News & Events

2024-03-19

A Glimpse into Glendower Prep School’s Musical Excellence

Nestled within the halls of Glendower Prep School lies a musical ecosystem, a “sanctuary” almost, that pulsates wit...

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2024-03-11

A New Head for Glendower

We are delighted to announce that the Governors have appointed Ms Claire Boyd as the next Head of Glendower.  M...

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2024-03-04

Celebrating British Science Week at Glendower Prep School

British Science Week, commencing on the 8th of March, marks a significant occasion for fostering scientific curiosity a...

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2024-03-03

Embarking on a Literary Journey: Glendower Prep School’s Book Week Extravaganza

Excitement is brewing at Glendower Prep School for our much-anticipated Book Week extravaganza! With the theme of "Belo...

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2024-02-25

The Remarkable Catering Team at Glendower Prep

At Glendower Prep, excellence isn't just a goal; it's a way of life, especially when it comes to the culinary delights ...

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2024-02-12

Glendower Preparatory School Takes on the IAPS Ski Championships 2024 in Italy: An Intrepid Adventure

In the picturesque backdrop of the Italian Alps, amidst the snowy peaks and crisp mountain air, lies the stage for the ...

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2024-02-05

Sports and Physical Education at Glendower

The importance of female role models in schools, especially within the field of sports and physical education, cannot b...

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2024-01-28

Nurturing Minds and Exploring Worlds: The Humanities Department at Glendower Preparatory School

In the truest sense of Glendower’s values, the heartbeat of intellectual curiosity resonates within the Humanities De...

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2024-01-20

Minisha Bist – Head of Nursery and Early Years

Minisha Bist is our Head of Nursery and Early Years, and in her role she focuses on the care and education of girls age...

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2024-01-02

Intentions, Not Resolutions: A Fresh Approach to the New Year

As we step into a new year, the air is often filled with resolutions and promises of self-improvement. However, at Glen...

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2023-12-04

Embracing Tradition: The Essence of Christmas at Glendower Prep School

It doesn't quite seem real, but we are in the final week of term here. In the heart of academic excellence, Glendower P...

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2023-11-27

Glendower Prep School: A Gateway to Learning in the Heart of London

Nestled in the heart of central London, Glendower Prep School offers a unique educational experience that extends far b...

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2023-11-21

Kemi Ehilebo – Deputy Head Pastoral at Glendower Prep

“I see my role as giving the girls a voice, and that they feel heard.” Pastoral encompasses everything at Glendo...

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2023-11-15

Muddy Stilettos Review

So proud to see our London Schools Review now published by the discerning team at Muddy Stilettos! Follow the link to r...

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2023-05-15

Assembly with Mayor of RBKC

Fascinating to hear from the Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea, Cllr David Lindsay, at our Prep Assembly this morning. ...

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2023-05-15

Walk to School Week

This week is @LivingStreets’ #WalktoSchoolWeek! Our pupils will learn about the many important reasons to walk and th...

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2023-05-10

Year 6 Madrid Trip 2023

Say ‘PATATAS!’!Year 6 enjoying their first evening in Madrid after a delicious meal. We can’t wait for tomorrow! ...

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2023-05-05

Downe House Sports Masterclass

Fantastic start to our day for Year 6 at @downe_house for their Sports Masterclass. Featuring top coaching...

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2023-05-02

IAPS Qualifying Success

Glendower were so proud to take a phenomenal team of Year 5 and 6 swimmers to compete in the preliminary round of the I...

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2023-04-27

Head’s Night

It is an extremely well respected school that can host an evening with such experience, talent and wisdom on one stage,...

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2023-04-26

Benenden Sports Masterclass

Great to see Year 5 getting a taste of Senior School Sports at the fantastic @benendenschool Sports Masterclass today...

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2023-04-21

Staff Shout Out!

We are so excited to hear the announcement by the Greek Hockey Federation of it's appointment of Elysee Enness Laporte,...

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2023-04-17

Staff Inset Fun

Inset training done differently at Glendower with a fun session of ‘Inspection Hunger Games’! Well done to all the ...

