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Ditcham Park School is an English co-educational, independent school in Hampshire, located in the South Downs National Park. Its grounds include sports fields, which adjoin several farms and forests; the main section of the school is a Victorian manor house. A Technology and Arts building was added in 2001, a new sports hall in 2008 and renovations of the science block made in 2012.The school performs competitively locally and nationally in examination results. It does not have a sixth form, although does have a junior school. The current headmaster is Mr Graham Spawforth. The school comprises a total of 363 pupils aged 4 – 16 years in the junior and senior sections of the school.LocationThe school and its grounds lies on the southern spur of Oakham Hill (202 m), one of the highest points on the South Downs. It is located some 2 kilometres south-southwest of the village of Buriton and 2 kilometres northeast of the hamlet of Chalton. The premises was previously owned by Douai School (closed in 1999) and housed its junior school.Sport and outdoor pursuitsDitcham Park teaches and competes in football, netball, hockey, tennis, cricket, rounders and athletics matches. The school is also beginning to introduce rugby and basketball fixtures into the school calendar. The school has a Sports Hall built in honour of Martin Pryce: a teacher who died of cancer. Ditcham Park is on the South Downs Way, which the school makes use of for its Duke of Edinburgh Award programme.