Our campus

Our innovative Sports Centre houses everything from national league standard netball and badminton matches to indoor hockey and basketball, facilitating a wider range of high-quality activities. It also boasts an Ergo Suite, three-lane cricket nets, indoor hockey equipment, Fitness Suite, Group Cycle room and Dance Studio. Football, lacrosse and rounders pitches can be found on our sports field, along with six floodlit netball and tennis courts. Discover more about our range of sports on offer. Our Church Farm playing fields include a sports pavilion, complete with public spectator space, and comfortable indoor seating.

There are two separate changing rooms for Home and Away teams, each of which has dedicated WC and shower facilities. The Club Room provides an internal sheltered area for parents to use during sporting activities. This space contains a small kitchen for serving refreshments, and there is a viewing platform which can be accessed internally from the Club Room.

Sport at St Helen’s

The Yolande Paterson Hall, with a seating capacity of over 500 and a full stage, is used for whole school assemblies, concerts and large-scale drama productions. For smaller scale productions the 120-seat Studio Theatre provides a more intimate theatrical space.

Drama at St Helen’s

12 practice rooms; dedicated space for piano, harp, cello and percussion; music technology, seminar rooms and the music library all enable the department to manage over 400 music lessons each week, alongside numerous orchestra, instrumental and vocal groups.

Music at St Helen’s

Our three, well-equipped art studios are complemented by dedicated facilities for ceramics. Individual development and self-expression are supported through practical work involving a range of traditional and contemporary media, from drawing, painting, photography and textiles to animation and film. We are keen to impress upon students that St Helen’s is a space to experiment and try new things.

Art and design at St Helen’s

A calming and beautiful space, the Chapel is the focal point for services throughout the school year, as well as being a venue for our tea concerts, a meeting place for parents, and home to Chapel Choir and confirmation classes.

In 2022-23, we marked the centenary of our Chapel of the Holy Cross – the first place to be used for worship within the school. Sitting at the heart of our community, our Chapel’s 100-year anniversary was marked with an exciting range of activities and events including a series of alumnae dinners, centenary services, specially commissioned artwork and vestments, and a choral concert.

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The Library houses an extensive range of fiction and non-fiction resources. Workspaces and fixed computer stations are complemented by comfortable and relaxed seating providing a highly flexible resource for teaching, private study and extracurricular activities and events. This hub for pursuing personal enrichment helps students become enthusiastic readers, critical thinkers and skilful researchers. Breaks can be taken in the library café which offers an informal space for students and staff to meet, refuel and socialise.

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The 125-seat Lecture Theatre, situated on the ground floor of the Library, is equipped with full audio visual presentation equipment and is a popular resource for teaching, public speaking, debating and external speaker events.

The centre is used by teaching groups throughout the School, for practising listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through online resources.

Opened in 2015, our 3D Design Centre was constructed to support and bring together the increasingly popular subjects of Ceramics and Design and Technology.

The facility provides the opportunity for students to undertake a broad range of activities including jewellery making, 3D printing and laser engraving and marking onto a variety of host surfaces, alongside an enhanced external sculpture space.

The eye-catching timber frame building was designed by Banks Design Architects.

Our spectacular Science Centre officially opened in November 2014, boasting 13 state-of-the-art laboratories. Each science – Biology, Chemistry and Physics – has four laboratories arranged over three subject-specific floors, as well as a dedicated science lab for our Junior Department. Break out areas on each floor, and the resources available in them, such as journals, magazines and touch screens, allow for independent study, collaboration and small group work and discussion. The three-storey glass atrium is frequently used as an event space for concerts, seminars, guest lectures and partnership activities.

Sitting at the centre of St Helen and St Katharine, Old School Hall is the original Edwardian building used since the School’s founding in 1903. Now adorned with the flags of the nations our students, staff and alumnae hail from, the space is a fond and thriving hub for daily activities, competitions, conventions and fun.

Just off from Old School Hall are our Junior Department classrooms for Years 5 and 6. This crossroads of prep and senior schools provides students with a real sense of belonging to the wider school community.