Monmouth Prep School A GSG School
- Monmouth Prep School
The Grange
Hadnock Road
Monmouth
Monmouthshire
NP25 3NG - Head: Mr Neil Shaw MA
- T 01600 715930
- E [email protected]
- W www.habsmonmouth.org
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 11.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Monmouthshire
- Pupils: 191
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: Day £9,561 - £14,010; Boarding £25,716 pa
- Open days: Three open mornings per year; bespoke tours of the school can be arranged also.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Monmouth School for Boys, Monmouth School for Girls
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Many parents told us of the ‘friendly atmosphere’ and ‘happy looking kids’ being the clincher in their decision. It’s one of those schools where even the receptionists know every child, smiling warmly as they pass by – and the morning car park welcome party includes not staff but some year 6s (regularly swapped) who offer to bring the younger ones’ bags in. All very civilised. The school caters for ‘all types – from the bookish to the sporty’, as one parent put it. The former are encouraged by the superb library (complete with a display of pupil-made book covers when we visited), lots of reading time, author visits aplenty and some cosy outside reading areas that make breaktime reading ‘cool’. Meanwhile, the sporty lot (which in reality includes nearly everyone here) told us...
What the school says...
Monmouth Prep School is part of the Haberdashers’ Monmouth family of schools (Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools). Monmouth Prep School became fully co-educational in September 2021.
It is located on two separate sites in Monmouth - Nursery to Year 2 at our Agincourt site; Year 3-6 at The Grange site.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2016, Neil Shaw MA PGCE, previously head at Westonbirt Prep and before that, head at Kingswood School in Solihull. Studied geography at Exeter, master’s from Nottingham. Focused and businesslike, yet friendly and positive; parents like him, saying he’s ‘an enabler, allowing other people to shine’, including encouraging teachers ‘to come up with some really great ideas’. Pupils say he is ‘kind’, ‘often pops into lessons’ and ‘can be strict if he needs to be’.
The merging of the girls’ and boys’ preps and pre-prep has kept him busy, and now it’s all go again with the move to the existing senior girls’ school site in September 2024. But he appears to be relishing the challenge, particularly now that the initial parent scepticism (mainly around ‘lack of consultation’ and school ‘not...
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| School | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Monmouth School for Boys | 2023 | 100% of students went on to the senior schools. |
| Monmouth School for Girls | 2023 | 100% of students went on to the senior schools. |
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