Farlington School for Girls is an independent school

Independent school (UK)

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 day and boarding school

Boarding school

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 for girls aged three to eighteen in Horsham

Horsham

Horsham is a market town with a population of 55,657 on the upper reaches of the River Arun in the centre of the Weald, West Sussex, in the historic County of Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester...

, West Sussex

West Sussex

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, England

England

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. Farlington was founded in 1896 originally in Haywards Heath

Haywards Heath

-Climate:Haywards Heath experiences an oceanic climate similar to almost all of the United Kingdom.-Rail:Haywards Heath railway station is a major station on the Brighton Main Line...

 but moved to its present site at Strood Green near Horsham in 1955. It is situated in 33 acre (0.13354638 km²) of parkland about 3 miles (5 km) west from Horsham on the A281 road

A281 road

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 to Guildford

Guildford

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.

Farlington has approximately 400 girls as students although the Nursery (which opened in September 2008) is co-educational. For the most part, girls attend as day pupils, however Farlington also offers a Boarding House where girls can board from the age of 8, on a full, weekly or occasional basis.
In September 2008 the new courtyard building opened, designed to complement the existing Prep School, it not only houses the co-educational Nursery but also includes further classrooms, a dedicated Prep music room, a multipurpose hall, a kitchen and library. The school also has both sporting and academic facilities, including a sixth form

Sixth form

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centre, five science labs, ICT facilities, drama studio, sports hall and an all-weather pitch. Farlington aims to educate "the whole child" by providing a broad and balanced curriculum for all age groups. The Senior School is organised into five faculties, with the aim of encouraging cross-curricular learning. These are the Faculty of Creative and Expressive Arts, the Faculty of Languages, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Curriculum Support. The academic standards are high and girls are encouraged to raise their own expectations of achievement. Farlington's uniform, which includes a kilt, is composed of three colours: dark green, navy blue and white.

Notable Alumni include Samantha Cross, a rising star of academic publishing, Samantha Houghton, an Anthropologist of whom great things are hoped and Alexandra Harris, who won the prestigious Guardian First Book Award 2010 for her book ‘Romantic Moderns – English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper’.
Headmistresses of Farlington


Miss Edith Buller (1986-1898)


Miss Isabel Moberly (1898-1942) & Miss Charlotte Moberly (1898-1936)


Miss Effie Simpson (1942-1971)


Mrs M Shewell (1971-1974)


Mrs Dorothy Khoo, later Harrington (1974-1976)


Mrs Olive Peto (1977-1987)


Mrs Patricia Metham (1987-1992)


Mrs Trina Mawer (1992-2006)


Mrs Jonnie Goyer (2006-present)

External links

• Farlington School Website