We hope that you enjoy your visit today. If you are considering an application for 2025 entry, please be aware of the following important dates. If you would like to book a place for any of the events that are listed below, please speak to a member of the Admissions Team today or book online at www.leightonpark.com/visit-leighton-park.
Discover more:
Tuesday 1st October Taster Day for Year 7 Entry (Current Year 6 pupils)
Friday 11th October Open Morning, from 9.00am
Tuesday 15th October Taster Day for Year 7 Entry (Current Year 6 pupils)
Thursday 17th October Taster Day for Year 9 Entry (Current Year 7 & 8 pupils)
Friday 8th November Open Morning, from 9.00am
Important Dates for September 2025 Entry into Year 7 or 9:
Friday 15th November Registration, Bursary and Scholarship Application Deadline
Monday 25th November Scholarship Assessment Day for Music
Wednesday 27th November Assessment Day for Year 9 entry
Friday 29th November
Tuesday 3rd - Friday 6th
Academic Scholarship Assessment Day for Year 9 entry
Scholarship Assessment Days for Art, Dance, Drama and Sport December
Friday 13th December
Offers for Year 9 entry sent to families by email
Saturday 11th January Entrance Tests for Year 7 entry
Friday 17th January
Academic Scholarship Assessment Day for Year 7 entry
Friday 24th January Offers for Year 7 entry sent to families by email
Monday 3rd February
Friday 7th March
Acceptance Deadline for Year 9 entry
Acceptance Deadline for Year 7 entry
Admissions Team: Claire Elmer, Nickee Houghting and Fiona Jones (0118) 987 9608 admissions@leightonpark.com www.leightonpark.com
Welcome to Leighton Park
Thank you for joining us at our Annual Open Morning today and for giving us the opportunity to share our enthusiasm about our wonderful school. We challenge our students to imagine a better world. We give them the time and space to reflect on who they are and who they want to be. We support them to consider the character, confidence and determination to be changemakers, reflecting the school’s Quaker values and forward-looking approach.
The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables place Leighton Park in the top 1% of English schools. Despite being among the top performing schools in the country we are no results factory.
What we’re known for:
• Winning the ISA Senior School of the Year national award for 2023-24 and Finalist in the prestigious TES awards for the same category.
• Winning the ISA national award for Excellence in Pupil Personal Development 2022. Our students gain confidence and a strong sense of purpose to achieve their potential.
• Multi-Award-Winning pastoral care underpinned by small tutor groups, first name terms, innovative use of technology and close support for students to develop a strong sense of self.
• Being the only school in Europe to be a Yamaha Music Education Partner, with over 50% of students studying an instrument at school.
• Giving Quaker values currency and purpose with a focus on social business and active citizenship, celebrated by the ISA for Outstanding Local Community Involvement.
• The Independent School Inspectorate (ISI) have awarded Leighton Park a ‘double excellent’ standard, the highest possible attainment for an independent school.
Fryer House Lower School House (Years 7 & 8)
Reckitt House Senior House, Girls’ Boarding
All Weather Pitch Astro New floodlit pitch, opened May 2024
Oakview Restaurant Restaurant which offers breakfast, lunch and dinner
Cricket Outfield Plus pavilion for summer sport
School House Senior House, Boys’ Boarding
Swimming Pool Indoor, heated, 25 metre pool
Sports Hall For indoor PE, games and co-curricular activities
Netball/Tennis Courts For games of netball, tennis and pickleball
Old School and Main Reception
Pastoral Care Meet our award winning team responsible for the wellbeing of all our students. We’re in the Cadbury Room
Individual Learning Centre Meet the team and ask any questions you may have in the courtyard at the front of the building
Student Services
David Linday Centre (Science and DT)
Food Technology Spot the hazard challenge and enjoy a taste test from our student cooking demonstration
Design and Technology Have a go at engraving a ruler using our state-of-the-art laser cutter, casting a pewter keyring, explore our 3D printers and programme a Crumblebot in DL2 and the workshop
Chemistry Bubbles, bangs and burning in the Chemistry labs; come and join in!
