New Hall School

New Hall is a Catholic independent boarding & day school for girls and boys aged 1-18. New Hall School operates the highly successful ‘diamond model’, where students are educated in co-educational classes from ages 1 to 11 and at Sixth Form. However, from ages 11 to 16 they are taught in single-sex lessons. Click on one of the four diamonds below to find out more about our divisions.

The main benefits of the ‘diamond model’ and five years of single-sex teaching, derive from the ability to tailor pastoral and academic provision more sensitively and expertly to the needs of young people going through the physical, emotional and social upheaval of adolescence. Young teenagers are liberated from the negative peer pressure of having to perform in mixed classes. The gender stereotyping of subjects is also removed. Girls and boys follow an identical curriculum and do not learn to perceive subjects as being more suited to either girls or boys.

The Sixth Form experience at New Hall is about expanding students’ horizons, both in their specialist areas of study and, more generally, in terms of their personal development.

From the moment New Hall students first travel up the mile-long, tree-lined avenue that leads to the grand façade of the former Tudor palace, they will be given individual opportunities to grow, learn, be challenged and to develop into confident young men and women. New Hall is set in an idyllic and convenient location, on the outskirts of the City of Chelmsford, Essex, just 30 minutes by train from London and within easy reach of all major London airports.

As a Catholic independent boarding & day school, at New Hall with every student we aim to educate the whole person: academically, creatively and socially, in a community which also nurtures the spiritual dimensions of human life.

As a Catholic independent coeducational boarding School, New Hall sets out to provide its students with the best start in life. The School aims:

• To give students an experience of life in a Christian community:
  • Affirming each individual as a unique part of God’s creation, and nurturing in each person a sense of dignity and self-worth
  • Fostering caring relationships, a sense of team spirit, and respect for others
• To inspire students to develop their God-given gifts and talents to their full potential:
  • Intellectual
  • Spiritual
  • Social and emotional
  • Aesthetic and physical
• To provide a broad and balanced education, rooted in the School’s Catholic foundation, which is responsive to and supportive of the needs and aspirations of the individual:
  • Fostering intellectual curiosity, a desire to seek truth, and a life-long love of learning
  • Enabling students to discover their own strengths and weaknesses, to learn from ‘failures’, and to develop the self-discipline and determination to persevere, in order to pursue their goals in a rapidly changing world