Friends' School is a Quaker independent school located in Saffron Walden, Essex, situated approximately 12 miles south of the city of Cambridge, England. The school is co-educational and accommodates children between the ages of three and 18 (boarders and day pupils).
History
Friends' School, Saffron Walden was founded as part of the Quakers' Clerkenwell workhouse in London in 1702, 50 years after George Fox.
Notable former pupils and associates
Edward Bawden, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist and WWII war artist
Ralph Erskine, Sweden-based architect and planner (pupil from 1925 to 1931)
Matthew Evans, chairman and former managing director of Faber and Faber Ltd, and member of the House of Lords
Archeological evidence suggests a continuous settlement on or near the site of Saffron Walden from at least the Neolithic period. It is believed that a small Romano-British settlement and fort – possibly in the area around Abbey Lane – existed as an outpost of the much larger settlement of Cestreforda to the north.
After the Norman invasion of 1066, a stone church was built. Walden Castle dates from around 1140. It may have been built on a pre-existing fortification. A priory, Walden Abbey, was founded under the patronage of Geoffrey de Mandeville, first Earl of Essex around 1136 on the site of what is now Audley End village. The abbey was separated from the town of Walden by Holywell Field. After the dissolution of the monasteries, Sir Thomas Audley converted the abbey cloisters into a dwelling. Later this would become the site of Audley End House.
Boreham and the Leighs; Broomfield and The Walthams; Chelmsford Rural West; Writtle in the Borough of Chelmsford
Ashdon; Barnston and High Easter; Birchanger; Broad Oak and the Halingburys; Clavering; Elsenham and Henham; Felsted; Great Dunmow North; Great Dunmow South; Hatfield Heath; Littlebury; Newport; Saffron Walden - Audley, Saffron Walden - Castle, Saffron Walden - Shire; Stansted North; Stansted South; Stebbing; Stort Valley; Takeley and the Canfields; Thaxted; The Chesterfords; The Eastons; The Rodings; The Sampfords; Wenden Lofts; Wimbish and Debden in the District of Uttlesford
Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This article is a list of schools currently or historically associated with the Society of Friends, regardless of their current degree of affiliation.
Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to formal organizations that make up the Society of Friends. Most Friends schools are similar in their mission however: to provide an academically sound education while also instilling values of community, spirituality, responsibility and stewardship in their students.
Some institutions founded by Friends were never formally "Quaker Schools." Some historically Friends institutions are no longer formally associated with the Society of Friends. Those that continue to call themselves "Quaker schools" may have formal oversight from a Friends yearly or monthly meetings (often called coming "under care of" a meeting), and others are governed by members of the Society of Friends and/or adhere to aspects of Quaker practice.
Friends School(普連土学園,Furendo Gakuen) is a women's junior and senior high school (7th - 12th grades), authorised by the Japanese Education Law, of Religious Society of Friends in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
In 1887, Women Evangelical Friends from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA founded it for the purpose of education for women on the advice of Uchimura Kanzō and Nitobe Inazō. The School is still the only Friends' educational organisation in Japan. Whilst all the pupils are not Friends, they receive education about Quakerism including about Inner light.
The School says that the name in Japanese means "universal connection with all global places". This is derived from an idea of Tsuda Sen, who was the father of Tsuda Umeko, the founder of Tsuda College.
The Friends School is a historic schoolhouse in the village center of Casco, Maine. Built in 1849, it is a well-preserved example of a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse. Now a museum operated by the local historical society, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is located behind the town office building on Maine State Route 121.
Description and history
The Friends School is located in the village center of Casco, on the west side of Meadow Road (SR 121), behind the town offices and library, between the municipal parking lot and a tennis court. It is a small single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding, and is set on concrete piers. The front facade has a single doorway on the far right, and a sash window on the far left, with a now-covered window-sized opening in the gable. The sides have three windows each. The interior has a small vestibule, which spans the building width, and a single classroom, finished in wainscoting below, and plaster on lath above.
