Under School
(Years 9, 10 & 11)
Joining Charterhouse at 13, you’ll be encouraged to try everything.
Our Under School combines academic ambition and the highest of academic standards with flexibility and choice, giving you the freedom to explore, enjoy, and build strong foundations for future success.
Everyone will explore the breadth and joy of academic learning throughout their first three years of study.
Our education across years 9, 10 and 11 will help unlock your academic potential, intellectual curiosity and encourage you to think differently.
Our year on year GCSE examination results are exceptional, providing the perfect platform for progressing onto our rigerous Sixth-Form curriculums. Yet it is the extrodinary breadth to our Under School academic education, delivered by passionate and committed subject specialists, which makes Charterhouse so special.
A Focus on Today:
Learning with Purpose
Exam success, alongside gaining entry to leading universities around the world, begins with a fundamental enjoyment of learning throughout the Under School. This balance enables each child to become the most successful version of themselves.
Excitement, curiosity and passion are nurtured every day, going way beyond formal course syllabi. We focus on helping every individual to unlock their personal academic potential. We mix academic rigour and excellence with ambition, creativity, critical thinking and fun.
Every pupil joining the School aged 13 has the chance to try everything. Everyone will explore the joy of academic learning throughout their three years of study.
Being surrounded by a world of opportunity defines a Charterhouse education. Learning in the Under School seeks to combine passion and perseverance, resulting in mastery.
SAM COOKE
ASSISTANT HEAD (UNDER SCHOOL)
A focus on the Future: Skills for Tomorrow
The world is changing. Alongside traditional academic knowledge and results, our young people will need to demonstrate flexibility, self-reflection, and the ability to continually learn, if they are to thrive professionally and personally.
Our pioneering FutureU programme is embedded throughout our Under School, providing huge opportunities for everyone.
Each of our pupils will develop a foundation in the transferable skills, practical experiences and mindsets which will be highly prized within their future globalised society.
Wherever possible, we apply learning to real-world scenarios, focusing on experiential and reflective learning. We bring new technologies into the learning process.
Skills such as problem-solving, teamwork, resilience and innovation are central to everything that Charterhouse does to ensure that every child is as future-ready as possible.
Remove & Fifth Form (years 10 & 11)
In terms of academic rigour, the quality of the teaching he has received across the board has been exceptional – far beyond our expectations.
We have watched our son grow in maturity and in happiness, and become more capable and confident in all aspects of his life.
ANDREW C, CURRENT PARENT
