Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Snaresbrook Prep School ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://snaresbrookprep.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://snaresbrookprep.org/) - [Times & Term Dates](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/school-times-and-term-dates) - School Times Time Activity 7:40am-8:30am Breakfast Club (For full details click here.) 8:30am Entrance Doors open for all pupils 8.40am School Begins 3:15pm End of Day: Lower & Upper Foundation Stage 3:20pm End of Day: Years 1 and 2 3:25pm End of Day: Years 3 and 4 3:25pm End of Day: Years 5 and 6 - [Uniform](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/uniforms) - [Entry KS1 & 2](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/entry-ks1-2) - Early Years Lower Foundation Stage Application Meetings We are in the process of allocating places for our Lower Foundation Stage commencing in September 2026. If you are interested in applying, please complete one of our registration forms and return it using the school office email address on the form. Entry Further Up the School: - [To Register](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/apply) - If you are interested in applying for a place at our school for entry at any age, you can download a copy of the registration form below and view our terms and conditions. This form should be completed and returned to the office with the non-refundable registration fee. Applications for places in our Lower Foundation - [Visits](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/visits) - Informal Visits During June and July, parents are invited to arrange an informal visit by contacting the office on 020 8989 2394 or emailing office@snaresbrookprep.org. These visits can be organised at a mutually convenient time to suit yourselves and also the school timetable. Informal visits allow prospective parents to get a feel for the school - [Open Morning Events](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/open-days) - During June and July, parents are invited to contact the school to make an individual appointment for an informal visit at which Mr Dalton will be very happy to show you around the school and answer any questions you may have. Please either call 020 8989 2394 or email office@snaresbrookprep.org to make your appointment. - [Contact Us](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/contact-us) - By Post Snaresbrook Prep School, 75, Woodford Road, London, E18 2EA. By Phone 020 8989 2394 By Email office@snaresbrookprep.org Online Head: Our Head is Mr Ralph Dalton. Contact him via the school office or email office@snaresbrookprep.org Chair of Governors: Chair of Governors is DAVID WILSON and is contactable by emailing clerktothegovernors@forest.org.uk General Enquiries: Please fill - [Fees](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/fees) - Fees effective from 1 September 2026 The current term's school fee information is sent to prospective parents with the prospectus. Termly Tuition Fee Before VAT Termly obligatory lunch charge VAT exempt Termly Total School Fee before VAT applied to tuition fees Termly Total School Fees Inclusive of VAT on tuitiuon fees Lower Foundation Stage 5310 - [Staff Vacancies](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/vacancies) - Thank you for your interest in working at Snaresbrook Preparatory School. Any current vacancies will be listed below. We wish you the best of luck in any current or future application. Currently no staff vacancies - [Application Meetings](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/application-meetings) - Application Meetings for Lower Foundation Stage entry If you would like to register your interest for Lower Foundation Stage Application Meetings for future cohorts, please complete one of our registration forms and return it to the school office. Interested families will then be invited to come along for a Part 1 meeting to visit the - [Parents' Association](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/parents-association) - Welcome to the Snaresbrook Prep Parents’ Association (SPPA) page! SPPA is the place to go if you feel like playing a more active part in the school and want to make life at school more fun for your child or children. After an enforced break in fundraising activities due to the Covid related restrictions, the - [About Us](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us) -  By Post Snaresbrook Prep School, 75, Woodford Road, London, E18 2EA. By Phone 020 8989 2394 By Email office@snaresbrookprep.org Online - [Admissions](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions) - Informal visits allow prospective parents to get a feel for the school and to see the children at work. Parents are invited to organise an informal visit by contacting the office on 020 8989 2394. We hold multiple open mornings during the year. Details of the dates will be advertised on the front page of - [Before & After School Care](https://snaresbrookprep.org/school-life/before-and-after-school-care) - Before School Care Before School Care is available to all children and is open from 7.40 am until 8.30 am. Breakfast itself is optional and available to all children if they want it. It includes cereal, toast, juice and yogurts. During the