Beechwood Sacred Heart School

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Beechwood Sacred Heart School is an independent co-educational day and boarding school founded in 1915 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, serving students aged 3-18 across Nursery, Preparatory, and Senior Schools. Located on a 23-acre campus in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the school is distinguished by strong academic results despite non-selective intake, small class sizes, and a philosophy of valuing arts subjects equally with traditional academic disciplines. The school offers comfortable modern boarding facilities with excellent pastoral care.

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• Strong academic results with non-selective intake
• Arts valued as highly as traditional academic disciplines
• Small class sizes (15 in Years 7-11, 8 in Years 12-13)
• Cognitive development programme focusing on higher-order thinking
• Comfortable modern boarding facilities
• Flexible subject options at GCSE and A-Level
• Excellent university placement outcomes

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Original currency: £30,600.

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Modern, comfortable accommodation on campus. All meals included. After-school clubs and activities before returning to boarding houses for supper and supervised study. Common rooms for socialisation. Sixth-Form kitchen for preparing meals and drinks. Varied weekend programme including outdoor activities, workshops, sporting and theatre outings, visits to places of interest. Boarders may visit friends or relatives on weekends with parental permission.

Full Boarding and Weekly Boarding (Monday to Friday). Single study bedrooms for Sixth-Form students (Years 12-13); shared two or three-bedded rooms for younger students (Years 7-11). Boarders from UK and various nationalities.

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