The Lower School - Jerwoods
The Lower School, known as Jerwoods, enjoys
Work Outside the Classroom
its own house-based facilities but also benefits
All subjects (except PE and Creative Arts) are
from the excellent resources and teaching
allocated supervised prep times totalling about six
expertise of the Senior School. Under normal
hours a week. The Smallbone Library provides
circumstances, Lower School pupils do not need
outstanding facilities for self-motivated study and
to take an entry examination to progress to the
pupils are encouraged to pursue wider interests on
Middle School and, with the strong foundation
their own initiative.
Jerwoods provides, they have the tremendous
advantage of ‘growing in’ to the Senior School,
Examinations
familiar with the environment, academically
prepared and socially confident.
Pupils in the Lower School take a full range of
examinations in the second half of the Summer
The Academic Curriculum
Term and the results are reported to parents.
All pupils study English, Mathematics, French
(and add Spanish or German in the Second Form,
Year 8), Science, History, Geography, Religious
Education, Information and Communication
Technology and a series of Creative Arts courses;
most pupils take Latin. In Lower One (Year 6) there
are two equal ability classes taught for half the
timetable by a class teacher whilst subject
specialists teach Science, ICT, History and Music.
In the First and Second Forms (Years 7 and 8) each
subject is taught by a specialist teacher.
Throughout the Lower School, teaching is by
forms in all subjects, except Mathematics, Latin
and French which are divided into sets by ability.
No teaching group is larger than twenty four;
most are significantly smaller.
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