Gillotts School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The school is sited on a 33-acre verdant campus on the edge of Henley, incorporating a large Victorian manor house and two of its associated cottages. There are extensive playing fields, as well as areas of grass, trees and woodland.
History Gillotts was established as a girls' boarding school in parkland on the fringe of Henley-on-Thames in 1950, under founding headmistress Bede (Betty) Barford. Gillotts became a coeducational comprehensive school in 1960. The current headteacher is Mark Bedford, former headteachers include Catharine Darnton, Malcolm White, and David H W Grubb as well as Mr Lockyer.
Alumni Julia Crouch, Governor of Anguilla Oliver Dench, actor Alec Hepburn, rugby union rugby player Simon Kernick, crime novelist Peter Rippon, broadcasting executive Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford
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