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 prepadmissions@felsted.org
- 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 £11,115 - £21,825; Boarding £28,245 - £29,985 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...
Felsted Preparatory School is a lively, happy community set on a beautiful, rural campus on the Essex-Hertfordshire border. The school is succeeding in its aims to provide a high-quality education and a huge range of activities and experiences to inspire and challenge young Felstedians.
A brand new Pre-Preparatory building provides the ideal environment for our youngest pupils, with its own hall and large, bright classrooms, many of which open out onto a multi-sensory play space. Entry to the Pre-Prep is offered after registration, a meeting with the Headmistress or Head of Stewart House and a visit to the child's nursery in the term prior to entry
Entry to the Preparatory School at 7+ (Frome Court) and 11+ (Courtauld House) is by assessment, interview with the Headmistress and receipt of a confidential report from the child's previous school. Lord Riche Scholarships (Academic), Music Scholarships and Talent Awards are available at 11+, with bursaries offered on a means-tested basis. The vast majority of Felsted Preparatory school students progress to Felsted for their senior years. ...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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