A former pupil recollected Pat Marston as follows:
However, another former pupil described a culture of brutality at the school, epitomised by 'the Ogre': "Any honest account would have described Pat Marston as a brutal sadist. 'Bend over the arm of that sofa and pull down your pyjama trousers, boy. And then the beating would begin ... The result was a web of welts and cuts that descended as far as the back of your knees, or even lower."[5]
In 1975, Nigel Talbot Rice took over as headmaster. He put the school on a sound financial footing through a series of appeals which paid for an ambitious building programme: new classrooms, the Macmillan Hall and Music Centre, an indoor swimming-pool, the Wavell Arts and Technology Centre (named after Earl Wavell), and the Sports Hall. In 1997, Talbot Rice retired and was succeeded by Robin Badham-Thornhill. In 2010 David Faber, an old boy and governor, took over as headmaster.[2]
The boys are organised into four "leagues". One of them is named Maclaren, after the Founder; the others are Moseley, after Henry Moseley,[6] Congreve, after William La Touche Congreve, and Case, after William Sterndale Case, a master from 1910 to 1922. Each league has its own identifying colour: Case red, Congreve yellow, Maclaren green, and Moseley blue. In leagues, the boys wear a polo shirt in the league colour, along with the rest of the uniform, blue corduroys, and black shoes. On Sundays as well as on special days, such as the school concert, and the end of term, boys wear a tweed jacket, with a light blue coloured shirt, black shoes, and grey flannel trousers. Their ties are in their league colours.
We never set limits on how much your child can achieve. At Summerfield Charter we create endless opportunities for your child to become their best. We shape instruction to build on the strengths and abilities of each child and make moral focus lessons part of every school day. Our students not only excel but thrive. A study done by Stanford University reveals that our students outperform their peers from surrounding schools by a remarkable 3.5 months each year.
Are you seeking a "private" school education with the no-cost benefit of a public school? If so, you're in the right place. Summerfield Charter Academy is a tuition-free public charter school open to all children who live in North Carolina.
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Our program for early learners ages 3 to 5 years was created to provide a safe, fun, and enriching location for preschool-age children during out-of-school time hours. Children enrolled in this program attend the full-day preschool or kindergarten program offered by their school district, then come to Champions before and after the regular school day. With our age-appropriate activities, your child will strengthen skills in art, dramatic play, math and science, problem-solving, language, motor skills and more.
Concerned about the betterment of the students, in April, 1928, a delegation from Summerfield took a petition to the Guilford County Schools Board of Education, asking for a new, improved, larger school for African-American students in Summerfield. Because Summerfield School only went through the seventh grade, the area high school students had to attend Dudley High School in Greensboro, which was fourteen miles away. In order for them to attend Dudley, their parents had to pay to board them in Greensboro while they were in school.
With a similar concern, at approximately the same time as the Summerfield petition to the School Board, delegations from Oak Ridge and Oak Springs brought their own petitions to the Board, asking for high school grades to be offered in their African American schools. After visiting both the Summerfield location and the Oak Ridge location, the Board announced that the school would be built in Summerfield. Until a projected later expansion of the Summerfield School, the high school students in Oak Ridge and Oak Springs would attend a local school.
A big change came to all area high schools in 1962, when they were consolidated into one school, Northwest Senior High School. However, Laughlin School chose not to join the consolidated school until 1965. Similarly, more change to Laughlin School came in 1968 when grades seven, eight, and nine were moved to the newly constructed Northwest Middle School. Then, at that time, Laughlin consisted only of grades one through six. Hence, in 1970, when integration fully transitioned into Guilford County Schools, Laughlin was paired with Summerfield Elementary School, and grades three, four, and five were transferred to that facility. Laughlin School was then a K-2 school with three team teachers and five self-contained classrooms.
Lastly, the next change to Laughlin School was in 1987 when the second grade was moved to Summerfield Elementary School. Laughlin remained a K-1 school until it closed in 2011. The school sat empty for approximately a year and a half.
To continue its rich history, in May, 2012, after renovation had taken place, the Departments of Induction and Success and Professional Development moved into Laughlin School, changing the name to Laughlin Professional Development Center. Laughlin School which began in 1866 is still alive with activity in 2014, 148 years later, as it houses Guilford County Schools trainings, workshops, and meetings.
Claiborne Parish Schools is a caring and connected community that believes in the ability of every child and shares accountability for student success. We commit to building equitable classrooms and schools that:
Daylesford Academy is a caring school where staff understand the difficulties the pupils have accessing education. Pupils are encouraged to believe in their abilities to overcome their barriers to learning. The Pupils are at the heart of every decision we make to ensure that they are happy and confident learners and with your support, are working together to ensure they achieve academically, socially and emotionally.
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