Together with its 'Pre-Prep – Early Years' department, the school educates girls and boys aged between three and thirteen.

The school has a Christian ethos, and its chapel services are reported to be "broadly Anglican in style".

[2] The school's main building, a listed Victorian Gothic country house called Buckhold, which was designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1885 for Herbert Watney, is set in fifty-four acres of woods and playing fields.

Its facilities include boarding houses, three science laboratories, music school, art studio and carpentry workshop, and a chapel.

Sporting facilities include a 25-metre pool, all-weather astro playing field, sports hall, climbing wall, 9 hole golf course, 3 tennis courts (including one grass court) and rugby/football/cricket/lacrosse pitches.