Interim Principal: Mark Steed
Headteacher: Matthew O’Reilly
Chairman of Governors: Mr Tom Cartledge
Bursar and Clerk to the Governing Body: Dean White
Age Range. 2–11.
Number of Children. 350.
Fees per annum (2024-2025). Day: Reception £15,180, Years 1–2 £16,137, Years 3–6 £19,380; Boarding: 7 Day £33,570, 5 Day £30,267, 4 Day £28,833, 3 Day £26,556. Fees include VAT.
The Junior School educates boys and girls up to the age of 11 (including boarders from age 8), when boys move on to Stamford School and girls to Stamford High School. Admission from the Junior School to the two senior schools is based on progress and without further entrance testing.
The Junior School occupies its own spacious grounds, bordering the River Welland, overlooking the sports fields and open countryside, the boarding houses, the sports hall, floodlit artificial hockey pitch and the swimming pool on the same site. It is on the south-west outskirts of Stamford within easy reach of the A1.
Entry to the School is according to registration at 4+ and assessment.
The lively and broad curriculum offers an ILIC-based (Independent Learning and Intellectual Curiosity) foundation to all academic, creative, and sporting subjects. Lessons are stimulating, energetic, and fully engaging so that the natural curiosity of our pupils can flourish. Extensive facilities, sporting opportunities, and the wide-ranging co-curricular programme promote the rounded development that we believe is essential for our children.
In addition to teaching staff, the Junior School has a number of specialist teachers in physical education, swimming, art, music, and speech and drama, with a number of visiting teachers offering a variety of sports, dance and modern foreign languages.
There is a purpose-built nursery in the grounds of the school – Stamford Nursery School – offering first-class care and early learning for children aged 2–4. Pupils then head to the adjacent Early Years Reception Classes.
Boarding. The co-educational Boarding House (St Michael's) is run in a homely, family style. Boys and girls are accepted as full or weekly boarders from the age of 8. Occasional or flexi-boarding is accommodated where possible and according to family need. A full programme of activities takes place at weekends so that boarders enjoy a rich and varied week.