| Chandlings Prep School | |
| Established: | 1994 |
| Type: | Private preparatory day school |
| Head Label: | Headmistress |
| Head: | Christine Cook |
| R Head Label: | Chair of Governors |
| R Head: | Ralph Townsend |
| Address: | Bagley Wood |
| City: | Kennington |
| County: | Oxford |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | OX1 5ND |
| Urn: | 131981 |
| Enrolment: | approx. 400 |
| Gender: | Co-educational |
| Lower Age: | 2 |
| Upper Age: | 11 |
| Website: | http://www.chandlings.org.uk/ |
Chandlings, or Chandlings Prep School, known until 2007 as Chandlings Manor School, is an independent co-educational preparatory school at Bagley Wood near Kennington, a village south of Oxford.
The school occupies a site of 62acres with a wide variety of sports and educational facilities and is a member of the Independent Association of Prep Schools.
Chandlings was founded in 1994 as a co-educational day-school by the governors of Cothill House to supplement the preparatory boarding school education for boys at Cothill. In its early years, it was known as Chandlings Manor School.[1]
The school is operated by the Cothill Education Trust, an educational charity registered in England, which also operates other preparatory schools in England and France.
Chandlings is a co-educational school which has a nursery and a pre-prep department, which delivers an Early Years Foundation Stage programme for children up to year 2, and then a prep department, for years 3 to 6. Pupils are divided into three houses: Richardson (colour: red), Astley (dark blue) and Poltimore (green).[2]
Among the school's facilities are an indoor heated swimming pool, tennis and netball courts, playing fields, a golf course, an area for riding motor quads, stables and extensive woods ideal for woodcraft and nature study and where a new low-ropes course has been built.[3]
Teaching staff include the headmistress, Christine Cook, two deputy heads (pastoral and academic), a senior master and head of girls, a head of pre-prep, more than thirty form teachers, and teachers specializing in English, maths, science, modern languages, history, geography, ICT, classics and philosophy, art, music, drama and religious education, as well as a team of games and sports coaches.[4]
Visiting performers and authors include Cressida Cowell, who spoke about her writing at the school in May 2018.[5]
The Good Schools Guide says:
In rural surroundings near Oxford, Chandlings and Cothill House School are near enough together to be able to share a bursar and grounds staff.[6]