9 Upper Berkeley Place, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1JS
10 reasons to choose Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School
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Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital Junior School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 83. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Bristol and one of the 6 best primary schools for 1 mile.
School fundamentals
Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital Junior School is an independent prep day school for boys between the ages of 7 and 11 years. It is a Christian school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital, an all-through school to age 18. Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital Junior School fees are £4,765 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT but exclude lunches.
Average class size
Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital Junior School has one class per year to Year 4, two from Year 5, and an average class size of 18 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 6, most Junior pupils move up to Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School.
The Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, reasoning, French. Cross-curricular topics in Years 3 and 4, especially for history and geography. 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, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 3. Forest School for Years 3 and 4, and the QE Award (sort of Adventure, Service, Challenge) in Years 5 & 6.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, drama, art, science and languages throughout, and for most subjects from Year 5.
Sport at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and three-quarters take extra-curricular instrument lessons. Two choirs, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School
Bristol Grammar Infant and Junior School (0.4 miles); Clifton High School, Nursery to Junior Schools (0.8 miles); Clifton College Prep & Pre-Prep (1 mile).
Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, Redland (0.7 miles); Southville Primary School (0.8 miles); Westbury Park School (1.7 miles).
Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital (0 miles); Bristol Grammar School (0.4 miles); Clifton High School (0.8 miles).
Bristol Cathedral Choir School (0.6 miles); Cotham School (0.9 miles); Montpelier High School (1.4 miles).