Independent pre-prep schools in surrey

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Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me please as I am kind of getting frustrated visiting schools and not arriving at any conclusions for my 3 year old son. We want to put my DS in an independent schools, we live in Ewell/Epsom and have looked at many schools including Shrewsbury Lodge, Claremont in Esher. I kind of liked St. Christopher school in Epsom but wanted to know if any of you have any experiences with the school. My son who just turned 3 does go to a day nursery and has been going for last 2 years but his interests are so different from other kids, his imagination power is entirely to other kids so when it comes to reasoning and answering his questions or even commenting, the nursery teachers kind of avoid it and then he feels stuck and ends up being upset and frustrated. He does quite a lot of rhyming and poetry and the nursery teachers feel he is not interested in what they want him to do and it offends them. e.g one of the teachers asked him '' Can we make a move please'' and he replied ''No No can we make a star please'' . On another occasion his teacher asked him 6 months ago '' Do you have a stomach-ache as he was holding his tummy'' so he replied ''No, I have a cupcake'' I hope you understand that what I am trying to say is he thinks very differently and he never has a straight forward answer but that's his natural self but the teachers feel he is mocking at them, gosh!!! so you can imagine its a struggle to have a normal conversation with him and the teachers so I want that kind of school which will not discourage or feel bad for anything he asks which is so genuine to him and let his creativity flow in terms of rhyming and poetry. I really dont want him to get stuck at any stage in his life so I need a school where he could be nurtured and where his imagination or whatever you call it a strength for him rather put him down. Any comments would be really appreciated as you can see I am struggling a lot :)

By the way its the same with his maths also

Try Kingswood house in Epsom Our son went there and we utterly adored it. Our son is in the G&T category and this school just rose to this he utterly shined. Mr Brooks the head is approachable takes the time to get to know the boys (knew each by name) and spends time in the class rooms. Staff are polite and welcoming and the teachers are so interactive with their students. When we had a snow day (this was now 5 years ago so a rare thing) they abandoned all formal lessons took the boys out into the snow made the houses have snowman competitions reception measured snow balls who can make the biggest who can make the smallest.. they spoke of what snow was made off they tried to run in the snow and learnt why this was harder.. half way through the day they had hot chocolate served to keep warm.. He came out of home with bright red cheeks shining eyes and now speaks still of this day.

My daughter attended the preprep (it is a boys school after 3 year but they take girls prior though she was the first) and they dealt with her issues (she is very dyslexic and she also thinks alternatively a bit like your son) by encouraging both her strengths and her weaknesses

I simply can not praise this school enough I cried when we had to move and took the kids out.. would have loved to remain there..

When you walk around you will see lots of names engraved in the building. First time you see this you will think hmm that is a bit odd but it is a tradition that on leaving the leavers are allowed to carve their name into the building.. So years and years on their name is still a mark on the school.

PS they also have a nursery part of the school so you could perhaps send him there to get a feel of the school?

Thanks Frikadellen. We went to Kingswood and I loved it too but I am not quite sure of the nursery there. How duo think nursery is there ?

In a word Fantastic. If we were to move back to that area I would return our son there for his last years there without any second thought. We had friends who used the nursery for their girls as well as sons and thought it was amazing.