Westbrook Hay

Westbrook Hay is carrying a long-established prep-school character into the later secondary years. Nursery, Pre-Prep and Prep now sit alongside a growing Senior section for pupils aged 3 to 16, with the first Year 10 cohort arriving in 2026 as the school extends through Year 11 and GCSE. Its 26-acre parkland site overlooks the Bourne Valley outside Hemel Hempstead.

The Senior years are deliberately small in scale. Pupils work with subject specialists and move through a broad Years 7 and 8 programme before choosing GCSE options. English, mathematics, sciences, humanities, languages, art, music, drama, design technology, physical education and PSHE all have a place in the weekly timetable, while supervised homework and the Pre-Senior Baccalaureate add structure beyond individual lessons.

The Mansion is the main base for senior teaching, with a Performing Arts Centre, sports hall and heated outdoor pool already part of daily school life. A planned STEAM building will add art, design technology, science and computing space as the upper school develops. That combination of an expanding secondary phase and familiar facilities gives the school a particular transitional character at this point in its history.

Senior pastoral life centres on individual tutors and the Rye and Hinwick Houses. Upper Senior pupils meet their tutor at least weekly, and the houses create a smaller peer group within the wider school. A May 2025 ISI progress-monitoring and material-change inspection considered the developing senior provision likely to meet the relevant standards.