Welcome

Ashford Friars Prep School provides education for children from 3 to 11 years. The extensive and exciting new buildings are now all finished and they provide us with the perfect facilities for your child to become an outstanding life-long learner with the freedom to be creative, the enterprise to initiate and the resilience to cope with adversity.

 

 

If you would like to visit the school or require any further information please contact Jenny Garrard (Registrar) by telephoning 01233 620493 or emailing ashfordfriars@ashfordschool.co.uk  

 

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child learns to feel shame, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient. If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence. If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice. If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith. If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world. Dorothy Law Neite

 

What makes the Prep so special?

This simple answer is the excellent staff, the children and their parents. The children are well behaved, lively, eager, respectful and keen to do their best; quickly developing the confidence and motivation to succeed and be happy; the staff at Ashford are at the forefront of this development.

We understand that each individual matters, building on each pupil's strengths and helping them to overcome their weaknesses in a supportive and positive environment. We provide an all-round education, valuing all aspects of achievement and respecting all talents using positive programming to nurture and encourage a lifestyle free from prejudice.

We strive every day to be an excellent place in which to learn, teach and work and our highly qualified and experienced staff have the drive to improve and succeed as an example to all our pupils of the fast changing world that demands life-long learning skills. With a real sense of community, the Prep School provides a solid foundation for the future of our pupils with a sense of moral purpose and a Christian ethos.

The co-curriculum throughout the Prep School is so-called because it is an integral and important part of what we offer.

There is an extensive programme of games, PE and sports' fixtures with all children having the opportunity of representing the school. In addition, there over 30 activities and clubs that happen each week at lunchtimes, after school and on Saturday mornings. They are all entirely voluntary but there are high levels of participation and they range from choirs to dry-slope skiing and tennis lessons to chess club! There is something for everyone and we firmly believe every child matters. 

Trips to the theatre or perhaps a museum, visitors with special knowledge or skills, outside lessons and special days such as our science days are all planned to enhance the curriculum and such opportunities are popular and effective and help make our school an exciting place in which to learn.

The residential adventure holiday for Year 6 is an outstanding event and children often return inspired and somehow just more 'grown up'. The annual ski trip is very popular too.