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Chatsworth Schools can announce that Mrs Morven MacDonald, Head of The Village Prep School will be stepping down at the end of this academic year, July 2023, to take a career break with Chatsworth’s full support. On her departure, Chatsworth Schools CEO and Founder, Anita Gleave said “Morven is committed to the values, ethos and […]

Chatsworth Schools announce Happy Space as their expert mental health and wellbeing partner Chatsworth Schools have partnered with Happy Space UK to support all Chatsworth school and nursery pupils with their mental health and wellbeing. The ambitious partnership will immediately benefit thousands of young people’s mental health across the Chatsworth Schools group with a vision

Chatsworth Schools is delighted to share the news that Highfield Prep School, Maidenhead was rated as EXCELLENT during their recent ISI Inspection. You can read Head, Joanna Leach’s letter to parents below and the full report here. We are very proud of this simply brilliant inspection report and the quality of education and experience that

Benedict House signs new lease and has big plans to take the school and its students to 2050 and beyond. Chatsworth Schools was delighted for Benedict House Headmaster, Craig Wardle to share the following letter to parents on 8th March ’22 regarding the signing of a new long term lease and the significant redevelopment planned

Today is National Thank a Teacher Day, so we’d like to say a huge heartfelt THANK YOU, to all our incredible Heads, teachers, teaching assistants and support staff at Chatsworth Schools. Your continued hard work, resilience and commitment to the children throughout the past year, is truly awe-inspiring. More than ever, we appreciate your tireless

The Chatsworth Nursery Heads’ had a fantastic day at Great Tew at their inaugural Nursery Head’s Day.  The day was spent focusing on effective leadership and management of a standalone nursery setting.    The inspirational Jane Sparrow led an afternoon session to support their mental health and well-being, which was well received by all.

Chatsworth Schools are excited to announce two fantastic additions to our growing team! Introducing Justine Willmott as our Head of People. A former professional badminton player, national coach with leadership positions in Olympic and Paralympic Sports to name a few. A passion for human potential and helping people be the best they can be. We

Chatsworth Schools are delighted to announce the rebrand of three Oxfordshire nurseries.  The previously known Tiny Toes Day Nurseries and Pre-Schools Group located in Abingdon, Steventon and Wallingford have been rebranded to the Chatsworth Schools Duchess Nurseries brand.  They will now be called Duchess Nursery Abingdon, Duchess Nursery Steventon and Duchess Nursery Wallingford. The nurseries

Chatsworth schools are pleased to welcome Clemmie Stewart as our new Director of Learning and Teaching. Starting in September, we look forward to Clemmie joining the team and helping us to enable outstanding futures for all of our children within the Chatsworth family. She brings with her a wealth of educational experiences including research-based innovation alongside

Jo from Highfield Prep School, Maidenhead has been awarded this week’s Chatsworth Schools Unsung Hero Award.  We are am delighted to recognise the immeasurable contribution you make to the school community and the children in your care. Jo has been with the key worker girls from the start and has managed to support them. All

At the start of this term Valency from the Village Prep School was, as always, down to be helping the Lower School (Lower and Upper I) with their work as their Classroom Assistant. However, because of Covid factors, she was asked to come in and be assistant to the Early Years, as their assistant was

Our Reception TA, Pilar Garea is just brilliant; she is the first in school each day and the kind of person that puts her hand  up for anything. She typifies the heart and soul of the school and the best colleague that you could wish for.  She doesn’t value her worth anywhere near as much as

Due to our continued growth and developments we are looking for a HEAD of PEOPLE Are you a people person? Do you have integrity and passion ? Are you resilient ? Do you get the giggles and have a great sense of humour? Are you ambitious? Are you kind ? Does the future of the

Matt is our site manager.  He is always around the school making sure that it is safe for us to learn and play.  Everyday, he comes in at the crack of dawn and makes sure that the building and grounds are free of dangers.  During COVID Matt has had extra responsibilities, he has made sure

Robert Ferguson from Benedict House Prep School would like to honour the memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore by continuing his fantastic fundraising effort for the NHS. In these difficult times, Captain Sir Tom Moore showed great perseverance and courage. Just two of the values we hold dear at school and we would like to

