Licensed Victuallers' School

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The Licensed Victuallers' School is an independent private school in Ascot, Berkshire. It has low fees for a private school, with day places costing £4,500 + and boarding £6,500 +.

1 History
2 Current information
3 Competitions
4 Motto
5 Sibling Schools
6 External links

History

Founded in 1803 and originally situated in London, the school moved to a site in Slough during World War II where it remained until it sold the land to Tesco in the 1980s, and moved to its current home. The current headmaster is Mr Best.

Current information

Set in 30 acres of land within Ascot in the county of Royal Berkshire, the school is owned by the Licensed Trade Charity and has been since 1972. The queen is the patron of the school. The school has 3 day houses, Whitbread, Bell's and Courage, and 4 boarding houses, Bass, Carlsberg, Guinness and Gilbey. The school is co-educational and currently has 900 pupils aged 4-18, whilst also providing boarding facilities for some 200 pupils. Although an independent private school, LVS is non-selective.^{[citation needed]} The school contains a 25 metre indoor swimming pool, theatre with hi-tech lighting, a recording studio, sports facilities including 4 tennis courts, a gym and a rock climbing wall. In 2004, the Learning Resource Centre was opened, extending the sixth form centre and the library. The school's current Headmaster is Graham Best. Despite being non-selective the school still achieves high academic results and has a strong work ethic.

Competitions

The school holds a number of inter-house competitions every year most notably: Inter-house drama which is held between Bells, Boarders, Courage and Whitbread. Inter-house Music and numerous inter-house sports including hockey, netball, tennis, football, rugby and cricket.

Motto

The school has two famous mottos: 'Fidelis ad finem', which is roughly translated to 'Faithful To The End'; the other school motto is 'Caring confident citizens for the future'.

Sibling Schools

Licensed Victuallers is part of the licensed trade charity which has numerous schools around Britain, including The Elvian school in Reading and an unnamed school, that is believed to be under the name of 'Victuallers School' in Yorkshire. The Charity has acquired the premises of a school in Hassocks, West Sussex. This will be a co-educational day and boarding school for children and young people from 8-17 year olds, who have communication, socialisation and imagination difficulties (CSID).