Winchester House School
We inspire children to become fully immersed in their studies, with high aspirations on what they can achieve as an individual. Creative teaching, delivered by passionate teachers, ensures that the learning experience is active and engaging for all ages and abilities.
From Year 5, all classes are taught by subject specialist teachers (including three separate sciences), with small class sizes giving focused, personalised teaching throughout the school. Our extensive facilities include an IT suite, three science labs, Design, Engineering and Technology class, language rooms and library.
For those pupils with higher academic potential, we have a specific series of programmes to provide the challenge and stretch that they will need. From the moment a child joins Winchester House, their class teachers, tutors, teachers and section heads are striving to better understand each individual’s personality, interests, strengths and weaknesses. Where potential is identified in one or more academic areas as being particularly high, pupils are invited to targeted events across The Stowe Group and to join specific sessions in individual subjects where a greater breadth of subject knowledge is developed.
It is a key tenant of a Winchester House education that our alumni have the potential to go on to achieve their ambitions and this means that we are insistent that our curriculum remains as broad as is possible. Unlike some prep schools, our potential scholars are required to continue to study all subjects within the curriculum, with a focus on a breadth of skills and developing the traits of a Winchester House Learner who will go on to be a Change Maker. Under the guidance of staff with responsibility for those pupils with higher learning and scholarship potential, our more academically able pupils explore how they can better develop the skills needed to be innovative and reflective, to be creative and enquiring and to be able to communicate across a myriad of mediums and to a diverse audience.
To study faster and to accelerate into Key Stage 4 curriculum would ultimately be counter-productive. Our more able pupils leave Winchester House not knowing more but understanding more. They are the pupils who are able to use their intelligence beyond the core requirements of exam-board syllabuses and are those who are best placed to use their innate abilities to change the world for the better.
Mr Martin, Deputy Head Academic
