BEACONSFIELD
Preparatory Day School for Girls aged 3-11 and Boys aged 3-4
Accredited by IAPS
Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools
Headmistress Mrs K E Gater, MA, PGCE
Chairman of Governors
Mr C J Hayfield, BSc, FCA
100% Independent Senior School pass rate
4 Independent Senior School Scholarships
67% Bucks County 11+ pass rate
67% Learn a musical instrument
50 Concerts
5 Musical ensembles
4 Choirs
100% Merit and distinction LAMDA examinations of which 91% distinction in years 4 to 6
10 Productions
70+ Girls swim competitively
40 Netball matches
3 Sports days
20 Metre indoor swimming pool
25 Educational visits
1 Excellent ISI inspection report
...there is only ONE High March!
Many parents will want to visit High March before deciding to register their child and the Headmistress is always pleased to meet with prospective parents and to arrange for them to have a tour of the School. Appointments are made by the Registrar who can be contacted on 01494 685743 or by emailing admissions@highmarch.co.uk
Parents who wish their child to be considered for entry are asked to complete the School’s registration form. A place will then be offered subject to the payment of the registration fee and a place being available. Should the form lists be full, the child’s name will be placed on our waiting list and parents will be contacted should a place become available.
The earliest date of admission into the Nursery is the September after pupils attain three years of age. Girls automatically move into the Reception class in the September before they attain five years of age. It is expected that all girls will continue the next phase of their education at High March by entering Reception. The School reserves the right to decline registration into Nursery of any sibling of a pupil who has previously left High March without continuing into Reception and continuing through to Year 6. A limited number of boys are admitted into the Nursery in the September after they attain the age of three, for one year only.
From Reception onwards there are two parallel mixed ability classes. There is a small intake of girls into the Reception year. Places are offered on a “first come, first served” basis, hence early registration is recommended.
Prospective pupils are invited to spend a day with their future class to familiarise themselves with the School. No formal assessment is undertaken, but parents are asked to submit a report from the child’s former school and a confidential reference may be sought from the Head Teacher of that school.
Prospective pupils are invited to spend a day with their future cohort prior to the offer of a place. An assessment in key areas will be made to ensure that the child will be able to benefit from the curriculum and teaching offered at High March. Parents are asked to submit their daughter’s most recent school report and a confidential reference will be sought from the Head Teacher of her current school.
Information concerning:
• Curriculum
• Learning Support
• More Able Pupils
• Optional Subjects
• Pastoral Care
• Policies
• Reports and Assessments
• Safeguarding
• School Uniform
• Sports Activities and Educational Visits
• Term Dates
can be found on our website: www.highmarch.co.uk
Buckinghamshire County Eleven Plus Transfer Tests
Girls leave High March at the age of 11 to begin their secondary education at a wide range of senior schools. In their final year with us the majority of pupils take the Buckinghamshire County 11+ examinations for entry into the local state grammar schools. In the academic year 2022 to 2023 67% of Year 6 pupils entering the 11+ test secured places at Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools.
Entrance Examinations and Scholarships for Independent Senior Schools at 11+
We believe that it is important to offer the girls and their parents a wide range of choices at 11 and so the majority of girls will take both the Buckinghamshire County 11+ examinations and entrance examinations for a variety of independent Senior Schools, both boarding and day. The 11+ Common Entrance syllabus is taught in English, Mathematics and Science and this equips the girls for any of the entrance examinations set by the Senior School of their choice. Girls are also prepared for scholarship examinations and the School is very proud of its success rate in academic, drama, music, sport, art and all rounder scholarships.
In the academic year 2022 to 2023 five scholarships and exhibitions were awarded to High March pupils:
Academic and Music Scholarship to Berkhamsted School
Art Scholarship to Pipers Corner School
Sports Scholarship to Shiplake College
Drama Exhibition to Berkhamsted School
In the academic year 2021 to 2022 six scholarships were awarded to High March pupils:
Sports Scholarship to Headington School
Academic and Drama Scholarship to Pipers Corner School
Academic and Sports Scholarship to Queen Anne’s School
Academic Scholarship to the Royal Masonic School
In the academic year 2020 to 2021 eight scholarships were awarded to High March pupils:
Drama, and Music Scholarship to Berkhamsted School
Art Scholarship to Holme Grange School
Music and Drama Scholarship to Queen Anne’s School
Music and Drama Scholarship to The Royal Masonic School
Academic Scholarship to St Helen’s
In recent years pupils have entered the following Independent Senior Schools:
ACS International School, Hillingdon
Berkhamsted School
Cheltenham Ladies College
Claires Court, The College, Maidenhead
Downe House, Thatcham
Haberdashers’ Aske’s, Elstree
Haileybury
Headington School
Licensed Victuallers School, Ascot
Lord Wandsworth’s College
Oxford High School
Pipers Corner School, High Wycombe
Queen Anne’s, Caversham
Queenswood, Hatfield
Shiplake College
St George’s, Ascot
St Helen’s School, Northwood
St Helen and St Katharine School, Abingdon
St Mary’s School, Gerrards Cross
The Abbey, Reading
The Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth
Wycombe Abbey
The Governors of the School
Mr C J Hayfield BSc, FCA (Chairman)
Mrs B M Avery LLB
Mr M J Chapples
Mrs C E Edwards BA
Mrs J P Griffith Cert Ed
Mrs K R Grudgings BA
Mr G N C D Stevenson BA
Mrs E M Trenfield Cert Ed
The Chairman of Governors can be contacted at:
The Chairman of Governors, c/o The Clerk to the Governors, The School Office, High March School, 23 Ledborough Lane, Beaconsfield, Bucks.
