Ages
Overall, a best in class girls’ prep and first step on the ladder to reaping all that the Habs' brand has to offer. With this start, these girls are undoubtedly on course to be the movers and shakers of tomorrow.
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Overview & data
- Pupil numbers
- 328 ·
- Religion
- Christian
- Fees
- £20,985 - £25,041 pa
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire County Council
- Linked schools
Headteacher
Head of junior school
Claire Brown
Since September 2023, Claire Brown, previously headteacher at Winton Primary School. Studied environmental science at Newcastle University before doing a PGCE with the Institute of Education.
Entrance
Two reception classes. Selection is a careful process and girls have to demonstrate their ‘Habs-ability’ to win one of the most coveted school places in the area, if not the country. Girls are observed and chatted to within small groups with simil
- Open days
- We encourage anyone interested in joining Habs to visit us during one of our School in Action mornings prior to registration. At each 4+, 7+ and 11+ School in Action Morning you will be offered a tour of the school by our existing pupils
Exit
Almost all go to the senior school without having to sit the 11+ to get there; several girls will move up with an academic or other scholarship under their belt. Girls very occasionally advised in year 5 that they may not flourish in that fast-pac
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Pupils
Money matters
- Fee information
- £20,985 - £25,041 pa
Our view
A wonderfully modern, spacious building attached by a corridor to its equally stunning big sister school. No sense of it being a waiting room for the real thing – this school is special in its own right. Easily navigable even for its youngest pupi
The last word
Overall, a best in class girls’ prep and first step on the ladder to reaping all that the Habs' brand has to offer. With this start, these girls are undoubtedly on course to be the movers and shakers of tomorrow.
