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Queenswood Estate
	Queenswood must surely be one of the most beautiful school campuses in the country! Situated in 120acres of prime countryside, the estate includes lawns, herbaceous borders, specimen trees and woodland walks including an orienteering route. With a motto of In Hortis Reginae (In the Queen’s Gardens) the school takes pride in its environment. Girls are free to roam in safety throughout the estate and they enjoy the spaciousness and peace found in their secret places. The seasons offer their individual delights and sledging or snow-boarding from Trew lawn down to the athletics field is eagerly anticipated each winter by girls and staff alike!

Trew House	Close
Trew House
	Often seen as the emblem of Queenswood, this mock Tudor building is the centre of the junior house and provides accommodation, classrooms and meeting places for Years 7 and 8. Some of the Lower Sixth have bedrooms and study areas on the top floor. Also in this building is the reception, Principal’s Study, school shop and bank, dining hall, Registrar’s office, other administrative areas, meeting and function rooms. The views across Trew lawn are magnificent and on a clear day, the Chilterns are visible.

Tennis & Hockey Centre	Close
Tennis & Hockey Centre
	The modern Pavilion is the focus for tennis in the summer and hockey in the winter, affording a 360° view of the courts; there is a café and club room. Our superb tennis facilities include 27 floodlit courts on campus. The Hertfordshire County Hockey Centre is based here and there are grass pitches on site; all county training is coached at Queenswood. We are the Hertfordshire centre of excellence for hockey and linked to the Lawn Tennis Association for teaching tennis. With such enviable facilities and brilliant staff, it is little wonder our tennis and hockey squads often come home with the trophies.

The Library	Close
The Library
	Known as The Bellman Library, this building was completely refurbished recently and is the academic centre of school. On the ground floor the library has over 20,000 books from antique editions to current prize-winners. All are catalogued on the university standard computer system. There are also daily newspapers, magazines, journals, DVDs, videos, on-line services and access to the Internet. On the mezzanine floor there is access to SKY TV and work stations. The library is the main venue for displays, debates and society evenings and has extensive opening hours.

Medical Centre	Close
Medical Centre
	The Medical Centre aims to provide optimum health care within a caring holistic environment; the nursing staff care for the physical, psychological and social needs of each individual girl. Our nurses provide health promotion, health education, first aid and administer over-the-counter preparation as considered necessary. The nurses are supported by a female General Practitioner (GP) from a local surgery and she holds two or three surgeries per week in the Medical Centre.

Main School	Close
Main School
	On the ground floor are individual study carrells organised on a house basis for girls in Years 8-11. Each carrell is equipped with lockable drawers and cabinets and a good working area, including power sockets to allow laptops to be charged. On the first and second floor are the middle school houses for all girls in Years 9 to 11: Waller, Hartley, Clapham North and Clapham South. All houses have a common room and each house’s housemistress and boarding assistant live in the same area as the girls. On the third floor, Eaves provides most of the Lower Sixth with accommodation, a common room, kitchen area and rooms for resident staff.

Leach Centre	Close
Leach Centre
	This centre houses the aerobics and fitness rooms where people of all ages and abilities can come to improve their mobility and fitness levels under supervision. Pilates, yoga, keep fit and step aerobics take place in the aerobics room and the fitness room has a range of cardio-vascular and other training equipment. This centre is the base for the Sport and Tennis staff and adjacent to the gym.

Dining Hall	Close
Dining Hall
	The large and bright dining hall can seat a maximum of 240 people, although lunch during school hours is normally provided on a rota basis. Chartwells, the school’s catering contractors, are well-experienced in providing attractive, well balanced, nutritious meals to meet all requirements from the needs of teenage girls through to haute cuisine for special events. The modern servery area is designed for self service, offering a wide range of choice to cater for all dietary requirements and preferences; there is even a “chef’s theatre” with a TV screening the cooking as it happens. The House Suppers, Christmas Dinner, Leavers’ Supper, Strawberry Tea for senior citizens and other functions are held here.

Adventure Playground	Close
Adventure Playground
	Situated on the edge of the woodland within a short stroll from the main buildings, this discrete outdoor activities area is well loved and used by girls of all ages. All the equipment was sponsored by the parents through the Queenswood Fellowship and is constantly under review by its users! There is a zip line, floor level trampoline, cargo net, swings and trim trail and hoots of laughter can always be heard in this area.

Essame Studios

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In the Art and Music Studios, known as the Essame Studios, there are three Music classrooms, a music resource room, computer studio and 32 practice and teaching rooms.
The adjoining Kennedy Hall is the venue for numerous concerts throughout the year.
Girls love to express themselves through Art and there are four spacious and light studios for painting, ceramics and textiles; there is also a Sixth Form art display room. Pottery and craft clubs are held and there is an Artist-in-Residence.

Swimming Pool	Close
Swimming Pool
	The indoor pool is much appreciated by our own girls, staff and local groups and clubs. It is half Olympic size with four lanes, deck-level edging and low odour: the water is treated by an innovative combination of ultra-violet light and chlorine which is much kinder to swimmers and the environment. There is a viewing gallery and the building blocks lining the walls are sound absorbing to lessen the noise levels from excited participants. For information about the Queenswood Swim School see Venue Hire.

The Clarissa Farr Theatre	Close
The Clarissa Farr Theatre
	Drama is a popular subject at Queenswood and this state-of-the-art venue allows the girls to demonstrate their talents in a range of ways. It has 280 seats in the main auditorium with a flexible staging arrangement, orchestra pit, full-sized film screen, scenery dock, make-up room, theory/green room, bar and foyer atrium, lift to the new mezzanine floor, fully accessible gantry level for sound and lighting and a control room with an industry-standard computerised system for sound, lighting and multi-media. The theatre is also used by the local community.

The Audrey Butler Centre	Close
The Audrey Butler Centre
	The 'ABC' houses 22 classrooms with interactive whiteboards and TVs and a lecture theatre. Subjects and facilities based here include English, Maths, Business Studies, Economics, Religious Studies, Geography, History, Languages and English as a Foreign Language. There is also the Computer Centre, two classrooms with fixed computers which are connected to school network and Internet.

The Chapel	Close
The Chapel
	The Chapel is at the heart of the school community. Originally established as a Methodist Foundation school, Queenswood welcomes girls of all faiths or none. The whole school meets together on weekdays for assembly and at other times families are welcome to attend open services. Organ concerts, events and festivals are a regular feature in this venue and our resident female Chaplain is well-known to all girls, parents and staff.