School Blogs
Edenhurst Preparatory School Appoints New Headteacher
We would like to announce the appointment of the new headteacher, Emma Mousley, who joins the school in January 2023. Emma will succeed current headteacher Michael Hibbert, who took on his headship at the school in 2018. He is leaving the school with excellent growth mindset foundations in place for its new leader, an ISI…
The Importance of Being Weird
The importance of being weird. At Edenhurst we do things differently. As I write this I am in my office and it is 9:27pm on a Thursday. That is not because I am a workaholic, it is because the children in my school are camping on the school field. Weird! Some might think that this…
Fair Play
When the rules aren’t applied consistently or when people behave in such a way that leaves me feeling unjustly treated, I get annoyed. I see the same in our children in the playground and around school. Treating people fairly has always been important to me. I do my very best to apply this in all…
Why Do We Take Our Children Skiing?
I am an African. Born and bred in the mining heartland of South Africa. In the first 30 years of my life I never even saw snow, let alone considered skiing. So how did I go from that, to being passionate about taking children skiing? In March of this year, 30 children from Edenhurst and…
Parent Survey 2022 Results
Thank you to all of you who responded to the recent annual parent survey. We use the data to support the forward planning of the school. Your feedback is invaluable and complements the feedback we receive via our regular contact with you. I am always appreciative of this as it helps inform our planning and…
Activity Week 2022
Reception’s Trip to Amerton farm Reception had a wonderful day out at Amerton Farm. When we arrived we were all given a bottle of milk to feed the baby lambs with…they were all very strong and thirsty! After that we fed the chickens and the goats on our walk around the farm. Cody told us…
The Power of a Preparatory
This year has been one of the most successful for Edenhurst in terms of Scholarships received and 11+ Grammar school places offered. The latter is very significant as we are very far outside of the catchment area of Haberdashers’ Adams’ Grammar School and Newport Grammar and this means that the bar is exceptionally high. Children…
Maths this Half Term
What do you call a number that can’t sit still? A roamin’ numeral! Our Maths learning has definitely seen us roamin’ this half term – either around the astro turf as part of our number hunt for Number Day or expanding our horizons as far as Cheltenham College for a Maths Challenge Competition! The 4th…
What Success Means at Edenhurst
What success means at Edenhurst At Edenhurst, we love celebrating the achievements of all our boys and girls and we actively seek opportunities to do this. We are very much of the mindset that success breeds success. We like the Bill Rogers approach of ‘catching them being good’. This approach to character development at the…
Christmas Message 2021
Christmas message 2021 You may or may not remember that last year I wrote to Santa for the first time in 45 years. Can you imagine my delight when he granted my Christmas wish for an effective and safe vaccine before Easter, allowing us to have a ‘normal’ Summer term? In fact, Santa was so…
Why Edenhurst?
Why Edenhurst?
