Ridgeway, The Thicket, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 3QE
10 reasons to choose Claires Court Junior Schools
Main point of differentiation
With a Schoolsmith Score® of 84 Claires Court Junior Schools is the joint highest scoring prep school in Maidenhead. It also offers the best value for money.
School fundamentals
Claires Court Junior Schools is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (60%/40%) between the ages of 2 and 11 years. Boys and girls are taught in mixed classes to Reception, and separately from Year 1. The Junior Schools are switching to co-ed teaching, year by year such that all classes will be co-ed by Sep 2029. It is a Christian school, open to all faiths and none. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Claires Court Schools, an all-through school to age 18. Claires Court Junior Schools fees range from £4,860 (Rec) to £7,200 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT but exclude lunches.
Average class size
Claires Court Junior Schools has three classes per year and an average class size of 13 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
Most Claires Court Junior Schools pupils move up to the senior school at the end of Year 6.
The Claires Court Junior Schools curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum with some additions and variations. It is ‘topic based and enquiry-led’ in all year groups linking most subjects outside the maths and English core. Curriculum also includes PSHEE, reasoning, French, Spanish. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups and visiting speakers. Forest School to Year 2 and an ‘Outward Bound and Adventure Programme’ from Year 3. Residential trips from Year 5.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport and languages throughout, and for most subjects from Year 4.
Sport at Claires Court Junior Schools
School offers over 15 different sports through the year, through both the curriculum and extra-curriculum. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Claires Court Junior Schools
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils, as is drama from Year 3. All pupils learn an instrument in class and half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. 3 choirs (including a joint boys & girls choir), two orchestras and several instrument ensembles. The school is one of the top 50 UK prep schools for the breadth of its creative and performing arts extra-curriculum.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.30am to 6.00pm. School coach service.
Find another school near Claires Court Junior Schools
St Piran’s School, Maidenhead (2.9 miles); Herries Preparatory School (5.7 miles).
St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead (1.3 miles); Lowbrook Academy (1.9 miles); Furze Platt Junior School (2.4 miles).
Claires Court Schools (2.3 miles); Reading Blue Coat School (8 miles).
The Piggott School (5.2 miles); Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School (5.6 miles); Burnham Grammar School (6.4 miles).