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Rishworth is a thriving, independent co-educational school with a happy mix of day-pupils, weekly boarders, and full-boarders. It is an exceptionally friendly, caring community in which pupils are as strongly encouraged to rejoice in each other's achievements and to take pride in their own. Rishworth is a thriving, independent, co-educational, boarding, and day school. With its own Junior School, Heathfield, it offers a continuous education for children from age 3 to 18. The School is characterized by the warmth of its welcome, its sense of purpose, and its focus on the happiness and success of each individual. Rishworth’s magnificent buildings, extensive grounds, and superb Pennine location, which chart a 300-year heritage, provide all members of this friendly community with a physical environment that is conducive both to the clarity of mind required for academic study and to pursuits that provide for full and balanced development of personal character. At Rishworth, students develop: A life-long love of learning, curiosity, and discovery A sense of responsibility, purpose, and ambition A capacity for both self-reliance and co-operation and An appreciation of personal virtues and spiritual values, such as honesty, dependability, perseverance, commitment, humility, and respect for others. Students relish their time at Rishworth, forging lasting friendships and enjoying excellent relations with their teachers and mentors. When the time comes for them to leave the school, our students do so as excellent decision-makers with the confidence to meet the world and the challenges it places before them, as it's equal. Rishworth School has a long and proud history. It was founded and endowed by John Wheelwright in 1724, and established in a modest but charming old building which is now the Chapel. Today the School is very different. It extends over 130 acres with a wide range of buildings developed to accommodate increasing numbers of pupils. Heathfield is the Junior School to Rishworth. Boys and girls join us from the age of 3 in the Nursery and we continue to provide a caring and stimulating learning environment to the age of 11. Foundation Stage, Nursery, and Reception Children can join the Foundation Stage from the age of three. In our spacious building they are self-contained and secure, following a program working within six learning areas: Language, Literacy, and Communication Mathematical Development Knowledge and Understanding of the World Creative Development Physical Development Social and Emotional Development The Sixth Form is very much a part of the whole school community. The younger members of the School will look to senior students for guidance, leadership, and example. By acknowledging these responsibilities, a Sixth Former will develop personally. Students join the Sixth Form at Rishworth with many goals: the fulfillment of their academic potential the focus for their cultural pursuits and artistic talents a challenge for their sporting prowess the development of life-long friendships a growth in character and confidence enrichment from a diversity of views and experiences. Students will be encouraged, and have opportunities, to achieve these goals. In the Sixth Form, Rishworth aims to offer: A high level of individual attention with small class sizes and individual monitoring and assessment to ensure that each student is optimizing potential Pleasant sixth-form facilities, including a Sixth Form Centre with areas for study as well as communal areas Opportunities for leadership and personal development as students take on responsibilities associated with being a senior member of the School include the prefect system, the sixth-form council, and the paired reading scheme A structured program of guidance and advice on careers and higher education Scope to develop sporting, musical, theatrical, and community interests, as well as providing the framework to develop other individual talents Caring, committed, well-qualified specialist staff who actively support every student in their care Several scholarships and bursaries to sixth-form students, details of which may be obtained from the Registrar or Bursar. View full school