Age Range. 4–13 Co-educational.
Number in School. 170 Day Pupils: 100 boys, 70 girls.
Fees per term (2024-2025). £6,600–£7,350.
Trevor-Roberts School was founded in Hampstead in 1955 by the headmaster’s late father and moved to its present site in 1981. The school is made up of two departments but operates as one school and occupies two adjacent much-adapted late Victorian houses in Belsize Park. In addition to on-site facilities, the school makes use of nearby playing fields and a local leisure centre swimming pool and astroturf pitch.
Central to the education provided is the school’s aim for all pupils to become happy and confident individuals who fulfil their potential. Strong emphasis is placed on personal organisation and pupils are encouraged to develop a love of learning for its own sake. In a happy, non-competitive atmosphere, pupils are well cared for and teachers’ responses are tailored to the individual needs of pupils. It is the School’s strong belief that much can be expected of a child if he or she is given self-confidence and a sense of personal worth and does not feel judged too early in life against the attainment of others.
High success rates throughout the school are achieved through small classes, individual attention and specialist teachers. The standards achieved enable almost all pupils to gain places in their first choice of school at either 11+ or 13+ into the main London day schools and academically selective independent boarding schools. In recent years a number of pupils have been awarded academic, art and music scholarships to these schools. The school aims to make pupils prepared for this process and give them the confidence to enjoy the academic challenges they will be offered.
The school provides a broad range of curricular and extra-curricular activities, contributing to pupils’ linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technological, social and physical development in a balanced way. Aesthetic and creative development is strongly encouraged through art, drama and music. In the Senior Department the syllabus is extended to include Classical History, Latin and Greek. The curriculum is enriched at all stages by a variety of one-day educational visits as well as by residential trips for Years 5–8 on activity trips, a sailing weekend and a geography field trip.
A range of extra-curricular activities and sporting opportunities appropriate for boys and girls of all ages is offered two afternoons a week and after school. The school’s founder believed passionately in music and drama as a means of developing pupils’ confidence and self-esteem and both subjects are a strong feature of the school today. All classes prepare and perform two drama performances each year in which every pupil has a speaking and/or singing part.
Pupils thrive in a caring family atmosphere where the emphasis is on individual progress and expectation, and where improvement is rewarded as highly as success. It has a broadly Christian tradition, but welcomes pupils of all faiths and of none.