At Durham High School we believe in a holistic approach to supporting your child to reach their potential.
We implement a curriculum which is fun and academically rigorous, but at the same time is supportive of individual progress, personal strengths and areas to develop. Our expert, professional team utilise the best of pedagogy and research into early childhood learning and our wonderful enabling environment to ensure your child has an exemplary foundation to their educational career.
Our Head of the Pre-Prep department is Kathryn Hall. Nursery and Reception children each have a dedicated Early Years teacher, and Year 1 and 2 class have a dedicated and experienced teacher to lead their learning. The wider team encompasses support from excellent teaching assistants, alongside teaching by subject specialists in the areas of Music, PE, Modern Foreign Language, Yoga and Forest School.
The children’s timetable consists of core subject teaching of Mathematics and English each morning, whilst the afternoon sessions offer the flexibility for further learning to take place within specific year groups, or to work across phase to enable the elements of the non-core subjects to be taught by experts through a thematic, connected approach. Teaching takes place in stimulating classrooms and a superb large outdoor provision area, including a woodland environment complete with tepee and a purposeful, heated and illuminated Outdoor Classroom.
