Welcome to Educare Small School
School should fit the child, not the other way around.
Helping Your Child Reach
Their Potential
With over 26 years' experience, we strive to provide a safe and nurturing environment that enables children to reach their full potential.
We equip them with the confidence, skills, and creativity to become influential citizens and make a positive impact on society. We also promote values such as self-confidence, respect, compassion, curiosity, and enthusiasm for lifelong learning.
Balanced Development
We help children develop holistically with activities to support their physical, emotional and intellectual growth. Our curriculum covers the National Curriculum with English, maths, sciences, humanities, creative arts and IT.
Our difference is our flexible, creative approach and personalised ethos.
Forest School
Forest School is a weekly half-day session out in the woods, in all weathers and in all seasons, with a child-led learning process that encourages play, exploration and supported risk taking.
It helps participants become healthy, resilient, creative and independent learners, as well as developing key skills for life - socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically and intellectually.
Recently at Educare
We moved our son from mainstream education to Educare in Year 2 just before the pandemic.
All the stress that we had experienced with his former primary school dissipated. We liked Educares approach to the curriculum. Children get to really immerse themselves into a subject area. Communication with the school is easy and there is a wonderful community of teachers, children, parents and carers.
School Fees
£9676.80 per year 2024-25
Fees are spread over 12 months with a Standing Order of £806.40.
As an independent charity, our only funding comes from the fees we charge. We do our very best to keep these at a reasonable level, so that our school can be accessed by as many young people as possible.
Educare is a provider for the 15 hours universal funding, and for the 30 hours extended funding, but this funding only covers some of our charges and additional fees will be applied.
"This small supportive school prides itself on the individualised learning and care that it offers. Pupils are helped to become confident and respectful through the school’s nurturing environment. They are happy here."
Celebrating 25 Years
A message from our founder Elizabeth Steinthal
What a success! After starting Educare Small School in February 1997 with three pupils, we have reached 2022 and 25 years with 40 children and 14 full and part time staff. But it's not about size, our strong values and beliefs remain at the core of everything we do. The principles and practices we have had in place since our early days are only just being brought into many schools today.
We must be doing something right!
Over 500 children have passed through our school in those 25 years and blossomed through our different approach to teaching and learning. Many of them keep in touch and let us know the exciting and impressive steps they are taking on their life journeys.
Could it be that we are a school model for the future?