Cranbrook School, Kent

Cranbrook School is a co-educational grammar boarding and day school in the market town of Cranbrook, Kent, England.Selection is made of pupils at age thirteen. The current Headmaster is John Weeds.HistoryRecent historyIn 2003 alumnus Piers Sellers, a NASA astronaut, took a copy of the school charter into space with him. A photo is exhibited in the school cafeteria. In 2005 Sellers opened the school's observatory, which is named after him. This observatory houses the 22.5 inch Alan Young telescope operated by the Cranbrook and District Science and Astronomy Society (CADSAS). In May 2010 Sellers took into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle an original watercolour portrait of Cranbrook School painted by Brenda Barratt. The painting was later returned to Cranbrook School with the official NASA verification that it has travelled into space.HousesThe school has six day houses and six boarding houses: four for boys and two for girls, each working in conjunction with the main school to provide pastoral care and academic support.Boys' boarding houses Cornwallis Crowden Rammell School Lodge (only for Year Nine boys)Girls' boarding houses Blubery ScottDay houses Allan Boys (North of Cranbrook) Allan Girls Horsley Boys (South of Cranbrook) Horsley Girls Webster Boys (Cranbrook and outlying area) Webster Girls