DENMEAD SCHOOL: an Independent day school catering for Boys aged 2 to 11 years and Girls aged 2 to 7 years

The Pre-Prep which is co-educational from two and a half to seven, offers space and security within its welcoming and homely Wensleydale Road site. The Preparatory section boasts its own games field and purpose-built teaching facilities including a multi-purpose hall.

If you are looking for an educational environment, where children are encouraged to be children and a well-rounded school life is balanced with high academic standards, Denmead School could well be the establishment for your child. With an excellent record of success at 13+ and 11+ entry to secondary independent schools over many years, Denmead School also offers its pupils extensive opportunities to take part in the broader curriculum of trips away and wide ranging activities.

The two main points of entry are into Kindergarten as a 2½ or 3 year old and as a 7 year old into Year 3. Class sizes are around 20 and from Year 3, English and Maths are taught in half class sets.

Boys in Year 2 at Denmead, and those who sit the assessment for entry into Year 3 from another school, can gain an assured place to Hampton at 11+, on the basis of their performance in this exam. Boys can also gain a place at Hampton via the 10+ exam, or at 11+ when Year 6 children will also sit for a number of other senior schools. Girls leave at the end of Year 2 when they also move on to a number of local independent schools.

Sport in the Prep comprises football, rugby, cross country, cricket and athletics as major disciplines, with other minor ones such as tennis, volleyball and chess included in the wide ranging Extra Curricular Activities programme that operates at lunch time and after school. Matches against other schools are played in all year groups from Year 3 upwards and it is an important target to give all the boys the opportunity of representing the school during the year.

Music and drama are also important aspects of school life with each year group performing in productions during the year.

Recent developments have included the provision of the 30 Apple iBook laptop computers based in the Pre-Prep and a further 25 in the Prep Department in September 2005.

The School enjoys the support of a very active parents’ association that organises a range of events during the year.

In a recent Ofsted Early Years Inspection carried our in March 2005, the School was judged to be providing excellent provision and that pupils were making ‘very good progress towards the Early Learning Goals in all areas’.

Denmead School cater for individual pupils with Dyslexia or Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) and Giftedness

For pupils at Denmead School now have the unique chance to sit for Hampton School at the age of 7 for an assured place when they are 11. In addition there will be an annual award to Hampton School for the Denmead boy who displays an exceptional performance at 11 plus.

These opportunities, which will only be available to boys from Denmead School will enable children to be educated at two of the borough's top schools from two and a half years old until 18.

Denmead School Facilities include:
Electronics, Environmental studies, French, Latin, Cycling, Drama productions, Outdoor pursuits/Adventure tracking Public speaking/Debating, Band/Orchestra, Brass, Choir, Guitar, Keyboard, Singing, Strings, Woodwind, After School Club, Before School/Breakfast Club, Particular diets, School bus service, Cricket, Cross-country, Martial arts, Rugby, Soccer, Swimming

A pupil at Denmead School has a full and varied life!.