parents and the school. The staff in the Prep are passionate about their subjects and they are selfreflective professionals who enjoy unparalleled development opportunities. The school’s curriculum ensures your child is able to identify and build on their own individual strengths. We celebrate success wherever we see it, so that pupils can learn the habits of excellence and transfer them across the curriculum. We aim for your child to fulfil their potential, both academically and socially. The school believes in instilling curiosity, academic resilience and above all, a love of learning in its pupils, and we believe that modelling it as teachers is essential.
Art The Prep Art department aims to develop creativity and imagination through a multitude of diverse activities. It sets out to build on pre-existing skills acquired in the Pre-Prep, where pupils developed artistry using a variety of materials, tools and techniques. Teaching broadly follows the National Curriculum, addressing key elements such as ‘investigating’ and ‘making’, emphasising evaluation to gauge knowledge and understanding. The department believes in looking at art, craft and design in a variety of genres, styles and traditions. Artwork is inspired by a combination of both primary and secondary sources. Visits to museums, galleries, Haberdashers’ grounds and (LOC) using iPads for research are all crucial elements in enhancing the investigative stage. Pupils explore a range of creative and experimental starting points, for example using themselves, their experience, images, stories, drama, natural and made objects and environments. Pupils are always encouraged to be expressive, using a combination of their imagination, memory and first hand, observational stimulus. Pupils can work on their own or collaboratively on projects that are two and three dimensional and in different scales. They experience a range of 10
materials and processes (drawing, painting, collage, mixed media, printmaking, digital media, textiles and sculpture), including ICT using a brush app to create digital work. Projects are planned carefully, adding cross curriculum links with other key subjects.
Computing & ICT In an era of ever emerging technologies, ICT literacy is an essential skill to ensure pupils achieve their future aspirations, whatever they might be. ICT lessons are taught creatively, both in and out of the classroom where problem-solving and thinking logically are key approaches that are embedded in the learning experience. ICT is never used purely for its own sake at Haberdashers’, rather it is embedded in many different aspects of the curriculum. Every year group learns the core Microsoft-based skills and pupils will become proficient users of Microsoft packages as they progress through the schools. E-Safety is an integral component of the ICT and PSHCEE curriculum in every year group. Pupils are taught the importance of being safe when using a range of devices, both at home and at school, and learn how to use the internet safely whilst questioning the validity of online resources. Using software such as Scratch, Logo and even
