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St Andrew's School is an independent preparatory school in the hamlet of Buckhold, near Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. Together with its 'Pre-Prep – Early Years' department, the school now educates girls and boys aged between three and thirteen. In 2011, there were 266 children at the school, of whom 155 were boys and 111 were girls. The school has a Christian ethos, and its chapel services are reported to be "broadly Anglican in style". The most important religious event of the school year is the Advent Carol Service, which because of the numbers attending is held not at the school but in the larger chapel of nearby Bradfield College. Scholarships are awarded to some children above the age of eleven, based on merit. St Andrew's has a School Council to involve its children in decisions affecting them. In March 2011 an Independent Schools Inspectorate report endorsed the school's success. 〔 ==History== The school was founded in 1934 as a boarding school for boys, and consisted of just two staff and eight boys.〔Donald P. Leinster-Mackay, ''The Rise of the English Prep School'' (1984), p. 340〕 Historically, as the school grew, boys would leave to go onto schools such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester, however its ties with these schools slowly deteriorated after it first admitted girls in 1971, going on to become fully co-educational.〔(ISI Report, March 2011 ), online〕 The school's main building is a listed Victorian Gothic country house called 'Buckhold', designed by Alfred Waterhouse set in fifty-four acres of woods and playing fields.〔 In 1991, Catherine Middleton, who was then attending the school, first saw her future husband Prince William when he was part of a Ludgrove School hockey team that came to play a match at St Andrew's.〔Daily Telegraph Reporter, ''(Kate Middleton 'first laid eyes on Prince William as a 10-year-old schoolgirl' )'' dated 27 November 2010 at telegraph.co.uk〕 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「St Andrew's School, Pangbourne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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