Our primary aims for every pupil in the Prep School are for them to be happy and fulfil their potential during their time with us. The skills  we equip them with will  continue to  help them to live  a happy and successful life, not only as they move into Senior School but beyond into their future. Our lives are unpredictable and sometimes difficult; by teaching skills such as mindfulness and resilience to our pupils, we  intend  to give them the tools to  proactively  deal with adversity whenever they come across it. Our Wellbeing & Personal Development programme has both the current and future happiness and potential of our pupils at its heart.    

All pupils learn resilience skills using an adapted version of the Penn Resilience Programme, and they learn mindfulness through the Dots, Paws B and .breathe programmes. Staff have been specifically trained to teach both the Penn Resilience Programme and our mindfulness programmes, with many teachers having received training in teaching mindfulness to primary aged children. A multitude of staff have received Mental Health First Aid training, further strengthening  our support of the wellbeing of our pupils. In WPD lessons we also cover all areas of government statutory guidance for PHSEE and RSE.  

Overarching the aims we have for every pupil in the Prep School - to be happy and to fulfil their  potential during their time with us - is that they will also learn to use the very solid foundations that  both aims afford to develop pro-social behaviours that will benefit others. Being happy and fulfilling our  potential  wouldn’t be worthy aspirations if achieving them was to the  detriment of anybody else. On the contrary, learning how to be authentically happy and to fulfil our  potential as individuals means we are in a very strong position to help others near and far. Finding  personal fulfilment through contribution will, we hope, become a learned by-product of our school  aims. Our Wellbeing and Personal Development programme contains all the elements we  want your children to consider on that journey - a journey that will continue throughout their time in the Prep School.