With engaging education and vibrant, welcoming learning environments, the image of a preparatory school with strict educators, stuffy classrooms and starchy uniforms is a thing of the past when considering Newcastle Preparatory School (NPS).
Boasting a history of almost 140 years, NPS has established a strong tradition of striving to provide a first-rate education to the young people of Newcastle and surrounding areas.
The overwhelming feeling of family, community and kindness has remained a constant within the school, but otherwise, a lot has changed since their doors first opened in 1885.
The nature of preparatory education is to adapt to the needs of children, preparing them effectively for careers and life after school. Unrestricted by national curriculums, NPS has the flexibility to personalise learning to meet the needs of children today, striving to develop children who are inspired, motivated and involved in their lessons.
The goal is for children to become well-rounded individuals, able to adapt with resilience and can articulate themselves confidently. These qualities aim to make NPS pupils highly desirable to neighbouring secondary schools and incredibly successful beyond that.
The ethos of NPS is that children are central to all. It is their well-being, their interests and their future which is key to their school. The highly skilled staff ensure that pupils are nurtured, listened to and set challenging goals.
Children also benefit from a genuinely broad, inclusive and authentically balanced curriculum which allows them to seek knowledge and inspiration from a host of specialist teachers.
From computing to forest school, music to art, physical education to French, learning can be encouraged and developed in class sizes of 16.
Outside of the conventional lessons, children at Newcastle Preparatory School benefit from a vast choice of extra-curricular pursuits to give them a taste for adventure and allow exploration beyond the bounds of the classroom.
Whether they enjoy chess, dancing or sports; cross-stitch, choir or philosophy, there is always a club to enhance an existing interest or create a new one.
Equally, children enjoy a rich variety of excursions to complement their education, including residential experiences both nationally and internationally.
Staff at NPS also understand that family life can be busy and demanding. Therefore, they offer additional advantages which are a resounding success with families.
Whether it is the care provided from 8am until 5.30pm; inclusive meals and snacks; bursary financial support; easy-to-use app for diary dates, letters and consent forms; holiday clubs provided on-site; or the social opportunities, they make incorporating school into modern life simple.
If you would like to experience the benefits for yourself, Newcastle Preparatory School are hosting an open morning on Saturday, October 7, 2023 from 10am - 12pm.
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