About Bablake School

Our mission:
To provide an excellent and stimulating education for boys and girls, by developing character, intellect and physical well being within a happy, scholarly and caring community.

Bablake School is a co-educational independent school founded in 1344 by Queen Isabella and located in Coventry, England. Bablake is part of the Coventry School Foundation, a registered charity, along with King Henry VIII School, King Henry VIII Preparatory School and Bablake Pre Prep at Cheshunt.

The current headmaster is Mr John Watson, who succeeded Dr Stuart Nuttall following his retirement in 2006. Today Bablake is a selective, fee- paying Independent School and a member of the HMC.

The Bablake site houses two schools, a Junior school that takes children between year 3 and year 6, and a Senior school that takes children between year 7 and sixth form. Although the junior school is formally independent, its intake generally move up as a group to the senior school. In the main school, there are blocks allocated to specific subjects, such as science, art, design and technology, music and English combined, and a languages block. The school has a swimming pool and indoor sporting facilities on site. It also has four tennis courts, which are used as netball courts at other points in the year. Off site there are four rugby pitches, a hockey astroturf (with floodlights) and a cricket square.

BABLAKE SCHOOL meets its clear aims confidently and with assurance. It provides for all its pupils an outstanding educational experience. It constitutes a happy community of successful learners, balancing academic challenge with an extensive range of cultural, spiritual, sporting and creative activities, as well as opportunities for community service to promote generosity of spirit among all its pupils.

Independent Schools Inspectorate, 2008