Welcome to the website of King Henry VIII Preparatory School, Coventry

King Henry VIII Preparatory School (KHPS) is a school for children aged from 3 –11 years of age. We are the preparatory school to King Henry VIII H.M.C. 11 – 18 School. However, whilst there are very close links with the senior school, KHPS is a distinct school with its own headmaster and management team.

At KHPS our aim is simple: we hope to provide children with a wonderful start to their education. We take children as early as 3 years of age and our intention is to give them the necessary foundations which will lead to success in later education and hopefully in the adult life. Beyond this we hope to provide all our pupils with a happy and memorable time at their first school, which they will enjoy at the time and look back on fondly after they have left.

Our curriculum is broad. There is plenty of emphasis on the basics but we also teach many other subjects within the curriculum and provide a very wide range of extra-curricular opportunities.

Our school is situated on two campuses, literally a few minutes’ walk from each other, to the south side of Coventry. The two campuses are called Swallows and Hales.

Swallows has its own 3½ acre, self-contained campus on the Kenilworth Road, opposite Coventry’s Memorial Park. Here children aged from 3 – 8 (Nursery to Year 3) are educated in very small classes usually a maximum 16 children on a site which has some of the very best facilities in Coventry. Children on this campus are largely ‘class taught’ which means they have one teacher for most subjects. However, some specialist teachers in key subjects are used, even for children in our Nursery.

The Hales campus is situated just down the road from Swallows, on a site adjacent to King Henry VIII Senior School. At Hales children are taught for the final three years of their primary education, from the age of 8 to 11. Hales represents a significant step forward, at just the right time for junior aged children. Children at this campus are taught by teachers specialising in a small number of subjects in what might be described as a ‘pre-secondary learning environment’, in a range of excellent facilities.

The atmosphere of our School is traditional yet modern and friendly. We look to achieve the good, traditional standards expected of independent schools ─ not just academically but in terms of manners and behaviour ─ yet in a thoroughly up-to-date teaching environment. Our pupils are expected to know how to behave and work but there is also a friendliness and happiness at the School which we hope can be felt by all.

King Henry VIII Preparatory School is part of the Coventry School Foundation, a Coventry based educational charity which also owns King Henry VIII Senior School (11 – 18), the Bablake schools (7 – 18) and Cheshunt School (3 – 7).

The Headmaster of King Henry VIII Preparatory School is a member of the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (I.A.P.S.).