Year: 2024

A child’s best response to the “What did you do in school today?” is “I just played!” I’m sure that sounds familiar and I am confident that you see past…

Dear Diary, My first view of High Ashurst was astonishing.  There were trees everywhere – from high up, it must’ve looked like broccoli because there were so many trees! Our…

Pablo Picasso once wrote that “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Our message is simple, don’t ever stop! Keep…

On Friday 10th May, Years 5 & 6 went to the New Wimbledon Theatre to watch Madagascar – A Musical Adventure. Every year, Upper Prep perform a musical production and…

Following British Science Week back in March, Mrs Clark set about organising a whole-school ‘Space Day’ – an exciting and educational event that promised to ignite children’s’ interest in space,…

What a week! One that has been out of this world, all helped by the very welcome presence of one of the larger stars in the solar system finally making…

May 1-7th was National Gardening Week and here at Banstead Prep we have been busy taking part in lots of outdoor and planting based activities to celebrate! We started the…

Whilst I am immensely proud of what WE all do here at BPS (more of that later), the title of this blog isn’t in fact a personal statement, but a…

This week we were thrilled to welcome students from Box Hill School who came to Banstead Prep as part of their ‘Make A Difference’ project. This is a charity day…

Welcome back! What an energetic and positive start to the term. Although it is the summer term, I have seen slightly more woolly hats, gloves and earmuffs coming into school…