Holmwood House, in Colchester, is set within a beautiful 25 acre site. It provides excellent indoor and outdoor amenities, facilitating a diverse range of extra-curricular activities and learning opportunities that all serve to enable our pupils to spread their wings, run with their passions and develop new interests.
Our youngest children, in the nursery at Great Horkesley, enjoy an unparalleled beautiful rural setting. On our main school site, the Early Years department, provides the perfect introduction to school life, for our 2-5 year olds, enhanced by its unique wooded setting.
The spacious, purpose-built Pre-Prep building, with its self-contained playground area, is home to Years 1, 2 & 3 before the full range of specialist facilities and classrooms open up to our older pupils through to Year 11.
Our Senior School pupils in Years 9-11 benefit from a well-appointed Common Room area, providing a designated and comfortable space for both focused study, valuable relaxation, and important social interaction.
With highlights such as swimming pool, sports pitches, theatre space and wonderful dining rooms, the school environment is incomparable.
Our facilities comprise of:
- A heated indoor swimming pool
- Excellent facilities for music, dance and drama facilities to nurture creativity
- Well-equipped science laboratories
- A cookery room for our aspiring chefs
- An enormous indoor sports hall
- Superb outdoor sports fields
- Onsite squash courts and year-round tennis courts
- Spacious and bright classrooms
- A versatile and much loved library
- Common Room area for our Senior School pupils
- Boarding facilities that allow our pupils to have a taste of independence through overnight stays
