Welcome

I am delighted to welcome you to The Priory School, Hitchin.

At TPSH, we are committed to empowering every child to meet their aspirations, to be self-confident, inspirational, and active members of their community whatever their background, ability, or circumstance. We achieve this by ensuring that every child at TPSH follows a rich and ambitious curriculum, is offered extensive extra-curricular and enrichment opportunities, and that they benefit from inspirational teaching, alongside dedicated pastoral care that provides a secure and caring environment.

We are incredibly proud of our students who are superb ambassadors for our school when representing us in Hitchin but also nationally, and internationally. We are proud to serve the entire community of Hitchin and as such, we have a number of exciting partnerships with local and national organisations.

At TPSH our staff are well-qualified, highly experienced, and dedicated to providing the very best education and pastoral care to every student. We all share the same values that are woven into our school’s culture: Responsibility, Respect, and Resilience.

A strong, supportive partnership between home and school is fundamental to the success of any child in education. As a parent myself, I fully appreciate that parents want to remain closely involved in their son or daughter’s education and at TPSH, we will work in partnership to ensure that we can lay strong foundations for the future successes of your child.

I hope this prospectus answers all of your questions and please do get in touch if you’d like to find out more.

Matt Blayney

Headteacher



Our School Ethos

The Priory School Hitchin is an inclusive, community, co-educational school. We provide our students with a rounded education, focused on both progress and attainment, whilst promoting the values of responsibility, respect and resilience.

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Responsibility

Supporting students to become life-long learners who are motivated, self-regulating, reflective, civic-minded and effective leaders.

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Respect

Encouraging students to be inclusive, tolerant and able to demonstrate democratic values.

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Resilience

Equipping our students with the skills to meet the challenges and demands of 21st century life.

What do we do at The Priory School Hitchin?

Our School Life

This video introduces some of the many elements of our school that make it such a great place to learn.
Alongside a dedication to academic success our school promotes each child to get involved with and succeed in a huge range of other opportunities that are on offer.

What is Year 7 like at The Priory School Hitchin?

Our Students

Our Uniform

Our Year 7s look really smart in our red Priory School jumper with a white shirt, Priory School tie (for boys) and black trousers or skirt.

PE & Sport

As well as PE lessons we have a range of clubs offering all sorts of sports such as Spikeball and rock climbing.

TPS Challenge

Complete 12 different challenges in Year 7 to achieve your #TPSApprentice badge which you can proudly wear on your uniform!

Chromebooks

All Year 7s will start school with a Chromebook. We want to help build digital resilience - learning independently, creatively, collaboratively and communicating anywhere at any time. Read our Parent Pack.

Music

Continue to learn a musical instrument or maybe find your new instrument - we offer lots of opportunities outside of lessons including termly concerts and a whole-school musical every other year!

Reading

We have a fantastic library full of books to suit everyone's taste. Year 7 have dedicated time in Form and English lessons for reading, sometimes sitting on our AstroTurf in the sunshine!

Open Evening 2025



On Thursday 2nd October 2025 we are giving Year 6s and their parents/carers the opportunity to visit the school.




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In-School Open Evening
Thursday 2nd October


5:30pm - 8:30pm

No booking necessary.
Please be advised that parking will be very limited.



Open Morning Tours
Between Tuesday 7th and Tuesday 14th October

Tickets available now by using the button below.



Previous Feedback



"We just wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed our open evening session last evening. We were very impressed by the students who led the presentation. Their friendly, interactive and knowledgeable approach made a big difference to us parents as well as to our son, they managed to keep him interested for the whole session!"

"I thought the Google Meet was a great idea combined with the videos and the two girls who led our time slot at 7:30pm did a great job engaging with the children."

"I just wanted to thank the school for the wonderful open evening last night. The two children where so impressive, organised and extremely reassuring with their answers."

"I know that nothing replaces seeing the school in person, but the videos, the range of presentations and also the students who hosted our call really were all excellent. Thank you for engaging and exciting my ten year old son who was able to confidently put The Priory as his first choice secondary school."

"The Google Meet was just brilliant what an ingenious idea. We had a lovely meet with Rai-Rai and Priya who were a credit to the school. All of the presentations showcased what a brilliant school the priory Is. I felt it captured the feeling of the school beautifully. Maisie loved being part of the online open evening and loved doing the Google Meet, wonderful opportunity to build her confidence, thank you for asking her."

"If people make decisions based on the open evenings alone, I think TPS will win hands down. Tonight’s event was excellent, well done.......I just really hope we get in!"

The Google Meet was well structured; the videos provide a good insight into school life and the questions to prompted discussion. The small group format worked well and gave the kids the confidence to share their feedback and questions.

Do you have more questions?

Contact Us

If you've got a question we haven't answered, please get in touch. You can directly email us at admin@priory.herts.sch.uk, or fill in the Google Form and we'll get the right department to get back to you as soon as possible.