Friends' School, Saffron Walden

Friends' School (known as Walden School from 2016–17) was a Quaker independent school located in Saffron Walden, Essex,[1] situated approximately 12 miles south of the city of Cambridge, England. The school was co-educational and accommodated children between the ages of three and 18 (boarders and day pupils).

Friends' School
The school in 1880
Location
Saffron Walden
,
Essex
,
CB11 3EB

England
Coordinates52°00′58″N 0°14′32″E
Information
Other nameWalden School (2016-17)
TypeDefunct Independent
MottoPer Ardua Ad Alta
Religious affiliation(s)Quaker
Established1702
Closed2017
HeadAnna Chaudhri (Senior school)
Sally Meyrick (Prep school)
GenderCo-educational
Age3 to 18
Enrolment375
Houses3: Tuke, Mennell and Lister
Colour(s)Red (Lister), Yellow (Tuke) and Green (Mennell)
FateClosed as no longer sustainable due to falling pupil numbers, etc.

The school closed at the end of the 2017 summer term.[2]

History

Friends' School, Saffron Walden was founded as part of the Quakers' Clerkenwell workhouse in London in 1703, 50 years after George Fox. From September 2016 the school changed its name to Walden School.[3]

On 11 May 2017 it was announced that Walden School would close at the end of the 2016–17 school year.[4]

Notable former pupils and associates

Carola Dunn's book Anthem for Doomed Youth is set at the school.

gollark: But here shall be salt until the last stars in the universe run down, and no energy can be gleaned from anywhere to run DC.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: Yes this again.
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gollark: I'm not entirely sure what the main arguments are, but there's lots of argu*ing*.

See also
  • List of Friends Schools

References
  1. "Education | League Tables | Performance results for Friends School". BBC News. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  2. BBC Look East 26/6/17
  3. Chaudhri, Anna. "A Step Change For Friends'". Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. Steward, Michael. "Saffron Walden private school set to close at end of summer term". Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  5. "Interview with Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin". V&A. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

Further reading
  • The Avenue (school magazine).
  • Bolam, W.D. Unbroken community: The story of the Friends' School, Saffron Walden, 1702-1952. (Pub. 1952).
  • Buss, R. A Community through three centuries. (Pub. 2003).
  • Crosfield, J.B. Saffron Walden School: a sketch of two hundred years. (Pub. 1902).
  • Halter, H. The School on the hill: memories of three hundred years of Friends' School, Saffron Walden, 1702 - 2002. (Pub. 2002).
  • Hitchcock,T.V. (ed.). Richard Hutton's complaints book : the notebook of the steward of the Quaker workhouse at Clerkenwell 1711-1737. (Pub. 1987).
  • OSA Annual reports, at Essex Record Office, Chelmsford.
  • Saffron Walden Weekly. Local newspaper founded in 1889. Good coverage of Friends School.
  • Woods, J.C. Friends School: A hundred years at Saffron Walden 1879-1979. (Pub. 1979).


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