Welcome to St Edmund's School Canterbury

We know that children learn effectively when they are happy and motivated. To enable this, we provide a lively, challenging education in a safe and nurturing environment. We have high expectations for excellent academic achievement and for enthusiastic involvement in extra-curricular activities.

We are proud of our reputation as a friendly school with a family atmosphere, where we know our girls and boys well. We invite you to visit the Pre-Prep, Junior or Senior School to find out why St Edmund's is the right place for your child.

Based in Kent, the Garden of England, the School is just less than an hour from London on the high speed train from St Pancras and about an hour from Gatwick airport. For travel to and from the continental Europe on the Eurostar, Ebbsfleet is about an hour and Ashford is just over half an hour away on the motorway.

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A level results 2010

"We are once again absolutely delighted with St Edmund’s A level results and with 90% of grades being A*-C, these are amongst our best results ever. We were particularly pleased to achieve so many of the new A* grade; indeed one subject alone achieved 56% A*.

This also represents the first year of the School’s participation in the new AQA Baccalaureate. Two pupils in their final year piloted the Extended Project Qualification and both of them gained A* grades, which bodes well for the future of this qualification at St Edmund’s.

These excellent results reflect on some quite outstanding teaching as identified in our recent inspection report and some very hard work on the part of the young people, of whom I am very proud."

Jeremy Gladwin, Headmaster

The Annual Peter Hopper Memorial Cricket Match in aid of Prostate Cancer - Sunday 29 August 2010

The match will begin at 2pm on the 1st XI pitch and all support will be welcome. The Hopper family will field a side of current and past pupils and staff. If you would like to play in the game or send us a donation for the raffle please contact Leigh Millard on 07742 543872.

Helping Stella

The School supports The 2Simple Trust - Stella Rogers Appeal wholeheartedly and we have nominated it as our charity of the year. This appeal has touched the hearts of the whole school community and been particularly poignant because Stella's sister is a pupil in the Nursery. We are undertaking a number of wonderfully innovative and exciting activities to assist the efforts of the Rogers family and friends. Read about our recent achievements!

Inspection reports 2009

The whole school was inspected in November 2009, and the inspection reports by ISI and Ofsted are now available.

Music School News

See the Music School Blog: Will Bersey, Director of the Music, is now online.

Opportunities for aspiring musicians: East Kent Children's Orchestra is looking for instrumentalists aged 7 - 12. Please click here for more details.