Milbourne Lodge Junior School was founded nearly one hundred years ago on its present site in 1912.  The school became an Educational Charity in 1986 with the object of providing education.

The school has always striven to support those in need, providing a level of benefit not only to our own children, but also to the Government and community both locally, nationally and more recently, on a global scale.

• We currently educate up to 160 children full time, and up to thirty-nine children part time between the ages of 3-8

• We specialise in providing an all-round education, not just focusing on academic subjects. We demonstrate particular excellence in sport (over three hours a week on the curriculum for every child) and music, as well as Numeracy and Literacy

• The standard of our education is reviewed against national benchmarks and our standards consistently exceed those benchmarks.

• By educating 160 children we have saved the public purse approximately £320,000 last year

• A bursary was set up three years ago which currently goes towards supporting a number of children within the school who would otherwise be unable to attend

• Our Foundation Stage offers approximately sixty-five places for Surrey County Council children claiming the Nursery Grant

• Surrey County Council is required to provide a choice of providers for parents claiming the Nursery Education Grant and there is a great demand in Esher for independent school places.

• We have extended the day for Foundation Stage children by allowing some four-year-olds to be dropped off at 8.30am and to be collected later than 3.15pm on some days.  The ‘Sure Start New Places Grant’ has not been sought from Surrey County Council to provide this for the parents; this has been funded directly by the school

• Our facilities for Foundation Stage children are due to be radically improved at no cost to the Government, already a ramp has been obtained giving a disabled access to the Reception classes.  The ‘Disability Discrimination Act Capital Grant’ has not been sought from Surrey County Council to provide this; this has also been funded by the school

• Our Extended Day Activities have grown steadily over the last few years so that we now provide over two hundred and fifty places per week for our children.  ‘No Sure Start Capital Grant’ has been claimed from Surrey County Council to achieve this, and we are now being visited as an example of ‘Good Practice’ by state school Heads

• Other Nursery Heads have been invited to share our sound practice and use of resources as highlighted by our recent Ofsted report

• We train and induct teachers at no cost to the State, and for the last four years we have supported four Graduate Trainees

• In addition, over the last two years, we have enabled three NQTs to gain their ‘Qualified Teacher Status’

• We offer work experience opportunities for local young people

• We offer our facilities and organise training for different groups, such as key note speakers and ICT guidance for teachers and Heads from both independent and state schools; office management for school administrators, and ‘Parenting Skills’ to local parents and members of the National Childbirth Trust

• Over past summers we have offered a holiday sports programme to young children in the locality

• We participated in the Claygate Music Festival, welcoming the public to our performance

• We offer the use of our sports field to Esher Church School

• The Kingston Vineyard Church Fellowship use our premises as a place of worship on Sundays and other times as required

• We support local environmental initiatives, such as ‘Safe Routes to School’; encouraging environmentally-friendly travel to our school and we have worked closely with the Community Travel Advisor, Lynne Howard

• Local residents and neighbours are invited to our Open Days

• We are actively engaged in charitable work in the local community; our children regularly sing at Arbrook House Residential Home, and we donate goods and clothing each year to the Beaconsfield Children’s Resource Centre

• We support a township school in South Africa, by sponsoring the entire cost of access to the Internet; sharing our ICT expertise, sharing our teaching materials, and encouraging links between the children and staff of both schools

• Our staff may spend time at the township school, training staff in the use of ICT in education, at no cost to the South African school

• Each year, the school raises charitable donations through our Head Boy’s Charity and has recently supported ‘Street Child Africa’, ‘The Rainbow Trust’, ‘Vision Aid Overseas’, and ‘The Newman Holiday Trust

• We support annual national campaigns, such as the Royal British Legion’s ‘Poppy Appeal’ and The Samaritan’s Purse’s, ‘Operation Christmas Child’

• We support national and international campaigns as a response to emergency appeals, such as the Tsunami disaster in 2004 when we raised funds to send numerous ‘school in a suitcase’ kits to the disaster areas