Northbourne Park School

Northbourne Park School is set in over one hundred acres of beautiful park and woodland in rural Kent, close to Canterbury and within easy reach of central London. It is a wonderful venue for residential and non-residential activities, conferences, weddings and activity courses during the Easter and Summer holidays. Northbourne Park School offers

• Conference facilities
• Historic dining hall seating up to 80
• Beautiful park and woodland
• 13th century church
• Sports fields
• Indoor sports hall
• Outdoor swimming pool (heated)
• Tennis courts
• Overnight accommodation
• We can cater for educational groups
• Sporting groups
• Societies & organisations
• Wedding blessings and Christenings
• Private functions
• Corporate Away Days

A small school with excellent pastoral care and a family feel.  Having top academic results both for the Kent Grammar School Test and Scholarships to Senior Schools, rated excellent in the 2017 ISI inspection. Offers bespoke learning to ensure every child reaches their poential. Northbourne Park School  is the best start for your child with a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities.

• The Nursery and Pre-Prep School has 30 hours a week free education (government funded) in the Nursery Class.
• Tax Free Childcare accepted as payment towards Nursery fees, Breakfast Club, late service charges, holiday activities.
• Wrap-around childcare service available
• Flexible hours in the Nursery
• Small class sizes
• Low child/staff ratios
• School transport from local area
• Well balanced and varied curriculum
• Friendly and homely environment
• Outstanding outdoor environment
• Excellent academic progress
• Weekly French, Music and Forest School sessions all run by specialist teachers
• Extra individual learning support available
• Healthy good quality food for snacks and lunch
• Parent and Child sessions (0-4 years)

The Prep School provides a high-energy, stimulating educational experience for all of our boys and girls as they make their way to either Kent Grammar Schools at 11+ or to Public Schools at 13+.

The children are very much at the centre of all we do here, and the Northbourne Park experience is a team effort, with the staff, children, parents and governors all working together to provide a stimulating education which is as broad as it is deep and wide.

Our educational philosophy is simple and successful; if your child is happy, supported and cared for in their educational lives, they will want to work hard and to get involved in a wide range of stimulating extra-curricular activities and contribute more and more to the school community.

Outstanding pastoral care ensures that we focus on the individual needs of every child, encouraging them and inspiring them to succeed across a wide range of learning experiences whether in the classroom, in sport, music, drama and leadership or in the wide range of other activities on offer to them at the school.

Our buildings, park and woodland provide wonderful spaces for children to enjoy their educational journey, whether it is playing in the woods, camping out, following the pioneering Outdoor Education programme or developing a strong interest in their natural surroundings.

Northbourne Park children are proud to be individuals and are all different. They are however widely recognised as articulate, hard-working, confident, considerate and very much 'free-range' in their attitudes; they are able to think laterally to find solutions and have an unusually mature moral compass based in firm spiritual values which are to the benefits of our whole community.

In the last few years, Northbourne Park boys and girls have progressed with confidence and often with Scholarships to King’s Canterbury, Tonbridge, Benenden, St Edmund’s Canterbury, Stowe, The Leys Cambridge, Lancing, Kent College and further afield. Our French and Spanish pupils in the parallel academic classes in Year 7 and 8 return to French and Spanish lycées after one or two years with us.

Pre-Prep Department:
Address: The Old Rectory, Betteshanger, Deal, Kent CT14 0NJ
Tel: +441304611792
Email: preprep@northbournepark.com