Gillotts School | |
Motto: | Non Nobis Solum (Not by Ourselves Alone) |
Established: | 1950 |
Head: | Catharine Darnton |
Address: | Gillotts Lane |
Postcode: | RG9 1PS |
Dfeno: | 931/4055 |
Urn: | 137921 |
Enrolment: | 801 |
Lower Age: | 11 |
Upper Age: | 16 |
Colours: | navy, green |
Gillotts School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.[1] The school is sited on a 33 acre verdant campus on the edge of Henley, incorporating a large Victorian manor house and two of its associated cottages. There are extensive playing fields, as well as areas of grass, trees and woodland.
Gillotts was established as a girls' boarding school in parkland on the fringe of Henley-on-Thames in 1950, under founding headmistress Betty Barford. Gillotts became a coeducational comprehensive school in 1960. The current headteacher is Catharine Darnton,[2] former headteachers include Malcolm White, and David H W Grubb as well as Mr Lockyer. Lotto multi-millionaire winner Gerry Cannings taught history at the school from 1976 until 1983.[3]
Gillotts school has three houses: Darwin, Pankhurst, and Orwell (named after Charles Darwin, Emmeline Pankhurst, and George Orwell).