Meet the head: Mr Noakes at Forest School
We chat to the head of Forest School’s Preparatory School, Andrew Noakes
Can you tell us a bit about the school?s history"
Forest officially opened as Forest Proprietary Grammar School on 1 October 1834. Five days later, 22 boys joined the school under the headship of Dr Thomas Dry. By the end of its first year, the school had grown to 80 pupils. In 1924, the school introduced the house system, which is still in place today. Over the last 50 years, the school has expanded with the opening of the Gloucester Building, which houses the Prep School, a science block, music school and sports hall. In 1981, girls officially started joining the school and in 2001, the Pre-Prep opened.
What do you see as the school?s main strengths" In my opinion there are three very distinct strengths of Forest. We are an all-through school, educating pupils from the age of four to 18, which means we can afford to take a long-term view of a child?s learning and provide them with opportunities at a young age to help them better succeed in senior school, university and beyond. I am also a strong advocate of the school?s ?diamond? structure; teaching boys and girls separately from the age of seven enables us to do more for them. Thirdly, it?s a truly rare thing to find a school with such an impressive balance of academic, arts and sport, as demonstrated by our pupils.
How do you ensure every young pupil achieves their full potential"
We monitor each individual in terms of their ...
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