Welcome to the Junior School
As a local school in a global context, we celebrate our long history by striving to achieve a balance between continuity and change. Our approach to teaching and learning is responsive to international best practice and attuned to the needs of the children in our care.
Junior School headmistress
Our holistic curriculum encourages children to look after their bodies and their minds: academic rigour is enlivened by an emphasis on creative thinking, intellectual curiosity and purposeful reflection; physical exercise, music, drama and visual arts give our girls the opportunity to delight in movement, sound and imagery.
The curriculum is underpinned by a strong Christian Anglican faith and value system, and compulsory chapel services and divinity lessons are an integral part of school life.
It is our intention to foster vigorous and resourceful girls who enjoy doing their best, understand the value of service and who are aware of the urgent need to care for our environment. Our girls are directed to think about the world and the work they will do in it, to desire to make a difference, in time, and to relate to others with compassion and grace.
Dr Sarah Warner
Junior School headmistress
Junior Primary
Senior Primary
House system
Grade 0 pupils are placed in houses in Term III and continue in the same house until the end of Grade 7.
The Junior School houses are named after animals as follows:
Hares – yellow
Springboks – green
Lions – blue
Zebras – red
Junior School
Aftercare
Weekday aftercare facilities are available, giving working parents peace of mind that their children are being well looked after.
The highly qualified staff in our Belles Aftercare Centre, situated at Little Saints, provide an environment where the children enjoy indoor and outdoor games, arts and crafts, and constructive play. There is also a fantasy room, dress-up area and reading corner for quiet time.
Homework supervision for Grades 1 to 7 is offered.