Dunottar School
Dunottar School is an independent school in Reigate, Surrey, England, established in 1926. History. The school was established in 1926 by Jessie Elliot-Pyle in Brownlow Road with three pupils, and was named after Dunnottar Castle in Scotland. She gave it the motto "Do ut Des", which is translated as "I give that thou may'st give". She chose for the school’s crest a pelican mother nurturing her young. In 1933, the school moved to the High Trees Estate in a mansion called "High Trees" which had been built by Walter Blanford Waterlow, fourth mayor of Reigate, in  1867. In 1874, Waterlow remarried his younger brother's widow, Maria Waterlow (née Cross), mother of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow. Additions had been made to the mansion in about 1908. In 1961, it changed from private ownership to being owned by a charitable trust. In 1975, it joined the Association of Governing Bodies of Girls' Public Schools, which is now called the Girls' Schools Association. In March 2014 the school became part of United Learning and announced that it would become a co-educational school for ages 11 to 18 from September 2014. United Learning made immediate investments in Dunottar  to develop existing facilities. In February 2018, the school launched a partnership with Surrey Cricket to create a Surrey Cricket Development and Performance Centre at Dunottar. This partnership created a number of opportunities for the school community, with the installation of a brand new 4-lane indoor cricket net system; these top-class, county standard cricket facilities enable pupils to take advantage of specialist training programmes. The Surrey Cricket Foundation, alongside local cricket clubs, also utilise these facilities to host county coaching and development courses for adults and children during the school holidays or off-season. April 2019 saw the  opening of a £2.2 million Sixth Form Centre providing additional modern classrooms, individual and collaborative study areas, along with a café and recreation room. In July 2019, Dunottar was awarded the prestigious Education Business Award for the ‘Outstanding Progress – UK Independent Schools’ category 2019. Now in their 12th year, the Education Business Awards recognise schools across the UK for improving the standard of education and the life chances of their students, highlighting the vital work of educational professionals up and down the country. In January 2021 a brand new £4.5 million Assembly Hall was completed with Music and  Drama facilities and a 500 seat auditorium. Location. The school premises is a grade II listed building, and the grounds are adjacent to Redhill Common. The nearest railway station is Earlswood.