15,000 Hours.
Fifteen thousand hours.
That’s how long your child will spend at school from the day they first walk through the gate to the moment they step out at the end of their final year.
Fifteen thousand hours.
Of growing.
Of discovering who they are.
Of forming friendships and navigating challenges.
Of learning — not just subjects, but how to live.
The question isn’t just where your child will spend those hours.
It’s how those hours will feel.
Will they be filled with joy? With curiosity? With meaning?
Will your child be known — truly known — by the people guiding them each day?
Will they feel safe enough to take risks, speak up, try again?
Imagine someone told you that, starting next week, you’d be spending 15,000 hours in a single environment.
Five days a week. Year after year.
Now imagine that most of those hours felt pointless, irrelevant, even meaningless — yet entirely obligatory.
The work doesn’t connect to your world. You rarely get to move. You don’t feel seen. You’re there because “that’s just what you do.” You feel no fulfilment or inspiration in your life.
How would that shape your sense of self?
Your motivation?
Your confidence?
Now imagine the opposite.
A place that meets you as a whole human being. That challenges you and listens to you. That invites you to move, to question, to build, to create.
Where learning feels alive — not abstract. Where your ideas matter.
"She has started to enjoy learning again, which is such a joy to see. She talks a lot about the work she is doing with pride and invested interest.”
The difference is profound.
And that’s the experience your child will carry — not just through school, but into the rest of their life.
Some children learn best when they move, when they build, when they are outside. Others need quiet, space, and time to reflect. Most children thrive when the learning feels real and connected to the world around them — not distant or dictated. When they understand why they are learning and feel empowered that their learning and their work matters. All children need to feel that their voice matters.
We don’t often pause to consider the weight of this choice.
But deep down, every parent knows — school will shape the way a child sees themselves, and the world.
In choosing a school, you’re not just choosing a timetable or curriculum.
You are, in many ways, choosing your child’s future.
What they believe is possible.
What paths they feel are open to them.
What kind of person they become.
"She’s being stretched rather than pushed… and supported kindly to keep going. She’s learning a lot about friendship and social interaction too."
And when a child learns in an environment that honours their spirit, challenges their thinking, and builds their confidence — it doesn’t close doors. It opens them all.
Because when a child loves to learn, they carry that strength with them.
Into secondary school exams. Into university. Into careers. Into life.
"Both my children have grown so beautifully since joining the school… What's interesting is that both struggled with academics and felt pressure and embarrassment at their last school — here I see them growing and learning, but never that pressure or shame."
“My son’s enthusiasm for school and learning is thanks to LWS.”
There are places where children aren’t asked to sit still and shrink to fit a system, but are encouraged to stretch, question, get messy, laugh loudly, and be real. Places where education is human, not hurried.
Over the summer, as you reflect on the year gone by and begin imagining what lies ahead, this question may sit quietly with you:
What do I want those 15,000 hours to feel like for my child?
When you find yourself imagining the kind of experience you want for those hours, it might be time to see where that can happen.
Our Autumn Open Days begin in September for 2026 enrolment.
You're warmly invited to experience what those hours could feel like.
