Parkside Preparatory School has been established for nearly seventy-five years on its present site. The atmosphere at Parkside is warm and friendly, not unlike that of a traditional village school. Our aims reflect the nature of that environment.
We provide a traditional approach to learning for children between the ages of three and a half and eleven years, within a co-educational and non-denominational environment. Pupils are from a variety of social and ethnic backgrounds.
The school aims to develop each child to full potential. We believe that a high standard of literacy and numeracy is the basis for successful learning across a curriculum which includes the usual primary subjects and the optional extras of French, Speech and Drama and Swimming. Our pupils are prepared for possible entrance to independent and state selective schools at secondary transfer.
The existing directors of the school are all parents or ex-parents of Parkside pupils and run the school as a non profit-making organisation. The primary policy is to provide a traditional independent education as cost effectively as possible, whilst retaining the integrity of the education policy and the financial viability of the organisation as a whole.
