European School, Culham

Coordinates: 51°39′22″N 1°15′28″W / 51.65611°N 1.25778°W / 51.65611; -1.25778

The European School Culham
Motto	One Education Many Languages
Established	1852 (as Culham College), 1978 (as a European School)
Type	International
Headteacher	Mrs L Soekov
Location	Thame Lane Culham Oxfordshire OX14 3DZ England
Students	440
Gender	Mixed
Ages	4–18
Founder	European Union
Former Pupils	Culhamites
Website	Official website

The European School in Culham (ESC), Oxfordshire, is one of fourteen European Schools around Europe and the only one in United Kingdom and currently has around 800 nursery/primary (4–11 years old) and secondary (11–18 years old) students.

It is located on the grounds of the former Culham College, a teacher training college established in 1852 by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. The Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke designed its buildings, and Sherwood and Pevsner described them as "institutional Victorian Gothic at its grimmest".^[1]

The school's future is currently under discussion. The school was formed primarily to serve the children of EU employees working at JET/EFDA, in Culham, but the project is currently scheduled to move to Cadarache, France around 2016/17.

Organization

As of October 12, 2003, the student population of the European School, Culham was 884 — of which 88 were in the nursery school, 343 in the primary school and 453 in the secondary school. There are five language sections: German (DP or DS), French (FP or FS), Italian (IP or IS), Dutch (NP or NS) and English (EP or ES). Each language has its own year group: nursery, primary ("X"P), and secondary ("X"S).

For nursery there are two year groups. For Primary there are five year groups ("X"P1 to "X"P5)and for secondary there are seven ("X"S1 to "X"S7). With the number of students in the Dutch and Italian sections decreasing these groups are usually grouped with the English classes for Science, Sports and Maths. L1 is still taught to the semi-merged groups in mother tongue.

Sport

The school's basketball team were U16 national champions in 2000 and U19 national champions in 2003.

Facilities

The European School, Culham has many sport and educational facilities, including a basketball/volleyball indoor sports hall, a five-a-side sized indoor gym, and two sports fields.

Alumni

Henry Brett - England polo player
Tommaso Allan - Italian rugby union player

References

↑ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 566

External links

Schools in Oxfordshire

Secondary	Banbury Academy Bartholomew School The Bicester School Blessed George Napier RC School Burford School Carterton Community College Cheney School Cherwell School Chiltern Edge School Chipping Norton School Cooper School Didcot Girls' School Faringdon Community College Fitzharrys School Gillotts School Gosford Hill School Henry Box School Icknield Community College John Mason School King Alfred's Academy Langtree School Larkmead School Lord Williams's School Marlborough School, Woodstock Matthew Arnold School North Oxfordshire Academy The Oxford Academy Oxford Spires Academy St Birinus School St Gregory the Great RC School Wallingford School The Warriner School Wheatley Park School UTC Oxfordshire Wood Green School

Independent (preparatory)	Abingdon Preparatory School Christ Church Cathedral School Cothill House Dragon School Emmanuel Christian School New College School The Oratory Preparatory School Rupert House School St Hugh's School Summer Fields School

Independent	Abingdon School Al-Madina School Bloxham School Carfax Tutorial Establishment Cokethorpe School Cranford House School D'Overbroeck's College Education First EF International Academy European School, Culham (closing in 2017) Greene's Tutorial College Headington School Kingham Hill School King's School Magdalen College School The Oratory School Our Lady's Abingdon Oxford High School Oxford International College Oxford Montessori Schools Radley College Rye St Antony School St Clare's School St Edward's School St Helen and St Katharine Shiplake College Sibford School Tudor Hall School

Special	Bishopswood School Mulberry Bush School Parklands Campus Swalcliffe Park School

Further education	Abingdon and Witney College Banbury and Bicester College City of Oxford College Denman College Henley College

Former	Carmel College City of Oxford High School for Boys Drayton School Falconbury School Milham Ford School Peers School Southfield Grammar School Oxford Military College St Mary's School, Wantage

International schools in the United Kingdom

London	Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle Lycée International de Londres Winston Churchill German School London Greek Secondary School of London Scuola Italiana a Londra Japanese School in London Russian Embassy School in London King Fahad Academy Instituto Español Vicente Cañada Blanch The Swedish School in London The American School in London ACS International Schools Marymount International School Southbank International School

Elsewhere in England	European School, Culham Teikyo School United Kingdom Rikkyo School in England The American School In England ACS International Schools

Scotland	International School of Aberdeen

Former	Gyosei International School UK

European Schools

Belgium	Brussels I Brussels II Brussels III Brussels IV(FR) Mol

Germany	Frankfurt am Main Karlsruhe Munich

Italy	Varese

Luxembourg	Luxembourg I Luxembourg II

Netherlands	Bergen

Spain	Alicante

United Kingdom	Culham (closing in 2017)

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