A very warm welcome to St Aubyns School - the outstanding academic and all-round prep school in Brighton. We have a unique emphasis on the individual development of each child and the most spacious site of any junior school in the area.
St Aubyns is a family-centred school which has been preparing children for senior schools throughout the country since 1895. We are independent from any senior school and will be able to prepare your son or daughter for the school which you choose for them as they approach 13. Building on solid academic foundations, our aim is to enable boys and girls to flourish, to feel secure and valued, and to foster each individual child in developing their individual strengths. Our extended school day allows us to offer a wide range of creative, sporting and academic extras in addition to a broad academic curriculum. The creative arts are flourishing at St Aubyns and all the children are encouraged to develop their potential in this area.
Central to our educational success is a low pupil to adult ratio, and a committed and well-qualified team of teachers who are passionate about teaching, nurturing and motivating children. Through pastoral care in small tutor groups throughout the school and an emphasis on developing good social skills we aspire to create confident and well-mannered children. Each pupil receives individual guidance and as a consequence our children are confident and polite, and achieve outstanding results in a range of fields at 13+.
Our recent outstanding Independent Schools Inspectorate Report (2011) highlights ‘outstanding pastoral care and an exciting curriculum’, ‘traditional values of courtesy and good manners with the best of modern technology in lessons’, an ‘outstanding activity programme’, ‘the excellent development of pupils’ personal qualities’, and ‘excellent relationships between pupils and with staff ’. As a non-selective school it is very important to us that the inspectors recognised ‘an exemplary system of individual learning profiles’ and both that we have ‘a stimulating academic extension programme’, and that we enable ‘pupils with additional needs to make exceptional progress’. Our Nursery Inspection (Ofsted 2008) emphasises the outstanding nature of the provision at that level in every aspect. The boarding provision was judged to be outstanding in our Boarding Inspection (Ofsted 2009). A recent press article described the school as having 'the intoxicating combination of small classes and a big heart". We welcome pupils from overseas and recently received a UK Border Agency A-rating when we gained our Sponsor Licence.
I hope very much that you will be intrigued by what you read here and then arrange to pay us a visit either at our next Open Morning on Tuesday 21st February, or by making your own appointment through the school office.
Simon Hitchings, MA (Oxon)
Headmaster