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A Brief History of Broadwater Manor School.

The Manor of Broadwater is mentioned in the Domesday Book, with the oldest part of the building dating back five hundred years.

Mr. M. D. Neligan and his wife founded Broadwater Manor in March 1930. The school opened with only five boys and slowly grew to sixty pupils in the nine years up to 1939. With the onset of war the school was evacuated to the West Country.

Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Sams took over the school in 1960. At that time there were  ninety pupils. A year later the Headmaster became a member of the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, which now represents over six hundred preparatory schools nationwide.

The Pre-Preparatory department began in 1968, with girls entering the school for the first time. By 1970 the school had doubled in size to one hundred and eighty. The school's golden jubilee was celebrated in 1980 and, in the same year, the school saw the completion of the new gymnasium and an extension to the science laboratory. The nursery opened in 1981 with Mrs. E. K. Woodley, Mr. and Mrs. Sams' daughter, becoming head of the department.

The improvements were further supplemented in 1984 by a new building containing four new classrooms, and a purpose-built computer room, together with an extension to the school hall.