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A Leading Independent Preparatory School - Established 1864

Notre Dame Prep School is renowned for polite, courteous and friendly children who move on to a wide range of senior schools fully prepared and ready to make the most of all the opportunities available. We believe that children flourish when they feel confident, secure, happy and challenged. This is the Notre Dame Prep School that we invite you to come and see. To discuss your requirements, please contact our school directly.

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Open Morning

Wednesday 25th September 2024 - Between 9-11 AM

We welcome you to get a feel for the school’s warm and supportive ethos by coming to see us and enjoying a tour of the setting.

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" The quality of pupils’ academic and other achievements is excellent " - ISI 2017

Ahead In Learning,

A Heart In Community

When one reads about independent schools, you would expect to see the terms ‘Unique’, ‘Small Class Sizes’, ‘Bringing the Best out in each Child’, ‘Excellent Academic Results’ and so on. Notre Dame Preparatory School offers all of these things but what makes us different?

Our parents trust us to ensure that learning is stimulating and great fun. We also operate very much as a family, where children get an opportunity to develop their individual talents whilst integrating fully into a system which holds community at the centre. Visitors always comment on the sense of purpose in all that we do and that carries through to our enormous array of extracurricular activities. We have been doing this since 1864 of course and while we remain committed to our Roman Catholic ethos and its traditions, we admit children of all faiths and are very modern too!

Our academic results are simply outstanding for a non-selective school but examination success is only part of what we do. Dedicated staff members are just as concerned with pastoral care and all that goes on outside the classroom, making for a truly holistic approach. We are on a mission to ensure that all children thrive at Notre Dame and I’m confident that this will come across as you explore our website. Please don’t leave it there though and do make an appointment to visit, the sense of purpose is tangible!

Rob Thornton

Headmaster

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Mission Statement and Aims

As a Roman Catholic school, we endeavour to nurture a love of God through Jesus Christ in all our children. The school has an ethos of love and care and embraces children of all faiths.

Children are treated as individuals, respected, nurtured and encouraged to embrace and fulfil their potential in all areas of school life.

We foster positive relationships with peers and adults, looking for mutual respect.

We provide a wide-range of extracurricular activities in order to develop the talents of each child.

We value everyone; children, colleagues and parents as the unique people that they are.
We develop compassion, tolerance, empathy and co-operation in our children.
We encourage our children to look beyond themselves in order to develop spiritually and creatively.
We believe in ourselves and encourage children to believe in themselves too.
We acknowledge our weaknesses as well as our strengths.

We encourage our children to set goals, take risks and make decisions.
We believe that all things are possible.
We encourage children to give their best at all times and not to be content to give less.
We praise our children for their efforts.
We acknowledge that the quality of education that we give to our children will be a determining factor in how their lives unfold.