The College is at the leading edge of innovation, the facilities are immaculate, the wonderful campus is historic: a delightful set of buildings within five acres of leafy gardens at the top of Richmond Hill. The College is a lovely place to live, learn and grow, and offers a wholly new approach to independent education that lives up to the magnificent setting.
Every student develops core values and a strong sense of social responsibility; inner strength, outward assurance and positive physical and mental health; academic success and a wide range of skills, interests and attributes; curiosity about the world and a love of learning.
Will joined Thomas’s in early 2024 from The Abbey School in Reading. He has an impressive track record of success within the independent school sector. Educated at Eton and Clare College, Cambridge, Will began his career as a journalist and author before moving into teaching at St Paul’s School where he rose to become Undermaster. He went on to a Deputy Headship at St Paul’s Girls’s Schools and onwards to be Head of Fulham School. His vision is for a holistic, academic education based on choice, rigour and happiness. He brings a fresh perspective to this exciting new project based on kindness, hope and excellence.
Our vision is bold. We deliver a genuinely unique curriculum that combines the rigour of GCSEs and A-Levels with our own innovative qualifications designed to foster independence, creativity, and critical thinking - equipping students to thrive in an ever-evolving world. Students and families choose the qualifications that suit them, guided by our expert advice.
We offer more than just academic excellence: we offer future-ready creativity, based on a diversity of intelligence and radical new ways of learning. Our promise is a broader, richer education - one that is deeply personal, grounded in real-world experience, and tailored to the strengths and passions of each student.
Please come and visit us. There are regular open events throughout the year: complete an enquiry form to find out more.
The education available at most schools is similar, and it is hard to determine what makes each school unique. That’s not the case at the College: our offer is bold and distinctive. These are some of the things that make what we do special.
We offer family-friendly weekly boarding at Thomas’s College. Our boarding offer is from Monday morning to Friday afternoon from Year 9 up to Year 13. Our boarding is outstanding: there are 58 beds available in a mix of singles, doubles and quads. Our bedrooms are on the top floor of our beautiful and historic College building. Boarders can access our spectacular facilities and gardens out of hours. We think of our offer as local London boarding, designed to suit busy families who may work long hours or travel often mid-week, but value family-time at weekends.
Boarders are cared for by our wonderful boarding team who provide fun, care and support to our boarders in equal measure. The team create a warm, inclusive home-from-home where every student is known, valued and supported to flourish. The team provides consistent pastoral care, offering both practical and emotional support with everyday boarding life. Our staff live on site or within the boarding house so help and support is always close at hand.
We recognise the powerful role that technology plays both for good and for potential harm in our children’s lives. Our headline approach is phone-free to Sixth Form. Whatever choices families make in their personal lives, we want school to be a window of freedom for our young people. Sixth Formers and staff may use phones in their Common Rooms and study spaces but they are also phone-free around the campus. Five minutes seeing students playing board games and having fun on our lawns during break is ample evidence of the benefits of this approach.
We do want children to learn to navigate the digital world and to become critical thinkers about the benefits and harms of AI, so we issue them with iPads (and a choice of iPads or Macbooks in Middle and Upper Sixth). These devices are under close control and for younger students they deactivate entirely for large periods of the week, again to help them manage and gain control of their use of screens.
In everything we do, we are restless in seeking excellence: ensuring that everything we offer is thought-through and purposeful, aimed at supporting our goal of happy and optimistic young people.
The best of traditional education, reinvigorated.
Set atop Richmond Hill, our newly renovated 5-acre campus is breathtaking. Gated and secluded, the campus includes a boarding house, Recital Hall, Gym, Dance Studio, three Art Studios, biophilic learning spaces, science labs, Drama Auditorium, Sports Dome, School of Design & Engineering and separate Sixth Form Study Centre. Just 15 minutes away by coach are our Sports grounds at Duke’s Meadows where we have multiple pitches for hockey, football and rugby and cricket.
School fees are reviewed no later than 1st September each year.
For full details of fees at Thomas's College
Thomas’s College School Office: 020 7978 0901
Email: collegeadmin@thomascollege.uk
Thomas’s College Admissions Team: 020 7978 0902
Email: college@thomascollege.uk
Address: Queens Road, Richmond, Queen’s Rd, Richmond TW10 6JW
