Parents' Information

Parents are welcome to discuss any matter concerning their son and are encouraged to keep closely in touch with the School about their son's development. In the Autumn Term the curriculum covered during the year is outlined to parents of each year group. The School holds parents' evenings to discuss privately with parents their son's progress on an individual basis, and termly reports are given in writing. In the event of a special achievement or effort by a boy, the Head recognises this directly and a letter may also be sent to a boy's parents. If a boy encounters a difficulty in his work, or there is any other concern, the class teacher, or if the problem is continuing, or serious, the Head, discusses this with the boy's parents. There is a regular newsletter from the Head to parents, to keep them informed of School events and news. All parents and their families are invited to the Prize Giving and the Sports Day in the Summer Term, and the School Carol Service is held at St. George's, Kensington at the end of the Autumn Term. Each September the School holds an evening party for parents to meet one another and get to know those with sons in the same class. Detailed notes for parents are issued to all new parents at the beginning of each academic year.

Future education

Hawkesdown House educates boys from the age of three years to eight. At eight years of age, boys are prepared for entry to the main London and other prep schools. The School provides information about future schools to parents of the boys at the appropriate age. Parents are always welcome to discuss individually any plans they may be considering for their son and to ask for advice.

Hawkesdown

The name Hawkesdown is a very ancient one. Hawkesdown Hill rises above the estuary of one of the historic rivers of Devon. There, a thousand years before the birth of Christ, local people from all about came together to build a gigantic earthwork fortress. The scale of their endeavour still stands today, a monument to their community and their desire to defend themselves. The hill and its great banks stand timeless, now richly timbered with gnarled oaks, walnuts and hawthorn. Hawkesdown lies in the middle of farmland owned by my husband's family, where it has always been a place of adventure and excitement, as indeed it is now for our own children. For all its powerful history, it is a kindly and tranquil place: the view, out to the sea and up the valley into the heartland of the county, never ceases to inspire. When, at its foundation, we came to choose a name for the School, Hawkesdown seemed to represent some of the qualities that a great School and its pupils should have; hard work, endeavour and courage, with tradition, charm and enduring inspiration.