The Schools at Somerhill

For the history of the building housing The Schools at Somerhill, see Somerhill House.

The Schools at Somerhill
Type	Other Independent School
Principal	Mr John Thomas Coakley B.A. (Hons), M.A., P.G.C.E.
Location	Somerhill Tudeley Road Tonbridge Kent TN11 0NJ England Coordinates: 51°11′05″N 0°17′57″E / 51.18468°N 0.29905°E / 51.18468; 0.29905
Local authority	Kent
Gender	Coeducational pre prep with separate boys and girls prep schools
Ages	3–13
Website	www.somerhill.org

Somerhill House, June 2006

The Schools at Somerhill is the title given to a group of schools located in Somerhill House overseen by The Schools at Somerhill Charitable Trust. The three schools are Yardley Court, Derwent Lodge and Somerhill Pre-Prep. Yardley Court is for boys aged 7–13,^[1] Derwent Lodge for girls aged 7–11^[2] and Somerhill Pre-Prep is a mixed school for aged 3–7 boys and girls.^[3]

History

Yardley Court moved to Somerhill House in 1990 to gain much needed expansion room. Derwent Lodge joined them in 1993.^[4]^[5]

Structure

Mr John Coakley is Principal of The Schools at Somerhill and head of Yardley Court. Each of the other schools has its own head; Mrs Sam Michau is the head of Derwent Lodge; Ms Zoe Humm is the head of Somerhill Pre Prep.^[6]

Facilities

Shared facilities include a sports hall that was opened on 4 July 2002 by Mrs Godfrey Jayne Hallows Bickmore, new dining room and an indoor swimming pool. Dame Kelly Holmes opened the dining room and swimming pool on the 1 October 2009. A dedicated music block was built in October 2014.

References

Tonbridge

Buildings	Castle Parish Church Priory Priory Mill Railway station Somerhill House † St. Stephen's Church Town Mill

Businesses	Imperial Records New Enterprise Coaches Warners Solicitors

Events	1968 floods 2006 Securitas depot robbery

People	Bishops of Tonbridge Old Juddians Old Tonbridgians People from Tonbridge

Political	Lowey of Tonbridge (11th-19th centuries) Tunbridge constituency (1885-1918) Tonbridge constituency (1918-74) Tonbridge and Malling constituency (since 1974) Tonbridge and Malling borough (since 1974) Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council (since 1974) Local elections

Schools, colleges and universities	Hayesbrook Hilden Grange Hillview Hugh Christie Judd K College Ridge View Somerhill † Thomas Delarue (closed) Tonbridge Tonbridge Grammar University of Kent Weald of Kent Woodlands Yardley Court †

Sports, arts and leisure	Angel Ground Half Marathon Haysden Country Park KMFM West Kent Longmead Stadium Missing (TV series) Oast Theatre Tonbridge Angels F.C. Swimming Pool Tunbridge ware

Twin towns	Heusenstamm Le Puy-en-Velay

† Italics denotes building in Tudeley-cum-Capel civil parish

Schools in Kent (including Medway)

Primary

John Wallis Academy

Secondary

Grammar schools

Independent

Preparatory schools	Hilden Grange School Holmewood House School Rose Hill School St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford Sevenoaks Preparatory School St Ronan's School The Schools at Somerhill Wellesley House School

Senior schools	Ashford School Benenden School Beechwood Sacred Heart School Bethany School CATS College Cobham Hall Combe Bank School Dover College Gad's Hill School Kent College Kent College, Pembury The King's School, Canterbury King's School, Rochester Rochester Independent College Sackville School, Hildenborough St Edmund's School St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate Sevenoaks School Sutton Valence School Tonbridge School Walthamstow Hall

Special schools	The New School at West Heath

Defunct schools

Category
Commons

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