Habs Elstree Partnerships

Partnerships at Habs Elstree is one of the six strands of our 2030 strategy, and is fundamental to developing students who are courageous, curious, ambitious, and – above all – able to make a profound impact in their community. Our work is led by our students, with hundreds building unique learning opportunities every week, both for others and for themselves.

Partnerships aims to build mutually beneficial connections between the Habs community and our local community in order to:

- Address educational disadvantage in our local area;
- Enable Habs pupils to have a profound and sustained impact in their community;
- Broaden Habs pupils’ education, including their human and social education. 

How does it work?

We work closely with five local partner schools. Each of these partner schools are primary schools in the local area, many with high levels of disadvantage.

In partnership with these schools, we run fifty-two educational sessions every week, covering a broad range of curricular and co-curricular subjects. Each session is led by or supported by a group of specially trained Habs students alongside Habs staff. 

Sessions are co-designed with partner schools to:

- Support and enhance the partner schools’ curricular and co-curricular offer;
- Support and enhance the development of Habs students’ leadership and communication skills, and social and cultural education.  

The uniqueness of this programme is that there are 50+ weekly sessions taking place both onsite at Habs Elstree and at the partner primary schools. These sessions involve 400+ Habs students each and every week of the school year as well as benefiting 1000+ partnership school students over the course of the year in this symbotic relationship. 

Partners

• Haberdashers Boys' School
• Haberdashers Girls' School
• Cowley Hill School, Borehamwood.
• Fair Field School, Radlett
• How Wood School
• London Academy, Edgware.
• Monksmead School, Borehamwood.