Cognita

About Cognita

Cognita is the UK’s leading independent schools group with 26 prep-prep and preparatory schools located within the UK. Whilst every Cognita prep school benefits from remaining largely autonomous, each are committed to the same core educational values centred around the commitment to deliver the highest standards of teaching and learning for all pupils.

Within every Cognita school

• We are committed to teaching excellence through the recruitment and retention of the best Headteachers and teaching staff
• We believe that the best teaching is delivered by individuals who have not only the subject knowledge but the expertise and passion about each subject to inspire enthusiastic learning
• We firmly believe that parents are their children's primary educators. For this reason, we foster close working relationships with our parents.
• We believe in having high expectations of every child, irrespective of ability and in giving each child has their own individual learning plan that allows them to fully access the curricula and achieve their own personal best
• We believe that a well rounded preparatory education gives each child the best start in life, therefore our schools offer a broad curricula, complemented by a wide choice of extra curricular activities
• We believe that excellent pastoral care is fundamental to learning and to each child’s successful integration into and through the school.
• We believe that teachers’ time is best spent in the classroom, therefore we provide extensive school support services to ease the administrative burden

Parent Message from Chris Woodhead, Cognita Chairman and for HM Chief Inspector of Schools

Cognita pre-prep and prep schools

London	Surrey
Clifton Lodge School, Ealing, London Charterhouse Square School, Barbican Hendon Preparatory School, Hendon North Bridge House Nursery School, Hampstead North Bridge House Junior School, Hampstead North Bridge House Preparatory School, Regents Park St. Nicholas Preparatory School, Hyde Park Salcombe Preparatory School, Southgate	Cumnor House School, Croydon Downsend Lodge, Leatherhead, Surrey Milbourne Lodge School Downsend Lodge, Ashtead Downsend Lodge, Epsom Downsend Lodge, Leatherhead, Surrey Glenesk School, East Horsley
Bedfordshire	Buckinghamshire
Polam Oaks, Bedford	Akeley Wood Junior School, Buckinghamshire
Essex	Hampshire
Oakfields Montessori School, Upminster Oxford House School, Colchester St. Margaret’s Preparatory School, Gosfield	Kingscourt School
Hertfordshire	Kent
Duncombe School, Hertford	Breaside Preparatory School
Oxfordshire	Plymouth
Ferndale Preparatory School, Faringdon St. Mary's School, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon	King’s School and Nursery
South Wales
Oakleigh House School, Swansea

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