In Pre-Prep our emphasis is on making our pupils feel excited about their learning and showing children how they can develop to the best of their ability in a caring yet challenging environment.
Boys and girls join our Pre-Prep in Year 1, aged five. We provide a happy, secure, and stimulating environment, in which all children are encouraged to use and develop their talents as they grow socially, physically, emotionally and intellectually.
From Little Lyons to Pre-Prep
The Pre-Prep (Years 1 and 2) are taught in their own building in the main School.
The children in the Little Lyons and Pre-Prep frequently engage with each other through playtimes, assemblies, and a variety of different events. This enables the children to learn from each other, build friendships across the year groups and prepares them for their next steps at the Prep School.
The Pre-Prep teachers work closely with the Little Lyons team and the Prep School Staff to ensure there are seamless transitions through the year groups.
In the classroom
In these crucial first years of School, our emphasis is on making children feel excited about their learning and showing them how they can develop to their best ability in a caring environment.
We focus on building firm foundations in Literacy and Mathematics and ensuring the children are learning through cross-curricular themes and topics. The small classes have one class teacher and one teaching assistant, which means that each individual child is able to receive attention and support.
In Year 1 and Year 2, Mathematics, Literacy, Phonics, Science, Verbal and Non-Verbal reasoning, Religious Studies, PSCHE, History and Geography are taught by the class teacher.
PE, Games, French, Music, Art, Yoga, Swimming and Drama are taught by specialist teachers. The children also attend frequent Forest School sessions taught by specialists at Sudbury Fields, John Lyon’s playing fields.
A Pre-Prep day
The exact structure of a Pre-Prep day at our Prep School varies throughout the year and we pride ourselves on creating educational and fun days that go beyond the ‘typical’.
The school day starts at 8.25am (children can be dropped from 8am) and finishes at 3.45pm for our Pre-Prep children. They can attend a breakfast club from 7.30am and our after-school club runs from 3.45pm until 6.00pm in our Nursery building. A comprehensive range of extra-curricular activities are run from 4.00 – 6.00pm. Activities change regularly and typically include football, ballet, choir, chess, drama, tennis, art and Gujarati. Holiday camps also run on site.
Working with parents
Close contact is maintained with parents throughout the School year and there are regular parent / teacher consultations at which we invite you in to review and discuss your child’s development. A detailed report is sent to you at the end of the Autumn and Summer Terms.
Experience has shown us that keeping in close contact is highly valuable, to help parents know more about their child’s time at School and to aid in continuing learning at home, and to provide teachers with a greater understanding of the children in their class.
Other useful information
Some areas of School life, such as pupil care, activities and School lunches are relevant to all Year groups. You can find details of these in the School Life menu of this website or at the links below.
We provide a wide range of sporting activities and opportunities for all pupils.
At our Prep School we concur with educational theorists who emphasise the importance of the creative mind and ‘emotional intelligence’ and ‘wellbeing’ – the need to develop the whole personality and our pupil’s imaginations especially. Drama has the power to liberate the mind.
We encourage our pupils to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society. 
At our Prep School, Computing covers the use of electronic technology in all its forms, including computers and other communication devices.
• What is religion?
Art is an integral part of our Prep School’s curriculum, providing our pupils with a unique means of expressing their ideas by allowing them to explore new thoughts and give life to their creative minds.
History is taught throughout the School and pupils are encouraged to find out about events and peoples.
Planet Earth is our only home. It is an mind-blowing, diverse and constantly changing place of awesome beauty and power. 
French is the language of our nearest neighbours, probably the easiest foreign language for English speakers to learn and, after English, one of the most widely-learned languages worldwide.
The core of every science lesson at our Prep School is about developing every pupil’s curiosity in the world around them. 
Mathematics is a key subject for children of all ages at our Prep School.
English is taught using lively and creative methods through a variety of texts and resources incorporating ICT from Pre-Prep onwards.