Our Preparatory School, located just a short walk from our Pre-Preparatory and Senior School sites, builds on the foundations established during Key Stage 1.
We aim to provide a first-class education within a wonderfully dynamic and inspiring environment. We place an equal value on core, creative and technological subjects to provide a progressive curriculum, continually evolving to answer to the needs of modern society and encourage a development of crucial life skills including curiosity and self-motivation.
Our Curriculum
Our curriculum incorporates the following subjects:
- English, Maths, Science, History, Geography, Design Technology, Art, Music, French, Spanish, Computing, Games, PE, RE, Drama
- Timetabled orchestra lessons for pupils in Years 5 and 6
- Computing across the curriculum
Your child’s happiness and needs are our priority and we believe the well-being of our pupils is central to their learning. We have created a caring environment, which embraces core values such as respect and excellence, fostering community through a philosophy of care. Leadership, loyalty and teamwork are fostered through our assemblies, form, and house system, and pupils are helped to understand how their actions have an impact on others.
Our co-curricular activities programme provides children with a wealth of opportunities to pursue their interests or try something new. We aim to help children increase their confidence and self-belief, while cultivating new abilities which may develop into lifelong skills and interests and which encourage them to take on new challenges. The range of co-curricular activities is extensive at both Pre-Prep and Prep, which complement lessons and give further opportunities to hone their skills in many areas.
A message from the Headmistress…
At LMS Preparatory our curriculum is underpinned by our aims and values which are focused on developing the whole child. Our values CODE centered on Commitment, Opportunity, Determination and Excellence sets the ethos. The word “preparatory” is at the centre of all we do, not just preparing our pupils for the next stage but preparing them for life.
Our curriculum has been devised to ensure a balance of knowledge, understanding and skills with a cross-curricular approach where possible, and rich first-hand purposeful experiences. Our pupils have specialist teaching in some areas from Nursery and in all subjects from Year 4 onwards. The core subjects are complimented by the creative arts and modern languages as well as a varied sports programme and computing. At all times we have an eye on the future and ensure that enrichments activities such as enterprise and environmental challenges run alongside the core curriculum. We are a non-selective school and our curriculum is flexible and responsive to individual needs.The mark of our curriculum is the abundance of energy and enthusiasm in the classroom, on the games field and every other aspect of school life.
Fiona Thomas
Headmistress, Preparatory School
Curriculum Guides
Specific guidance on what each year group will be covering throughout the academic year.
Download curriculum guides below.
Latest School News
Incredible Donation from Datong Primary
22 April 2020
Following Mrs Thomas' visit last year, LMS partner school, Datong Primary school in Changsha, kindly reached out to us to enquire how we were coping in the lockdown and asked if there was anything they can do to help - particularly in relation to protective gear.
Space, the final frontier - the school curriculum by Year 7 Pupil - Hermione
31 January 2020
LMS News Club is for budding young reporters. This report from Hermione Rolfe was her suggested topic based on a strong personal interest in space and astronomy. Her ideas and enthusiasm for everything to do with space are great - she's even got me reading up about nebula, now! Her main idea is that Space should be a larger part of the secondary school curriculum, maybe even a separate subject. Read her article and see if you agree!
Photos from the 2019 Senior Production
06 January 2020
As school ended for the Christmas holidays, many of our students in Years 10 - 13 returned for the final two performances of our sold out run of
The Odyssey.
Scottish Swimming Success for Chloe
16 December 2019
Over the weekend of 14 and 15 December, Chloe (Year 10) swam in the Scottish National Short Course Championships held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh.
