Bloomfield Collegiate School is a private girl's preparatory

Preparatory school (UK)

In English language usage in the former British Empire, the present-day Commonwealth, a preparatory school is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for entry into fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are known as public schools...

 and state grammar school in Belfast

Belfast

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, Northern Ireland

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, for pupils in years 8-14. The current enrollment is over seven hundred in the grammar school, and sixty in the prep school..

History

Bloomfield was founded in 1905, one of a number of private school foundations of that era. It was originally proprietary (owned by the headmistress), co-educational, and accepted boarding

Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

 students. (It discontinued co-education in 1915.) . It has been announced the schools prep department will close in August 2011

Notable former pupils

• Christine Bleakley
  Christine Bleakley
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  , television presenter
• Naomi Long, MP
• Joan Lingard
  Joan Lingard
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  , novelist

External links

• Bloomfield Collegiate website

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