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St Dunstan’s College Junior School, Catford, London SE6

Stanstead Road, Catford, London SE6 4TY

St Dunstan's College Junior School, Catford, London SE6 2

10 reasons to choose St Dunstan's College Junior School

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St Dunstan’s College Junior School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 81. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Catford and one of the 5 best primary schools for 1 mile.

School fundamentals

St Dunstan’s College Junior School is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 3 and 11 years. It is a Church of England school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of St Dunstan’s College, an all-through school to age 18. St Dunstan’s College Junior School fees range from £5,764 (Rec) to £7,127 per term (2024/25). Fees exclude VAT but include lunches.

Average class size

St Dunstan’s College Junior School has two classes per year and an average class size of 23 pupils.

Leavers' destinations

At the end of Year 6, most Junior School pupils move up to St Dunstan’s College.

The St Dunstan's College Junior School curriculum

The school uses the International Primary Curriculum to teach geography, history, science (and pre-prep art) as a series of combined topics. Curriculum also includes PSHEE (Lessons for Life), reasoning, French, Spanish, German. The school calls its academic curriculum the ‘Hecker Programme’ and its extra-curricular programme the ‘Forder Programme’. Each is designed to reflect and balance each of the school’s five core values of confidence, courage, compassion, creativity, and curiosity. 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, a camp on school premises for Year 2, and residential trips from Year 3.

Specialist teaching

Specialist teachers for sport, music, languages and computing throughout, and for art and DT from Year 3.

Sport at St Dunstan's College Junior School

School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3.

The Arts at St Dunstan's College Junior School

Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. Drama is part of the co-curriculum. All pupils learn an instrument in class and up to half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Two choirs and several instrument ensembles. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.

Wraparound care

Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.

Find another school near St Dunstan's College Junior School

Independent Prep Schools

Sydenham High Prep School (2.4 miles); Colfe’s Junior School (2.5 miles); Dulwich College Junior School and DUCKS (3 miles).

State Primary Schools

Dalmain Primary School (0.8 miles); Kilmorie Primary School (0.8 miles); Gordonbrock Primary School (0.9 miles).

Independent Senior Schools

St Dunstan’s College (0 miles); Sydenham High School GDST (2.4 miles); Colfe’s School (2.5 miles).

State Senior Schools

Prendergast School (1.5 miles); Sydenham School (1.8 miles); Haberdashers’ Hatcham College (2.3 miles).

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