{"id":280,"date":"2021-05-18T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tormeadschool.org.uk\/our-history\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T22:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:25:56","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tormeadschool.org.uk\/about\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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The girls in blue: Our proud and colourful heritage <\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t
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\u201cOne of our oldest old girls worked at Bletchley at the time of the Engima code-breaking, another has been the official doctor on several expeditions to the Himalayas, another is regularly seen on television as a team captain on Call My Bluff. At Tormead, anything is possible!\u201d<\/em>\u2014Lady Hall, 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t

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By the turn of the 20th<\/sup> Century, enlightened parents were considering giving their daughters a serious education. Some middle-class girls were even<\/em> considering the possibility of employment \u2013 at least before marriage. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t

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And that\u2019s where the Tormead story starts\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t

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Starting life in 1905 at Glebefields (a house in Lower Edgebrook Road, Guildford), the enigmatic Countess Zola Waloska was the first headmistress of a small private school with a handful of pupils. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n

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A few years later, we moved to our current site when the owners of Tormead House invited the school to use their premises. It had originally been named \u2018Tormead\u2019 because the family came from Torquay and the house stood in a sloping meadow. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n

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Tormead remained a small, slightly eccentric, but very happy school – while surviving the threats of a takeover in 1912, near financial collapse in 1935, and the two World Wars; led by a succession of determined headmistresses supported by equally committed staff. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t

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Through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, demand for places continued to exceed supply \u2013 and new buildings and renovations continued to enhance the school. Meanwhile, boarding provision eventually ended in 1988. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t

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The school\u2019s centenary year of 2005 was then celebrated in style, including a visit from the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t

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In September 2020, David Boyd joined us as Tormead\u2019s first-ever male Head \u2013 so the next exciting chapter in our history begins\u2026<\/strong> <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\n\n \n

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