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Newcastle-under-Lyme School is a top ten Independent school, and the third ranked co-educational Independent Day School, in the West Midlands according to the Sunday Times Parent Power Survey 2023.
With an outstanding academic, co-curricular and sporting reputation, NULS offers an unrivalled education to children from 2 to 18.
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From Nursery to Sixth Form, pupils thrive in the classroom and beyond, benefiting from outstanding facilities including a 25m Swimming pool, state-of-theart Sports Hall, Forest School, Astro-turf pitch and dance studio.
This year, we launched a new programme: We Thrive which supports pupil development and brings together work across the school on equality, diversity and inclusion. Nothing is more important to us than supporting and nurturing our wonderful school’s community. Prep Adventures, launched in November, brings outdoor learning and a raft of in house expertise to our Prep pupils as they learn through archery, orienteering, kayaking, kite flying and much more. Our pupils love to be outside, love to learn and love to have fun.
In Seniors, Sport, Music and Drama continue to be the backbone of our co-curricular activities alongside our Combined Cadet Force, DofE programme and a diverse range of clubs and societies. This term we look forward to a wonderful production of ‘Les Miserables’ from our drama and music departments.
Life in the Sixth Form is rich and varied as involvement in co-curricular activities continues. Pupils are challenged academically, show leadership to our school as prefects and benefit from expert support in making their choices about university, careers and beyond. Many of our Year 12 students will soon be visiting New York, broadening their horizons in every sense.
This is just a taste of life at Staffordshire’s leading independent school. Contact us today to arrange a visit at nuls.org.uk or by calling 01782 631197.
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When considering what kind of education we believe is important for our children, we often lose sight of the importance of creativity in favour of a system predicated on the idea of academic ability as the be all and end all.
At Stafford Grammar School we absolutely recognise the importance of good academic outcomes but we also want to retain and continue to stimulate the creativity that is arguably squandered in somany schools. We value highly the core subjects of maths, English and the sciences but we equally value the performing arts and creative subjects that create individuality and confidence.
It is often around the time that children enter secondary school that they start to become more hesitant about putting up their hands and are more worried about what others might think of them if they get the answer wrong or ask a question that some might think is silly. Subsequently, the originality of their ideas diminishes. For that very reason we establish in our Prep pupils the belief that nothing is impossible: as Audrey Hepburn said, “the word itself says I’m possible”.
Moving into the senior school there is an incredible music programme, wonderful design and technology facilities and a theatre where we put on remarkable shows every year. We continue to tell our pupils that “you’ll never come up with anything original, if you’re not prepared to be wrong.”
The Harvard Professor, Howard Gardner, was absolutely spot on when he said ‘Don’t ask how intelligent X is but ask how X is intelligent.’ It is when we recognise different intelligences and seek to encourage and stimulate their creativity that we will help them discover their unique brilliance and individual talents. If we allow creativity to be stifled, we also stifle the gift of human imagination. We need to see our creative capacities for the richness they are and to allow them to breathe and to flourish. At Stafford Grammar School, Creativity is one of our core values and I hope you can see why. Impossible or I’m possible is all a state of mind.