35 St Simon's Road, Southsea, Hampshire PO5 2PE
10 reasons to choose Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools
Main point of differentiation
Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools has a Schoolsmith Score® of 76 and has the lowest fees among Portmouth and Fareham prep schools. Its broad curriculum features a varied enrichment and arts programme and a CReSTeD accredited dyslexia facility.
School fundamentals
Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 2 and 11 years. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Mayville High School, an all-through school to age 16. Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools fees range from £3,155 (Rec) to £3,918 per term (2024/25). Fees exclude VAT and lunches.
Average class size
Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools usually has two classes per year and an average class size of 17 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
Most Mayville High Junior School pupils move up to the senior school at the end of Year 6.
The Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, reasoning, French, Spanish, Latin. ‘Enrichment afternoon’ every week includes extra activities such as critical thinking, sailing, orienteering, Beach School, Forest School, STEM, and philosophy. The Harden Davies Dyslexia Unit is a CReSTeD accredited dyslexia facility. School also has an Able, Gifted and Talented programme. The school offers each child a handful of extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 4.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, languages, art, drama and computing throughout.
Sport at Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and about one third take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Two choirs and some instrument ensembles. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 8.00am to 6.00pm. Holiday Club extends care to all pupils for 50 weeks of the year. Minibus service.
Find another school near Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools
Portsmouth High Prep School (0.5 miles); Portsmouth Grammar Junior School (1.6 miles); Boundary Oak School, Prep and Pre-Prep (9.5 miles).
St Alban’s Church of England Primary School (8.8 miles); Harrison Primary School (8.9 miles); Redlands Primary School (9.2 miles).
Mayville High School (0 miles); Portsmouth High School (1.2 miles); The Portsmouth Grammar School (1.6 miles).
St Edmund’s Catholic School (1.5 miles); Oaklands Catholic School (7.8 miles); Cams Hill School (7.8 miles).