Felsted Preparatory School A GSG School
- Felsted Preparatory School
Braintree Road
Felsted
Essex
CM6 3JL - Head: Mrs Miranda Norris
- T 01371 822610
- F 01371 822617
- E [email protected]
- W www.felsted.org
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 13.
- Read about the best schools in Essex
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Essex
- Pupils: 472
- Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
- Fees: Day £11,775 - £23,355; Boarding £29,940 - £31,785 pa
- Open days: Check school website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Felsted School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Despite its size, this is a school with a sense of intimacy, probably due to the way buildings are assigned to one of the four ‘phases’ through which pupils move in their journey up the school. Drama is taught weekly and plenty take the extracurricular offering that leads to performance. Art, including textiles and pottery is taught in one of the two large art rooms, full of various enticing projects and works in progress – a favourite place for many. Sport centres on…
What the school says...
Every minute of every school day at Felsted Prep is spent laying solid foundations for the future life and education of girls and boys aged 4-13. Through exploring, creating and thinking critically inside and outside of the classroom, pupils are actively involved in their own learning and personal development. Academic success is prized, but so is laughter and having fun. Pupils are introduced to sports, the arts, charity and environmental activities that inspire life-long interests and passions. They make lots of friends along the way and leave feeling ready and confident to take their next steps in education. ...Read more
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Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2022, Miranda Norris, previously head of pre-prep (DUCKS) at Dulwich College Junior School. She has also been deputy head of Dulwich College Junior Schools in Suzhou, China and more recently Dulwich College Singapore.
Grew up in Swindon and North Wales before completing a BEd at Westminster College, Oxford. Began her career as a primary school teacher in Neston, where she also led the PE curriculum before moving to the independent sector in London as director of studies at Wetherby Prep.
Entrance
Pupils enter at various points but chiefly at 4+ and 7+ with the biggest intake at 11+. Not overly selective. All entrants attend a ’taster’ day and are interviewed. Tests in English, maths, verbal and non-verbal reasoning, together with a confidential report from current school. Numbers joining the school increase year...
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