HP9 2PZ
Consultants to the Board
Mrs S J Clifford BEd MA
Mrs P A Forsyth MA
Mrs M R Peters Diplôme (Awarded in France)
Clerk to the Governing Board and School Bursar
Mr P Honiball BA
Auditors and School Accountants
Hardcastle Burton
36 Dene Road
Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2DA
School Directors
Mrs B M Avery LLB
Mr M J Chapples
The Directors can be contacted at:
The Directors of High March, c/o The Clerk to the Governors, The School Office, High March School, 23 Ledborough Lane, Beaconsfield, Bucks.
HP9 2PZ Staff
The full staff list is published on our website, www.highmarch.co.uk, and is available from the School Office.
1.1 The Registration Form, the Prospectus, the High March Key Information Booklet incorporating the schedule of fees, the Parental Consent and Contact Details form and our School Regulations constitute the terms of the contract between parents of a High March pupil or prospective pupil and High March (“the School”).
1.2 By signing the Registration Form, each parent or guardian of the child named on the form acknowledges that he or she is bound by the Parent Contract and has entire Parental Responsibility for the child and is, for all relevant legal purposes, the child’s parent or guardian. In doing so each parent or guardian assumes joint and several liability for the terms set out herein, including payment of fees and fees in lieu of notice.
1.3 The School will be entitled to treat any communications from any person who has signed the Registration Form as having been given on behalf of either and/or both signatories of the form. Unless any other arrangement is made in writing between either of such persons and the Headmistress, the School shall be entitled to treat any communication from the School to any such person as having been made to both of them.
1.4 Where two people have signed the Registration Form, one person may withdraw from the contract with the School by submitting a term’s notice in writing of intention so to do, provided he or she has obtained and produced the prior written consent of both the School and the other party whose name appears on the Registration Form.
1.5 An offer of a place for a child at the School is accepted, together with the terms of this contract, by completion and return of the Registration Form and payment of the deposit in the full amount requested by the School.
1.6 The Parent Contract, the Regulations, the documents in 1.1 above, and in particular the schedule of fees, are subject to variation from time to time.
1.7 Those persons with Parental Responsibility are entitled to receive relevant information concerning their child unless a court order has been made to the contrary or there are other reasons which in the reasonable opinion of the Headmistress justify withholding information to safeguard the best interests and welfare of the child.
A non-refundable registration fee of £100 is due on registration. A deposit of £750 is payable within two weeks of the School’s request if a child’s place is to be guaranteed. Once a place is offered and accepted the deposit becomes non-refundable but will be set against the final term’s fees and credited without interest when a child leaves the School.
3.1 Each person who has signed the Registration Form will remain liable for all the fees, any optional subjects and any supplemental charges.
3.2 A full term’s notice, to commence no later than the first day of each term, of the intention to withdraw a child must be given to the Headmistress in writing. This provision applies equally if a parent withdraws or cancels the place accepted less than a term before the agreed entry date.
3.3 In the event of a parent not providing such full term’s notice as detailed in 3.2 above, a full term’s fees in lieu of notice will become immediately due and owing to the School as a debt.
3.4 Fees are payable in advance and are due not later than the first day of term. An administration fee of £100 will be debited to all accounts remaining unpaid after the end of the first week of term.
3.5 A full term’s notice to commence no later than the first day of each term must be given in writing in the case of an optional subject being discontinued. Failure to do so may result in a full term’s fees being charged.
3.6 An agreement between one or both persons who have signed the Registration Form and a third party (such as an employer or grandparent} does not release either or both of those persons from liability to pay all or any of the fees should that third party default in payment. The School reserves the right to decline a payment from a third party.
3.7 School fees are reviewed annually and are subject to increase from time to time. The School will provide to parents a full term’s written notice of any such increase.
3.8 Parents, or each person who has signed the Registration Form, consent to the School making enquires of the child’s previous school(s) for confirmation that all sums due and owing to such school(s) have been paid. Parents, or each person who has signed the Registration Form also consent to the School informing any other school to which the child transfers that fees remain unpaid. This clause applies notwithstanding UK GDPR and the provisions of the DPA 2018.
