Birdcage Lane, Savile Park, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX3 0JB
10 reasons to choose The Gleddings Preparatory School
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The Gleddings Preparatory School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 76. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Halifax and one of the 3 best primary schools for 1 mile.
School fundamentals
The Gleddings Preparatory School is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (60%/50%) between the ages of 6 months and 11 years. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is a standalone prep school, not tied to any one senior school, and is a member of the Forfar Education group. The Gleddings Preparatory School fees are £3,920 per term (2023/24). Fees exclude VAT but include lunches.
Average class size
The Gleddings Preparatory School usually has one class per year, sometimes two, and an average class size of 25 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
Destinations for most Gleddings Preparatory School leavers is one of the two Calderdale (partial) grammar schools; Crossley Heath Grammar, and North Halifax Grammar. Over the past 15 years Gleddings Prep has an average pass rate of 86% in the Halifax Grammar Schools Exam.
The Gleddings Preparatory School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, reasoning, French, Mandarin, Latin. Consistently reinforced programmes for character education; ‘YOU CHOOSE’, and higher order thinking skills; ‘THINK!’. ‘Fit for Life’ in Year 6 introduces broader skills such as enterprise, managing money, oracy, citizenship, outdoor pursuits, DIY. 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 and visiting speakers.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, computing, and languages throughout, and for DT from Year 3.
Sport at The Gleddings Preparatory School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at The Gleddings Preparatory School
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. Drama is part of the co-curriculum. All pupils learn an instrument in class and about one third take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Choir, orchestra and one or two instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.15am to 6.00pm. Nursery care for 50 weeks of the year.
Find another school near The Gleddings Preparatory School
Hipperholme Grammar Junior School (4.8 miles); The Mount School, Huddersfield (5.8 miles); Heathfield School (6 miles).
All Saints’ CofE Primary School (0.8 miles); Copley Primary School (1 mile); Parkinson Lane Community Primary School (1.2 miles).
Hipperholme Grammar School (4.8 miles); Rishworth School (6.3 miles).
The Crossley Heath School (0.7 miles); Trinity Academy, Halifax (3.9 miles); The North Halifax Grammar School (4.3 miles).