6th March 2024
We are delighted to announce that from 1 September, Kelly Gray will become the new Head of Prospect House School.
For the past three years, Kelly has been the Head of Bassett House School in Notting Hill, part of the Dukes Education family. Kelly holds a degree in English & Philosophy from the University of Leeds and a PGCE specialising in English. She first worked in an inner-city state school where she was soon accepted on the National College for Leadership’s Fast Track programme, taking on the role of SENCo. Kelly worked for many years at Thomas’s Kensington heading up key pastoral projects and driving forward English and History. Prior to joining Bassett House, Kelly was Deputy Head at the French independent school, Jacques Prévert, and was founding Deputy Head of Rutherford House School in Balham. She has been in school senior leadership roles for 20 years.
Kelly’s areas of professional expertise include leadership and management, curriculum design and roll-out, Early Years, and of course, safeguarding and compliance. Kelly has also completed the National Professional Qualification for Headship. During her tenure, Kelly has significantly grown Bassett House, achieved numerous awards and accolades for academics and pastoral care, and Bassett House pupils have consistently achieved places in many of London’s top senior schools.
9th October 2025
Class 1S and their adults spent the afternoon in the Lower School Hall transforming themselves into butterflies. In teams, the children and their adults worked together to decorate butterfly wings with colourful collage, and got surprisingly competitive! Once the creative time was up, the children...
8th October 2025
Last week saw a fabulous afternoon of netball for our Year 6 A team! Opening their tournament with a 4–1 win against Knightsbridge, the team showed superb passing between the attacking players and created some excellent flow up the court. A tougher opposition of Broomwood...
7th October 2025
Reception has been exploring the idea that everyone has an invisible bucket, an inspiring concept from the story Have You Filled a Bucket Today? We’ve been learning that when we are kind, helpful, and caring, we fill others’ buckets and our own! Using their phonic...
6th October 2025
Seasonal change and the story The Squirrels Who Squabbled provided the inspiration for the activities in nursery last week. The children explored using various tools to transfer conkers into cardboard towers and predicting which tower would hold the most conkers, before transferring the conkers, counting...
4th October 2025
Class 5S had a fantastic time in Cardboard Creations, taking on the challenge of turning old cardboard into models of London landmarks. The Shard, Big Ben, and even a traditional British phone box made an appearance! A huge thank you to all the parents for...
3rd October 2025
The Epsom College tournament, with 24 teams competing, is always a great test for the teams and one that the Prospect House team took on with great excitement. Winning their first two games and then drawing their next, the team showed their powers of recovery...