Laverstock Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 2RB
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10 reasons to choose Godolphin Prep
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Godolphin Prep has a Schoolsmith Score® of 83. It is one of the best independent prep schools in Salisbury and one of the 4 best primary schools for 1 mile.
School fundamentals
Godolphin Prep is an independent prep day and boarding school for girls (and boys from Sep 2024) between the ages of 3 and 11 years. Boarding from Year 4 for the 10% of pupils who board. All are weekly or flexi boarders. It is a Church of England school, open to all faiths and none. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to Godolphin, an all-through school to age 18, and is a member of United Learning. Godolphin Prep fees range from £3,095 +VAT (Rec) to £6,015 +VAT per term (2024/25). Full boarding fees are £10,935 +VAT per term.
Average class size
Godolphin Prep has a combined pre-prep class, otherwise one class per year and an average class size of 10 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
60% of Godolphin Prep pupils move up to the senior school at the end of Year 6. Others go on to a variety of private and grammar schools.
Godolphin Prep curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, French, Latin. A cross-curricular ‘creative curriculum’ in pre-prep unwinds to subject specific teaching in prep, albeit with cross-curricular humanities. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different 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 5.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music and languages throughout, for maths, English and science from Year 3, and for all subjects from Year 5.
Sport at Godolphin Prep
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3. In recent years the school has enjoyed national success in athletics.
The Arts at Godolphin Prep
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. Drama is part of the co-curriculum. All pupils learn an instrument in class and half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Choir and three instrument ensembles. The choir has a strong track record in national choral competitions. Each pupil may participate in up to 10 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 8.00am to 5.40pm. School bus service.
Find another school near Godolphin Prep
Chafyn Grove School (0.4 miles); Leehurst Swan Prep School (0.6 miles); Salisbury Cathedral School (1 mile). Forres Sandle Manor School (12.3 miles).
St Osmund’s Catholic Primary School, Salisbury (0.9 miles); Bemerton St John Church of England Primary School (2.1 miles); Downton Church of England Primary School (6.6 miles).
Godolphin (0.1 miles); Leehurst Swan (0.6 miles); Embley (14.2 miles); Moyles Court School (16 miles).
Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School (0.7 miles); South Wilts Grammar School for Girls (1.1 miles); The Burgate School and Sixth Form (10.5 miles).