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School Reviews
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Wellesley House, Broadstairs
A small, family-run prep school by the sea that makes the most of its location on Kent's coastline
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Dulwich Prep Cranbrook
A big, rural prep school located in Cranbrook, known for its sporty success but with lots else on offer so each kid gets the chance to find their 'thing'...
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Hilden Grange School
Want the convenience of a town-based school, but without compromising on the sports and facilities? Introducing Hilden Grange Prep School...
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: St Michael’s Prep School
Sevenoaks is blessed with quite a number of good school options, and here’s a corker for you. St Michael’s Prep School nestled in the calmness of Otford down a rural lane. For some reason, even although I know this corner of Kent pretty well, I hadn’t even heard about this idyllic prep school until recently. And I was really impressed […]
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Kent College Prep, Pembury
A new Muddy Guide to the Best Schools today, and it’s a goody – Kent College Prep in Pembury. I had a good look around a couple of weeks ago, part journo-nosing, part with a mum’s head on, and here’s the verdict… What? Where? An all girl prep school which takes children from rising 3-11 years in […]
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Hillview School for Girls, Tonbridge
HILLVIEW SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, TONBRIDGE What? Where? Hillview School for Girls is an all-ability secondary school (aged 11-18 years) with academy status in Tonbridge. It’s girls-only (there’s 1, 200 of them) up until Sixth Form where it is mixed (34 boys in Y12 & Y13). The school is hidden down a suburban street, surrounded by houses, and […]
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Sutton Valence Prep School
SUTTON VALENCE PREP SCHOOL, NR MAIDSTONE What? Where? Sutton Valence Prep School is a co-educational day prep school in Chart Sutton, just south of Maidstone, in a wonderful countryside setting, not far from the Senior School of the same name. The original building, above, is a grand red brick mansion and the rest of the school […]
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Bethany School, Goudhurst
BETHANY SCHOOL, GOUDHURST What? Where? Bethany school is a wonderfully rural, independent secondary school for pupils aged 11 – 18 in Goudhurst, near Cranbrook, in the picturesque Weald of Kent. A non-selective school, which is big on pastoral care and space and small on class sizes. It’s a co-educational school with 345 kids (242 boys, 103 […]
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Kent College, Pembury
KENT COLLEGE SENIOR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, PEMBURY So this is my first all girls’ secondary review on the Muddy Best Schools Guide. And I’m going to come clean from the start here. Kent College was my old school – yup I’m a K.C. girl – Respice Finem and all that. When I started the school, […]
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Muddy Best Schools Guide: Saint Ronan’s School
SAINT RONAN’S SCHOOL, HAWKHURST What? Where? Saint Ronan’s is a bucolic prep school, set in a stonking 249 (frankly gorgeous) acres of Tongswood Estate, in Hawkhurst and perfectly positioned for Cranbrook, Goudhurst and just over the border in East Sussex (or further afield if you don’t mind the drive or live in one of the […]
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