Jack and Jill School open new preparatory school – Clarence House
02 Mar 2016
We are delighted to announce that Clarence House School, for girls aged 7-11, will be opening in September 2016. Over the years many parents have asked if we could extend our provision for girls beyond Year 2. So I am delighted to be writing to inform you that we are indeed starting a new Preparatory School at Clarence House in Hampton Hill High Street from September 2016.
This building will provide an ideal elegant, spacious and welcoming base for girls in Years 3 -6, whilst at the same time being in close proximity to our other sites. Our intention is for this to provide an additional option for girls leaving Nightingale Road, for whom entry will be guaranteed. Any additional spaces will be allocated to external applicants who will be assessed and expected to perform at the same high level as our own Year 2 pupils.
The School will be a place of opportunity, learning, imagination and celebration of the individual. Our curriculum will retain its strong traditional academic focus together with emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) recognising that it is crucial for all young people, regardless of their future career pathway, to have the STEM knowledge and skills required to be informed citizens in an increasingly scientific and technological society.
Jack and Jill will continue to operate in exactly the same way for children in our current age range and, as the new school will only cater for one class per year group, we will prepare girls for assessment at a variety of schools at the end of Year 2, with the expectation that parents will have the same range of choice at this stage. Emphasis will continue to be placed upon working with parents to ensure girls achieve places at Prep Schools in which they will thrive and achieve highly. However, we also very much hope that a proportion of parents will choose to remain with us thereby allowing us the opportunity of working together to educate and nurture girls from 2-11 years.