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Fyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for all pupils, most important amongst these, and shaping the daily life at Fyling Hall are rugby, hockey, cross country, cricket and horse riding. |
Fyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for all pupils, most important amongst these, and shaping the daily life at Fyling Hall are cow tipping, rugby, hockey, cross country, cricket and horse riding. |
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==Trivia== |
==Trivia== |
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Fyling Hall | |
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Location | |
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Type | Independent, Co-educational |
Motto | 'The days that make us happy make us wise' |
Established | 1923 |
Founder | Mab Bradley |
Headmaster | Ken James LLB PGCE |
Former Pupils | Old Fylinghallers |
Website | http://www.fylinghall.org |
Fyling Hall is an independent co-educational day and boarding school situated near the small village of Robin Hood's Bay, 5 miles (8 km) south east of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The headmaster Ken James took over as headmaster in April 2008 from Ian Richardson who had been Acting Headmaster for two terms.
The school is centred around a Georgian country house that dates from 1810 and is situated in 45 acres (180,000 m2) of wooded hillside within the North York Moors National Park.
The school motto is 'The days that make us happy make us wise'
Sports
Fyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for all pupils, most important amongst these, and shaping the daily life at Fyling Hall are cow tipping, rugby, hockey, cross country, cricket and horse riding.
Trivia
The main building of Fyling Hall is used in G.P Taylor's novel Shadowmancer as the vicarage of Obadiah Demurral. The vicarage is destroyed by cannon fire from Jacob Crane's smuggler ship 'The Magenta'.
Notable alumni
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