Judith Kerr Primary School Competitors

Caterham School is one of the UK’s leading co-educational HMC day and boarding schools. Learning at Caterham School is an exciting adventure, full of opportunities for personal development, achievement and enjoyment. From aged 3 years to Sixth Form we offer an education for life, giving our pupils the knowledge, skills and values they need to create their own success as thoughtful and confident individuals in the world beyond.

Our vision is to foster a love for learning, equip children to live life skilfully and create positive memories. Love for Learning: Through an excitingly, dynamic education, Jubilee school will stimulate a child’s naturally inquisitive mind, instilling a love for learning. We will provide a safe environment in which individuality is valued, diversity is celebrated and a strong sense of self-worth imparted. Equipping to live life skilfully: We will foster early character development, enabling children to identify, explore and realise their potential; thereby empowering them to take ownership of their learning and behaviour. Create positive memories: We will promote physical and emotional well – being through inspiring a love for the Arts and sport. We will provide access to explore and learn in a classroom without walls. Dedicated Teachers: Our school will have enthusiastic, dedicated and empathetic staff, with a passion for teaching. They will provide a safe enviroment in which learning will be fun. Our Nature is to Nurture: Staff and parents/carers will collaborate; working towards the common goal of every child excelling and making progress. A strong family ethos will be central in providing an environment in which trusting relationships are cultivated. A foundation of excellence will underpin everything we do; academic, pastoral and spiritual.

Since our foundation in 1976, we have focused exclusively on co-educational Early Childhood Education, the period research has unequivocally established as the most formative in a child’s life and requiring a specialist pedagogical approach. Thanks to our focus and cumulative experience, and by integrating research findings and best practices from other successful ECE programmes from around the world, we have devised our own, cutting-edge continuous five-year provision to develop our children to their best potential and launch them on a trajectory of happy, healthy and successful lives. We are the largest stand-alone independent school in the country specialising in 2- to 7-year-olds, which gives us the scale required for employing a critical mass of expert early years educators and having state-of-the-art facilities and resources. However, we are small enough to enjoy a warm and friendly family community atmosphere in which the children benefit from deep relationships with our loving, caring and expert staff. Everything we do supports the development of the ‘whole child’ as we are very aware that all domains of development evolve in a highly interrelated and mutually supportive fashion. Therefore, we not only pay great attention to the traditionally emphasised cognitive and physical domains, but also to the social, emotional and self-regulatory (executive function) domains as these skills in particular will help our children to seize the opportunities and surmount the challenges they will face in their futures.