Kitebrook Preparatory School A GSG School
- Kitebrook Preparatory School
Little Compton
Moreton-in-Marsh
Gloucestershire
GL56 0RP - Head: Mr Bennjamyn Smith
- T 01608 674350
- F 01608 674887
- E admissions@kitebrookpst.org
- W www.kitebrookpst.org
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 13.
- Read about the best schools in Oxford and Oxfordshire
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Oxfordshire
- Pupils: 315
- Religion: None
- Fees: Day £13,050 - £18,750 pa; Boarding + £65 per night
- Open days: No open days, but all parents are welcome to arrange a bespoke private tour
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
This is English country life at its most bucolic: a year 2 trip to Daylesford Organic? Pretty nice, even by prep school standards. Everyone takes Common Entrance at the end of year 8, and more competitive leavers’ destinations are going to mean more pre-tests in years 6 and 7, but learning is still really fun here. No setting until year 6. Latin and classical civilisation recently introduced to expose pupils to stories of ‘vengeful Greek gods and strange monsters’; science lessons involve pond dipping for frogs and newts. ‘We love living history here!’ one year 8 gushed, describing recent Medieval Day when he dressed as a monk and…
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since January 2023, Bennjamyn Smith, previously co-head of Exupery International School in Riga. Canterbury Christ Church University for a degree in sports science and nursing and an MA in leadership and management. Five years in the army (de rigueur for a prep school head), becoming deputy head at Badminton School and then Redcliffe Prep.
Left Latvia shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in spring 2022 and arrived at Kitebrook as interim deputy that summer. Bumped up to acting head that September, he became permanent a term later. Not one to twiddle thumbs, he set about making lots of changes and now, with feet firmly under his pleasingly large, wooden desk, feels that, ‘The school is a happy place to work.’ First up? Leavers’ destinations, so often an early question from a...
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