The Charterhouse Square School

Introduction

Charterhouse Square School is an independent co-educational school for pupils aged 3 to 11 years. Located in the heart of The City of London, it offers an environment rich with opportunities. The school seamlessly combines academic excellence with a focus on providing a safe and nurturing atmosphere – a home away from home, where teachers and pupils embrace a first-name basis, and they choose not to have a school uniform, allowing every child to express their individuality.

Pupils benefit from excellent teaching, superb pastoral care, and a warm, friendly, and stimulating environment. They are encouraged and empowered to embrace challenges, step out of their comfort zones, and strive for the highest levels of achievement while developing as confident, articulate, and self-motivated individuals. The school's ethos centres on creating a unique environment where academic excellence is part of everyday life, while never losing sight of the thrill of learning, the spirit of the individual, or the brilliance of togetherness.

Year after year, pupils consistently achieve results well above the national average at every school stage. They secure exceptional 11+ results and gain places at some of London’s finest senior schools. This success is supported by a forward-thinking curriculum that operates a year ahead of age group expectations, ensuring pupils are well-prepared for future challenges.

The curriculum provides a thorough grounding in the core subjects of Literacy and Numeracy, as well as the Arts, Humanities, and Sports. Oracy skills are prioritised through activities such as debating, philosophy for children, and current affairs.

Schemes like the Year 6 buddy system, which pairs each new pupil with a student from the top of the school, play an important role in creating a supportive environment and fostering maturity. Charterhouse Square School aims to provide a welcoming, open atmosphere where pupils, parents, and teachers come together to form a strong, supportive community.

Benefits of being a Cognita School

Cognita is an international group with over 90 schools in Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Asia, we employ 15,000+ teaching and support staff in the care and education of more than 60,000 students.

Teaching excellence represents everything we stand for at Cognita. We’re committed to hiring and retaining outstanding talent: teachers and school leaders who are passionate about their craft as well as functional leaders and professionals in our Head and Regional offices who can take the business forward.

We are looking for people who want to make a positive difference to children’s lives, who can help us stretch and support children to achieve beyond expectation.

Our diverse portfolio of schools and Regional Offices, combined with our ongoing investment in the professional development of our people, means we can offer first-class career opportunities with a global dimension. If you want to take your career further, we want to support you in achieving that goal within Cognita. www.cognita.com

Headmistress

Caroline Lloyd

Values and vision

The school is proud of its academic success but places greater emphasis of creating the safe, nurturing environment that builds the self-confidence of the children and makes this possible. Pupils are taught that they matter and that they each have talents to celebrate, opinions to express and potential to explore.

Schemes such as a “buddy” system, which see each new girl and boy paired up with one of the pupils from the top of the school, plays an important role in creating a supportive environment.   Charterhouse Square School aims to provide a welcoming, open atmosphere so that pupils, parents and teachers all come together to form a strong supportive community.

Inspection Report – In 2023, ISI inspectors examined both Charterhouse Square School's compliance and educational standards. Charterhouse Square School achieved the highest category of ‘excellent’ in both ‘quality of pupils’ academic and other achievements’ and ‘quality of pupils’ personal development’. Additionally, all eight areas of the compliance inspection were met. 

Read the full report here: https://www.isi.net/reports/view?t=c&r=EQI9229_20230328.pdf&s=9229&si=9229&fn=Q2hhcnRlcmhvdXNlIFNxdWFyZSBTY2hvb2wgLSBGQ0kgLyBFUUkgcmVwb3J0cyAyMDIz

School Inspection Service (SIS)

“The vision for the school and the high expectations the school has for its pupils are shared and fully understood by the entire school community. This vision allows all pupils and staff to excel. School leaders model effective and appropriate ways of working and the care and concern they have for staff ensures that they attract and retain excellent teachers and support staff.”

View Charterhouse Square School’s latest SIS report