3.9 The School reserves the right to require parents to withdraw their child, if, in the reasonable opinion of the Headmistress, the child is not benefiting from the education offered at the School. The Headmistress retains ultimate discretion in this respect.
A non-refundable registration fee of £100 is due on registration. If a place is to be guaranteed, the deposit of £750, to be set against the final term’s fees and to be paid to the School within two weeks of request, is due approximately one year before entry or following registration if the place is to be taken up in less than one year. Please note that the deposit is non refundable if a place is not taken up. A full term’s notice, to commence no later than the first day of each term, must be given of the intention to decline a place, failing which a term’s fees will be charged in lieu of notice.
I wish to apply for my CHILD’s entrance to High March in ...................................... 20............ Date of Birth ................................................
Full name of child .................................................................................. Gender ..................................................................................................
Religion .................................................................................................. Nationality .............................................................................................
Any significant medical conditions/ailments ........................................................................................................................................................
If you have answered “yes” to the previous question, please attach further details to this form if your child requires any reasonable adjustments to existing educational facilities or auxiliary aids and / or services within the classroom or setting.
Previous School (if any) address and dates of attendance ................................................................................................................................... ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
In the case of a child over 7 this form should be accompanied by a letter from the Head Teacher or the latest report from the School.
Full Name and title of Mother ...............................................................................................................................................................................
Full Name and title of Father
Address .................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Postcode
Mother’s Mobile .....................................................................................
Mother’s Profession or Occupation Father’s Profession or Occupation
By whom recommended/How did you hear about us? ........................................................................................................................................
Additional comments ...........................................................................................................................................................................................
I / We have read the terms of our Parent Contract and Prospectus and High March Key Information Booklet, incorporating the Fee Schedule (which documents are updated by the School from time to time) and undertake to abide by the terms of our Parent Contract and the School Regulations as stated therein. In particular, I / we acknowledge that a full term’s notice to commence no later than the first day of each term, of intention to withdraw my/our child, must be given in writing to the Headmistress, failing which a term’s fees are immediately payable. I / We acknowledge that the School will retain on file, computer or disk, data (within the meaning of UK GDPR and data protection legislation as amended from time to time) on my/our child/children, and that the School is a Data Controller for the purposes of the said Act. I / We acknowledge that there may be occasions when my/our child is/children are photographed within School or on official school business out of school, and confirm that I / we have no objection to publication or republication of any such photographs whether on the School website or Intranet, in School marketing literature or in the media, including social media, for any purpose connected with School business as set out in the High March Privacy Notice for Parents and Privacy Notice for Pupils and in accordance with the terms of the Policy on use of Mobile Phones and Images and on taking, storing and using images of children. I / We acknowledge that we, the persons who have signed this Registration Form have entire parental responsibility for our child aforementioned and for all relevant legal purposes are the child’s parents or guardians and are jointly and severally liable to comply with the Parent Contract and School’s Regulations. I / we acknowledge that I am / we are jointly and severally liable to comply with the terms set out herein.
Mother’s Signature ................................................................................ Date ......................................................................................................
Father’s Signature Date
Signature of anyone else with Parental Responsibility ...........................Date.......................................................................................................
as from September 2023 are published on our website www.highmarch.co.uk
An extensive extra-curricular programme is available to all pupils from Year 1. The majority of clubs and activities are run by High March staff and attendance at these is free of charge. Where activities involve external instructors and/or clubs, a charge is made. Please refer to Activity Schedule.
After School Care is available for all pupils and runs from 3:30pm to 5:30pm for Junior House pupils and 4pm to 5:30pm for Upper School pupils. Pupils are provided with a snack and a drink and they enjoy a variety of activities. All pupils can stay until 5:30pm free of charge, Late Stay is available until 6pm and pupils are provided with a light tea. Please note there will be a charge of £6.50 per session for all children who attend Late Stay.
Parents have the facility to drop off their child from 8am. There is no charge for this Early Birds service.
Mid-Morning Milk
One third of a pint of milk is supplied daily at no charge to all pupils on request.
A scale of charges for optional subjects such as Ballet, Dancing, Music lessons, Speech and Drama, etc is available on request.
The following policies are published on our Website or Parent Portal and are available on request:
Admissions Policy
Aims and Ethos Policy
Anti-Bullying Policy
Assessment, Recording and Reporting Policy
Behaviour and Pastoral Care Policy
Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy
Critical Incident Policy
Curriculum Policy
EAL Policy
Educational Visits Policy
Equal Opportunities Policy
First Aid and Medicines Policy
Health and Safety Policy
Homework Policy
ICT Security Policy
Inclusion Policy
Learning Support Policy
Library Policy
Mobile Phone and Images Policy
More Able Policy
Parental Complaints Procedure
Privacy Notice for Parents
Privacy Notice for Pupils
Risk Assessment Policy
SENDA Policy
Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural Policy
Sports Policy
Swimming Pool Procedures
Teaching and Learning Policy
