Middle School · Ages 11–14
Building and discovering.
The Middle years are for stretching out: deeper subjects, real workshops, and the first proper room to choose. This is where ideas meet the bench, the bunsen and the keyboard.
Our approach
Ages 11–14, taught with care.
Middle School marks the move into specialist subject teaching, taught by people who love what they teach. The core deepens, the questions get harder and the work grows more independent, while a strong pastoral structure keeps every student known and supported through a period of rapid change.
Alongside the core, students choose electives and join the workshops, laboratories and clubs that make the school hum after the bell. It is a stage built to widen interests before the focus of the senior years, and to teach the habits, planning, note-taking, resilience, that the IGCSE programme will ask for.
Design & technology
Robotics & design
In the design studio and makerspace, students move from a brief to a working prototype: sketching, modelling, coding a controller and testing under load. They learn that a good idea is only the start, and that iteration, not inspiration, is what makes things work.
Enquiry & presentation
Science fair & exhibition
Each year culminates in an exhibition where students present an investigation of their own to peers, teachers and families. Designing the question, running the method and defending the findings aloud builds the independence that senior study rewards.
Choice & electives
What this stage opens up.
Robotics & coding
Microcontrollers, sensors and the logic to make them behave, from line-followers to small autonomous builds.
Design & makerspace
Wood, plastics and digital fabrication: laser cutting, 3D printing and the discipline of finishing well.
Performing arts
Ensemble music, theatre and dance, with two full productions staged on the main stage each year.
Visual & media arts
Painting, photography and film, taught from observation through to a personal portfolio.
World languages
Continued study of a second language, with the option to begin a third.
Model UN & debate
Research, argument and diplomacy, with inter-school conferences across the region.
Come and see
Spend a morning with us.
See the makerspace, the labs and the studios in full flow. Book a campus visit on a teaching day.