Our Reception pupils have been enjoying classroom learning based on The Gruffalo and there was much excitement last week as mysterious footprints appeared around school and an unexplained sighting on the school`s CCTV of a creature with knobbly knees and turned out toes. Reception pupils concluded that this could only mean one thing - we had been lucky enough to have a special visit from the Gruffalo himself! Our intrepid pupils bravely took a stroll through the deep dark wood to search for him, following the huge footprints they had discovered and were delighted to find they led them all the way to our special visitor`s shelter. Although it was all quiet in the deep dark wood when they arrived, we all now know that there is definitely such a thing as a Gruffalo...
#Curiosity
#Joy
#BeBlackheathPrep
#gruffalo
#juliadonaldson
Fantastic performances from our Cross-Country team last week! Our Year 6 boys and girls teams took home Gold, and the Year 5 girls secured Silver. Well done to all our runners who demonstrated great ambition and courage out on the course 👏👏👏
And a big thank you to our friends at Merton Court Prep for hosting another excellent afternoon of racing.
#Courage
#Ambition
#BeBlackheathPrep
Our school community gathered today for a special Remembrance service, led by our Head and music, readings and artworks by our pupils. We reflected on the sacrifice made by so many, and how our school values resonate with the values that so many before us have fought to preserve. We will remember them.
#LestWeForgot
#Freedom #Courage #Community #Kindness
#BeBlackheathPrep
We`re very proud of our first ever pupil Charity Ambassadors who were officially welcomed into their new roles in assembly today. Over the coming months, the ambassadors will donate their time, energy and ideas to help support the school`s charitable endeavours in our local community. One of their first tasks will be to organise the huge number of generous donations from our Blackheath Prep families which will be heading off next week to two of our chosen charities @999clubdeptford and @greenwichwildlifenetwork
Thank you to our school community for your generous support 👏👏👏
#Kindness
#Community
#BeBlackheathPrep
To mark World Space Week, Year 5 have been putting their engineering and modelling skills to the test in a practical challenge to design an astronaut lander as part of their STEM learning and this term`s Space exploration project. Well done Year 5, great teamwork!
#Ambition
#Curiosity
#worldspaceweek
@worldspaceweek
As part of their geography and history learning, Year 1 took a walk around our local neighbourhood today, discovering interesting facts about the urban and natural landscape in Blackheath, and recording local landmarks and points of interest spotted along the way.
#Curiosity
#Community
#Freedom
#Blackheath
Our Year 3-6 pupils took part in a very exciting Guinness World Record attempt on National Poetry Day, in a live mass participation event along with 273,000 other children worldwide! Led by children`s author and poet Laura Mucha, they collaboratively helped to write a poem and celebrated the joy of the written word. What a fantastic event! Well done to everyone who took part.
#recordbreakers
#Ambition
#Joy
@nationalpoetryday
@guinnessworldrecords
We`ve seen some great teamwork this week from our young gardeners who have been busy in our kitchen garden planting winter vegetables. Today the purple sprouting broccoli and cabbages went into the new raised beds, and seeds were sown in pots to get ready for planting out in a few weeks time. We`re looking forward to seeing the fruit of their labours over the coming months!
#greenfingers
#Freedom
#Joy
#Community
#BeBlackheathPrep
The extra-curricular programme at Blackheath Prep is an important part of our offer and each week we run over 50 after-school clubs, enabling pupils to try a wide range of exciting activities and discover new passions, from Gardening, Junior Journalists and Mindfulness to Mandarin, Lego Robotics and Textiles clubs to name just a few. Amongst the many sports clubs we also run, Tennis is proving a popular choice for our Reception and Year 1 pupils this term!
#Freedom
#Curiosity
#BeBlackheathPrep
We place great importance on outdoor learning at Blackheath Prep, and our Forest Schools, Kitchen Garden, outdoor classrooms and playing field provide wonderful environments for our pupils to learn about the natural world, discover wildlife, grow their own fruit and vegetables, and get hands and feet muddy! Over the past week there`s been much excitement for our new Nursery pupils as they enjoyed their first trips to the Garden of Imagination with our specialist Forest School leaders - the first of many mini-adventures to come!
Come along to our next Open Day on SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2024 and find out more about the outstanding education and superb facilities we offer at Blackheath Prep. Our Open Days are a great opportunity to meet the Head, PTFA and pupils, and talk to our Admissions team about how to apply for places in our Nursery (3+) and our Prep at 7+. Book your place via the link in our bio. We look forward to welcoming you!
#Blackheath #Blackheathlondon #blackheathmums #blackheathvillage #SE3 #Greenwich #greenwichlondon #SE10 #Charlton #Hithergreen #Eltham #elthammums #independentschool #SELondon
There`s just a few days left to apply for a Nursery place for our January 2025 intake (for children whose third birthday falls between 1 Sept - 31 Dec). Our Nursery is the usual point of entry to Blackheath Prep and provides a superb introduction to the outstanding education we offer through to Year 6. Deadline for applications is Friday 13 September, 12 noon. Apply online via the link in our bio.
Applications are also open for the September 2025 intake. Deadline: Friday 1 November 2024.
Be part of the Blackheath Prep community! #BeBlackheathPrep
It was a hive of activity in class last week as we welcomed our younger pupils back to school with fun, self-initiated play sessions across the week to help them settle back in and ensure a smooth and enjoyable transition from Reception into Year 1.
