Hereward House School
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Hereward House School is an IAPS preparatory school
for boys aged 4 to 13, located in Hampstead
, London
on Strathray Gardens, near to Swiss Cottage
and the Finchley Road
. There are currently 171 on the roll. The Headmaster is Mr Tom Burden, having replaced Mrs. Leonie Sampson at the start of the 2011-12 academic year. Three others complete the senior management team: Chris Hammond (Director of Studies), Susan Kwok (Head of the Middle School) and Roise Kerr (Head of the Junior School).
Hereward House prepares boys for London day schools (chiefly Westminster School
, St Paul's School (London), Highgate School
, City of London School
and University College School
) as well as boarding schools: in 2008 boys left for Eton College
, Harrow School
, Winchester College
, Radley School and Oundle School
.
The school
is split into three sections: The Junior School (Transition and Years 1 and 2), The Middle School (Years 3, 4 and 5) and The Senior School (Years 6, 7 and 8).
Each boy is also allocated to a house: Angles
, Danes, Normans
or Saxons
. As is cutomary in preparatory schools, lively and varied competition exists between the houses, including House cricket
, football
, cross country running
and a sports day
. Prefects are elected by staff in September: few specific powers (or privileges) are given to the prefects, who are expected to lead by example and perform light policing duties.
The school educates 3 students who have started to run an environmental organisation called RHN Survey (Robin, Harry, Nicholas). They have raised £1,500.
A number of clubs are offered after school: cricket (or hockey), chess, Art, Science, Greek, snooker and table-tennis, Warhammer, Theatre Club (new in the summer of 2008), and Prep.
, Queen's Scholars; four scholarships were awarded to Hereward House boys in 2007:
1 academic scholar to City of London School
;
2 academic scholars to Highgate School
;
1 Art scholar to Charterhouse School
.
In 2009 it produced:
4 of the 6 academic scholars to City of London School;
4 academic scholars to Highgate School;
1 academic scholar to Aldenham School;
1 academic scholar to Rugby School;
The 2007/8 season will see Hereward House took part in the ISFA under-thirteen national tournament, the IAPS six-a-side tournament and the City of London six-a-side tournament for the first time. The school also plays friendlies against schools on a circuit broadly encompassing north London.
The school has a very successful record when sending boys to trials with representative teams. Hereward House sends boys to trials with North London Elite Football (more information can be found at www.elitefootball.co.uk) and the London FA team. Hereward House holds a phenomenal record of every boy that has attended a North London Elite trial being selected, something that is unprecedented in London. Through this work, boys have represented their country in national tournaments in Denmark (at the Danemark tournament) and Sweden (at the Gothenburg tournament) during the summer holidays.
During term time, a football club is run for students at Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre astroturf, on a Saturday morning, from 9:30-10:30.
In 2008, two boys from Hereward House were offered trials with Liverpool F.C. and Leyton Orient F.C..
Cross Country
The Hereward House inter-school cross country event is run in March at Hampstead Heath Extension. Schools are invited from across London to compete for titles in under-eleven and under-thirteen races. The event is one of the largest inter-school competitions in London.
In 2008, the under-nine Cross Country team won both the Norfolk House and Lyndhurst House Cross Country competitions, making them the first undefeated team from Hereward House in twenty-seven years. The under-eleven team were also victorious in the Lyndhurst House competition and Hereward House were, subsequently, the overall winners.
Preparatory school (UK)
In English language usage in the former British Empire, the present-day Commonwealth, a preparatory school is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for entry into fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are known as public schools...
for boys aged 4 to 13, located in Hampstead
Hampstead
Hampstead is an area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
on Strathray Gardens, near to Swiss Cottage
Swiss Cottage
Swiss Cottage is a district of the London Borough of Camden in London, England. Thedistrict is located north-west of Charing Cross. It is centred on the junction of Avenue Road and Finchley Road and is the location of Swiss Cottage tube station.-Etymology:...
and the Finchley Road
Finchley Road
Finchley Road, an inner city main road which runs for about 7 kilometres/4 miles, is one of the major thoroughfares of north London, England.Originally named Finchley New Road, it was built as a turnpike road in the late 1820s/early 1830s to provide a by-pass to the existing route north from London...
. There are currently 171 on the roll. The Headmaster is Mr Tom Burden, having replaced Mrs. Leonie Sampson at the start of the 2011-12 academic year. Three others complete the senior management team: Chris Hammond (Director of Studies), Susan Kwok (Head of the Middle School) and Roise Kerr (Head of the Junior School).
Hereward House prepares boys for London day schools (chiefly Westminster School
Westminster School
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain...
, St Paul's School (London), Highgate School
Highgate School
-Notable members of staff and governing body:* John Ireton, brother of Henry Ireton, Cromwellian General* 1st Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, owner of Kenwood, noted for judgment finding contracts for slavery unenforceable in English law* T. S...
, City of London School
City of London School
The City of London School is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and the co-educational City of London Freemen's School...
and University College School
University College School
University College School, generally known as UCS, is an Independent school charity situated in Hampstead, north west London, England. The school was founded in 1830 by University College London and inherited many of that institution's progressive and secular views...
) as well as boarding schools: in 2008 boys left for Eton College
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
, Harrow School
Harrow School
Harrow School, commonly known simply as "Harrow", is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.. The school is of worldwide renown. There is some evidence that there has been a school on the site since 1243 but the Harrow School we know today was...
