QUEEN
ETHELBURGA'S
COLLEGE

Prospectus

Further Information

See also:

Chapter House
Preparatory School

Royal Court
Equestrian Centre

Queen Ethelburga's College
and Chapter House
Preparatory School
have their own web pages.

Visit
School's Own Web Site
for even more information.

The College's own web site is translated into Arabic, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese,
Chinese Simplified,
Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese.

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Headteacher: Mr Steven Jandrell

Address and Contact Information
Thorpe Underwood Hall, Ouseburn,York, YO25 9SZ
Tel: +44 0870 742 3300
Fax:+44 0870 742 3310
E-mail: enquiries@queenethelburgas.edu

Area
Yorkshire, North East

Type
Co-educational, Senior, Boarding, Weekly Boarding and Day

Number of pupils: 330

Ages: 11 to 19

Religious Denomination
Church of England - but all denominations welcome

Fees (Sept 2005)
Boarding: £6,245 to £7,275 per term
Day: £2,395 to £2,495 per term.

Special Facilities

• Computing, Business and Media Centre with 60 Pentium multi-media computers and laser printers with direct ISDN Internet access and laser printers.
• Internet Cafe with 10 TFT screens.
• Business Studies Centre with constant business and world news updated by satellite.
• Editorial and publishing for newspaper/magazine journalism and production. Overhead LCD/DVD computer projection. Air conditioned.
• Science Centre with 24 fully equipped laboratories plus science preparation area.
• Sixth Form common room with lounge and dining areas.
• Careers Area, fully stocked with relevant and informative material plus Pentium multimedia computer with access to full careers, university course information.
• Reference Library recently enhanced by the the purchase of over 14,000 new reference books and with multi-media computers linked to the Internet.
• Sixth Form Private Study Room seating forty students in a university-style seating.
• Drama Centre/Bronte Hall - can seat 200, complete with full theatre lighting, sound system, closed-circuit video production capability and full audience colour monitor vision coverage, air conditioned, sound proofed, with electronic control centre.
• £3,000,000 Royal Court Equestrian Centre (BHS Approved), with superb facilities.
• Indoor Leisure Swimming Pool. Pool-side sauna for use by Sixth Form. Two new full-sized commercial solariums which may be used by sixth form.
• Fully Equipped Fitness Centre with twelve different exercise machines, full aerobic facilities with video presentation, full wall-length reinforced ballet mirror glass and double height ballet barres.
• Well Equipped Gymnasium.
• 140-seat University Style Lecture Theatre, with large screen video projection, full stereo sound system, lighting, rostrum etc.
• Science Centre with three fully-equipped laboratories.
• Home Economics Centre with 24 fully equipped mini-kitchens.
• Computer controlled Weather Station.
• Top Quality Boarding Facilities.
• Five floodlit, all-weather Tennis Courts, also designed to be used as three Netball Courts.
• Four floodlit Lacrosse, Hockey and Football Pitches, two floodlit, all-weather Basketball/Netball Courts, twenty floodlit Rounders Practice Nets, a floodlit Running Track and three floodlit Volleyball Courts.
• Language Centre - full computer controlled language laboratory.
• Art Centre- area for computer aided design and other areas for painting, sculpting, photography, fashion and design.
• Music Centre - Keyboard classroom with 18 individual keyboards, music studio for practice, study and recording. ensemble Room for small group work and tuition. Numerous practice rooms.