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.

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

St Jeanne de Lestonnac

Innovation Hub

This new, high-tech, creative, flexible building is set in the heart of the Senior School and is designed to be used across all areas of the curriculum where our students can engineer rockets using the cutting edge CAD technology, build robots using laser cutters or create podcasts or movies using the latest green-screen technology – this space makes the latest high tech equipment available to everyone. Students have specialist teaching in technology and innovation so that they become highly skilled in digital and technological innovation.

At Notre Dame we have the highest aspirations for our students and STEM is a fundamental part of that. Our girls need to be highly skilled and experienced in utilizing innovation, creativity, technology and computing power whatever their careers will be – hence our unique approach to embedding innovation and technology across the whole curriculum and the co-curricular space as well as providing specialist subject teaching – a flexible, multiuse space sets us apart and empowers our students in technological skill, cross-disciplinary problem solving and teamwork

We are proud that women are increasingly taking their place in STEM nationally and internationally, including our own alumnae. STEM applications nationally to university are up by 11% and degree apprenticeships in STEM are increasingly popular – Notre Dame has a long history of producing trailblazing women in science, technology and innovation, and our new facility enables the next generation to carry that on

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.

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