Cheltenham Ladies' College

Introduction

Cheltenham Ladies' College is the independent school for girls in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. It has boarding and day school styles. There are from 11 to 18 aged girls of boarding school or day school. It was the traditional school which was established in 1853 and there are about 900 students in the school now. The Cheltenham Ladies’ school is constantly marked high rank in various fields.

The great founder

The school’s founder is Doroshea Beale. She transformed the traditional women’s studying style, music, sewing and drawing into the academic style like a boy’s school style, including mathematics and English. She was the pioneer of women’s education. By the Miss Beale’s success, The Cheltenham Ladies’ school becomes one of main schools in England.

Life style

A boarding school’s girl can select one of ten houses. There are four senior houses for 17-18 year olds girls and six junior houses for 11-16 year olds girls. The school uniform is a white blouse, green skirt, and green jumper with a badge of the house colors. Sixth form girls are given the option of trousers or pencil skirt. The school crest which is depicted two doves taken from the Cheltenham town shield is f the most important school symbol. The school motto is "Cœlesti Luce Crescat" (May she grow in Heavenly light). GCSE and A-Levels are offered to all students. In September 2008, the International Baccalaureate was offered to sixth form students in combination with A levels. In 2006, 26 pupils went to places at Oxbridge. In addition, many pupils get accepted by the American Ivy League universities.

Cheltenham

Cheltenham is the city in Gloucestershire, England. A population is 110,013 at the 2001 census. Cheltenham is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing. In Cheltenham, the Gold Cup held every March. It’s the main event of the festival. There are many cultural festivals.

Cultural festivals are music, jazz, literature and science festivals in the town. Event spots are the Town Hall, the Everyman Theatre, the Playhouse Theater and the Pittville Pump Room. A more local event, the Cheltenham Festival of the Performing Arts is a collection of more than 300 performance competitions. It has been started in 1926. It’s the oldest of Cheltenham’s arts festivals. Cheltenham has many attractive festivals.

Cheltenham also has some shopping centers. The Cavendish House is the oldest department store. It’s from 1823. In other shopping centers, there are the Regent Arcade and the Beechwood Shopping Center.

The Boat Race

The Boat Race is a regatta race of each club Oxford University and Cambridge University on April every year in Thames. Regatta is the race of plural people for using a non-engine boat. The boat is eight rowing crews and one more crew is supervision. The supervision controls crews.

The first Boat Race was held in 1829 and won the Oxford University. In 1877, both boats crossed the finish line at the same time. The result of competition is 79 wins of Cambridge and 75 wins of Oxford until 2009.

The Boat Race was watched by many British people as the spring thing.