Secondary School Admissions
Crackley Hall School is committed to ensuring a smooth and confident transition for pupils as they prepare for the next stage of their education. With a caring and supportive environment, we equip our pupils with the skills, knowledge, and resilience needed to thrive in secondary school and beyond.
Secondary School Preparation
From Junior 3 to Junior 6 verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning are taught within lessons. In Junior 5 those wishing to get some more support in exam preparation can do so in an extra-curricular lunchtime club and exam technique and practice papers begin in earnest in the Trinity term of Junior 5.
Our aim is to work with parents to give your child the best chance of getting into their first choice secondary school. Over the past year almost every one of our pupils achieved this aim. This is a very important indicator for parents who want the best secondary school for their child.
Many of the pupils had multiple offers to choose from and a high number of scholarships were awarded. The majority of our Junior 6 pupils do go on to Princethorpe College, the Foundation's Senior School, but children have also been awarded places at other local Independent Schools as well as local Grammar Schools.
Princethorpe College Early Offer Scheme
For those parents who choose to opt in, Princethorpe College offers an Early Offer Scheme which will allow them to make early offers of places to pupils whilst they are still in Junior 5 at Crackley Hall School.
The Early Offer Scheme will go through a similar process to the College's traditional entrance exams but allows them to prioritise the applications from the Foundation Prep schools and leverage the unique relationship we have within the schools in the Foundation.
Currently pupils in Crackley Hall School already sit standardised assessments from Junior 3 onwards in English, Mathematics and undertake a number of free writing tasks in class. For those who register for the Early Offer Scheme, these assessment scores would be made available to Princethorpe College for the Admissions Panel to review. This will show academic progress and trajectory over time and remove the possibility of a pupil “having a bad day”.
Additionally, Early Offer Scheme candidates would undertake an online assessment which would be administered in their current school setting by Princethorpe staff.
Once the online assessment has been completed, the Princethorpe College Admissions Panel will consider all the relevant information and early offers will be made as appropriate in the second half of the summer
term.
Any questions?
If you have any further questions about the Scheme or admissions to the College please don’t hesitate to contact Catherine Rogers, Registrar and Georgia Newborough, Assistant Registrar at admissions@princethorpe.co.uk or call 01926 634201/297 and they will be happy to help.
Download information about 2026 Early Offer Scheme