Physics From rockets to rollercoasters, visit Physics in DL3 for some hands on practical activities. Try riding a hoverboard, creating your own vortex and racing robots through the lab
STEAM Innovation Hub Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. Find out how we’re investigating global issues and why we think it’s vital to prepare students for the future Computer Science Have a go at sending messages through radio waves with the BBC Micro:bit
Waterhouse
Biology From molecules to ecosystems, take part in a range of activities to demonstrate the magnitude of Biology and the diversity of topics we teach in W5
Main Hall Hear the Head’s address at 9.30am and 10.15am. This is where our school productions also take place
Michael Malnick Centre for Music and Media Chat to some of our current parents over refreshments or speak to the Admissions Team in the MMC Upper Foyer
Music and Music Technology As a Yamaha Flagship Education Partner, a Sontronics Microphones Education Partner and Steinberg Certified Training Centre, we give students industry standard experiences. Watch performances in the recording studio and take part in music technology workshops
Creative Digital Media (Film & TV) Interactive green screen experience in the David Lean Studio for creative digital media. Professional level cameras and software to film, create and edit your films. Our media room has Dolby atmos 9.1 surround sound for that cinema experience
Hunter Studio See our Drama students improvisation
Townson
Dance Studio Creating and rehearsing pieces for Let’s Dance 2025
Geography Try our climate change and mapping activities
Grove Field
DofE Find some of our students talking about their DofE experiences at the edge of Grove Field opposite John Ounsted
Sport Talk to the PE & Sport team about the games, fixtures and qualifications we offer. We’ll be in Peckover (P4) if it rains!
John Ounsted
Maths Experience problem solving in action as you embark on statistics activities, resolve problems and tackle puzzles
Peckover Registration and welcome in Peckover Hall
English Create a black out poem, solve the cryptic puzzle or compose your own short story in P5
CAS Find out about our Creativity Activity Service programme in P2
Modern Foreign Languages French, Spanish and Mandarin broaden our students’ global outlook in P7
Philosophy, Religious Studies and Values (PRV) Join the UN debate on human rights and find out how we teach Religious Studies and Values (Years 7-9)and Religious Education (GCSE and A Level). Find us in P3
English as an Additional Language Experience a selection of collaborative activities used in EAL teaching in P6
History Identify artefacts from the Silk Road and win a prize in P8!
Sport Find us in P4 if it’s raining
Art and Textiles Studios
Contribute your artwork to ‘The LP Big Draw’, a collective and creative installation
Try your hand at paper crafting, transforming drawings into sculptural artworks or let your illustrations come to life as mini fashion mannequins
Grove Sixth Form Centre
Business and Economics Discover some of the core topics that underpin these A Level subjects and lie at the centre of our working and everyday lives
EPQ Sixth Form opportunity to take the Extended Project Qualification, boost your UCAS points and follow your passion
IB Diploma Learn about this exciting international Sixth Form qualification
Politics and Global Perspectives One of few UK schools to offer the iGCSE in Global Perspectives. Learn more in the Seminar Room. Participate in topical discussions on global issues such as, how effective are the institutions of global governance in addressing problems of poverty, environment, conflict and human rights?
Psychology Discover how good your memory is, what influences gender and the characteristics of a psychopath
Library Make your own bookmark
MFL Building Modern Foreign Languages for French, Spanish and Mandarin. Find us in location 20, Peckover, P7
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Watch our videos to learn more about Leighton
Hear from our Sixth Form students
Listen to our Year 9 joiners
Hear from our Year 7 students what it’s like to be new
Explore our co-curricular programme with over 90 hobbies
Imagine better at Leighton Park School
It remains a Quaker-run school as the majority of governors are Quakers and, although no member of the Friends remains on the staff and only penny numbers of pupils are Quakers, the school lives by and exudes those gentle, civilised and socially responsible values. Few who leave here take nothing of those with them, and many see them as a guide for a healthy life. A palpable sense of calm pervades the place –you feel it as you drive in and your shoulders drop as you step out of your car and breathe out.
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