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4 unusual facts about Hartismere School


Hartismere School

Hartismere is a state funded co-educational day school for scholars aged 11–18 in Eye, a town in High Suffolk.

Many of those evacuated from London had never heard a bomb falling on London and were therefore surprised when during their first week RAF Eye was bombed by the Luftwaffe this event taking place only a few hundred yards from Hartismere.

Following his career at Hartismere he was invited to serve the University of East Anglia (UEA) as Head of its International Programme for Headteacher Training a post he relinquished in 2012.

Historically an area in which a large population of deer roamed around a mere, this topology gave rise to the school's name such that the school has always been associated with an area much larger than Eye.



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