St Faith's School

at 6 Trumpington Road, Cambridge , CB2 8 United Kingdom

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Description

St Faith's School is an independent preparatory day school on Trumpington Road, Cambridge, England, for boys and girls aged four to thirteen. The present headmaster is Nigel Helliwell, and the school has in excess of five hundred children. St Faith's is part of The Leys School and St Faith's Schools Foundation.HistoryThe school was founded by Ralph Shilleto Goodchild, a graduate of Christ’s College, around 1884. It features under that name in Gwen Raverat's autobiographical account of her childhood, Period Piece.The Leys and St Faith's Foundation share the motto (In fide fiducia) and coat of arms.Until the 1990s, most classrooms were in converted Victorian houses. Since then, the school has built Ashburton, opened in 1999, a large red brick building. This contains the School Hall, where assemblies and plays take place, two purpose-built, fully equipped science laboratories, and other classrooms. The naming of the school's Ashburton Hall commemorates the evacuation of some of the boarders during the Second World War to the Golden Lion Hotel in Ashburton, on Dartmoor in Devon.In June 2006, the school opened a new building for Music and Technology, named The Keynes Building in honour of old boys Maynard and Geoffrey Keynes.

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Summary

St Faith's School is Cambridge based place and this enity listed in School category. Located at 6 Trumpington Road CB2 8. Contact phone number of St Faith's School: 01223 352073