55 Liverpool Road, Chester, Cheshire CH2 1AW
10 reasons to choose The Queen's Lower School
Top line
The Queen’s Lower School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 85. It is one of the 4 best independent prep schools in and around Chester and one of the 4 best primary schools within 2 miles.
School fundamentals
The Queen’s Lower School is an independent prep day school for girls between the ages of 4 and 11 years. It is a Christian school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of The Queen’s School, an all-through school to age 18. The Queen’s Lower School fees range from £3,630 (Rec) to £4,065 per term (2024/25). Fees exclude VAT and lunches.
Average class size
The Queen’s Lower School has one class per year and an average class size of 13 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
Most Lower School pupils move up to Queen’s School, Chester at the end of Year 6.
The Queen's Lower School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum with some additions and variations. The Learning Challenge Curriculum encourages critical thinking through a cross-curricular approach for most subjects up to Year 4. The curriculum also includes PSHE, thinking skills, reasoning, French, Spanish, Mandarin. The school is an accredited ‘Confucius Classroom’. Each pupil may participate in over 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups and visiting speakers. Beach School and Forest Friday every term for all pupils. Residential trips from Year 3.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, computing and languages throughout, for art and DT from Year 3, and for most subjects from Year 5.
Sport at The Queen's Lower School
School offers over 15 different sports through the year, through both the curriculum and extra-curriculum. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at The Queen's Lower School
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and two-thirds take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Two choirs and two instrument ensembles. The choir has a strong track record in national choral competitions including Runner up in the BBC Songs of Praise Junior School Choir of the Year competition 2014/15. Each pupil may participate in up to 10 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near The Queen's Lower School
The Firs School (1 mile); The King’s School, Infants & Juniors, Chester (2.8 miles); Abbey Gate College, Infant & Junior School (7 miles).
Acresfield Primary School (1.8 miles); Oldfield Primary School, Vicars Cross (2.4 miles); St Oswald’s Church of England Primary School, Chester (3.1 miles).
The Queen’s School, Chester (1.2 miles); The King’s School, Chester (2.8 miles); The Hammond (3.3 miles).
Christleton High School (3.3 miles); Helsby High School (9 miles); Tarporley High School and Sixth Form College (11.4 miles).