Facilities | Notre Dame School

Our Extensive Facilities

We have excellent facilities here at Notre Dame and we constantly review our educational practices to enhance our offering and ensure our teaching and learning resources are as up to date as possible. From our exceptional sporting facilities we run more than 15 competitive sports. We have an indoor heated 25m swimming pool, all-weather pitches, sprint track, netball courts and two cross-country tracks.

The creative arts are taken as seriously as our sport and we have an exceptional, professional-level theatre with 370 seats, dance studio with sprung floor and music suite.

We are proud of our STEM learning spaces, offering a state-of-the-art science block with physics, biology and chemistry labs and prep rooms. We are currently building a multi-million pound innovation hub – two-storey building (which will open in September 2024) where teachers and pupils will use the latest technology in their everyday learning. We also have a purpose-built Sixth Form centre, home to our ND6 students, two libraries that work for Prep and Senior levels, spacious and beautifully equipped Pre-school Nursery, playgrounds, treehouse and forest school that we utilise as outdoor learning environments.

We also hire out our facilities. If you are interested in hiring, please click here.

“No one is educated in isolation; it is the whole environment that educates.”

St Jeanne de Lestonnac

Innovation Hub

Our new multi-million pound, two-storey building is a state-of-the-art contemporary teaching space that offers our staff and students – across all subjects and all disciplines – the chance to use the latest technology as part of their day-to-day learning.

At Notre Dame, we have a passion for STEM subjects which has now been realised in this brand new multi-purpose learning space. This new, high-tech, creative, flexible building is designed to be used across all areas of the curriculum. Our students can now engineer rockets using the latest CAD systems or build robots using laser cutters or make podcasts or movies using the latest green-screen technology.

Sports Hub

Indoor, heated 25m swimming pool with viewing gallery, all-weather pitches, sprint track, netball courts, two gymnasiums, fitness suite, playing field and two cross-country tracks.

Performing Arts Facilities

Flexible, adaptable, professional-level nonagonal theatre with 370 seats, dance studio, music suite, sound and lighting gallery, costume storage and separate drama studio.

Dance Studios

Separate Prep dance studio with sprung dance floor, barre, lantern ceiling, and audio-visual system.

ND6 – Sixth Form Centre

Purpose-built Sixth Form centre with study pods, private garden, communal areas, kitchen and dedicated parking.

Science Hub

State-of-the-art science block with physics, biology and chemistry labs and prep rooms.

Art & Textiles studios

We have fantastically equipped, dedicated studios that cover all areas of art, craft, design and textiles.

Dining & Food

We work with Holroyd Howe to give our pupils the chance to try new and exciting flavours within a nutritionally balanced diet to help them make positive food choices later in life.

Food & Nutrition ‘LAB’

To support our Senior School and Sixth Form Food & Nutrition students, we have a fully equipped, multi-station, ‘Food Tech’ lab where the students can prepare food in safety.

Prep & Senior Libraries

We have dedicated libraries for both the Prep School and the Senior School, with a huge range of books for students to utilise. Sixth Form students have their own dedicated space with additional university and careers-guidance resources.

Pre-School Nursery Hub

There is a dedicated building for our Pre-School Nursery, next door to our Prep School building, but with its own playground and other shared facilities.

forest school

Children have the opportunity to take part in Forest School sessions once a week. This is a woodland-based learning environment which gives our younger children the chance to explore and learn in our wonderful grounds.