New Hall School

Since 2001, Katherine Jeffrey MA PGCE MA (EdMg) NPQH. Previously an RE teacher at St Mary’s School, Shaftesbury, head of RE at Woldingham School and deputy head at the Marist School, Ascot before coming to New Hall as its first ever lay principal and

Year 7 has 120 places – usually three times oversubscribed. Around 40 pupils come up from New Hall’s own year 6 and have priority, although they too must go through the same entry procedure as external applicants – ISEB Common Pre-tests with papers

School will not disclose how many pupils leave after GCSEs but we can tell you that in past years it's been around a quarter. Around two-thirds of the sixth form to Russell Group. Durham, Exeter, Warwick, UCL, Nottingham and Loughborough currently

In 2024, 53 per cent 9-7 at GCSE; 52 per cent A*/A at A level (81 per cent A*-B). In 2023, 44 per cent 9-7 at GCSE; 37 per cent A*/A at A level (66 per cent A*-B).

From school's website: New Hall is opening a new Sixth Form Business & Languages Centre in September 2024, given the growing popularity of these subjects that are relevant for future careers.

Interestingly, the genders at New Hall are on a par

All staff are trained in differentiation, and the gifted and talented benefit from accelerated learning in lessons and encouragement to find stretch in enrichment opportunities. Academic societies promote scholarly habits (including ‘challenge’,

‘Our co-curricular programme is not an add-on,’ emphasises principal. One of the few occasions we’ve come across a choir that’s compulsory – year 7 boys and girls enjoy or endure a year before being given the option to remain. ‘We have discovered

Sport is taken very seriously. Hockey now a major sport for boys as well as girls. Girls’ rugby up and running. Cricket for all. All sports available to everyone. Income has been ploughed into facilities – sleek, purpose-built gymnasium block stuffed

Cream sofas? Cushions? Can this be a boarding house for 7 to 13-year-old boys? Quite apart from Petre House’s jaw-droppingly ornate cornicing and mouldings worthy of a royal palace, the place is spotless in the face of a most unforgiving neutrally

The original Palace of Beaulieu, ancestral home of the Boleyn family and thought to represent much of the attraction to King Henry VIII of his second wife (beheaded), perhaps with good reason. Henry expanded the existing building to create a most

Personal qualities, kindness in particular, are recognised and drawn out, and pupils we met were certainly happy in their own skin. This is a Catholic school and although those of all faiths and none are welcome, Christian values are at its core.

This is a school surrounded by a changing profile of local parents – from the traditional farmers and professionals to city commuters and the grammar school educated. ‘Some have attended the historic Catholic schools such as Stonyhurst and Worth

Scholarships for Catholics, academic, music (including specific instrumental), all-rounder, sport (general) and tennis, plus means-tested bursaries. Proponent of the HMC Scholar Scheme, with 100 per cent fee remission for several students from

One of the largest independent schools in the UK, but smartly arranged for a small-school feel – this is a place boys and girls may contribute to and take from in equal measure, learning to relish individual academic success but also the greater joy