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Education designed for the world ahead
From Nursery to Sixth Form, we help young people grow into curious, capable and confident adults.
We believe education should prepare young people not simply to succeed at school, but to thrive in life. As an IB World School, we combine academic rigour with curiosity, creativity and learning that has purpose beyond the classroom.
Just as importantly, we protect joy, nurture wellbeing and help young people know themselves. They leave us with strong qualifications, but also the independence, resilience and confidence to navigate uncertainty, build meaningful relationships and create lives they genuinely enjoy.
Four stages. One philosophy
Sixth Form
Academic ambition, greater freedom and finding your own path.
Education for today's world
The world our children are growing into is changing. Education needs to change with it.
From the earliest years, children at Liberty learn through curiosity, play, exploration and meaningful experiences. As they grow, this develops into increasingly sophisticated inquiry, academic challenge and real-world projects, culminating in the International Baccalaureate.
Throughout, we protect time for childhood, relationships, movement, nature and joy, while taking wellbeing and emotional development every bit as seriously as academic progress. Young people learn to think critically, communicate, collaborate, solve problems and understand themselves.
They leave us with strong qualifications, but also with something harder to measure: the confidence, resilience, independence and sense of possibility to shape a life that is genuinely their own.
Learning that matters: a progressive approach to education
Children learn differently when their learning genuinely matters to them.
From Nursery onwards, learning at Liberty has purpose, relevance and meaning. Children begin by exploring through play, nature and their own curiosity; as they grow, this develops into increasingly ambitious inquiry, interdisciplinary learning and real-world projects.
By connecting knowledge to their own lives and the world around them, young people become genuinely invested in what they are learning. They want to ask better questions, find solutions, test ideas, create, rethink and keep going when something doesn't work.
This doesn't come at the expense of academic rigour. It strengthens it. Alongside deep knowledge and strong academic foundations, young people develop the creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills to use what they know - not simply remember it.
- Immersive, hands-on learning
- Self-led and project-based
- Building global perspectives through the IB
Each child who joins us takes on our academically rigorous and challenging education, delivered through an engaging and deeply fulfilling curriculum.
With a focus on wellbeing, self-discovery and environmentalism, we help each child grow into a citizen for the future, to innovate and drive impactful change in our world.
We encourage children to explore their curiosity and deepen their understanding of topics they find particularly interesting.
Our self-directed, student-led approach to learning aims to develop key skills including critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
As an IB school, we help our students develop a wider understanding of the world around them.
Following the International Baccalaureate framework supports our secondary school students to build critical thinking skills and cultural awareness, ultimately helping them become responsible members of an increasingly interconnected world.
A happier way to grow up
Wellbeing isn't something we add to education. It shapes the environment we create for children every day.
In Primary, children move naturally between inspiring classrooms and our extensive outdoor spaces, with nature woven into the school day. They might take their learning outside, investigate the natural world, work on an ambitious project or simply have the space to run, play and breathe.
It creates an environment that is both academically purposeful and wonderfully joyful - one where movement, fresh air, freedom and connection to nature support children's wellbeing, curiosity and readiness to learn.
Across Liberty, wellbeing is built through strong relationships, emotional literacy and being deeply known. From the earliest years, children learn to recognise and understand their emotions, put words to how they feel and develop the tools to regulate themselves.
As they grow, this develops into greater self-awareness, independence and genuine resilience, protecting their wellbeing without protecting them from every difficulty. We want them to achieve highly, but we also want them to be happy: at school, and in the lives they build beyond it.
Life at Liberty Woodland School
Joyful, purposeful and full of possibility, life at Liberty gives young people the space to learn, belong, explore and become themselves.
A supportive learning community
Our educators work together with students to drive each other academically and share in their collective successes. Each child develops as an emotionally intelligent and confident speaker, ready to take on the world.
Hear more from our educators and students about their journey with us.
Pupils develop the skills and attitudes to help them become inquiring, independent and kind global citizens who are emotionally intelligent, socially responsible and innovative problem solvers.
ISI Report 2024
Areas we serve across London
Liberty Woodland School is located in Morden, though we welcome families from a range of locations in London including: Barnes, Cheam, Clapham, Dulwich, Fulham, Putney, Southfield, Streatham, Surbiton, Tooting, Wandsworth, Wimbledon
Unsure how you’d get here? We provide a private minibus service across London to help get your children to our school.
FAQ's
Absolutely. We believe children can love school, be happy and achieve highly - these things should strengthen one another, not compete.
Children build strong foundations in knowledge and core academic skills alongside the ability to think critically, question, investigate and apply what they know. As they grow, expectations become increasingly ambitious, leading into the International Baccalaureate in Secondary and Sixth Form.
Our approach isn't about making learning easier; it's about making it deeper, more meaningful and more effective.
We have questioned many of the assumptions about what school has to look like. Children still gain the knowledge, skills and qualifications that matter, but their education is about much more than preparing for the next test.
Learning has purpose and relevance, childhood is protected, wellbeing and emotional development are taken seriously, and young people are given opportunities to solve problems, create, take responsibility and discover what they are capable of.
We want them to leave Liberty with strong qualifications, and as strong humans.
Liberty is an independent school for young people from Nursery through to Sixth Form. Our youngest children begin with play, exploration and discovery; learning then becomes increasingly sophisticated, independent and academically demanding as they grow.
Each stage is designed around what young people need developmentally at that age, while one philosophy connects the whole journey from three to eighteen.
No. Liberty is an academically ambitious independent school with an unusually strong connection to nature and the outdoors. Particularly in Nursery and Primary, children move naturally between inspiring classrooms and our extensive outdoor spaces for learning, exploration, movement and play.
We believe children shouldn't have to choose between a rigorous education and a childhood with space, freedom and time in nature. At Liberty, they have both.
The International Baccalaureate is a globally recognised approach to education that combines academic depth with inquiry, critical thinking and the ability to connect and apply knowledge.
It fits naturally with the education we have always believed in at Liberty: intellectually ambitious, internationally minded and relevant to the world beyond school. Students follow the IB Middle Years Programme in Secondary, progressing to the Diploma Programme in Sixth Form.
Wellbeing is woven into everyday life at Liberty rather than treated as an add-on. Children are deeply known by the adults around them and, from the earliest years, develop emotional literacy: learning to recognise and understand their emotions and developing the tools to regulate themselves.
Relationships, belonging, movement and time in nature matter too. As children grow, we increasingly develop self-awareness, independence and genuine resilience - protecting their wellbeing without protecting them from every difficulty.
Most importantly, we want children to love coming to school.
Fees vary across Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form. We aim to be completely transparent about the cost of a Liberty education, including what is included within our fees and the bursaries and financial support that may be available.
Full, up-to-date fee information can be found on our fees page.
Liberty is in Morden, South West London, within the beautiful surroundings of Morden Hall Park. Our Primary and Secondary schools are based in neighbouring buildings within the park, with our Sixth Form opening nearby in September 2027.
Families travel to us from across South West London, and we operate school minibuses to make that journey easier, with routes serving areas including Barnes, Fulham, Putney, Wimbledon, Southfields, and Wandsworth.
We are always open to adding more stops in different areas if there is sufficient demand. Speak to our Admissions team about current routes and stops.
Come and experience it. Liberty can feel quite different from a conventional school, and the best way to understand it is to see children learning, meet the people who know them and experience the atmosphere for yourself.
Our Open Days and Stay & Play sessions give families a genuine insight into life at Liberty, as well as plenty of opportunity to ask the questions that matter to you.