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Muddy Best Schools Guide
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Lockers Park
Ahead of the open morning on Sat 13 May, I visit a boys’ prep school with pre-prep for girls and boys that celebrates the individual.
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Muddy meets: Belinda Callow, Bishop’s Stortford College
Belinda Callow is Head of Pre Prep at Bishop’s Stortford College. I caught up with her ahead of the school’s open day on Saturday 22 April. Can you remember being the age of your Pre-Prep children? What are your memories of school when you were their age? I have some memories of when I was […]
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St Francis’ College, Letchworth Garden City
What? Where? St Francis’ College is an independent day and boarding school for girls aged 3-18 in Letchworth Garden City. St Francis’ College is in a building that typifies Letchworth: attractive, thoughtfully designed and solidly built; in a safe and very green residential environment, but at the same time less than 10 minutes’ walk into […]
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Bishop’s Stortford College
Right over at the far east side of the county, teetering on the Essex border, you’ll find Bishop’s Stortford College. You can’t miss it — it’s a vast site with roads and footpaths running through it, more college campus than school site, and there’s loads going on that’s worth knowing about…
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Duncombe School, Hertford
We’re lucky in Herts to have a wide range of independent schools to choose from — both prep schools and senior schools. Duncombe School, over in Hertford, is a little gem — but it’s a school you could drive past and not even know that it’s there. I went to have a look around recently, and I liked what I saw…
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Tring Park School for the Performing Arts
Something a bit different – it’s the (cue fanfare!) very first Muddy Herts School Guide. And we’re kicking off the proceedings with a very unusual school indeed…
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