#Freedom
#Courage
#BeBlackheathPrep
It was an exciting first day at school for our very youngest pupils today as they began their settling in sessions in our Nursery, the first of many adventures, enriching experiences and firm friendships that lay ahead for them over the next 8 years.
A warm welcome to all our new Nursery pupils and families - this is where the Blackheath Prep adventure begins!
#Community
#BeBlackheathPrep
It`s wonderful to have pupils back in school today and hear the buzz of excitment as they greeted their new teachers and old friends after the summer break. It`s going to be another exciting and enriching year ahead for them all. An especially warm welcome to our new Nursery pupils, and all our new starters and teaching staff joining our school this term - welcome to the Blackheath Prep community!
#BeBlackheathPrep
#Community
#BackToSchool
Highlights from an exciting and busy year for our brilliant Year 6! We wish them every success when they move on to their senior schools in September where many more adventures await them!
#BeBlackheathPrep
It`s been a busy few weeks of celebrations for our wonderful Year 6 leavers, most of whom have been with us since joining our Nursery aged 3. Over the years we`ve watched them grow into the hugely talented and kind young people they are, becoming inquisitive learners, discovering their passions, forming firm friendships and making valuable contributions to our school community.
We have been immensely proud of all their achievements over the years, and their superb senior school results - 54 scholarship offers and places accepted at Alleyn`s, Brighton College, Colfe`s School, Dulwich College, Eltham College, JAGS, and Bexley, Chislehurst & Sidcup, Dartford Boys and Townley Grammar schools 👏
We`re very sad to see them go but they will forever be part of the Blackheath Prep community! We wish them a fond farewell ❤
#Kindness #Curiosity #Freedom #Ambition #Courage #Community #Joy #BeBlackheathPrep
A big thank you to the PTFA parent and staff volunteers, and all the pupils who helped organise a fantastic Summer Fair at the weekend. Thanks to all our families who came along to support it on the day too!
#Community
#Joy
#BeBlackheathPrep
Year 3 took their creative talents out of the Art Studio for a collaborative art project, focussing on pattern, colour and team work skills to create these wonderful chalk artworks inspired by traditional Rangoli designs where intricate patterns are created using natural pigments to mark Hindu festivals and celebrations.
#Freedom
#BeBlackheathPrep
We had such a fun Sports Day with our youngest pupils last week. Well done to all our mini athletes! 👏
#Joy
#BeBlackheathPrep
I like to move it move it, you like to move it...
Year 6 took us on a fantastic musical adventure and transported us to the island of Madagascar along with Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and friends in a fantastic end of year production. Great performances with plenty of singing, dancing and humour to keep audiences entertained - well done Year 6! 👏👏👏
#Freedom #Joy
Year 3 had a great trip to Penshurst this week to learn some essential bushcraft skills in the Kent countryside. They built fires, honed their carving skills to make pencils and even made traps for their teachers to get caught in!
@thebushcraftcompany
#Freedom
#BeBlackheathPrep
Our U11 Girls team travelled to St George`s Park this week to represent Blackheath Prep at the @isfafootball National Finals. They played with great determination and we saw some excellent play on the pitch. Although they didn`t take the trophy this year we`re very proud of their achievements. Well done girls!
#stgeorgesparkfootballcentre #girlsfootball #sportinschools
#Ambition
#BeBlackheathPrep
At our annual Sports Days, we`ve been very proud of all our pupils who have demonstrated so many of our school values of courage, ambition, community, kindness, freedom and joy out on the field as they competed in both personal challenges and on behalf of their Houses. Well done to all our young athletes!
#Ambition
#Courage
#Community
#BeBlackheathPrep
Year 4 had a great time on their residential trip to @hindleap.warren in Sussex this week, taking part in daring activities, from forest adventures and archery, to the dizzy heights of the high ropes course and climbing wall. We saw plenty of courage, ambition and great teamwork throughout their trip, well done Year 4!
#Courage #Ambition #Freedom
#Community
#BeBlackheathPrep
Some wonderful banners designed by Year 5 and Year 6 to cheer on their Houses at our annual Sports Day!
#Community
#BeBlackheathPrep
Year 2 had a brilliant day immersing themselves in a day out at the Victorian seaside. Activities included making shell art and cork ships, writing postcards home, playing traditional games, and enjoying end of Pier activities including fortune tellers, Punch and Judy shows and visiting the photographic studio!
#Curiosity
#BeBlackheathPrep
Our Year 6 Cricket team showed both skill and courage in their recent match with our friends @elthamcollegejuniors with wonderful team spirit shown by both sides on the pitch. Well done!
#Courage #Ambition
#BeBlackheathPrep
One of the impressive solo performances given by our Year 6 pupils at our Summer concert 👏
#Ambition
#BeBlackheathPrep
We enjoyed some wonderful performances by our talented young musicians at our Summer Concert this week, with outstanding solo performances and a lively mixed programme performed by our Jazz and percussion groups, and wind, brass and strings ensembles. Bravo!
#Courage #Ambition #Joy
#BeBlackheathPrep
#musicinschools #youngmusician
The senior leadership team comprises our Head, senior teaching staff, Bursar and IT Director. Collectively they lead the school’s day-to-day management.
Alex Matthews
Head
Kate Cubley
Deputy Head
Robin Wilkinson
Bursar
Ms Clarke
Asst. Head Academic
Rachel Roberts
Asst. Head Pastoral
Claire Wates
Head of Pre Prep
Odile Clark
Head of Prep
Kieron Norris
IT Director
Helen Pratt
Chief Operating Officer
