St Christopher School

51°58′05″N 0°13′36″W / 51.96806°N 0.22667°W / 51.96806; -0.22667

St Christopher School

Independent day and boarding

The utmost for the highest

1915

Rich Jones

Co-educational

3 to 18

Gernon, Godwin, Lytton

St Christopher School is an private day and boarding school in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.

Established in 1915 as the Garden City Theosophical School, it has long been a flagship of progressive education. The present name was adopted in 1919.

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Character[edit]

The school is co-educational, taking both day and boarding pupils between the ages of three and eighteen. It has a Montessori School, a Junior School, and a Senior School, with a sixth form.^[1]

There is no uniform, and all in the school are called by their first names.^[1]

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(born 1988), footballer

Ed Asafu-Adjaye

(born 1965), designer

Rufus Keppel, 10th Earl of Albemarle

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1915–1918: Dr J. H. Armstrong Smith

[10]

1919–1925: and Isabel King^[10]

Beatrice Ensor

1925–1953: Lyn and Eleanor Harris

[7]

1954–1980: Nicholas King-Harris

[8]

1981–2004: Colin Reid

[11]

2004–2006: ^[11]

Donald Wilkinson

2006–2020: Richard Palmer

[12]

2020–2022: Emma-Kate Henry

2023– : Rich Jones

(1901–1957), sports and drama master

Ernest Elmore

(born 1946), deputy head in 1990s

Dame Mary Marsh

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(born 1949), politician^[13]

Catherine Bearder

(born 1951), musician^[14]

Peter Blegvad

(born 1946), actor and presenter

Gavin Campbell

(born 1934), professional golfer

Neil Coles

(born 1963), singer

Jacqui Dankworth

(1956–2005), author^[15]^[16]

Julia Darling

(1947–2016), author

Jenny Diski

(born 1978), actor

JJ Feild

(born 1965), theatre producer

Sonia Friedman

(1954–2016), journalist^[17]

A. A. Gill

(born 1994), author

Connie Glynn

(1926–2001), publisher

Paul Hamlyn

(born 1945), actor^[18]

David Horovitch

(born 1981), poet, artist, and actor

Stephen Howarth

(1905–2010), writer

Elizabeth Jenkins

broadcaster

George Lamb

(1920–2003), physicist and University Rector^[19]

Rolf Landsberg

(1933–2014), manager of The Rolling Stones^[20]

Prince Rupert Loewenstein

comedian and writer

Olly Mann

(born 1948), musician and composer^[14]

Anthony Moore

(born 1950), musician

Neil Murray

(1932–2021), photographer

Roger Phillips

(born 1994), singer, songwriter

Freya Ridings

(born 1950), writer

Shawn Slovo

(1918–1985), angler

Richard Walker

(1935–2013), film producer and director

Michael Winner

L. B. Pekin, The Way of Life at St Christopher School, Letchworth (1939)

Reginald Snell, St Christopher School 1915–1975 (1975) 978-0950414409

ISBN

The Angry Island: Hunting the English (2005) ISBN 978-0-297-84318-4

A. A. Gill

Chris McNab, St Christopher School: a short history (Shire Publications, 2014) 978-0747813200

ISBN

Inspection Reports

ISI

School web site

Old Scholars: St Christopher Club

oldscholars.info

January 1915: the first St Christopher pupils

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Blue, gold and white

http://www.stchris.co.uk/

St Christopher School