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School Campus & Development
Since Walthamstow Hall moved to Sevenoaks in 1882 we have constructed the school around the needs of our pupils. Every building on our campus, from the original Arts and Crafts-inspired Victorian main building through to the new pool complex, has been purpose-built for us and designed for learning.
Our Campus
Our Main Building, containing the vaulted Dining Hall and Erasmus classrooms for Languages and Humanities, remains the solid heart from which the school has continued to expand and evolve.
Sixth Form Centre
"The Sixth Form Centre feels like a place away from the school where you can come back and work and do independent study, making you feel more grown up with control over your own life." Emily, 2009 Leaver now studying Maths.
In 1992 we created a separate Sixth Form Centre, called 'EBH', Emmeline Blackburn House, in memory of a former Headmistress of the school. EBH is located within the school grounds but is separated from the main body of the school campus. The Sixth Form Centre facilities enable students to study and socialise in a setting that acknowledges their growing maturity and prepares them for university and life beyond school. In their own separate base they have use of:
- common rooms
- fully-equipped student kitchen
- seminar teaching rooms
- dedicated networked ICT room
as well as sharing main school facilities including the well-resourced study library (with over 20,000 volumes) and Careers and Higher Education rooms, state-of-the-art Science laboratories, purpose-built theatre, drama studio, music rooms and art studio, modern classroom suites and a superb new swimming pool complex.
In essence EBH gives Sixth Formers greater independence in a supportive school context; ideal preparation for university life.
