Charlotte House Preparatory School for Girls
Charlotte House is a small, independent, girls-only prep school which is situated on a beautiful site on the border of Rickmansworth and Chorleywood. It caters for girls from Nursery to Year VI and sees successful transfer to Senior School as its fundamental goal.
Girls at Charlotte House are offered every opportunity to shine in this secure and unthreatening enviroment. Our friendly staff and happy pupils ensure a smooth transition at whichever stage children join us.
We believe that the best way to see a school is on a 'warts and all' basis and welcome prospective parents whenever they drop in to see what Charlotte House is all about.
“Charlotte House School is highly successful in providing an education for its pupils that ensures that they leave the school as confident, well-rounded girls who gain places at their senior school of choice. An outstanding foundation is given in the EYFS and the girls continue to make swift progress so that they reach good standards when they leave.” (ISI Inspection, July 2011)
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Message from the Head
I'd like to say that the summer sun is shining down on us as the summer term gets underway but I am a very truthful person and really cannot bring myself to make such a claim. Luckily we have so much to occupy us that the fact that we are still going out to play in our wellies is a mere bagatelle!
This term is a very special one because we are celebratinig not only 80 years in the business (if I can call it that), but also our re-branding as Charlotte House: a wonderful name for a wonderful school. There are very few indepedent girls-only prep schools in this country and that is a real shame because they are an invaluable start to one's school career. In a girls-only environment, pupils work happily, capably and confidently - free to be the person they truly are. Naturally inquisitive (and acquisitive), girls are keen to start learning and anxious not to be distracted. They revel in the mysteries of the phonic alphabet and the slipperiness of numbers and words at the beginning of their time with us and they relish the challenges that our wide curriculum presents them with; in short, they look forward to school and the many things it can offer them.
So I say never mind the sun but welcome back to the best term in the school year; a term when girls will be going off to Suffolk, to France, to the Outdoor Activity Centre; for one and all it's all aboard the school mini bus for an exciting trip to pastures new.
We hope to see you soon.
Susan Hayes
Summer Term 2012
