Pre-Prep | Avon House School - Part 2

Category: Pre-Prep

Soccer Aid 2025

23rd May 2025

Avon House’s 2025 Soccer Aid event was a scoring success, made even better by the beautiful weather! Children across the school took part in a range of football-themed events, including high-energy rounds of 3-a-side tournaments and closely contested penalty shoot-outs. Prep school pupils (Years 4, 5 and 6) were treated to an exciting surprise, which…

Sustainability Council Litter Pick

19th May 2025

As part of our celebrations for STEM Week and its inspiring theme, “What a Wonderful World,” our Sustainability Council took action to help protect our local environment. On Monday 19th May, members of the Council visited the local green for a litter pick, putting into practice the important values we’ve been exploring in school. Equipped with…

WOW Days

24th April 2025

Pre-Prep enjoyed their WOW days this week to launch their Summer Term topics of ‘Space’, ‘Ahoy Pirates’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Foundation 2 explored the Outdoor Learning Area as astronauts with their fantastic helmets created over the holidays and were very excited to share the ‘Man in the Moon’ book together. Year 1 constructed wooden…

Closure of Avon House Preparatory School

It is with much sadness that we are announcing the closure of the school with immediate effect. Avon House was founded over a hundred years ago under the name Essex House and then in the early 1950’s was renamed Avon House School. The vision for the current school was that of Sheila Ferrari who bought the school in 1970, providing a family school for pupils from 3-11 years old.

We have explored a number of options to try and save the school from closure but in recent days it became obvious that was not meant to be. The school has struggled with financial pressures including the introduction of VAT on school fees and the rise in NI and pension costs.

We have always put our pupils at the heart of school life both academically and pastorally under the banner of ‘Celebrating and supporting every child’ and we know that many pupils who have journeyed through our school have gone on to great success.

We wish all our pupils and families the best for the future as they embrace new schools in the locality.