Category: reception

The hall was buzzing with excitement as Reception welcomed their adults into school last week! Together, they created beautiful autumn-themed bookmarks, bursting with vibrant colours. The children proudly shared their favourite stories, making the morning a wonderful celebration of creativity, reading and quality family time....

We recently celebrated this year’s Harvest Festival which was truly a wonderful celebration of community and kindness at both the Lower and Upper Schools. The children brought in an abundance of food, clothing, and self-care items, which have been donated to the fantastic local charity,...

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...

We are delighted to be included as a ‘school to watch’ in the recent Talk Education article on elite sporting pathways! It is particularly exciting to be one of only a very small handful of prep schools mentioned. Watch this space!  

From our headteacher, Mrs Kelly Gray: “If we want our children to make good financial decisions in the future, we need to give them the tools now. Read my blog prospecths.org.uk/show-me-the-money and discover how we are developing financial literacy at Prospect House.”  

For the last Forest School session of the academic year, and also because of the hot weather, we swapped our muddy fun-fight to water play: Reception H versus Reception R! The children were absolutely delighted and had the opportunity to cool down for the afternoon....

It has been a very busy final week for the music department! On Monday, the Suzuki violin group played an exhibition performance in the Lower School. In the middle of the week, 24 children from Nursery to Year 2 showcased their progress on the guitar...

As part of their Under the Sea topic, Reception went on an exciting trip to Chessington. The children began by having a talk about Blacktip Reef sharks where they learned fascinating facts such as how there are over 500 shark species and that they breathe...

Following on from our success in the Pearson National Teaching Awards and the Eco-Schools Green Flag Awards, we are pleased and proud to announce that Prospect House School has been named as runner-up in the youHQ Wellbeing Awards 2025 for Prep School of the Year!...