The word ‘No’ does not exist in Nalini’s vocabulary!… Amongst her work as Marketing Manager at Hall School Wimbledon, she goes above and beyond to help every member of the school community in a variety of roles. Whether it be a parent seeking an answer to a query, a staff member asking a favour or

Alison is our Pre-School teacher at Benedict House Prep School in Sidcup, Kent. Each Autumn Term she takes in children with a cast array of abilities from many differing backgrounds and turns them into little people. This year has been exceptionally challenging as the Pre-School children had missed six months in any educational setting. When

Welcome to The Chatsworth Schools Challenge Each week Chatsworth Schools will be running a fun challenge where our pupils can participate and win a weekly prize. Challenges will be creative, musical, technical, sporty or something else…..?   This is a fun initiative that we hope will provide some added inspiration and engagement during these challenging times.   

Chatsworth Schools announced today the appointment of Mrs Sarah Hobby as the new Headteacher of Crown House Preparatory School in Buckinghamshire. Mrs Hobby recently completed the Chatsworth Schools Leadership Training Programme and is the first graduate of the course to become a Headteacher.   The Chatsworth Schools Leadership Training Programme is a research-based training course

On Sunday, 22nd November, Benedict House Preparatory School were ranked 14th nationally in the Sunday Times “Top Independent Schools” league table based on their Year 6 SATS scores. This is up from 33rd in 2019. This is a huge achievement and we are so proud of their success.

To be part of an amazing team which has, in such a short space of time, had real, tangible , positive impacting and across a growing family of schools is my truest honour . With over 300 members who , daily, go above and beyond – sprinkling fairy dust, providing real opportunities and challenges whilst

Chatsworth Schools is pleased to announce the acquisition of Tiny Toes Day Nurseries, three nurseries for 0-5 year olds located in Oxfordshire. Tiny Toes provide children with a family orientated, fun and safe environment where every child is nurtured and encouraged to achieve their full potential. Commenting on the news, Anita Gleave, Founder and CEO

Happy New School Year! To all our Chatsworth families, our children and our staff, we not only welcome you back but wish you the best of years ahead.

In the midst of a global crisis, Chatsworth Schools wanted to inspire its children to think big and dream big, so they partnered with the award-winning education company 7billionideas to launch a competition called #ChatsworthIDEAS2020. In the first week of home schooling, pupils in Years 3-6, across all Chatsworth schools had the opportunity to generate

Further to the requirement of the Department of Education, Chatsworth Schools has closed our schools and nurseries with immediate effect. We will be doing our upmost to support our parents who are key workers as defined by the Government. Working together is an essential part of our national effort to combat this disease. We cannot

A number of Year 6 Highfield Preparatory School girls are celebrating after passing their senior school exams to the Abbey, the Marist, Heathfield, Queen Anne’s and Pipers Corner. Between them, the girls managed to achieve 9 scholarships – 3 academic, 2 music, 2 drama, 1 sport and 1 art. Headteacher Mrs Leach said ‘We are

We are delighted to announce that The Village Prep School has received an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted Report, following its inspection in February.  This comes immediately after our Third Form girls achieved their ‘best ever’ results in the 11+ exams which in itself was a tremendous accomplishment. Founder and CEO of Chatsworth Schools,  Anita Gleave wrote; “I

Congratulations to the Third Form girls (Y6) at The Village Prep School who have achieved fantastic results in the 11+ exams today. Thirty-nine offers for eleven girls; of which five academic and two sporting scholarships have been offered between them. This is our highest number of scholarships to date. The academic strengths of The Village

To celebrate their immense contribution to our OFSTED inspection, our girls at The Village Prep School are being treated to ice cream and a movie afternoon! Congratulations to you all- you deserve it.

On Thursday 6th February we had the pleasure of welcoming entrepreneur and two-time TED Talk Speaker David Harkin to our Support Office in Oxfordshire. David talked us through 7billionideas, the business he founded in 2012 to offer entrepreneurship courses which inspire others to see their ideas become a reality. We are very excited to instill