Founding Open Day — Saturday, 29 August 2026

STUDENT LIFE

Student Life

A 400-metre all-weather track, playing fields and a multipurpose hall with a stage — already built, and waiting for the first children to decide what happens in them.

Five ways to spend the afternoon

Creative arts, athletics, student-led clubs, after-school activities and holiday camps, all housed in facilities that are already built.

Arts

Arts

Music, drama and visual art taught in studios and a stage, from Early Years through Key Stage 2.

Athletics

Athletics

A 400-metre all-weather track and an on-site pool — weekly PE for every year group, taught to the National Curriculum.

Student Leadership & Clubs

Student Leadership & Clubs

A child brings an idea to their class teacher and can become its founding president — clubs the founding cohort starts, not joins.

After-school Program

After-school Program

Supervised care from 3:30 to 5:30, Monday to Friday, with snack, homework time and a reading circle or elective.

Camps

Camps

The campus does not close for the breaks — camps run on our own grounds through April, August and December.

The Founding Promise

What we can honestly tell you today

We open our gates to our first cohort this year: real commitments, made and published before there is a track record to point to.

  1. We are new. We will always say so.

    This is Elyton's founding year. Every figure on this site is either a measured fact about our campus or a commitment we are choosing to be held to: real numbers and real promises, nothing invented or borrowed.

  2. No more than twenty-five per class, from the very first day.

    A hard ceiling on every class, not an average that lets one group run larger while another runs small. Our first families get the smallest classes Elyton will ever run, and the most attention per child we will ever be able to give.

  3. The teachers you meet are the teachers you get.

    Our teaching team is appointed before we open, ahead of any enrolment target. On Open Day you meet the people who will actually take your child's class, and you can ask them where they have taught and what they believe about learning.

  4. A campus built for many more children than we will admit.

    A purpose-built campus in Karen: a 400-metre all-weather athletics track, playing fields, a library, a multipurpose hall with a stage, smart classrooms throughout, handed to a cohort small enough to actually use all of it.

  5. The British National Curriculum, taught properly.

    Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, delivered by specialist teachers, with your child's progress reported against national expectations from the very first term.

  6. Ask us anything on 29 August.

    Fees, staffing, timelines, what is ready and what is still being made ready. Our Head of School takes open questions from the floor with nothing off the table. A school worth choosing can survive hard questions.