Primary · Ages 6–11
Learning by doing.
Primary is where curiosity finds its tools. Children read widely, write often and reason carefully, and they do it across the garden, the studio and the page as readily as at a desk.
Our approach
Ages 6–11, taught with care.
Our Primary years build genuine fluency in reading, writing and mathematics, and pair it with science, the humanities, two languages and the arts. Lessons are active and connected: a unit on rivers might run through measurement, a field sketch, a poem and a model in the makerspace, so that knowledge holds together rather than arriving in pieces.
An eight-to-one ratio means teachers can teach to the child in front of them, stretching the quick and steadying those who need more time. Progress is tracked closely and shared honestly with families, and effort is praised as plainly as attainment.
Place-based learning
Outdoor & garden learning
Each Primary class tends a bed in the school garden across the year. Children plant, measure, observe and harvest, then carry it back indoors as data, drawings and writing. Science becomes something you do with soil on your hands, not only a page in a book.
The arts, woven in
Creativity across the curriculum
Drawing, music and making are not extras here; they run through the subjects. Corridors double as galleries where work is shown with care, and the act of presenting to others teaches children to take their own thinking seriously.
Skills spotlight
What this stage opens up.
Reading & writing
Daily independent reading, structured spelling and grammar, and regular writing across forms, from a clear report to a poem.
Mathematical thinking
Number fluency built on real understanding: concrete materials first, then pictures, then symbols and reasoning.
Scientific enquiry
Asking a question, predicting, testing fairly and recording honestly, in the lab, the garden and the field.
Languages
Two languages from the early Primary years, taught through conversation, song and story before grammar.
The arts
Visual art, music and drama on the weekly timetable, with a stage and a studio to perform and show the work.
Learning to learn
Organising oneself, working in a team, persisting through difficulty, and reflecting on what went well.
Come and see
Spend a morning with us.
Come and see a Primary classroom mid-morning, when the garden, the studio and the page are all in use at once.