Kew House

Kew House builds its rhythm around longer lessons, three-year GCSE courses, smaller classes and a personal-tutor system. The co-educational 11-to-18 senior route has a sixth form and no boarding, so its Gardener Schools Group model is built around sustained support across the senior years rather than residential life.

Pupils typically take nine or ten GCSEs before moving to more focused sixth-form choices. Biology, chemistry and physics laboratories, a food-technology kitchen, art rooms, drama and dance studios, the KHS Theatre and a computer-science laboratory give practical work a visible place in both academic and creative subjects. Facilities are part of the teaching pattern, not merely an extra layer around it.

Entry is normally at Year 7 or into the sixth form, with occasional places at other stages. Applicants attend an open morning or tour before applying, then take examinations and interviews. At sixth form, the sequence is a visit or open event, registration, interview, offer and acceptance, giving a later-stage move a clearly defined route.