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2025 Term Dates

Term 1: Wednesday 15 January – Thursday 20 March 2025
Term 2: Tuesday 8 April – Friday 27 June 2025
Term 3: Tuesday 22 July – Friday 26 September
Term 4: Monday 13 October – Wednesday 3 December

Public and School Holidays – week-days, during term-time:
Friday 18 April 2025: Good Friday
Monday 21 April 2025: Family Day
Monday 28 April 2025: Public Holiday (Due to Freedom Day on the Sunday)
Tuesday 29 April 2025: School Holiday
Wednesday 30 April 2025: School Holiday
Thursday 1 May 2025: Workers’ Day
Friday 2 May 2025: School Holiday
Monday 16 June 2025: Youth Day
Wednesday 24 September 2025: Heritage Day

2026 Term Dates

Term 1:             Wednesday 14 January – Wednesday 25 March 2026
Term 2:             Wednesday 15 April – Friday 26 June 2026
Term 3:             Tuesday 21 July – Wednesday 23 September 2026
Term 4:             Tuesday 13 October – Tuesday 2 December 2026

Public and School Holidays: Weekdays, during term-time:
Monday 27 April 2026: Freedom Day
Friday 1 May 2026: Workers’ Day
Monday 15 June 2026: Public Holiday
Tuesday 16 June 2026: Youth Day
Monday 10 August 2026: Public Holiday (Due to Women’s Day falling on a Sunday)

Our Mission

Somerset House is an independent preparatory school that strives to provide an excellent all-round education for children preparing them thoroughly for their futures.

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Our Philosophy​

Somerset House is a family school and is welcoming to all. Somerset House endeavours to teach us all to live unselfishly, considering others. Non Nobis Solum. 

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Mission

We aim to provide an environment and ethos within which children can thrive. We do this by providing the following:

  • A stimulating and challenging academic programme, emphasising child-centred education, and the development of life-long learning habits and self-discipline
  • A learning orientation in which creative and critical thinking skills are prioritised and curiosity and initiative are encouraged
  • A values-based environment which promotes respect, understanding and empathy, based on the school’s Christian heritage
  • Experiences and initiatives which foster a deep appreciation and celebration of diversity and inclusion
  • A comprehensive sporting, cultural, artistic, and extra-mural curriculum which both supplements and strengthens the academic programme
    an extensive outdoor development programme which teaches self-awareness, leadership, courage, and a profound appreciation of the natural world
  • Highly-committed teachers and staff who demonstrate the highest standards of their craft and who care deeply for the children entrusted to them

Our Purpose

Who we are

Somerset House is an established, independent, and co-educational pre-primary and preparatory school (grades 000 to 7) situated in the heart of Somerset West.

Our extensive campus offers children a unique natural setting rich with trees and open spaces. Historical buildings house modern classrooms, specialised learning centres, technology hubs and a shared dining room, the heart of the school. Children find themselves in a safe and nurturing space in which self-belief, independent thought, and joy flourish.

Our motto, “Non nobis solum”, not for ourselves alone, is at the core of our ethos. It is lived, cherished, and celebrated by staff, pupils and their families, alumni, and friends of the school.