131-133 Queen's Gate, Kensington, London SW7 5LE
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Queen’s Gate Junior School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 81. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Kensington and one of the 7 best primary schools for 0.5 miles.
School fundamentals
Queen’s Gate Junior School is an independent prep day school for girls between the ages of 4 and 11 years. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Queen’s Gate School, an all-through school to age 18. Queen’s Gate Junior School fees are £8,190 +VAT per term (2024/25).
Average class size
Queen’s Gate Junior School has one class per year and an average class size of 17 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 6, most Junior pupils move up to Queen’s Gate School.
The Queen's Gate Junior School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, reasoning, STEAM projects, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Mandarin, Latin. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 4.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music and languages throughout, and for science from Year 3.
Sport at Queen's Gate Junior School
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 Queen's Gate Junior School
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Four choirs, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Before school care starts at 8.00pm, and clubs can extend the day to 5.00/5.30pm. School bus service.
Find another school near Queen's Gate Junior School
Glendower Preparatory School (0.1 miles); St Philip’s School (0.2 miles); Falkner House (0.3 miles).
Our Lady of Victories Catholic Primary School, Kensington (0.3 miles); Bousfield Primary School (0.5 miles); Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School, Chelsea (0.5 miles).
Queen’s Gate School (0 miles); Kensington Park School (0.1 miles); Mander Portman Woodward School, London (0.3 miles).
Saint Thomas More Language College (0.8 miles); Kensington and Chelsea College (1 mile); The London Oratory School (1.1 miles).