session, children will be able to join in playing games or taking part - [Policies](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/policies) - Below is a list of some of our current policy documents for the school. We are committed to ensuring that our policies are up to date and here for your viewing. We may change our policies from time to time by updating this page so please check this page periodically to ensure you are both - [Food Menu](https://snaresbrookprep.org/school-life/food) - We currently offer three menus which rotate on a weekly basis. All meals are cooked from fresh ingredients and we aim to provide food that is both healthy and delicious. In this table you can download our menus and see when they are being served: Menu 1 Menu 2 Menu 3 Wednesday 7th January - [Extra Curricular](https://snaresbrookprep.org/school-life/extra-curricular) - Extra Curricular Activities Children are encouraged to attend our clubs as they promote friendships and can offer valuable skills. We offer a range of activities, with morning or afternoon sessions. These activities will change each term. - [Exam Results](https://snaresbrookprep.org/academic/school-destinations) - Destination School Offers - Academic Year 2024/25 Onward Destinations At SPS, it is of great importance to us that pupils go on to seek and seize all the opportunities that secondary education has to offer. For the academic year 2024/25, our leavers received a total of 31 offers, including four scholarships, awards or exhibitions at selective - [Curriculum](https://snaresbrookprep.org/academic/curriculum) - We provide a rounded education covering every aspect of your child’s early development. The curriculum is designed to prepare pupils for entrance and scholarship examinations to senior independent schools. The curriculum currently includes mathematics, English, Science, computing, Art & DT, music, French, PE/Games and PSHE. Latin and Swimming are currently introduced in KS2. Year 6 - [Reports](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/isi-report) - [Academic Overview](https://snaresbrookprep.org/academic/academic-overview) - We aim to cultivate an intimate, caring family atmosphere in which children feel secure and valued. With a one form entry and class sizes of between sixteen and twenty four children, we provide extensive care and attention, myriad social opportunities and varied extracurricular activities. Most children join the school at age 3.5 and stay with - [Welcome](https://snaresbrookprep.org/school-life/head-welcome) - [School Life](https://snaresbrookprep.org/school-life) - Thank you for visiting. I hope you'll enjoy a range of activities that happen at Snaresbrook Prep School. Looking at a website is not like seeing a school live in action, you are welcome to visit us so please do not hesitate to arrange an informal visit with the office team. Our next Open Day - [School Aims & Values](https://snaresbrookprep.org/school-life/aims) - We aim to: To provide a relevant and contemporary education. To develop the whole child intellectually and with confidence, bringing out their best and providing a basis on which secondary schools can build. To provide an enthusiastic and enjoyable approach to learning, encouraging children to research and inquire. To develop sensitivity towards the values and needs - [Nursery for September 2023](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/nursery2023) - Thank you for your interest in a Nursery place for your child in September 2023. If your child will be aged 3+ in September 2023, visit us in the next couple of weeks to find out why choosing Snaresbrook Prep could just be the best decision you can make for your child. Offers of places - [Years 1 - 6](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/further-up-the-school-change-this) - Places sometimes become available after the Nursery stage and when this happens we go to the waiting list to fill the place. Interested families on our waiting list will be invited to come in for a meeting with our Head and at the same time the child will spend some time in the relevant class - [Our School Grounds](https://snaresbrookprep.org/about-us/our-school-grounds) - The school occupies a substantial Victorian building in South Woodford, once a large private home which over time has been adapted to accommodate our classrooms and other facilities. In a separate building to the rear of the main house is our school hall, used for daily assembly and to provide a full programme of physical - [Early Years](https://snaresbrookprep.org/admissions/early-years) - This is a key time for children's development and Nursery is the first step to our pupils success! The Early Years Foundation Stage at Snaresbrook Prep School is the period from age three to the end of the Upper Foundation Stage. It is a distinct stage and important both in its own right and in - [Travelling To School](https://snaresbrookprep.org/travelling-icons) - [Dates For Your Diary](https://snaresbrookprep.org/test-for-calendar) - As soon as we have dates of events to share we will post these here. - [ISI Login](https://snaresbrookprep.org/isi-login-page) - [Newsletters](https://snaresbrookprep.org/our-news/newsletters) - [Publications](https://snaresbrookprep.org/publications-test-page) - [News](https://snaresbrookprep.org/our-news) - The