Pre-Prep School

WHY CHOOSE DEAN CLOSE PRE-PREP?

Nurturing and Child-centred Care
With a personalised approach and focus on confidence and social skills, children can flourish both academically and emotionally. Every child is known, valued and supported, ensuring they feel safe, happy and ready to learn. Strong relationships between staff, pupils and parents create a close-knit community where wellbeing is prioritised throughout school life.
Bespoke Curriculum
Learning is designed to inspire curiosity and a love of discovery. Blending hands-on experiences, cross-curricular projects and outdoor learning makes education engaging and meaningful. Teaching is personalised to each child’s strengths and interests, ensuring they feel supported and challenged. Skilled staff create a dynamic environment where all learners can flourish.
Celebrations
We take pride in marking milestones, traditions and achievements that create lasting memories. From weekly assemblies to special awards and treasured transition traditions, every child’s progress is recognised and valued.
Exceptional Early Years
Our Nursery and Kindergarten staff provide a warm, stimulating start to learning, nurturing confidence, curiosity and social development. Engaging activities like bucket time, storytelling and sensory play build key early skills, ensuring a smooth transition into Pre-Prep and a lifelong love of learning.
Powerful Parent Partnership
We encourage parents to be actively involved in their child’s learning, work in partnership with the school and take part in school life. Our open-door policy promotes regular communication while events like ‘snuggle and share,’ curriculum evenings, parents' evenings, workshops and twice-weekly classroom drop-offs help strengthen the home-school connection.
Grounds and Facilities
Set within the beautiful Dean Close campus, our Pre-Prep offers outstanding facilities designed to inspire young learners. With access to exceptional amenities including a forest school, theatre, swimming pool and sports facilities children enjoy a rich, dynamic environment

Welcome to Dean Close Pre-Prep

Dean Close Pre-Prep has a wonderful modern, purpose-built school for our pupils, set in beautiful grounds within the greater Dean Close School campus, sharing excellent facilities and resources. Although facilities are vital in giving children the opportunities and space to enable them to fully flourish and develop, our aim has always been to make learning ‘irresistible’ by providing such an exciting, challenging and vibrant educational environment that children can’t wait to start learning.

We follow the EYFS and KS1 Curriculum to ensure the best start in their education and beyond. Our fantastic WOW Days are an excellent example of this – the curriculum is suspended for the day to provide an unusual or amazing experience to start, augment or finish a topic the children have been studying. Our curriculum also includes swimming, class tennis lessons, class music lessons with specialist music teachers, French, music & movement, PE and in games for Year 2's we play tag rugby, netball and hockey.

Whole school WOW Days give everyone in Pre-Prep an exciting day together, focusing on an area of the curriculum such as maths, creative arts or science. During these days we often make use of our wonderful outside environment, including our large Forest School, where the children take part in imaginative, creative and investigative activities designed to inspire a love of the natural world, which is then linked to all areas of the curriculum.

The importance of each individual child is at the heart of all we do; the Christian faith underpins our School and we believe that each child is a valued and unique member of the community. We are committed to enabling each child to fulfill their potential, finding and developing their talents.

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