The Roche School is an independent, family owned, co-educational nursery and primary preparatory school in Wandsworth and Putney, South West London. We provide children with a wide range of academic, creative and sporting opportunities in a family-orientated, culturally diverse environment.
We encourage pupils to enjoy challenge and we run small classes in academic subjects.
We are proud of our strong academic record and pupils go on to achieve places at top London schools. From 2021 to 2024, our pupils were also awarded 73 scholarships in the 11+.
Pastoral care is at the heart of our prep school, since emotional wellbeing and happiness are essential to success.
“"My child said, "My school feels like a home to me" and that's all I need to hear as a parent."
The Roche Approach refers to the dissemination of Roche School values in a way which is easily understood by all pupils and staff. The Roche Approach is instrumental in sustaining the safe, confident and lively atmosphere that is found at the school.
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We understand the anxiety you may be experiencing regarding the Government’s announcement that independent schools should incorporate VAT on school fees from 1st January 2025. Your children’s well-being and your peace of mind are our prime concern and, following discussion, we have decided to absorb the extra cost, so that the amount you will be paying for curricular teaching in this academic year (including VAT where applicable) will remain the same for each term. Read more here.
The Roche School is delighted with the Early Years results where our pupils have significantly outperformed the National and Wandsworth Borough averages. Read more here.
Many of our alumni go on to study at Oxbridge and Russell Group universities, and commence leading careers in medicine, management consulting, the Civil Service, journalism, and finance.
The Roche School are happy to share the 2024 Year 6 Leavers' Results & Destinations. The Year 6 cohort also secured a range of scholarships from a broad range of selective secondary schools. This takes us to 73 scholarships achieved in the three academic years from 2021-24.
To see the full range of scholarships and schools, please click here.
Click here to read about our new Year 6 Centre and Transition to Secondary School Programme.
Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the world. The Roche School is therefore delighted to be offering an optional Spanish Bilingual Stream class in addition to its well respected English Reception class. Click here to read more.
The Good Schools Guide is the UK's number one schools guide and The Roche School is included once again. The Good Schools Guide has been trusted by parents for over 35 years and their verdict on The Roche School is a ringing endorsement of our team’s achievements. Click here for the review.
The Roche School offers an exciting academic, sporting and creative curriculum. We ensure that pupils take advantage of a range of disciplines enabling them to build a strong academic profile. In Maths and English we teach in smaller groups allowing for pace and consolidation. Pupils actively participate in their learning.
We are a family school in which every individual is valued and respected. The children follow The Roche Approach which creates a warm and inclusive culture. Children recognise the unique gifts of others as well as their own strengths.
Our pupils regularly gain scholarships and places at top secondary schools. Our guidance on applications for secondary school is extensive and thorough, based on an understanding of the pupil and their particular talents.
Helping Children to Understand: The Roche School’s Distinctive Features by James Roche Stimulating Teaching, Personal Attention and Encouragement in Small Classes so that everyone is engaged, and no one feels unworthy or left out. Such teaching plus regular and attentive experience in addressing exam-type questions brings consistently strong academic results without the children feeling under […]
Challenge sits at the very heart of our curriculum – central to all that we do. We develop progressive programmes of study, building on the foundations of knowledge that then allow pupils the opportunity to generate their own thoughts, compare and contrast ideas and problem solve. Careful grouping, higher order questioning, encouragement to stretch thinking […]
Congratulations to our Year 5 pupil who won a story competition and has donated her prize to the school library. Pulan won the annual children’s contest with her story Loki, about a young girl who adopts a stray cat. The theme of the competition – run by North Yorkshire organisation Settle Stories – was kindness […]
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Of children at The Roche School have achieved the Expected Standard in SATS Maths versus the National Average of 74%.
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Of children in Reception on average show a good level of development in all 7 areas of the Early Learning Goals (National Average 71%).
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Of children in the Upper School participate in an external, competitive sports match each term.