Heath Mount School
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| Motto | "Loyal Devoir" |
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| Established | 1796 |
| Type | Independent |
| Headmaster | Chris Gillam BEd (Hons) |
| Location |
Watton-at-Stone Hertfordshire SG14 3NG England 
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| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 3–13 |
| Houses | Galahad, Tristram and Percival |
| Colours | Green and Blue |
| Website | www |
Heath Mount School is a Church of England co-educational independent prep school near Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England. It admits pupils aged 3 to 13. It was founded as Heath Mount Academy in Hampstead in 1796. In 1934 it was relocated to the Georgian Mansion, on the Woodhall Estate in rural Hertfordshire. In 2014 there were 442 children in attendance at the school: boarding pupils and day pupils and girls and boys.
Heath Mount was started as a boarding school in 1796 for the schooling of ‘boys and young gentlemen’. The first Headmaster, Reverend John Hunter, let a house on Heath Street in Hampstead. The school was named "Heath Mount" because the original site was close to the summit of the Heath in Hampstead. In 1875, Mr Bush, the fifth headmaster, moved to a school he established in the early 1860s at New End in Hampstead.
By the early 1930s the Hampstead School rapidly grew and the New End site no longer met requirements. In January 1934 the Headmaster, Reverend Arthur Wells, moved the school again with its 32 pupils to the present location at Woodhall Estate in Watton-at-Stone in Hertfordshire.
Heath Mount thrived in its new surroundings and even endured as a school during the Second World War with a few girls admitted as a temporary measure. The school was not fully open to girls until 1976. Continuing in expansion, the sports hall was built in 1984 and a preparatory school building established in 1990.
Heath Mount is now an independent school for boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 13. The school won the "Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year" competition in 2012.
The mansion of Woodhall Estate, is a Grade I listed Georgian building built in the neo-classical style.
There are records of a house at Woodhall since 1372. However, the original structure named Woodhall was a large Tudor Manor that was positioned at the top of the Avenue and was home to The Boteler Family until the 1770s.
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