Preparing for the
next stage

Well before your child completes Preparatory School, she’ll start looking forward to - and preparing for - the move up to Senior School. New friends, new challenges, new opportunities. All in familiar surroundings if she remains at EHS.

Preparing for the next step

To help her get ready, we organise a range of activities. Starting in Year 4, alongside the curriculum, your daughter will attend ‘taster’ lessons in our Senior School, including Science, languages, art, and Classics, and gain practice in taking exams and in non-verbal and verbal reasoning. In Year 5, she’ll spend a whole morning in our Senior School, and we arrange regular catch-ups, where girls can ask any questions about moving up.

We are also very experienced in preparing and supporting girls in gaining places at other senior schools. For example, in Year 6, they can attend a special Induction Day at their chosen schools, giving them the chance to spend time with their new classmates and teachers. However, we are delighted when girls decide to stay with us to continue their schooling. Once they’ve become part of the EHS family, remaining here for Year 7 and beyond puts them in a favourable position when progressing to higher education.

Destination of Year 6 Leavers

We are delighted to be able to send girls leaving from Year 6 to a broad range of schools:


•    Edgbaston High School
•    KEHS
•    KE Camp Hill
•    KE Five Ways
•    KE Handsworth
•    Sutton Coldfield Grammar
•    Wolverhampton Grammar
•    A number of schools overseas
 

Preparatory Headlines

Reception Mystery Writing

17 May 2024: A strange package arrived in Reception on Tuesday morning. A box was delivered and placed outside one of the classrooms and when we opened it up, we discovered...

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This Week in Westbourne

17 May 2024: Continuing the half term’s theme on shape the girls in Nursery have studied rectangles, oblongs and cuboids this week. They have printed using rectangle sponges,...

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A Musical Teatime Treat

17 May 2024: We ended last week with a most enjoyable teatime concert from soloists in Years 3 and 4. For the first time for Prep girls this was held in the Hexagon which...

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Château Adventures in France

10 May 2024: On Monday 29 April, 39 excited Year 6 girls arrived, bright and early at school, ready to depart for France. The long-awaited French Trip was finally here!...

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