Alresford Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1HA
10 reasons to choose St Swithun's Prep School
Main point of differentiation
St Swithun’s Prep School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 84, the lowest fees, and offers the best value for money of all Winchester prep schools. A girls’ school it has a broad curriculum supported by ‘High Performance Learning’ techniques and differentiated by an emphasis on STEAM projects.
School fundamentals
St Swithun’s Prep School is an independent prep day school for girls between the ages of 3 and 11 years. It has a co-ed nursery. It is a Church of England school, open to all faiths and none. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to St Swithun’s School, an all-through school to age 18. St Swithun’s Prep School fees range from £5,639 (Rec) to £7,657 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT and lunches.
Average class size
St Swithun’s Prep School usually has two classes per year and an average class size of 16 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 6, around 90% of girls move up to St Swithun’s School. Boys leave for The Pilgrims’ or Twyford at age 6 or 7.
The St Swithun's Prep School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHEE, reasoning, STEAM, thinking skills (‘High Performance Learning’), Spanish, Latin. Weekly STEAM Genius Hour for years 3&4 and 5&6 develops independent project skills. ‘Flourish’ is a scheme that encourages achievement and participation across six areas of the broad curriculum. The school offers each child a handful of extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 4.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music and languages throughout, and for most subjects from Year 5.
Sport at St Swithun's Prep School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3. In recent years the school has enjoyed national success in sailing.
The Arts at St Swithun's Prep School
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and 80% take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Three choirs, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.30am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near St Swithun's Prep School
The Pilgrims’ School (1.6 miles); Prince’s Mead School (2.9 miles); Twyford School (4 miles).
St Bede Church of England Primary School, Winchester (1.3 miles); St Faith’s Church of England Primary School, St Cross (2 miles); Western Church of England Primary School (2.2 miles).
St Swithun’s School (0 miles); Winchester College (1.2 miles); The King’s School, Eastleigh (10.1 miles).
Peter Symonds College (1.8 miles); The Westgate School (2.1 miles); Henry Beaufort School (2.6 miles).