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Most pupils learn at least one instrument, taught one to one by visiting specialists in the music school’s practice rooms. Strings, brass, woodwind, piano and percussion all feed the school’s ensembles.

• Individual lessons during the school day
• Orchestra, string group and jazz band
• Termly concerts and informal recitals

Drawing from life is at the heart of the art studio. Pupils work at the easel from the youngest years, learning to look closely, mix colour and handle paint, charcoal and pastel with growing confidence.

Each summer the studio becomes a gallery, and every pupil has work on the walls.

The design studio gives pupils hands-on experience of designing, prototyping and making – from hand tools through to CAD, laser cutting and 3D printing. Projects start from real briefs, and every pupil takes an idea from sketch to finished product.

Mathematics is taught in small groups, so every pupil moves at the pace that stretches them. Lessons balance fluency, reasoning and problem-solving, and weekly clinics offer extra help or extra challenge to anyone who wants it.

English builds confident readers, writers and speakers. Pupils read widely from a well-stocked library, write for real audiences and perform poetry and plays, and every class has time each week simply to enjoy a good book.

Biology starts with curiosity about living things – minibeasts, visiting animals and the school garden – and grows into careful observation, classification and the first experiments of pupils’ own design.

In the laboratory pupils learn to handle apparatus safely, observe closely and explain what they see. Practical work comes first, so the ideas behind reactions, mixtures and materials are met in a beaker before a textbook.

Physics turns everyday questions – why things float, fall or light up – into investigations. Pupils plan fair tests, take measurements and build circuits, ramps and rockets on the way to the big ideas of forces and energy.

History brings the past to life through sources, stories and visits, from Roman Britain to the twentieth century. Pupils learn to weigh evidence, ask good questions and argue a case in writing and in debate.

Geography takes pupils outdoors to map, measure and question the world around them, then back into the classroom to explore places, peoples and the planet’s big challenges.

Languages are taught from the youngest years. Small groups, songs and role play give pupils the confidence to speak as well as read and write, and a trip abroad puts it all to use.

The art studio is open to every year group for drawing, painting, printmaking and clay. Pupils learn from the artists they study and fill sketchbooks with ideas of their own, exhibited each summer.

Music is part of every pupil’s week – class music, choirs, ensembles and individual lessons on almost any instrument. Concerts, assemblies and services give everyone the chance to perform.

Mathematics is taught in small groups, so every pupil moves at the pace that stretches them. Lessons balance fluency, reasoning and problem-solving, and weekly clinics offer extra help or extra challenge to anyone who wants it.

English builds confident readers, writers and speakers. Pupils read widely from a well-stocked library, write for real audiences and perform poetry and plays, and every class has time each week simply to enjoy a good book.

Physics turns everyday questions – why things float, fall or light up – into investigations. Pupils plan fair tests, take measurements and build circuits, ramps and rockets on the way to the big ideas of forces and energy.

Music is part of every pupil’s week – class music, choirs, ensembles and individual lessons on almost any instrument. Concerts, assemblies and services give everyone the chance to perform.