, Winchester College
Winchester College
Winchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, the former capital of England. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years and claims the longest unbroken history of any school in England...
, Radley School and Oundle School
Oundle School
Oundle School is a co-educational British public school located in the ancient market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire. The school has been maintained by the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London since its foundation in 1556. Oundle has eight boys' houses, five girls' houses, a day...
.
The school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
is split into three sections: The Junior School (Transition and Years 1 and 2), The Middle School (Years 3, 4 and 5) and The Senior School (Years 6, 7 and 8).
Each boy is also allocated to a house: Angles
Angles
The Angles is a modern English term for a Germanic people who took their name from the ancestral cultural region of Angeln, a district located in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany...
, Danes, Normans
Normans
The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...
or Saxons
Saxons
The Saxons were a confederation of Germanic tribes originating on the North German plain. The Saxons earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein...
. As is cutomary in preparatory schools, lively and varied competition exists between the houses, including House cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, cross country running
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
and a sports day
Sports day
Sports days, sometimes referred to as Field Day, are events staged by many schools and offices in which people take part in competitive sporting activities, often with the aim of winning trophies or prizes...
. Prefects are elected by staff in September: few specific powers (or privileges) are given to the prefects, who are expected to lead by example and perform light policing duties.
The school educates 3 students who have started to run an environmental organisation called RHN Survey (Robin, Harry, Nicholas). They have raised £1,500.
A number of clubs are offered after school: cricket (or hockey), chess, Art, Science, Greek, snooker and table-tennis, Warhammer, Theatre Club (new in the summer of 2008), and Prep.
Scholarships
In 2008 the school produced one of the eight Westminster SchoolWestminster School
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain...
, Queen's Scholars; four scholarships were awarded to Hereward House boys in 2007:
1 academic scholar to City of London School
City of London School
The City of London School is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and the co-educational City of London Freemen's School...
;
2 academic scholars to Highgate School
Highgate School
-Notable members of staff and governing body:* John Ireton, brother of Henry Ireton, Cromwellian General* 1st Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, owner of Kenwood, noted for judgment finding contracts for slavery unenforceable in English law* T. S...
;
1 Art scholar to Charterhouse School
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse School, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse or House, is an English collegiate independent boarding school situated at Godalming in Surrey.Founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian...
.
In 2009 it produced:
4 of the 6 academic scholars to City of London School;
4 academic scholars to Highgate School;
1 academic scholar to Aldenham School;
1 academic scholar to Rugby School;
Sport
FootballThe 2007/8 season will see Hereward House took part in the ISFA under-thirteen national tournament, the IAPS six-a-side tournament and the City of London six-a-side tournament for the first time. The school also plays friendlies against schools on a circuit broadly encompassing north London.
The school has a very successful record when sending boys to trials with representative teams. Hereward House sends boys to trials with North London Elite Football (more information can be found at www.elitefootball.co.uk) and the London FA team. Hereward House holds a phenomenal record of every boy that has attended a North London Elite trial being selected, something that is unprecedented in London. Through this work, boys have represented their country in national tournaments in Denmark (at the Danemark tournament) and Sweden (at the Gothenburg tournament) during the summer holidays.
During term time, a football club is run for students at Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre astroturf, on a Saturday morning, from 9:30-10:30.
In 2008, two boys from Hereward House were offered trials with Liverpool F.C. and Leyton Orient F.C..
Cross Country
The Hereward House inter-school cross country event is run in March at Hampstead Heath Extension. Schools are invited from across London to compete for titles in under-eleven and under-thirteen races. The event is one of the largest inter-school competitions in London.
In 2008, the under-nine Cross Country team won both the Norfolk House and Lyndhurst House Cross Country competitions, making them the first undefeated team from Hereward House in twenty-seven years. The under-eleven team were also victorious in the Lyndhurst House competition and Hereward House were, subsequently, the overall winners.
Nearest transport links
- Swiss Cottage tube stationSwiss Cottage tube stationSwiss Cottage tube station is a London Underground station at Swiss Cottage. It is on the Jubilee Line, between and . It is in Travelcard Zone 2 and on the Finchley Road.-History:...
(Jubilee LineJubilee LineThe Jubilee line is a line on the London Underground , in the United Kingdom. It was built in two major sections—initially to Charing Cross, in central London, and later extended, in 1999, to Stratford, in east London. The later stations are larger and have special safety features, both aspects...
) - Belsize Park tube stationBelsize Park tube stationBelsize Park tube station is a London Underground station in Belsize Park, North-West London. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern Line, between Chalk Farm and Hampstead stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2. It is located at the northern end of Haverstock Hill...
and Chalk Farm tube stationChalk Farm tube stationChalk Farm tube station is a London Underground station near Camden Town in London. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Camden Town and Belsize Park stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2. The station stands at the junction of Chalk Farm Road/Haverstock Hill and Adelaide...
(Northern LineNorthern LineThe Northern line is a London Underground line. It is coloured black on the Tube map.For most of its length it is a deep-level tube line. The line carries 206,734,000 passengers per year. This is the highest number of any line on the London Underground system, but the Northern line is unique in...
) are also in walking distance - Hampstead Heath railway stationHampstead Heath railway stationHampstead Heath railway station is in London on the North London Line, between and stations. Since 11 November 2007 it and the service there have been run by London Overground.The typical service at the station in trains per hour is:...
is also around twenty minutes walk away