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2023-03-29

Year 5 Chocolate Science

What temptation! Year 5 have been conducting experiments to find the melting point of different Easter chocolates. The ...

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2023-03-29

Easter Bonnet Parade

Our Easter Bonnet Parade is a wonderful way to end the term with a splash of colour on a slightly grey day! Wishing you...

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2023-03-24

National Autism Week

As the sun shone brightly, the girls, parents and staff have all embraced the day with our Spectrum Colour Challenge in...

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2023-03-17

Formal Opening of Little Glendower

Following the formal opening of our new Nursery, Little Glendower, we have today been thrilled to welcome parents, prof...

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2023-03-17

Science Fair

The future is bright. The innovation, creativity and originality shown at the annual science fair was outstanding. Glen...

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2023-03-16

Post 11+ to Shakespeare’s Globe

Another excellent excursion organised for the Post 11+ Programme; a trip to The Globe Theatre 🎭 🌏 ...

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2023-03-08

International Women’s Day 2023

Happy International Women's Day to all! Led by Hera, the Greek Goddess of Women, the Prep School enjoyed a workshop ...

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2023-03-07

Interhouse Netball

What better way to warm up on a cold day that at Interhouse Netball? Years 5 and 6 battled it out on the courts, with t...

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2023-03-03

World Book Day

Its a thoroughly colourful bookish day of Things (1 & 2), Cats in Hats, stern Queens of Hearts, and the whole cast ...

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2023-02-10

Eco Conservation Day

The school is alive with 'wild animals' today as our School Council organised an Eco Conservation day in aid of the Wor...

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2023-02-01

Honeypot Charity

On Monday our Pre-Prep girls enjoyed a visit from Bumble, the Honeypot charity mascot. Honeypot is one of three chariti...

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2023-01-24

Chinese New Year

Thank you to our wonderful parent community for sharing with us their celebrations for Chinese New Year. We learned so ...

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2023-01-10

Spring Term Clubs

Just a few snapshots of the wonderful Spring Term clubs starting at Glendower this week. From Cookery and Handicrafts t...

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2022-12-05

Christmas Parties!

Mother Christmas had a visit in her study from some wonderful elves this afternoon after all their hard work at the Yea...

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2022-11-25

Year 2 History

As part of their History curriculum, this week Year Two learned about the Wright brothers. The girls watched footage fr...

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2022-11-17

Schools Partnership ‘Throwback Thursday’

On the 6th of June Glendower Preparatory School held a joint celebration with Park Walk Primary School to commemorate t...

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2022-11-16

The GlenPark Partnership

The GlenPark partnership, established between Glendower Preparatory School and Park Walk Primary School, although still...

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2022-11-15

Community Club

September saw the launch of our first ever Community Club. Each week our fabulous Glendower pupils visit St Teresa’s ...

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2022-11-14

Annual Impact Report 2021-22

We are so excited to launch our Annual Impact Report today, during Schools Partnership Week. https://www.glendowerp...

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2022-11-11

Act of Remembrance 2022

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down...

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2022-11-09

3C on a British musical journey

3C took us on a musical journey through British History this morning, as they introduced us to Traditional songs such a...

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2022-11-01

New Nursery Space Opens

16 excited 'Little Glendower' girls arrived at Nursery yesterday, entering for the first time through the doors to our ...

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2022-10-12

Diwali Dancing Celebrations

Glendower was filled with colour and Indian culture to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali, a time to celebrate the ...

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2022-10-11

Year 4 Dragon Puppet Making

Year 4 enjoying making Dragon Puppets as part their topic studying ‘How to Train your Dragon’.Thank you for the fer...

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2022-10-06

Rush Hour Concerts

Fantastic to start the first of this year’s Rush Hour Concerts. Well done to all the performers! ...

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2022-09-29

Joint Senior Schools Fair

So delighted to be co-hosting the Senior Schools Fair 2022 and to see so many parents keen to find out more. ...

