Hampton Court House, Hampton Court Road, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9BS
10 reasons to choose Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years
Main point of differentiation
Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years has a Schoolsmith Score® of 78, and with its bilingual French curriculum, is the best Twickenham and Hampton prep school for foreign languages.
School fundamentals
Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (60%/40%) between the ages of 2 and 13 years. The school has an academically selective admissions policy from Year 5. It is the junior division of Hampton Court House School, an all-through school to age 18, and is a member of the Dukes Education group. Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years fees range from £5,903 (Rec) to £7,719 per term (2024/25). Fees exclude VAT and lunches.
Average class size
Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years has one class per year rising to two from Year 7, and an average class size of 17 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 8 most Hampton Court House School Middle Years pupils move up to the Upper School. A significant minority leave at 11 for local day schools, or at 13 for a range of independent day and boarding schools.
The Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and the ISEB Common Entrance curriculum. It also includes PSHE, history of art, global perspectives, ESR (Environment, Sustainability & Responsibility), French, Mandarin, Latin. The curriculum in Years 1 to 4 is bilingual with half of the lessons in French, half in English. The school also offers a distance learning qualification for French Nationals from the Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance (CNED). There may be an occasional extra-curricular academic or hobby club.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 5.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, languages, art, DT and computing throughout.
Sport at Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils, as is ballet to Year 4. All pupils learn an instrument in class and about one third take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Choirs and some instrument ensembles. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
No wraparound care as such, but with clubs, the school day runs from 8.00am to 5.15pm.
Find another school near Hampton Court House School Lower & Middle Years
Twickenham Preparatory School (1.3 miles); Weston Green Preparatory School (1.8 miles); Hampton Pre-Prep & Prep School (1.9 miles).
St Alban’s Catholic Primary School, East Molesey (1.4 miles); St Paul’s Catholic Primary School, Thames Ditton (1.4 miles); St John the Baptist Church of England Junior School, Hampton Wick (1.7 miles).
Hampton Court House School (0 miles); Kingston Grammar School (2.1 miles); The Lady Eleanor Holles School (2.2 miles).
Tiffin School (2.1 miles); Teddington School (2.2 miles); Hinchley Wood School (2.4 miles).