Terra Nova School | |
Motto: | Labor et ludus |
Established: | 1897 |
Type: | Preparatory day and boarding school |
Head Label: | Headmistress |
Head: | Christabel Westall[1] |
City: | Holmes Chapel |
County: | Cheshire |
Country: | England |
Postcode: | CW4 8BT |
Local Authority: | Cheshire East |
Dfeno: | 895/6006 |
Urn: | 111472 |
Enrolment: | 300~ |
Gender: | Coeducational |
Lower Age: | 3 |
Upper Age: | 13 |
Terra Nova School is a prep school in Cheshire, England for children from two and a half to thirteen years of age. It began as a school for boys in 1897, and today educates boys and girls.
Children aged two and a half to seven attend the pre-prep school, and pupils aged eight to thirteen attend the prep school.
Since 1939[2] the school has occupied a site of just over including playing fields, in a rural area within the bounds of Holmes Chapel.[3] At the core of the site is Jodrell Hall, a country house begun in 1779 with additions in 1835.