St Leonards School

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St Leonards School

Motto	Ad Vitam
Established	1877
Type	Independent Boarding School
Founder	Louisa Lumsden
Headmaster	Robert Tims, MA (Cantab)
Faculty	36 full time; 15 part time
Students	172 boys; 218 girls
Location	St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Website	www.stleonards-fife.org

Founded in 1877 by Louisa Lumsden amid the increased demand for woman's education, St Leonards School and Sixth Form College, located in St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland, is now co-educational. The Sunday Times recently announced it "Scottish Independent School of the Year".[1]

Following an announcement in March 2005 [2], St Leonards junior and middle schools have merged with New Park Prep School, also located in St Andrews, operating as one unit under the name St Leonards-New Park.

St Leonards was the first school in Scotland to offer the International Baccalaureate and it also claims to be the first school in the world to have played women's lacrosse. [3]

[edit] Notable alumni

Louisa Garrett Anderson - medical pioneer, social reformer, suffragist
Margaret Haig Thomas (Lady Rhondda) - founder of political magazine Time and Tide
Professor Alice Stewart (née Naish) - pioneering epidemiologist
Betty Archdale - early barrister; pioneer of women's education in Australia
Rosabelle Sinclair - honoured in US Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Baltimore
Stella Tennant - supermodel
Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford DBE - Shadow Minister for Food and Rural Affairs
Anji Hunter - former Director of Government Relations, 10 Downing Street
Tessa Ransford - founder of the Scottish Poetry Library
Martha Fairlie - BBC Scotland education correspondent
Kathleen Ollerenshaw DBE - mathematician and educationalist
Betty Harvie Anderson (Baroness Skrimshire) - Conservative politician and peer
Rev Dr Mary Levison (née Lusk) - pioneer of women's ministry, Church of Scotland
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - leading abstract painter, based in St Ives, Cornwall
Jacqueline Moir Mackenzie (Jackie Forster) - actor, broadcaster, minority rights activist
Freda White - peace-campaigner, journalist, travel-writer
Kitty McKane Godfree - Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Champion, 1924 and 1926
Fiona Gaunt - television actor, mother of Genevieve Gaunt
Gillian Glover - restaurant reviewer with The Scotsman
Lindsay Mackie - journalist with The Guardian, married to Alan Rusbridger
Elspeth Barker - author of "O, Caledonia!"