place to come for all the latest Snaresbrook Preparatory School News. With daily updates on events, assemblies, lessons, school trips and more! Take a peek into daily life at our school. - [Academic](https://snaresbrookprep.org/academic) - We aim to cultivate an intimate, caring family atmosphere in which children feel secure and valued. Most children join the school at age 3.5 and stay with us until they reach 11 when they leave for their senior schools. At age 11 we find that Snaresbrook children are confident, cheerful and courteous, with a good - [Homework](https://snaresbrookprep.org/academic/homework) - We consider homework to be a valuable element of the teaching and learning process, therefore: Children are encouraged to work at home on a regular basis. It is expected that all children will read at home and share a book with their parents. Children will have multiplication tables and spellings to learn at home. 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The main learning objective for this lesson was to know that being 'magnetic' is a property of some materials. They first had a chance to try out magnets and see what they do. We revised some of - [Beliefs](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/religious-education) - Lesson Overview: This RE lesson was the first in a new topic entitled ‘Beliefs’, which is the last topic looked at in Year 1. The topic enables the children to reflect upon what they have learned throughout the year. We started off the lesson by reading two poems from the book ‘We are - [Exploring Repeated Patterns](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/music) - Lesson Overview: Introductory Say hello song at start. ‘Row , Row’ with vocal sounds accompaniment (sea sounds). Discuss, what happens to the sea sounds? (They repeat). Introduce ‘A Sailor went to sea’ song with actions. Add instruments (perform on the repeated pattern - sea sea sea). Add some dynamics. What have we learnt today? Sing goodbye - [Planting A Bean](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/gardening) - Lesson Overview In Reception we have been learning about plants. The children have read the stories Jack and the Beanstalk and Jasper’s Beanstalk. Through our work on these stories, the children have learnt what a plant needs to grow and how to care for one. The children had the opportunity to plant their - [Sleeping Animals](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/sleeping-animals) - Lesson Content: The children played a game called Sleeping Animals. Starting with the girls in the class, they pretended to be sleeping animals on the floor whilst the boys and staff sang the rhyme. After a period of time the the sleeping animals wake up and become the animal that they have been asked to - [Victorian Seaside](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/victorian-seaside) - Lesson Overview: Year 2’s topic is the seaside which all the pupils thoroughly enjoy. Through cross curricular work in lessons the pupils have a variety of learning experiences and opportunities to discover all about the seaside. In this lesson, learning objectives from the History, English and ICT curriculums were taught and learnt. First - [3D Shapes](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/3d-shapes) - Learning outcome Mathematics: To be able to recognise, name and give properties of 3D shapes. To be able to recognise and match the nets with various 3D shapes. Physical Education: To take part in challenges both individually and within a team. To develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. Lesson Overview This is - [Canopic Jars](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/canopic-jars) - Lesson Overview A cross-curricular approach to teaching is embedding knowledge, skills and understandings from various subject areas.Recently in Year 4, the children were learning about Ancient Egyptian canopic jars within History lessons. The children then sketched and designed their own jar. Using the design their jars were created in Design & Technology lessons. - [The Land of NeverBelieve](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/literacy) - Lesson Overview: In Year 4 we have been using a fantastic book called ‘The Land of NeverBelieve’ by Norman Messenger. In the book Norman goes to a magical land and documents all of the discoveries he makes along the way from spaghetti trees to dragonflies that actually look like dragons! In class the - [Databases](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/dt-ict) - Lesson Overview: Year 6 have had many opportunities this year to continue their learning consistently using cross-curricular learning as a tool to connect their daily learning. In this sequence of lessons, the children have had the opportunity to collaborate as a team, contribute to collaborative databases and include P.E., Maths, Literacy, Computing and - [Greek Myths](https://snaresbrookprep.org/archives/subjects/history) - Lesson Overview: Year 5 worked on Greek myths in History, we particularly focused on the story of Demeter and Persephone, 'The Kidnapped Bride', which explains how the the different seasons came about. We illustrated a Greek pot with our favourite scene from the myth. 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