Ardvreck School

The most brilliant education

Tucked away from the stresses and strains of modern life, in breathtaking Perthshire countryside, Ardvreck Preparatory School - an independent boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3–13, nurtures and educates your children in a caring, and loving, family environment. Visitors gasp at the awe-inspiring views of doorstep Munros as they make their way up the school’s sweeping drive. Their attention is soon diverted to the even more thrilling spectacle of laughing, be-kilted and wellied children hanging out of trees, hiding in dens or building dams in the burn which flows down the Headmistress’ lawn.

You have probably gathered that Ardvreck School firmly believe classrooms do not need walls. As well as outdoor lessons, the entire school regularly adventures into the exciting, natural playground on our doorstep to undertake Barvicks (expeditions) and a regular Ard Challenge.

This is most definitely the school every grown-up wishes they had attended as a child. It’s where kindness, courtesy and good manners are at the forefront of every human interaction. It’s an environment where working hard and playing hard are of equal importance and where good humour and fun permeate every undertaking.

The wild, Scottish wilderness is the greatest of all educators – and that’s certainly saying something given that our actual team of terrific teachers is second to none. They are movers and shakers, optimists, can doers and smilers who all care, beyond belief, about the education and wellbeing of every single child in our school.

It will come as no surprise then, that Head Teachers from senior schools all over the UK are very keen to enlist Ardvreck pupils, including Eton and St Mary’s, Ascot.

Ardvreck truly believe that the real value of a rural, prep school education lies in the things that are remembered long after what was taught has been forgotten. The things that contribute to defining not what we know, but who we are. This is why Ardvreck School provides the most brilliant education.