A leading Independent Day and Boarding School, just 7 miles from London Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, now expanding our provision from Nursery to GCSE

Welcome to Copthorne Prep

Children are unique and every child deserves a school that is dedicated to developing individual abilities and confidence. Currently a Nursery, Pre-Prep and Prep school for children from 2-13, Copthorne will expand year on year from September to offer an all-through education right up to Year 11. Copthorne’s first GCSE exams will be in 2026.

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Year 2

10th May 2021

This week Year 2 have continued learning about Australia. The children wrote fact files about the country and created fabulous dot paintings. We also looked at another Dreamtime story, Tiddalick, and the children enjoyed thinking of different ways the animals...

Year 1

10th May 2021

In Year 1 this week, we have been looking at the Royal Family and their family tree during our Topic lessons. The children had great fun working out their own family trees and some discovered they didn’t know all their...

Reception

10th May 2021

We are buzzing with our minibeast topic this week. We learnt all about bees and discussed what words we could think of… we came up with honey, buzz, wing, sting and flowers to name a few and wrote fantastic descriptive sentences...

Year 4

10th May 2021

Year 4 (TC) enjoyed making objects from woodland materials and clay, and used string to square lash sticks together. Everyone enjoyed lunch in the woods and the lesson ended with some meditation.

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14 May

@copthorneprep WOW! This is absolutely incredible. Thank you so much for your support!

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14 May

It’s #Pyjamarama day! Thank you for your donations, we have raised £267.92 in support of @bookturst. This money will go towards disadvantaged families who cannot afford books for their children … everyone deserves a bedtime story! #copthorneprep #Pyjamarama