RGS The Grange is a vibrant school of approximately 380 pupils. It caters for pupils aged from two to eleven years.

RGS The Grange offers small class sizes to ensure your child receives high-quality individual care and personalised learning. Our class sizes vary by year group, and we have the flexibility to increase the number of classes to enable children to be taught in smaller groups if the numbers in the school increase.

Your child can join us at any time during the year. Most children join at the start of the academic year, but we understand that house moves or other circumstances may mean that your family might not be in a position to join us until later in the year.

Our children come from quite a wide area across Worcestershire. We have a few who walk to school, but most live in Worcester and the surrounding villages. A small number live further, and families often car share.

The RGS Worcester Family of Schools offers a comprehensive transport network across the West Midlands with many school bus and minibus routes. In addition, there is also a minibus service between RGS The Grange, RGS Dodderhill, RGS Springfield and RGS Worcester.

The amount and scope of homework (also known as prep) increases as your child progresses through the school, ranging from reading for 10-15 minutes in Reception to 40 minutes of specific subject homework in Year Six.

School is open from 7.45 am each morning. Your child will be supervised until school commences at 8.35 am and can also join Breakfast Club. When school ends at 3.35 pm, your child can attend one of our many varied after-school clubs, the majority of which are free of charge. Children in Years Three to Six may stay for Homework Club, and we offer After School Care until 6.00 pm.

RGS The Grange offers Learning Support during lessons and on a one-to-one basis for a small number of children with moderate learning barriers. If you have concerns about your child’s progress, the best starting point is to talk to the Headmaster when you visit.

If your child is identified as able and talented, we provide opportunities to use and develop gifts in all subject areas and through co-curricular activities.

Your child can choose from a wide range of instruments. Musical skills are further honed by playing as part of a group during lunchtime clubs, e.g. Flute Group and Wind Band. If your child enjoys singing, our very successful choirs participate in local festivals. We also offer individual Speech and Drama lessons.

We aim to offer your child a well-balanced, nutritional diet. As part of the fees, we provide a choice of hot or cold lunch each day along with a choice of dessert, yoghurt and fresh fruit. Snacks are offered during the day and include fresh fruit and biscuits. Special dietary needs are also catered for. If your child stays for after-school clubs, we ask them to bring along a ‘little tea’ of snack, fruit and drink.

Your child’s safety and happiness are extremely important to us. We have a thorough procedure for ensuring safety. We carry out regular health and safety checks and keep up-to-date with First Aid training, child protection training and risk assessments.

We were the first Independent School in the country to be awarded the Diana Award and attained the Anti-Bullying Quality Mark in 2019. We are now working towards the National Children’s Bureau Wellbeing Award for Schools. We have a very effective anti-bullying policy, and any issues are resolved quickly and discreetly. 

The School’s philosophy is that ‘happy children succeed’. We want your child to achieve their full potential. We do that by ensuring we meet your child’s educational, social, physical and emotional needs and by creating a caring environment with a shared sense of community for children, staff, parents and governors alike.

We operate a system whereby you can meet, email or telephone staff to discuss day-to-day concerns and your child’s progress. Letters home are uploaded onto our ‘Parent Portal’, which is password secured. In addition, we send a weekly Newsletter (eLink) and bulletins to keep you up-to-date with events at school. You will also receive formal feedback through Parents’ Evenings, individual targets and detailed written reports.

We pride ourselves on enabling children to settle in quickly. All staff take the time to ensure your child feels part of the class and is supported in all areas of school life. Your child will be assigned a ‘buddy’ to take care of them during the first few weeks of school, and there will be regular contact between you and your child’s Class Teacher.

At RGS The Grange, your child can enjoy the sports facilities of a senior school in a prep setting. Within 50 acres of land, we have modern purpose-built buildings with excellent facilities and resources, including a full-sized AstroTurf pitch, a Forest School site with African Hut, an amazing adventure playground, a Traversing Wall and an Observatory. Your child will also make use of some of the outstanding facilities that our Senior School has to offer.

Your child will learn French informally from Nursery and as part of the curriculum from Year One to Year Six. Lessons are taught by a specialist Modern Foreign Languages teacher.

RGS The Grange is renowned for its sporting prowess, with children representing the school against the leading teams in the West Midlands and beyond. In previous years our teams have had considerable success including the U11 boys becoming National Champions in cricket, and the U11 girls becoming county cricket champions in the same year. Although we enjoy winning, what matters most is playing the game well and being part of a team. We believe in participation for all; your child will represent the school in various sports during their time here.

RGS The Grange does not operate Saturday School, although some sports fixtures occur on weekends.

The link between the Prep Schools, RGS Worcester Senior School and RGS Dodderhill is very close and strong. Most children move from the Prep Schools to the RGS Worcester Senior School. We share our sports grounds with the Senior School, and we also join up for concerts throughout the year. The Senior Leadership teams meet regularly, and the school shares the same Board of Governors.