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2022-09-08

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Passing

It is with much sadness that we acknowledge the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She has served our nation with...

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2022-09-07

Welcome Back to School

A wonderful morning welcoming our pupils and parents back, from our excited new Nursery and Reception girls, to the big...

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2021-02-04

The Mind Pilot – Kate Ludlam

The Covid pandemic will be captured in the pages of our history books for ever.  For sure, we are all trying to su...

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2021-01-28

PLPS Poetry Competition Winner

Tree by Coco (Y5) Tall and straight They always wait For the next day to come. Lean and silent Stro...

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2021-01-27

Year Six Yoga

During PSHE, Miss Mogridge and 6M took part in some yoga.  After an eventful few weeks with 11+ intervie...

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2021-01-22

Celebration of Achievement

Friday 22nd January 2021 Lower School - Remote Learners of the Week R1 - Viola and Olivia R2 - Lara and Mati...

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2021-01-22

Year Three Mindfulness Workshop

Last week, all of Year 3 joined in for a Mindfulness Workshop with Kate Ludlam and Miss Lock. Mindfulness exercises cal...

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2021-01-21

Year Four Poetry

Based on 'The Wolf's Wife Speaks' by Pie Corbett The Foolish Wolf's Lesson - By Imane He was always the first ...

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2021-01-18

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

On Monday 18th January, we had an assembly to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Martin Luther King Jr. is famous b...

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2021-01-15

Celebration of Achievement

Friday 15th January 2021 Lower School - Remote Learners of the Week R1 - Frieda and Philippa R2 - Celeste and...

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2021-01-15

Positions of Responsibility

Spring 1 2021 Form Captains and Vice Captains 3L - Molly (C), Ginevra (VC) 3S - Siena (C), Charlotte (VC) ...

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2021-01-13

Look Out – 1KF Have Turned into Monsters!

On Wednesday, we had great fun in our Zoom Art lesson. The whole class did a monster drawing tutorial and then went on ...

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2021-01-11

Resourcefulness Assembly

Mrs Sweeney presented a wonderful assembly on Monday all about the 6Rs and all the different ways to be resourceful. I ...

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2021-01-07

Musical Achievements

Congratulations to the following girls who have passed their recent music exams: Victoria (Y3) - Grade 1 Piano - Di...

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2021-01-07

Baking for Charity

Alexia (Y5) has been very busy baking for charity over the festive season. Using Madame Metro's acclaimed recipe, Alex...

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2021-01-06

Poppy Appeal

At the end of the Autumn Term, Glendower supported the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appeal.  We have been infor...

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2020-11-27

Book Fair Donations

A big thank you to everyone who supported our online book fair this November. Thanks to the generosity of the Glendowe...

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2020-11-27

Art Scholars

Year Six Art Scholars have been working hard over the last few weeks, spending their free lunchtimes busily painting po...

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2020-11-27

Year Three Art

Year Three girls are working hard to complete their Ancient Egyptian tomb designs. They have researched animal gods an...

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2020-11-27

French Workshops

Year Four girls took part in a workshop over Zoom with French illustrator, Dorothee de Monfried. The girls were taught...

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2020-11-13

Wear it Wild!

Before Half Term, Glendower was invaded by tropical and exotic animals! The girls had a great time dressing up in suppo...

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2020-11-13

Christmas Card Making

6M have begun crafting and writing Christmas cards to those who might be feeling lonely this Christmas, particularly in...

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2020-11-11

Remembrance Day

On Wednesday 11th November, Glendower fell silent at 11.00 to mark and honor Remembrance Day. Staff and students liste...

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2020-11-06

Doodle English

Well done to Elora and Olivia in Y5 for winning the Doodle English Challenge! The girls were given two weeks to see how...

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2020-11-02

Teacher of the Week!

Over half term, Mrs Payne was featured in 'The Week Junior' magazine as their teacher of the week! Mrs Payne was nomina...

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2020-11-01

Showjumping Success!

Well done to Krishna in Y5 for her success at a recent showjumping competition. Krishna took part in a number of exerc...

