[2] The British School in the Netherlands is currently arranged across 4 sites, based in and around The Hague and the neighbouring town of Voorschoten.

Students can study French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and other languages as part of the native speaker programme.

[4] The BSN is a non for profit organisation entirely dependent on fee income and receives no subsidy from either the Dutch or British governments.

The school closed in 1940 with the invasion of the Netherlands and was re-opened in 1948 by Nancy Macdona, a previous staff member.

Two rooms were rented in the Jan van Nassaustraat: 12 pupils and 4 teachers formed the foundations of the present British School.

[citation needed] Expansion continued, and Ms Macdona recruited a co-principal, Phyllis Donaldson, to take responsibility for the growing number of older children.

It began to enjoy significant success at Advanced Level with the result that more and more pupils stayed on into the Sixth Form after O-levels, instead of returning to boarding school in the UK.

Two years later, the Senior School moved to Voorschoten, into purpose-built premises opened by the Duke of Gloucester.

By now, the school had taken over the management of a small ‘dépendance’ in the northern town of Assen where many English-speaking Shell families lived.

[citation needed] In 1990, a large piece of farmland with an 18th-century farmhouse adjacent to the Senior School was purchased.

This made possible the addition of two sports fields, a cricket pitch, tennis courts, a dance/drama studio and a home for the Principal.

[citation needed] The completion of this building allowed the BSN to combine the Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools on one site in The Hague.

[citation needed] Also, the school continues to support a 'student council' and an environmental committee which has built a large garden to win the 'Green flag' award.