Structure
The School is divided into three: Boys' (ages 11 – 18), Girls' (11 - 18), Preparatory (4 - 11). Each of the senior schools has a Head who is also a Deputy Warden. Pupils are taught in single sex classes between 7 and 16. In the sixth form teaching becomes coeducational.
The Prep School numbers just over two hundred boys and girls. From the ages of 4 to 7 Pre-Prep pupils are taught in mixed classes of sixteen. In the main Prep from 7 to 11 boys and girls are taught in separate classes of between 18 and 25.
At age 11, boys enter year 7 and this is the main point of entry to the Boy's School, with usually 20 boys entering from Forest's Prep School, and being joined by 55 new pupils from a wide range of other schools. Participation in the wider life of the school is expected of all pupils.
The Girls' School, also beginning at age 11, focuses on the development of well qualified, confident young women ready to take up the opportunities of university and careers. The school places great emphasis on the development of each girl as an individual. As in the Boys' School, each girl is a member of a House as well as a form.
Forest's Sixth Form numbers some 250 pupils and is coeducational. Pupils can choose from a very wide range of combinations of AS and A2 courses and these are supplemented by General Studies and a programme of lectures and debates. Sixth Formers remain very much part of their respective schools, continuing to have a Housemaster/mistress as before and having the opportunity to take on responsibility in their Houses.
The School maintains its traditional values of academic excellence, and offers scholarships in both academic areas and the arts and sport to pupils who show an outstanding talent in any particular subject. It prides itself that it offers a first class education, with renowned facilities in music, drama, art and sports. It also offers school bus schemes. Many school trips take place as well, not including individual department trips. These can be purely recreational, such as skiing, or educational such as the Fun and Philosophy trip or arts-based trips.
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