Warwick Preparatory School A GSG School
- Warwick Preparatory School
Banbury Road
Warwick
Warwickshire
CV34 6PL - Head: Mrs Hellen Dodsworth
- T 01926 491545
- F 01926 413456
- E WPS-admissions@warwickschools.co.uk
- W www.warwickprep.com
- An independent day school and nursery for boys aged 3-7 and girls aged 3-11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Warwickshire
- Pupils: 495 (145 boys, 350 girls)
- Religion: Christian
- Fees: £12,882 - £15,789 pa (last updated on 23/07/2024)
- Open days: See website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- Linked schools: Warwick School, King's High School, Warwick Junior School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Our tour kicked off in a reception class where it was carpet time. No sooner had the teacher posed a question than tiny hands shot up this way and that, their sky blue sweaters melding into the carpet. ‘What are you doing here?’ asked some children excitedly in a neighbouring class when they spotted our year 6 guides, which says something about the pupils’ easiness with older year groups, as well as the light-hearted sense of fun that moulds lessons here. Not that they lack focus – a quick prompt from the teacher brought them swiftly back on track to the serious matter of kicking ‘k’s. Pace picks up in prep – ‘and you get wooden desks you can open too!’ beamed a pupil proudly. Increasingly specialist teaching at this point…
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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2016, Hellen Dodsworth, previously co-head at Coten End Primary School, Warwick. Raised in Staffordshire, attending Lichfield Cathedral School, then boarded at Abbots Bromley on a music scholarship. When her father, a vicar, moved south of Birmingham, she settled in the area and met her husband in a choir – they live just down the road from the school with their two sons, both educated within the Warwick Foundation. In another life, she might have pursued a career in music, but shudders at the thought of all that competition. Sticks to singing for fun these days, ‘although I have been known to bring my flute into school!’
Teaching career not on her radar until she started on a music and education degree at Warwick – ‘I hadn’t realised I’d be teaching...
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Leavers' destinations
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warwick Junior School | 2024 | 88% to the senior school |
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