8mm documentary shot and produced by my brother Matthew Robinson in 1963. Includes two brief shots of the 13 year old me singing a hymn in morning assembly at at 5:27 and 5:37 . For Matthew's diary about how the film came to be made, see http://cockerel.net/fssw/diary.htm
published: 27 Jul 2020
Friends' School Saffron Walden - School Day - 1977
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
published: 07 Feb 2011
Friends' School Saffron Walden Video 1989
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
published: 05 Feb 2011
Student Video - Friends' School Saffron Walden - 1989
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
published: 10 Dec 2023
Four Site Saga: A Short History of Friends' School Saffron Walden by Tony Watson
At Friends' School Saffron Walden Old Scholars' Association's AGM on 20th May 2023, former pupil and Governor of the school and current Trustee of the Association, Tony Watson (Year Group 1954) gave a talk on the history of the school.
published: 03 Jun 2023
"School Day" - Friends' School Saffron Walden - 1977
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
published: 10 Dec 2023
BBC News - Saffron Walden Friends School Closing segment featuring R4U's Sharon Morris
BBC News Look East covered the closing of the Walden School, formerly Friends School, in Saffron Walden. There are local concerns that if the Friends/Walden School closes on 5th June, sports clubs may fold and the education site lost to housing. Featuring R4U’s Sharon Morris and Derek Jones, Chair of Saffron Walden Organisation for Sport, parents and the head teacher.
Air date: 26 June 2017.
(c) 2017 BBC
published: 26 Jun 2017
Friends' School Saffron Walden (FSSW) choir - Lassus Nov 1966
Two pieces by Orlandus Lassus recorded by the small choir of Friends' School Saffron Walden, Essex UK, conducted by Richard Sturge, and issued on Side 2 of a vinyl 45rpm EP in Nov 1966.
All photos taken by Andrew Fry 1962-1997 at FSSW, except that of Inquisition on the playing fields (Andrew Humphries) and the Panorama photo of the 1966 FSSW pupils and staff.
Video created by Andrew Fry 2021
published: 08 May 2021
Friends School Saffron Walden 2023 shorter version ABANDONED PLACES UK 2024
This is a edited down shorter version
see the full version on. theurban exploring 2023 playlist also linked on the end screen
published: 05 Jun 2024
Line Dance Rehearsal - Year 7 - Friends' School Saffron Walden - 2013
A short video of a Year 7 (Year Group 2019) Line Dance rehearsal coached by Shelly Dowsett in the Friends' School School Saffron Walden Assembly Hall in March 2013. Video provided by Martin Hugall.
8mm documentary shot and produced by my brother Matthew Robinson in 1963. Includes two brief shots of the 13 year old me singing a hymn in morning assembly at a...
8mm documentary shot and produced by my brother Matthew Robinson in 1963. Includes two brief shots of the 13 year old me singing a hymn in morning assembly at at 5:27 and 5:37 . For Matthew's diary about how the film came to be made, see http://cockerel.net/fssw/diary.htm
8mm documentary shot and produced by my brother Matthew Robinson in 1963. Includes two brief shots of the 13 year old me singing a hymn in morning assembly at at 5:27 and 5:37 . For Matthew's diary about how the film came to be made, see http://cockerel.net/fssw/diary.htm
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the ...
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
At Friends' School Saffron Walden Old Scholars' Association's AGM on 20th May 2023, former pupil and Governor of the school and current Trustee of the Associati...
At Friends' School Saffron Walden Old Scholars' Association's AGM on 20th May 2023, former pupil and Governor of the school and current Trustee of the Association, Tony Watson (Year Group 1954) gave a talk on the history of the school.
At Friends' School Saffron Walden Old Scholars' Association's AGM on 20th May 2023, former pupil and Governor of the school and current Trustee of the Association, Tony Watson (Year Group 1954) gave a talk on the history of the school.
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the ...
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
BBC News Look East covered the closing of the Walden School, formerly Friends School, in Saffron Walden. There are local concerns that if the Friends/Walden Sch...
BBC News Look East covered the closing of the Walden School, formerly Friends School, in Saffron Walden. There are local concerns that if the Friends/Walden School closes on 5th June, sports clubs may fold and the education site lost to housing. Featuring R4U’s Sharon Morris and Derek Jones, Chair of Saffron Walden Organisation for Sport, parents and the head teacher.
Air date: 26 June 2017.
(c) 2017 BBC
BBC News Look East covered the closing of the Walden School, formerly Friends School, in Saffron Walden. There are local concerns that if the Friends/Walden School closes on 5th June, sports clubs may fold and the education site lost to housing. Featuring R4U’s Sharon Morris and Derek Jones, Chair of Saffron Walden Organisation for Sport, parents and the head teacher.
