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Hurst Lodge School, established in 1945, is a small non-selective independent school at Ascot, Berkshire, England, for girls and boys aged three to eighteen, with about 200 children of all ages. The school offers excellent pastoral care and all children are taught performing arts and can take dance classes. ==History== Miss Dorice Stainer, of Hurst Lodge, founded the school in the aftermath of the Second World War as a course of "Dancing Classes".〔''The Times'', issue 50336 dated Saturday, December 29, 1945, p. 1〕 A sister of the film star Leslie Howard,〔Richard Stayton, ''THEATER: Truly, Madly, Deftly: Juliet Stevenson, a 'national obsession' in England, is making her American stage debut'' dated March 21, 1993, (p. 2 of 3 ) at articles.latimes.com, accessed 17 May 2012〕 and also of Irene Howard, the London casting director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,〔Frank Muir, ''A Kentish Lad'' (New York: Bantam, 1997), (p. 53 )〕 in the 1920s Stainer had been a partner in 'The Misses Stainer and Sinclair, Dancing Teachers', of 39, Onslow Square, South Kensington, London S.W.7, and after 1928 had continued the business alone at the same address.〔''London Gazette'' dated 22 May 1928, (p. 3611 )〕 Immediately before the War, she had been a travelling dance teacher based in Ascot, teaching classes at Camberley, Godalming, Guildford, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, and a variety of schools around England.〔''Dancing Times'', issue dated June 1939, p. 31〕 The actress Juliet Stevenson, a pupil of Miss Stainer's at Hurst Lodge in the 1960s, has described her as "a progressively educational woman who had been a prima ballerina and who believed the arts were fundamental to a child's education".〔 According to an article in ''The Times'' published in 1986, when Sarah Ferguson, future Duchess of York, was about to leave the school in 1977, she observed a tradition by diving into the swimming pool naked at midnight on the eve of her last day.〔Alan Hamilton, 'Love on a wing and a smile' in ''The Times'' (London), issue 62516 dated Wednesday, July 23, 1986, p. 9〕 The Duchess paid an official visit to her old school on 13 March 1989.〔'Today's royal engagements' in ''The Times'' (London), issue 63340 dated Monday, March 13, 1989, p. 18〕 In 1992, writing of Sarah Ferguson's time at Hurst Lodge, the journalist Valerie Grove called it "an expensive boarding school that turned out jolly chalet girls with lots of bounce but not too many O-levels".〔Valerie Grove, 'And they all lived sadly ever after', feature article in ''The Times'' (London), issue 64285 dated Friday, March 20, 1992〕 In that year's school performance tables, the proportion of girls sitting GCSEs who gained five passes at grades A to C was given as 50%, by comparison with 98% for Wycombe Abbey and 97% for the Dame Alice Harpur School.〔'School Report' in ''The Times'' (London), issue 64494 dated Thursday, November 19, 1992, p. 62〕 In 1998 only four pupils were entered for two or more A-levels, but their examination results were slightly better than the average for schools in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.〔'6th Form' in ''The Times'' (London), issue 66373 dated Tuesday, December 1, 1998, p. 6 (S)〕 In 1999, the school entered only one pupil for A-Levels, but as the result of her excellent results it appeared in the list of Top Independent Schools published in ''The Times'' on 25 November.〔'A level: Top Independents' in ''The Times'' (London), issue 66681 dated Thursday, November 25, 1999, p. 3 (S1)〕 In October 1995 the school announced the holding of a fiftieth anniversary ball on 24 November.〔'Ball' (in Official Appointments and Notices), ''The Times'' (London), issue 65408 dated Thursday, October 26, 1995, p. 20〕 In 2001 The Daily Telegraph reported that Hurst Lodge was the third most expensive prep school in Great Britain, coming just after Colet Court, the junior school of St Paul's, and the Dragon School, Oxford, but before Horris Hill, Papplewick, St John's Beaumont, Cheam and Ludgrove, all eight of which then charged more than £13,000 a year.〔John Clare, (Roedean, 154th for results, tops the school fees league ), from ''The Daily Telegraph'' dated 24 Nov 2001 online at telegraph.co.uk, accessed 18 May 2012〕 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「Hurst Lodge School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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