Welcome to Prep

Each Division in Prep has a Form Tutor who is the first person your child will see in the morning for registration. Prep children should arrive at school at 8.30am. Boys enter via the Boys Changing Room entrance and Girls enter via the Girls Changing Room entrance. The children should then go straight to their Form Tutor classroom for registration. If your child arrives at school late for registration, please make sure that they visit the front office and register with the School Office Manager.

Your child may be dropped off from 8am. Using the external fire escape stairs, pupils should be taken to the fire exit door of the Dining Hall to be signed in by the duty member of staff.

The Form Tutor will support your child through the school year. If you have any concerns or questions about your child’s progress or any other personal matters regarding your child, please contact the Form Tutor directly. You will receive an email before the start of term in September from your child’s Form Tutor introducing themselves and providing you with their contact details.

During registration, pupils discuss the day ahead, current affairs and any concerns or issues with their Form Tutor. On a Tuesday each Division has extended Tutor Time with the Form Tutor. This 40-minute session is where we provide pupils with exceptional academic and pastoral support, and foster key relationships in the class and year groups. Underpinning these sessions is a programme to develop resilience, encourage independence and foster kindness – all part of Glebe House School’s value-based approach to learning.

After morning registration Prep children start lessons, moving between subject-specific teachers based in different classrooms throughout the Prep School. This can initially take some getting used to but moving from classroom to classroom helps to develop responsibility and independence. In the first weeks of the new school year, our Division III children are accompanied by Senior Prep buddies as they move between classrooms and get used to the layout of the Prep School. It doesn’t take long before our youngest Junior Prep children embrace the opportunity to be independent and get themselves where they need to be.

From Division III upwards your child will have an examination every year in the Summer term.

In Division lll this will be limited to English, Maths and Science, but from Division lV onwards this will also include Geography, History, RS and French. Provision is made as necessary for those who are entitled to extra time.

To give parents an idea of how our time is spent at Glebe, we’ve included a sample timetable to show what a typical week includes and the way a day is structured.