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Location and facilities
Prince's Gardens Preparatory School offers what we believe are the best indoor and outdoor prep school facilities in central London.
Prince's Gardens Preparatory School is comprised of four spacious Grade II listed townhouses in Kensington and is in close proximity to Hyde Park, with world-renowned museums and galleries on our doorstep.
Our school is also home to the very latest technology including access to multi-purpose areas like our makerspace, an innovative learning environment that stimulates children to create and share their learning with materials they choose, our state of the art science lab and music room, and our very own secret garden.
The school benefits from direct access to:
- A large 2-acre secret garden
- Multi-sports spaces on site
- Access to outstanding facilities at Imperial College's 'Ethos' sports centre
- State of the art science lab
- Well-equipped music room and art studio
- Strong links with educational institutions including Imperial College, the Royal College of Music and the London School of Mathematics
Destination schools
Our expert teachers have close relationships with the leading day and boarding schools in London and further afield, ensuring a smooth transition to the next stage of our pupils' education.
Our curriculum ensures that Year 6 pupils are thoroughly prepared, not only for 11+ entrance exams and assessments but also for the next stage of their education.
Year 6 Leavers Destinations 2022
We are so proud of our 21/22 Year 6 cohort who leave Prince's Gardens to join some of the most successful day and boarding schools across the UK.
This excellent outcome reflects the academic and creative talent across the year group and proves how dedicated both our students and teachers have been in achieving their very best.
Our 15 leavers have been offered places at the following schools:
London Boys' Day Schools
Dulwich College
St Paul’s School
Wetherby School
London Girls' Day Schools
Francis Holland Regent's Park
Francis Holland Sloane Square
Putney High School
London Co-Ed Day Schools
The American School
Eaton Square Senior School
Fulham Senior School
Kensington Park School
Latymer Upper School
Maida Vale School
North Bridge House School Canonbury
North Bridge House School Hampstead
Portland Place School
Southbank International
Thomas’s Senior School (with Distinction)
Prep-Schools (Year 7 & 8)
Notting Hill Prep School
Sunningdale School (Boarding)
Country Schools
Battle Abbey School
Overseas Schools
Nightingale School in Manhattan, New York
Boarding Schools
St. Catherine’s Bramley
The Royal Masonic School
This information will continue to be updated as offers are made.
Leadership
Mrs Gaffney has a wealth of experience in the independent school sector, joining Prince’s Gardens from Brighton College Singapore where she was Deputy Head from 2020-2022.
Mrs Gaffney knows the independent school sector well, having worked in leadership positions within prep schools for the past 13 years. She started her career at Old Buckenham Hall Preparatory School where she held the role of Head of Science and Designated Safeguarding Lead before progressing to Deputy Head.
Mrs Gaffney then moved to Korea where she became Head of Prep School and Vice Principal for North London Collegiate School in Jeju, before relocating back to England to join the prestigious Handcross Park School in Sussex.
Qualified in Science, and Early Years and Primary, Mrs Gaffney has experience in 11+ and 13+ schools and the International Primary Curriculum, the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, and The Prep School Baccalaureate. Most recently, this broad experience allowed Mrs Gaffney to write a complete curriculum as the founding Deputy at Brighton College Singapore.
Mrs Gaffney is passionate about curricula development, pupil progress, and innovative teaching and learning. In recent years, she has specialised in developing excellent Early Years provision, ensuring the foundations for the youngest children are well developed.
Virtual Tour
Whilst the best way to explore our school is by coming in to visit us in person, we appreciate that some prospective families live outside of the UK and so we have done all we can to ensure everyone who would like to take a tour of our beautiful school still can virtually.
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Community links
Being in such close proximity to some of the world's best educational and cultural institutions, we have formed great working relationships with key educators, enabling our young learners to access resources and support.
We hope to continually develop our biophilic School project with local plant scientists, architects and designers, to deepen the exceptional benefits this approach can afford our pupils and staff.
We are pleased to have developed good relationships with the local community, including the Knightsbridge Association and Community Liaison Group, and through regular meetings with them, we have developed a travel booklet designed to help us be good neighbours.
Voice of the Parent
Our 'Voice of Parent' programme allows our parents to provide ongoing feedback which we use to make continuous improvements to our school.
This programme is pivotal in enabling us to continually understand our parents' views and better our offering as part of our 'open door' policy.
Next: Curriculum
Innovative teaching, superb facilities and a broad, exciting curriculum will help our pupils thrive.