Lower School 11 to 13

The Lower School is very much part of the wider college community but has its own Headmistress Leah Hamblett and its own Housemistress and Form Masters, all dedicated to ensuring that every child is happy, fulfilled and appropriately challenged.

The Lower School has its own purpose built Common Room in the stunning Skidelsky Building, opened in 2010, where boys and girls can socialise, work and play.  The pupils have plenty of space for rest and relaxation as well as for catching up on study, chatting to one another or to their Form Teachers.

The high level of pastoral care for which the college is renowned ensures that each child is treated as an individual. Boys and girls are encouraged to respect one another's differences in a climate that is warm and tolerant, and one which seeks to enthuse and challenge children to give of their very best.

Class sizes are obviously much smaller than in the state sector so that children are taught in a friendly and intimate atmosphere where each child has the advantage of close personal attention from his or her teachers. In addition, each boy and girl has a Form Master or Form Mistress, specially appointed for his or her ability to relate to 11 and 12-year old children. They meet the pupils at least twice a day for a catch-up, and register them each morning.