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Crosfields School, commonly and colloquially known as Crosfields and initialised XF is an interdenominational〔(Independent Schools Directory : Crosfields School, Shinfield Rd Reading Berkshire )〕 preparatory day school on Shinfield Road in the civil parish of Shinfield, near the border of the boroughs of Reading and Wokingham in the English county of Berkshire. Established in 1957 when it gained independence from Leighton Park School as Leighton Park Junior School, it is set within of ground. The school is now fully co-educational.'Co-Ed' Crosfields currently has over 500 pupils aged between 3 and 13. A Nursery class opened in September 2008. Boys and girls (in the Pre-Preparatory School) are selected through interview and assessment at all ages starting with Reception. It is less common for people to join at the top end of the school (Year 8) and certain interval years (Year 4, 6, 7). An extra class is created in Year 5 and 6, making it 4 classes, to allocate more pupils. Some pupils take examinations at 11 which take them on to senior schools but most pupils tend to stay on until they are 13 and sit Common Entrance exams set by the Independent Schools Examination Board (ISEB) which will take them on to independent senior schools. However, there are exceptions from Common Entrance such as acceptance to grammar schools (notably nearby Reading School) and other independent, public and private schools that require slightly different methods of examination. Among the most recent policy changes was the acceptance of girls and a co-education policy which took effect in September 2007 for the Pre-Preparatory School with the whole school taking part in the policy from September 2008 onwards. ==History== The current Headmaster is Jonathan P. Wansey, who took over from Frank Skipwith in 2000, who had been Headmaster from 1986 until 2000. Originally a junior school for Leighton Park School, Crosfields was founded as a preparatory school in 1957. However, its roots can be traced back to a school in Castle Street called Marlborough House, established in the first half of the 19th century. The school was originally on Bath Road but in the 1920s moved to Parkside Street of which the location is now a YMCA centre. After World War II, Leighton Park purchased the nearby Goodrest Estate (the estate was thought to have been named after a quote of Charles I during the English Civil War saying he "had had a good rest") and the Junior school settled there in 1946. When the number of day and boarders at Crosfields had reached 100, a consideration was taken in January 1957 that the school should become an entirely new school. And in January 1957, Crosfields School officially became an independent preparatory school with its own Trust Fund and Board of Governors. Crosfields School Trust Ltd. became and independent organisation from Leighton Park School on 31 May 1957. The logo of an Oak Leaf is commonplace all over the school and is the origin for the school magazine, OakLeaf. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crosfields School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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