New Court
Housemistress: New Court
Marianne Scragg
Marianne grew up in Dorset where she attended Bryanston School before completing a degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford.
Marianne started her teaching career at Oundle School, following a PGCE at the University of Cambridge, where she was also an assistant housemistress. She then joined her husband in running an Eton College boarding house whilst teaching Maths and Science at Godstowe Preparatory School.
She joined Marlborough in 2022 as a teacher of Biology, and has also run polo, helped with the Outreach programme and mentored potential Oxbridge Scientists. She has also been a tutor in Ivy House for three years.
In her spare time Marianne enjoys spending time with her family and long, countryside walks with Floyd, their enthusiastic flat-coated retriever, as well as musical and craft pursuits.
She is married to Jimmy who is Deputy Head (Co-Curricular) at Marlborough and teaches classics. They have two daughters who are current Marlborough pupils.
New Court Boarding House
Key Facts
New Court is an all-girls house of around 60 pupils. It was the fourth girls’ boarding house to open at Marlborough, in 1991. It stands in its own garden, on the site of the old stable block, and occupies a courtyard around which most of the school’s mid-19th century classrooms and study blocks were situated.
Location: Court
Gender: Girls
Number of pupils: 60
Twinned with: B1
Eula Gibbs
Resident Pastoral Tutor
Eula was Dame of Barton Hill before becoming Dame of C3 and Mill Mead in 2017, and RHT of Mill Mead in 2020. As a consequence Eula is very experienced at providing a friendly home from home for the girls in her care.
Anne-Marie Robertson
Dame
Anne-Marie joined New Court in February 2025. She is a trained Counsellor, working with young people, and has around ten years’ experience at the College having previously worked in the Science Department.
