St Leonards School
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| 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!"
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