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King's House School

Field	Value
name	King's House School
image	King's-House-School-Logo.png
established	1946
type	Private school
Preparatory school
head_label	Head
head	Mark Turner
address	Kings Road
city	Richmond, London
country	England
postcode	TW10 6ES
staff	86
enrolment	450
gender	Boys
lower_age	3
upper_age	13
colours	Blue & White
website

Preparatory school King's House School is a private day preparatory school in Richmond, London. Founded in 1946, it has 450 pupils aged between 3 and 13.

Present school

The school is currently split into three parts:

King's House Nursery School (ages 3–4)
King's House Junior School (ages 4–8)
King's House Senior School (ages 9–13)

Facilities

35-acre sports ground and club house
State-of-art theatre
Music and Mac suite
Gymnasium
Astroturf
Science laboratories
Theatre
Two ICT suites

Sport

The school specialises in the three sports of rugby, cricket and football. Football operates at the beginning of the year until the winter term, when rugby comes in play. Cricket follows in the summer term. Sports lessons take place at King's House Sports Ground in nearby Chiswick.

The school also supports athletics, basketball, cross-country, fitness training, gymnastics, judo and swimming.

Choir

In the late 1970s, the school's choir was involved in West End performances, supplying a chorus for the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical, Evita. In 1989, a new generation of singers provided vocals on Mike + The Mechanics' chart-topping single "The Living Years".

Major achievements

Exterior featured in the 1995 children's television series Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde
2006 National IAPS General Knowledge Award
2015 u14 National Rugby champions

Historical case of child abuse

Former teacher Michael Porteous was sentenced in 2014 to two-and-a-half years in prison for sexually abusing a pupil at the school in the 1970s. The school issued a statement, saying: "We are shocked that a former teacher of the school abused his position of trust in this way and committed a deplorable crime against a pupil in his care."

Alumni

Lawrence Dallaglio, former England rugby captain
Zac Goldsmith, former Conservative MP for Richmond Park
Nigel Planer, actor, comedian, novelist and playwright
Colin Charvis, former Welsh rugby captain
Jesse Wood, son of Ronnie Wood

References

"King's House School : General Information".
"King's House School". Independent Schools Council.
"Sports". King's House School.
"Computing". King's House School.
"King's House School". [[Independent Schools Inspectorate]].
Proto, Laura. (8 October 2014). "Richmond King's House School 'saddened' it could not stop paedophile teacher's 'deplorable' crimes in the 1970s". Your Local Guardian.
Day, Elizabeth. (9 October 2005). "Dallaglio: my secret life as Tina Turner's backing vocalist". Telegraph Media Group.
Goldsmith, Annabel. (2004). "Annabel: An Unconventional Life". Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Sale, Jonathan. (7 October 1998). "Education: Passed/Failed – Nigel Planer". [[The Independent]].

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