Newton Prep School

Welcome to Newton Prep: A Short Tour

Newton Prep School is located in Battersea, South London. The school was founded in 1991 and currently has about 650 students. This is a preparatory day school that prepares children for entry into the UK's top senior schools. Since its founding, the school has specialized in teaching children with high abilities.

Newton Prep — a true London school: multicultural, bustling, striving for excellence and always striving to be one step ahead, but it is also a place where children are happy. The school provides a happy, safe and nurturing environment in which children flourish and develop initiative, kindness, creativity and curiosity.

The purpose of the school – prepare children intellectually, physically, morally and spiritually for the next step in their lives and high school education.

Director (for 2026)

Alison Fleming, education - Nottingham University, has a postgraduate certificate with the right to conduct teaching activities. He is an ISI (Independent Schools Inspectorate) inspector.

TATLER School Report

“Newton Prep does not fit into the typical British prep school mold. The school uniform is casual and the atmosphere is "cool and cosmopolitan". Headteacher Alison Fleming leads the academically selective school and says it caters to bright and curious children. Students can build the robot during their lunch breaks, and the curriculum uses iPads. Graduates receive numerous scholarships and are admitted to schools, including such famous ones as St Paul's, Harrow and Wellington. The luxurious facilities include a 300-seat auditorium, artificial turf playing fields, and the school's stunning art and music departments complement this splendor.

Key factors

• Graduates enter the best high schools in the UK, including such famous ones as Eton, Harrow, St. Paul, Marlborough College.
• The school has excellent facilities for sports and art. This means that the school does not have to take children to other places for sports lessons, for example, and take up valuable lesson time. Everything you need for a full-fledged education is already in the school itself!
• Each class has approximately 20 children, taught by a qualified teacher and supported by a full-time teaching assistant.
• Every year, a number of students consistently enter top high schools with scholarships in music, art, sports, theater, or with an academic scholarship.
• Children are encouraged to develop good learning habits and attitudes. For example, when a child is encouraged to persevere when faced with difficulties, he can celebrate his success, and this strengthens his perseverance and resilience, which in turn increases his self-esteem and self-confidence.
• Every two years, Newton Prep organizes a high school fair, inviting more than 90 day and boarding schools to attend. The fair offers parents a unique opportunity to meet with school representatives and make an informed choice about where their child will continue to study.

Equipment

Newton Prep has spacious classrooms, each with an interactive whiteboard or TV, and 3 science labs that demonstrate the school's hands-on, "do, don't just learn" approach to science teaching. This approach allows students to fully experience science through experiments and research. The school has 2 libraries with a catalog of more than 20,000 books. Children love to go to the library during lunch and in their free time.

The school has 3 computer labs, several sets of iPads, ChromeBooks and laptops for classes, which are used as resources for teaching and learning across the curriculum. Children learn art in 2 equipped, spacious art studios. The school has 2 specialized art teachers and an assistant. Children can work on large-scale projects and use a variety of media to create their work. Children's work is displayed throughout the school.

The school auditorium seats over 300 people and is an excellent venue for school assemblies, plays, concerts and guest speakers. The school's concert hall seats 120 people and is used for choral, instrumental and poetry concerts, as well as small performances. The school also features a theater studio, 2 large custom-built music classrooms, music technology equipment, a Mac music classroom, 13 small music classrooms usingavailable for individual lessons.

Newton Prep has excellent sports facilities: a large floodlit field with artificial turf, 2 football/hockey fields, 4 full-size netball fields, a sports hall with three cricket nets, a gymnastics room (with wall bars). There is an additional multi-purpose room, dance studio and area with rowing machines, treadmills and bicycles.

Program

In the Early Years, children study a broad curriculum that covers all areas of learning with interesting and challenging challenges. Most subjects are taught by the class teacher. French, music, physical education, computer skills are taught by specialist teachers in their field.

In 7th and 8th grade (11–12 years old) children study the Newton Prep Diploma program – This is an interdisciplinary program that combines the humanities (geography, history and religious studies) with art and theater. This allows students to develop a deeper understanding of complex issues and allows teachers to tailor their teaching to material that is relevant and interesting to children. 

The program begins with an exciting trip to London. Academic study includes trips, seminars and charity events. For example, the “School Elections” project or a climate change conference where kids and their mentors try to solve an extremely complex real-world problem.

The school works closely with charitable organizations, and the school's students support a number of initiatives, gaining invaluable experience in community work. This allows children to become increasingly resilient, tolerant and respectful of others. Over the past two years, pupils have raised over £30,000 for two charities.

Additional activities

For the enthusiastic kids at Newton Prep, the school day doesn't have to end at 4 p.m. After school, the school offers a program of extracurricular clubs and activities. Each semester, students are offered more than 40 clubs to choose from, and participation in them is included in the tuition fee. When planning clubs, the needs of each child are taken into account. 

Some of the clubs:

• Board games
• Animation
• Science Club
• Running in the park
• Debate
• Book Club
• Games
• Gymnastics
• Relaxation and concentration techniques
• Musical ensembles and choirs
  and much more

There are a number of paid classes taught by guest instructors and teachers:

• Fencing
• Ballet
• Yoga
• Dancing
• Judo
• Tennis
• Music technology
• LAMDA classes (from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts)

Several times a year the school holds large events for children and parents.
Including:

• Christmas market: food trucks, parents' shopping stalls, entrepreneurs' children's store, street musicians, rides: all to raise money for charity.
• Summer Splash: face painting, games, bouncy castles and rides; street food vendors, live music.
• Scholarship Foundation Charity Auction: The brightest night in the school calendar when former alumni – scholarship holders share their learning experiences after graduating from Newton prep.
• School Oscar, talent show, Newton Prep Musician of the Year competition, many musical recitals and concerts, as well as theatrical performances by bands – With this, children develop self-confidence by performing on stage in front of the entire audience.

Excursions

Each subject studied at Newton Prep is complemented by a variety of themed trips. Each group visits a number of attractions throughout the academic year, and most day trips are included in the tuition fee. The school takes full advantage of its location in central London to attend new exhibitions in museums and galleries and performances in theatres. Some examples of trips: PGL children's sports camp, trips abroad, alpine skiing, visit to the Lake District for a field course in geography and science.

Cost, 2026-2027

£9,330 - £10,608 per semester (depending on age).
There are 3 semesters in the academic year.

Included in price

• Training
• Accommodation and meals

Additional charge

• Air travel
• Transfers to/from/airport
• Visa
• Educational company services
• Selection of a guardian, which is a mandatory requirementbased on the British school

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