Durants School Competitors

Aldenham School provides an excellent all round education, which encourages students to achieve their full potential in academic subjects, sport and other activities. It is an outstanding independent, co-educational, day and boarding school, set in beautiful grounds in South Hertfordshire, just 16 miles from central London. Alumni include: Baroness Karren Brady of Knightsbridge CBE, Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FRS FREng FIET, Distinguished Professor of Space Engineering, Paul Yule, Award Winning Photojournalist and Film Maker and Field Marshall Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill CBE KCB DSO.

We are a very distinctive community with a rich heritage and tradition of providing a Jesuit education for boys in north London for over 100 years and for girls in our Sixth Form since 2014. Care for the whole person, in Jesuit terms, cura personalis, is at the heart of our educational philosophy. We recognise each person's individual qualities and needs; our goal as a school is to educate the whole child, academically, emotionally, spiritually, and to help unlock each child's potential so that students will grow to be responsible, fulfilled adults working to make the world a better place and take their place confidently in our fast moving, modern society.

The Latymer School is a high achieving, selective grammar school with a great tradition of success; we aim to provide a first class education for all our students. We believe that an outstanding education develops students academically, socially and morally, giving them the skills to be successful in whatever they do once they have left us. We also feel it is important to develop students outside of the classroom and offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities and trips including visits to our own residential centre in Cwm Penmachno, Wales. Secondary education represents a major stage in the life of each young person and so we aim to work together with parents, carers, governors and the local community to support our young people; enabling them to develop and grow within this community and in building together a real sense of identity within The Latymer School. Our motto is ‘who endeavours wins’ and that sums up the ethos we wish to build within our school community; life is not always straight forward and we encourage our students to persist, to keep trying and then success will come.