Queenswood School

Queenswood School is a girls-only independent school located near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, twenty miles from London. It offers admission at ages 11, 13 or 16 (for sixth form).

Queenswood School
Address
Brookmans Park

Hatfield
,
Hertfordshire
,
AL9 6NS

England
Coordinates51°42′54″N 0°09′59″W
Information
TypeIndependent school
Day and boarding
MottoIn Hortis Reginae (“In Queens’ Gardens”)[1]
Religious affiliation(s)Methodist
Established1894
Local authorityHertfordshire
PrincipalMrs Joanna Cameron
GenderGirls
Age11 to 18
Enrolment430
Houses4
Colour(s)Purple, grey
          House colours: Red, Green, Yellow, Blue
                   
PublicationThe Queenswoodian Magazine
Former pupilsOld Queenswoodians
Websitewww.queenswood.org

The Good Schools Guide 2013 described Queenswood as "a girls' school to which others should aspire."

Pastoral care

As Queenswood is a Methodist school, all girls are required to attend chapel services. Special services are held to welcome new girls and farewell upper sixth leavers.

The tutor system is a key part of the school's pastoral care. Girls are organised into small groups and assigned to a tutor or their housemistress.[2]

House system
Trew House

Girls in years 7 and 8 belong to Stamp House, which accommodates up to 45 boarders.

In year 7, girls are randomly allocated to one of the four houses but will only switch when they enter year 9.[3]

  • Hartley
  • Clapham North
  • Clapham South
  • Waller

Boarding

The houses have a mixture of boarding and day girls to allow for integration. The boarding programme is generally flexible and accommodates part-time boarders. Day girls may sleep over on an ad hoc basis or on weekdays only.

Each house is supervised by a housemistress and a boarding assistant. Stamp House has 12 tutors and three full-time residential staff.

Notable former pupils


During the 1980s, actor Paul Bettany stayed at the school regularly as his father, Thane Bettany was the resident Head of Department for Drama.[5]

gollark: There's no *inherent* goodness/badness of acts. You can't just crash trolleys together in a particle collider and observe moralons coming out of it or something to determine what's good and bad.
gollark: Well, yes, current moral standards are "better" in a bunch of dimensions we like, but those are only "better" in the first place because current moral standards say so.
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gollark: Oh, so you mean "our moral standards now are better according to our moral standards now".
gollark: How are you defining "exists" here? People 500 years ago had moral standards. Probably same going back to even the invention of agriculture.

References
  1. "A History of Queenswood". Queenswood. 3 August 2018.
  2. Tutor system
  3. "Life in the Middle School - Queenswood". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  4. Bindel, Julie (28 November 2010). "Muriel Nissel obituary". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  5. Julie McCaffery (16 May 2006). "Tragedy, Drugs and a Dad Who Wanted to Have a Sex Change Op". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
  1. In Hortis Reginae: A History of Queenswood School 1894-1994, by Nigel Watson (1994) ISBN 0 907383 475
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