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The New School at West Heath (or simply the New School) is an independent school in Sevenoaks, Kent. It caters for children for whom mainstream schooling has become insufficient, for varying reasons. While many are not mentally or physically disabled, many have been through harsh circumstances and suffer from related things such as emotional trauma, which fits with the school's motto, ''"Rebuilding Lives Through Education."'' The school, founded in its current form as a charitable trust on 14 September 1998 as the Beth Marie Centre, is based in of parkland on lease from Mohamed Al-Fayed, who contributed almost £3 million towards the school. The building formerly housed the school where Diana Spencer, later Princess of Wales and her two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, received their childhood education. It was then called West Heath Girls' School and was a very exclusive girls' school with around 100 boarding pupils. ==History and grounds== ===West Heath School=== The Reverend Philip Bennet Power and his wife, Emma, undertook the education of their own daughters at their Abbey Wood home, ''West Heath House''. The quality of the girls' education attracted other local families to ask the Powers to teach their children and ''West Heath'' School thus opened in 1865.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=West Heath- A Short History )〕 In 1879 the expanding school moved to 1 Ham Common, in what was then the agricultural community of Ham, Surrey. The house, set in over of grounds, was the former residence of the Duc de Chartres.〔 In 1890 Misses Sarah, Maria and Anna Buckland and Miss Jane Percival who owned a similar school in Reading joined forces with the ageing Mrs Power at Ham Common and they ran the school until its purchase in 1900 by Misses Emma Lawrence and Margaret Skeat. Miss Elliott joined the staff in 1928 and was appointed Principal the following year.〔 The development of nearby shops and housing prompted a second move, Ham having become "too suburbanised for a high class girls' school".〔 In 1932 the school moved to its present site, the 18th century ''Ashgrove House'', near Sevenoaks, and the former home of the Elliot family. The larger premises allowed the school to grow from its previous capacity at Ham of about seventy boarders, to over one hundred by the end of the Second World War.〔 In addition to the Spencer sisters, Issy Van Randwyck and Tilda Swinton were educated there. In the 1990s the school had financial difficulties due to falling numbers of pupils, and was placed into receivership in 1997. 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「The New School at West Heath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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