Cheltenham Ladies' College

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Cheltenham Ladies' College
Established	1853
Type	Boarding Independent all-female
Headmistress	Vicky Tuck
Students	850 (approx)
Location	Cheltenham, England
Website	Cheltenham Ladies' College

It is located in Cheltenham, a spa town in the English Cotswolds. Today, it takes girls aged 11 to 18 as boarding or day pupils. It is one of the most expensive private schools in England, with boarding fees of around £33,000 a year.

Presently, the school educates around 850 girls, of whom 80% board. It has excellent facilities, both for teaching and for sport. Its academic prowess is notable, with a large proportion of its girls going on to the best universities in the UK, such as Oxford or Cambridge, but it remains a friendly school catering for a range of abilities.

1 History
2 Notable Alumnae
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The Cheltenham Ladies' College was founded in 1853. In 1858 the principal's post was taken by Dorothea Beale, a prominent Suffragette educator who also founded St. Hilda's College, Oxford and a teacher training college for women.

Miss Beale kept the post of principal until her death in 1906. She transformed the school from a small establishment concentrating on developing traditional women's skills such as music, sewing and drawing into the first academic school offering courses equivalent to those in men's schools, including mathematics and English. By the end of her life, the school had over a thousand pupils (it had had 58 when she arrived) and it had become socially acceptable to educate women.

The school crest depicts three doves, taken from the Cheltenham Town shield, above the ornate letters "CLC," which is in turn above a daisy, one of the most important school symbols. The school motto is "coelesti luce crescat" meaning "may she grow in heavenly light".

The school has it's own mailing system called "slab" whereby in each house, a girl is appointed to carry slab from their house to the main entrance every morning and return every lunch and afternoon.

Girl from CLC generally refer to the school as "coll". Girls are required to wear their uniform with their house tie and their school jumper and skirt (all green). There are occasional "mufti days" where girls are allowed to wear their own clothes.

The present head mistress, Vicky Tuck was recently awarded head mistress of the year.^{[citation needed]}