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Hero lines
- A school small enough to notice
- Open mornings every second Thursday
- Where your child is known by name
Four hundred and twenty students, an average class of 19, and a teacher who can tell you how your child's week actually went.
Applications for the September intake close on 31 January. Open mornings run fortnightly from 09:15 – no appointment needed.
Early years through to graduation on a single site, with a wraparound club from 07:30 until 18:00 for families who need it.
Team bios
Helena Marsh — Head of school
Helena has taught for twenty-six years and still takes one class herself, on the grounds that a head who has not marked a book since 2011 should not be telling anyone how to mark books. She is at the gate every morning by 08:15.
Kwame Osei-Bonsu — Deputy head, pastoral
Kwame runs the tutor system and the safeguarding policy, and he is usually the person a parent ends up speaking to when something has gone wrong at home rather than at school. He coaches the under-13s badly and enthusiastically.
Astrid Halvorsen — Head of admissions
Astrid will tell you honestly if she thinks another school suits your child better – she did exactly that four times last year, and two of those families applied anyway. She reads every application herself before the interview.
Quotes
“We moved our son here at eleven, after two bad years elsewhere. Six weeks in, his tutor rang me to say he had put his hand up voluntarily in class. She knew that mattered.”
Rachel Domenico, Parent of two
“The fee is $4,850 a term and that is genuinely all of it. Our previous school added trips, materials and a “technology levy” until it came to half as much again.”
Yusuf Alptekin, Parent, upper school
“My daughter is nine and can name every adult in the building, including the caretaker and both cooks. She assumes that is normal everywhere. I certainly did not!”
Claire Beaumont, Parent, lower school
FAQ answers
When do applications for September close?
31 January for the following September, though we hold a small number of places for families who move mid-year. Late applications are considered whenever there is room, and in the younger year groups there usually is.
How large are the classes?
Nineteen on average and never more than 22. In the senior years, subject groups fall to between 6 and 14 students, which is the point at which a teacher can set individual work instead of one task for everybody.
Are you inspected by anyone external?
Yes. The national education authority inspects us on a four-year cycle and the full report sits on our website, including the two recommendations from the last visit and a note on what we did about each of them.
What financial support is available?
Around 18% of students hold a bursary covering between 15% and 100% of fees. Applications are assessed by an independent panel on household circumstances alone, with names removed, and the outcome never reaches the teaching staff.
Closing lines
The best way to judge a school is to walk through it on an ordinary Wednesday. Open mornings are every second Thursday at 09:15, and if that never works for you, call the office and we will find another morning.
Prospectuses are posted the same day they are requested, and the admissions team answers the phone between 08:00 and 16:30 in term time. Ask for Astrid – she would far rather talk to you than send you a form.
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