One standardof quiet excellence and care

To achieve excellence, your child is taught by a combination of subject specialists and key stage specialists, highly experienced teachers skilled at their specific age group, designing lessons to help every child think independently, question, and develop deep understanding. From Nursery and Reception, specialist teachers lead Music, PE, Gymnastics, Swimming, Forest School and Spanish, while core education is delivered by highly qualified Early Years teachers. At each phase, additional specialists join for Science, Art, Drama, DT, Games, Digital Literacy, Modern Foreign Languages and Latin.

By Year 7, your child experiences the senior school model directly: taught by subject specialists for every lesson, with key stage specialists supporting them during form time. This is the same structure many senior schools use, giving children a genuine head start on that transition.

We believe knowledge and skills matter equally. There are eight essential skills that your child will be explicitly taught throughout their education: listening, speaking, creativity, problem solving, staying positive, aiming high, leadership and teamwork. These skills are treated with the same rigour as any academic subject. We have been awarded the Skills Builder Gold Award, placing us among a select group of schools nationally recognised for successfully building these essential skills.

The Skills Builder Framework breaks each skill into a sequential series of steps, so your child can build capability from absolute beginner to mastery with a common language used consistently from Nursery through to Year 8.

Our Keys Diploma gives children in Years 3 to 8 recognition for the things exam results don’t measure. This matters because success is increasingly defined by exactly these qualities: the World Economic Forum identifies analytical thinking, creative thinking, resilience, flexibility, motivation, self-awareness, curiosity and lifelong learning as the skills future careers will demand, precisely the territory our eight essential skills cover.

Guided by their teachers, your child records evidence of when and where they’ve applied or developed one of these skills in their Keys Diploma Passport, tracking progress through Lower Prep, Middle Prep and Upper Prep. At the end of each phase, children are awarded a merit or distinction for their progress, engagement and commitment across academics, sport, creative arts and enrichment. Senior schools have been consistently encouraging of this approach, and we draw directly on the evidence in each child’s Keys Diploma Passport when writing school references.

For children showing real strength across the board, our scholarship programme extends beyond the normal demands of the curriculum, giving those with a genuine thirst for learning the freedom to discuss current affairs, share art appreciation and develop presentation and debating skills, whatever their chosen field: academic, sport, drama, music, art or design technology. The ultimate aim is a scholarship offer, but the preparation itself is the real value: a chance to stretch your child and keep a close eye on their wellbeing through a demanding process.

Families see the results. In 2025–26 alone, our pupils were awarded 29 senior school scholarships across academic, creative and sporting disciplines, to eight different senior schools at 11+ and 13+. And the proof isn’t limited to scholars: over the last five years, our leavers have gone on to 86 different senior schools in total, we are one of the only schools in our area that supports children moving on at both key transition points, Year 6 and Year 8, to the full range of senior schools nationally.