Air date: 26 June 2017.
(c) 2017 BBC
Two pieces by Orlandus Lassus recorded by the small choir of Friends' School Saffron Walden, Essex UK, conducted by Richard Sturge, and issued on Side 2 of a vi...
Two pieces by Orlandus Lassus recorded by the small choir of Friends' School Saffron Walden, Essex UK, conducted by Richard Sturge, and issued on Side 2 of a vinyl 45rpm EP in Nov 1966.
All photos taken by Andrew Fry 1962-1997 at FSSW, except that of Inquisition on the playing fields (Andrew Humphries) and the Panorama photo of the 1966 FSSW pupils and staff.
Video created by Andrew Fry 2021
Two pieces by Orlandus Lassus recorded by the small choir of Friends' School Saffron Walden, Essex UK, conducted by Richard Sturge, and issued on Side 2 of a vinyl 45rpm EP in Nov 1966.
All photos taken by Andrew Fry 1962-1997 at FSSW, except that of Inquisition on the playing fields (Andrew Humphries) and the Panorama photo of the 1966 FSSW pupils and staff.
Video created by Andrew Fry 2021
A short video of a Year 7 (Year Group 2019) Line Dance rehearsal coached by Shelly Dowsett in the Friends' School School Saffron Walden Assembly Hall in March 2...
A short video of a Year 7 (Year Group 2019) Line Dance rehearsal coached by Shelly Dowsett in the Friends' School School Saffron Walden Assembly Hall in March 2013. Video provided by Martin Hugall.
A short video of a Year 7 (Year Group 2019) Line Dance rehearsal coached by Shelly Dowsett in the Friends' School School Saffron Walden Assembly Hall in March 2013. Video provided by Martin Hugall.
8mm documentary shot and produced by my brother Matthew Robinson in 1963. Includes two brief shots of the 13 year old me singing a hymn in morning assembly at at 5:27 and 5:37 . For Matthew's diary about how the film came to be made, see http://cockerel.net/fssw/diary.htm
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
This 10 minute video about Friends' School Saffron Walden was filmed by Friends' School students in 1989. This version is without the added soundtrack.
At Friends' School Saffron Walden Old Scholars' Association's AGM on 20th May 2023, former pupil and Governor of the school and current Trustee of the Association, Tony Watson (Year Group 1954) gave a talk on the history of the school.
Filmed in the summer of 1977, this film shows how the Sixth Form students at Friends' School Saffron Walden used to run the school for one day each year in the absence of teachers, on 'School Day', using their own alternative timetable.
BBC News Look East covered the closing of the Walden School, formerly Friends School, in Saffron Walden. There are local concerns that if the Friends/Walden School closes on 5th June, sports clubs may fold and the education site lost to housing. Featuring R4U’s Sharon Morris and Derek Jones, Chair of Saffron Walden Organisation for Sport, parents and the head teacher.
Air date: 26 June 2017.
(c) 2017 BBC
Two pieces by Orlandus Lassus recorded by the small choir of Friends' School Saffron Walden, Essex UK, conducted by Richard Sturge, and issued on Side 2 of a vinyl 45rpm EP in Nov 1966.
All photos taken by Andrew Fry 1962-1997 at FSSW, except that of Inquisition on the playing fields (Andrew Humphries) and the Panorama photo of the 1966 FSSW pupils and staff.
Video created by Andrew Fry 2021
A short video of a Year 7 (Year Group 2019) Line Dance rehearsal coached by Shelly Dowsett in the Friends' School School Saffron Walden Assembly Hall in March 2013. Video provided by Martin Hugall.
Friends' School is a Quaker independent school located in Saffron Walden, Essex, situated approximately 12 miles south of the city of Cambridge, England. The school is co-educational and accommodates children between the ages of three and 18 (boarders and day pupils).
History
Friends' School, Saffron Walden was founded as part of the Quakers' Clerkenwell workhouse in London in 1702, 50 years after George Fox.
Notable former pupils and associates
Edward Bawden, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist and WWII war artist
Ralph Erskine, Sweden-based architect and planner (pupil from 1925 to 1931)
Matthew Evans, chairman and former managing director of Faber and Faber Ltd, and member of the House of Lords