Silcoates Sunny Hill School

Welcome to Silcoates Sunny Hill School, an independent school for boys and girls aged 2-5 years. The first few years are so important in developing a positive attitude to school and learning.  Therefore, as part of the Silcoates family of schools, we are proud to offer a friendly, stimulating and secure environment where children can lay down firm foundations in all subjects, on which they can build in future years. At Sunny Hill, each pupil is encouraged and supported in a caring, disciplined and happy community. Our small class sizes and enthusiastic teachers ensure maximum individual attention.  We are proud of our achievements as well as the opportunities we provide for children … [Continue Reading]

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Silcoates Junior School

Thank you for taking the time to visit our section of the Silcoates School Foundation website. We hope you find the information contained here useful, but the best way to find out about us is to visit the school and see it for yourself. It is only by meeting the children and the staff and walking around our beautiful grounds that you can truly begin to appreciate what a special environment Silcoates offers to help your child learn. The Junior School at Silcoates works with children from Year 1 to Year 6. A large number of our children join us from our own Foundation schools at Silcoates Sunny Hill or Silcoates St. Hilda's but a significant number also come from other schools in the area, … [Continue Reading]

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St Hilda’s School

St. Hilda's is a school where children aged from 0 to 7 years are able to blossom and grow in a stimulating learning environment, for 51 weeks of the year.   Children may attend St. Hilda's from birth in a specialised 0-3 unit and then move seamlessly through the school.  At 7 years old, the boys and girls transfer to Silcoates School.   St. Hilda's has a long and enviable reputation of achievement, where children make very good progress, confidently and with enjoyment.  The school occupies a beautiful Grade II listed building, a former convent in the centre of Horbury.  The picturesque setting provides a safe and stimulating learning environment in which children … [Continue Reading]

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Silcoates Senior School

Welcome to the Silcoates School Foundation website.  The Foundation consists of three schools: Silcoates School, for boys and girls from 5 to 18 (Junior School from 5-11 and Senior School from 11-18) on one self-contained site in Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield; Sunny Hill House School, for boys and girls from 2-5, just down the road from Silcoates School; St. Hilda's School, for boys and girls from 0-7, housed in a former convent at Horbury, just four miles from Silcoates. All three schools share the same Board of Governors and, as Principal of the Foundation as well as Headmaster of Silcoates itself, I have the job of ensuring that all the Foundation schools deliver an effective and … [Continue Reading]

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