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Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools, Southsea PO5

35 St Simon's Road, Southsea, Hampshire PO5 2PE

Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools, Southsea PO5

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

Independent Prep 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).

State Primary Schools

St Alban’s Church of England Primary School (8.8 miles); Harrison Primary School (8.9 miles); Redlands Primary School (9.2 miles).

Independent Senior Schools

Mayville High School (0 miles); Portsmouth High School (1.2 miles); The Portsmouth Grammar School (1.6 miles).

State Senior Schools

St Edmund’s Catholic School (1.5 miles); Oaklands Catholic School (7.8 miles); Cams Hill School (7.8 miles).

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