Its pupils uses some facilities of the senior school, such as the swimming pool, playing field, all-weather surface and theatre.īoth the prep and senior schools share the same governing body. Since the prep school moved in, the facilities have been extended but the main house is still in use. The school renamed them Napier House when they moved out of the original Headington house with that name. Built in 1886, they were first occupied by Thomas Arnall, Oxford's Head Postmaster. They were taken over by the school in 1916. The premises which house the prep school were originally known as Brookside. The preparatory school is located on a separate site across the junction where Headington Road and Headley Way meet. In 1942 it was registered as an educational charity, in recognition of the benefits that it provides to its pupils and the wider community. Chiang Yee, "The Silent Traveller", describes it as having an "atmosphere of spacious dignity". The main school then moved to its current building, built in the neo-Georgian style, in 1930. The house had a 2-acre (0.81 ha) garden and another 19 acres (7.7 ha) of farmland attached stretching as far east as the White Horse pub. In 1920, Davenport House, one of the current boarding houses, (on the corner of London Road and Pullens Lane) was taken over by the school. As the school rapidly expanded after the war, more buildings were bought and added to the school. It started at Headington Lodge on Osler Road with just ten boarding and eight-day girls. Headington School was founded in 1915 by a group of evangelical Christians to provide "a sound education for girls to fit them for the demands and opportunities likely to arise after the war". The Good Schools Guide called Headington "A delightful school, nurtures and entertains its pupils while at the same time achieving excellent academic results.
Headington School is an independent girls' school in Headington, Oxford, England, founded by a group of evangelical Christians in 1915.
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