Bowbrook House School is a supportive, growing and improving non-selective rural independent school for boys and girls aged from three-and-a-half to 16 years of age.

Pupils benefit from small class sizes and a high level of pastoral care. The school receives very strong support from its parents. Its pupils – whose behaviour is “excellent” – “grow in confidence through the encouragement of the staff,” said the Independent Schools Inspectorate in its main finding taken from the inspection report of March 2005.

However, a more recent inspection of the Early Years Provision by Ofsted went one better. In the autumn of 2008, the school’s provision was judged to be outstanding in all areas. The report gave no areas for improvement.

Headmaster Chris Allen said: “I am extremely proud of our children and my staff and am pleased for our parents in that the Ofsted inspection recognised the qualities in our school that make it an outstanding place to learn and to work.”

In all areas, provision is of the highest quality. In teaching and in learning, in helping children to make a positive contribution, in organisation the quality and standards of the nursery education are outstanding. New infant and junior classrooms and planned further expansion of facilities for art, design and technology sit easily next to the classic Georgian house and the old stable block – the classrooms for the senior classes!

Two form entry and expansion of the Middle School shows the importance to parents of these ‘traditional’ values.

An emphasis on good manners and respect underpin the wider work of the school.

Headmaster Mr Allen is in no doubt that the excellent nursery Ofsted report has now set the bar for the middle and senior schools.