EMBRACE NATURE 🌳 EMBRACE LEARNING 🌳 EMBRACE CHILDHOOD
Discover Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School in this short video (3 mins)
SENIOR SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP DESTINATIONS
In the last 10 years, our boys and girls have continued their education – many with awards and exhibitions – at: Lancing College, Brighton College, Hurst, Winchester, Sherborne, Roedean and Christ's Hospital, among others. We believe that while striving for excellence and exam success is important, it is the character of the pupils leaving us that sets them apart and, often, makes them the first choice of many senior schools.
Sompting Abbotts welcomed Mr Chris Gunn as Headmaster in September 2023, taking the mantle from our former head Mr Stuart Douch (2013-2023).
Video: A day in the Nursery and Pre-Prep: 1 min 30 sec.
Video: Parent feedback: 1 min 30 sec.
Recent Scholarship winners to Brighton, Lancing and Winchester Colleges. In the last 10 years, 95% of children entered for a scholarship have achieved their goal.
Small classes (average 15) help lead to higher confidence and academic achievement because each child receives the attention they need.
Sports offered include rugby, football, cricket, netball, hockey, tennis, athletics and gymnastics, golf, squash, modern dance, archery, fencing, orienteering, mountain biking and shooting.
With 30 acres of grounds, our children are spoilt for space in our 30-acre semi-wooded site. From Nursery to Year 8, we support the Forest School ethos and its focus on fresh air and child-centred education.
Technology is empowering our children – from the Pre-Prep to Year 8 – to be digitally-skilled, more creative and more connected.
The Arts are a big and bright part of school life. Pupils have many opportunities to immerse themselves in drama, music, art, dance, and debating and school performances.
Our policy is to keep to our maximum class size limit to ensure our pupils receive the individualised education we provide. Year groups that are full operate a waiting list. Please contact us regarding availability.
Ellie, Toby, Annabelle and Rosalind in Year 8 all began with us in the Pre-Prep. They talk here about their experience of learning at Sompting Abbotts (video: 1 min)
If children lose contact with the natural world, they won't fight for it. It's why learning about nature, sustainability and climate change is a key part of everyday life at Sompting Abbotts.
Children are introduced to French at our school through music and song from age 2 and formally from age 5 (and Latin from Year 6). By Year 8, many are working at GCSE-level French.
Sompting Abbotts places strong emphasis on the performing arts to boost pupils’ confidence and communication skills through regular drama performances and musical recitals.
Our thanks to Sussex aerial video production company Airview for this beautiful footage of the school and grounds from the air.
Following our earlier announcement in July of the shortlisted entries for the Independent Schools of the Year 2023 awards, we're delighted Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School has been selected as a Finalist in the Independent School of the Year for Environmental Achievement category.