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2020-09-18

Year Three Art Competition

Year 3 have been working on a poster competition to create a design for display around the school. This poster is to r...

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2020-09-14

Learning From Our Mistakes

On Monday 14th September, Miss Rodgers held an assembly based on learning from your mistakes. Miss Rodgers talked to u...

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2020-09-11

Our New Commute to School

Ava and Daphne (Y6) have been greatly affected by the closure of Hammersmith Bridge. Living in Barnes, their commute t...

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2020-09-11

Ekatra – Together We Can

Over the Summer, a group of Glendower students came together with Arunima Kumar Dance company to present Ekatra - Toget...

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2020-09-11

Football Superstars!

During the Summer, Lily (Y4) and Maya (Y2) took part in a 10-day football course, organised by the Chelsea Football Clu...

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2020-09-11

Bloomsbury Childrens’ Art Festival

Aishwarya (Y3) was the runner up in the Bloomsbury Childrens’ Art Festival for her themed painting, Vision 2120. T...

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2020-09-03

London to Cambridge Cycling Challenge

This Summer, my Dad and I had planned to do a challenge to try and cycle from London to Paris. Unfortunately, because o...

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2020-03-05

Poetry Recital Competition

The Poetry Recital Competition is a firm favourite for pupils and teachers alike, and this year the standard was simply...

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2020-02-27

Y3 Ancient Greece Workshop

Year Three had a very exciting visitor last Thursday; Athena, goddess of war, wisdom and the arts, came all the way fro...

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2020-02-24

Y3 Netball

On 24th February, Glendower participated in a Y3 netball fixture against Garden House. The Glendower team played splend...

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2020-02-11

Y4 Stag Lodge Stables Trip

On Tuesday 11th February, Year 4 visited Stag Lodge Stables. The visit was organised because we have been looking at a...

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2020-02-10

Where Will We Be in the Future?

On Monday, Mrs Murty kindly volunteered to come in and talk to us about the wonders of future technology. She went thro...

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2020-02-10

Mr Reeves Assembly

On Monday my daddy came to talk to The Lower School about design. He talked about what there might be in the future. He...

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2020-02-10

Y6 Maths Board Games

After an incredible and yet exhausting few weeks through the 11+ process, the year 6 girls created some magnificent boa...

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2020-02-08

U11 Football Tournament

On the 8th of February Glendower hosted our first ever tournament. It was a lovely day and thankfully the rain held off...

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2020-02-07

Marlborough Fundraiser

On behalf of the St Cuthbert’s Centre, I would like to thank you very much for all for the generous donations of clot...

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2020-02-04

House Assembly

On Tuesday 28th January, Glendower had its third House Assembly. The Heads and Deputy Heads of House wished everyone a ...

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2020-02-03

Young Shakespeare Company

The Upper School had a wonderful time last week when attending our annual Shakespeare workshops! It was an engaging int...

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2020-02-03

Amazon Rainforest Assembly

On Monday Mrs Chan, who is a travel journalist, came in to talk to us about the Amazon Rainforest and her experiences t...

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2020-02-03

Future Technologies Assembly

On Monday morning, Mrs Murty talked to us about the different possibilities of the next decade. She talked to us about ...

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2020-01-24

Competition Winner

Congratulations to Ottie whose drawing was selected for this year's Road Safety Calendar Competition. You can see the ...

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2020-01-13

New Year’s Resolutions

On Monday, we were all fortunate enough to be joined by Reverend Jenny Welsh who discussed New Year’s resolutions wit...

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2020-01-10

Gymnastics Team GB

Congratulations to Anastasia (5M), who has been selected for the British Gymnastics Team for 2020 (Performance Pathway ...

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2019-12-12

Playing for the National Children’s Orchestras

Congratulations to Celestine (Y5) who has been offered a place at the National Children's Orchestras under 10 orchestr...

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2019-12-12

My First Published Book

A huge well done to Eva (Y5) for publishing her own book – ‘Lucy Greenlight and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch’....

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