A FAMILY OF TOP UK INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
We are a family of three leading UK independent schools delivering a world class education in the heart of Harrogate for boys aged 2-11 and girls aged 2-18 years.Here’s an overview of our schools:
- Highfield Pre-School – for boys and girls aged 2-4 years
- Highfield Prep School – for boys and girls aged 4-11 years
- Harrogate Ladies’ College – for day and boarding girls aged 11-18 years
HIGHFIELD PRE-SCHOOL IN HARROGATE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – PART OF YOUR FAMILY
Highfield Pre-School (formerly Bankfield Nursery) is a leading independent nursery school in Harrogate for boys and girls aged 2-4 years.
Our Pre-School establishes the foundation for a child’s future learning and it’s where a passion for learning and a love of life begins.We build on the important role of parents in developing children’s understanding of themselves and their world.
Emphasis is placed on creative, interesting and structured play.This nurtures emerging academic skills and develops opportunities for social interactions.In academic terms, children take their first steps in decision making, problem solving and communicating.Socially, they make friends and learn to show respect and consideration for others.
WHAT MAKES HIGHFIELD PRE-SCHOOL DIFFERENT?
Highfield Pre-School is a unique and wonderful nursery school environment and is the perfect stepping stone from home to school.Here’s what makes us different:
- Our facilities – Our pre-school occupies a large Victorian family house in the Duchy area of Harrogate.Our investment has transformed the house into a stimulating environment with outstanding facilities for pre-school children while still maintaining a home from home atmosphere.We also have the largest outdoor space of any nursery in the area and have access to a wide range of additional facilities at Harrogate Ladies’ College, including a swimming pool, theatre, sports field and sports hall.
- Our focus on child development – Children at Highfield Pre-school develop quickly thanks to our structured timetable and our Early Years Curriculum.By the time they start school, Highfield Pre-School children are equipped with the social and academic skills they need to enable them to continue to flourish.
- Our pastoral care – Each child at Highfield Pre-School is assigned a key worker who is responsible for their all round well being.Children and parents also receive fabulous support from our award winning catering team and our dedicated on-site wellness centre.
- Our staff – As you would expect, we have a high staff:child ratio and all of our staff are either qualified Early Years Practitioners or qualified teachers.What makes them really different though is their total commitment and dedication to the children.
ABOUT HIGHFIELD PREP SCHOOL, HARROGATE
Highfield Prep School is a leading independent prep school for boys and girls aged 4-11 years in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Highfield Prep School celebrates an important and wonderful stage in a child’s development.From the very first day at school we aim to make this a happy, exciting and inspiring journey towards senior school.
Children join Highfield Prep from across Harrogate and the surrounding area and are taught in small class sizes which enable us to focus on their individual development.This approach helps our children to achieve their full potential both inside and outside of the classroom.They have a strong sense of who they are and of the world around them.
By the time children leave us they’re fully equipped to tackle the next stage in their educational career and go on to achieve great things beyond our school.
WHAT MAKES HIGHFIELD PREP SCHOOL DIFFERENT?
Here’s what we believe makes Highfield Prep School such a special place:
- Our passion for learning – Children at our school love to learn – it’s part of our culture; part of who we are.We believe in learning through real life experiences and our curriculum is full of exciting opportunities that enable children to achieve their full potential.As well as fantastic class teachers, children also benefit from specialist French, PE, Drama, Music and Swimming lessons every week from Reception.
- Our extra-curricular programme – With almost 50 extra-curricular activities to choose from, children at Highfield Prep School have the opportunity to try new things; learn new skills and develop their individual talents – all within the school environment.
- Our school community – Children at Highfield are happy, articulate and confident – in fact we think they’re pretty amazing!We also have incredibly supportive parents; dedicated staff; and a strong sense of community – all of which are key to the success of our school.
- Our facilities – As part of a wider family of independent schools, our children benefit from access to a wide range of teaching, sports, drama, music and arts facilities not normally available to younger children – all of which help us to enhance the school experience.
ABOUT HARROGATE LADIES’ COLLEGE – A LEADING UK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
Harrogate Ladies’ College is one of the UK’s top independent schools for girls aged 11 to 18 years.
Senior school years are perhaps the most critical in terms of shaping long term futures, but we believe that they should also be exciting, inspiring and stimulating – a time of building confidence, increasing independence; and of becoming comfortable with who you are.
As a leading UK independent school, we focus on providing girls with an all round education which will ensure that they have the best possible opportunities when they move on to the next stage in their lives.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Harrogate Ladies’ College is a vibrant, stimulating and diverse independent school.Here’s what we think makes us so special:
- Our pupils grow up in school that knows them as individuals, the way their parents know them as individuals, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears. We believe that only a school of our size could achieve this.
- Our school is known for being kind and caring. We believe that the kinder, more supportive we are, the harder our pupils can be pushed to achieve more, both inside and outside the classroom. Studying at College typically adds one whole grade per subject and our A level results are the best in Harrogate.The majority of our girls go on to study at top Russell Group universities.
- Our pupils have the freedom and confidence to be themselves. Being an all-girls school is an important factor in this, as is our culture of openness, empathy and the building of friendships between age-groups.
When pupils leave our school and move onto the next stage in their lives they are ready to take on the world on an equal footing and on their own terms, able to say: “I Am Me.”
