28-40 Battersea High Street, Battersea, London SW11 3JB
10 reasons to choose Thomas's Battersea Prep
Main point of differentiation
Thomas’s Battersea Prep has a Schoolsmith Score® of 86, and is the highest scoring Battersea and Clapham prep school. It has the most interesting curriculum (with Thomas’s Clapham), is one of the best for arts and sports, and has the most comprehensive outdoor learning programme.
School fundamentals
Thomas’s Battersea Prep is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 4 and 13 years. It is a Christian school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is a standalone prep school, with a senior department to age 18. Thomas’s Battersea Prep fees range from £9,697 (Rec) to £10,962 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT and lunches.
Average class size
Thomas’s Battersea Prep has three classes per year, and an average class size of 22 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
Leavers’ destination schools for the one quarter of Thomas’s Battersea pupils who leave after Year 6 are one of 30 independent day schools. Of these 40% go to Alleyn’s, JAGS, Francis Holland Schools, Godolphin & Latymer. Three quarters leave Thomas’s Battersea after Year 8 for one of 50 different day and boarding schools. 50% of these pupils go on to St Paul’s, Alleyn’s, King’s College Wimbledon, Eton, Harrow, Brighton College, Wellington College, Bryanston, Dulwich College. 10-20% of pupils win awards and scholarships. Thomas’s Putney Vale, extending Thomas’ provision to age 16, opened in September 2021. In its first year it was the destination for one-sixth of 13+ leavers. It will close in 2025, superceded by Thomas’s College (11-18) in Richmond.
The Thomas's Battersea Prep curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum with some additions and variations, and also includes PSHE, reasoning, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek. School seeks to blend traditional knowledge acquisition with developing pupil enquiry skills, self-awareness of learning habits, as well as character education. The ‘Enquiry Mindset’ curriculum features cross-curricular learning, particularly for humanities subjects (history, geography, religion, philosophy), and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, maths). It is an Apple Distinguished School to reflect the high degree of integration of digital learning in the curriculum. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different 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. Thomas’s Outdoor programme (Woodland Adventure/Young Explorers) for all pupils.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, art, dance, drama, computing and languages throughout, and for all subjects from Year 6.
Sport at Thomas's Battersea Prep
School offers over 15 different sports through the year, through both the curriculum and extra-curriculum. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Thomas's Battersea Prep
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. Dance to Year 2. All pupils learn an instrument in class and two-thirds take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Four choirs, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
School hours are from 9.00am to 3.20/4.00pm according to pupil age. Clubs can extend the school day to 5.00pm.
Find another school near Thomas's Battersea Prep
Cameron Vale School (1 mile); Francis Holland Preparatory School (1.1 miles); Dolphin School, Battersea (1.2 miles).
Chesterton Primary School (0.7 miles); Christ Church Primary School, Chelsea (1.2 miles); Belleville Primary School (1.3 miles).
Thames Christian School (0.6 miles); Emanuel School (1.4 miles); Mander Portman Woodward School, London (1.7 miles); Thomas’s College (6.9 miles).
Chelsea Academy (1.2 miles); Kensington and Chelsea College (1.4 miles); Saint Thomas More Language College (1.8 miles).