Welcome to the website of a new school – King Henry VIII Preparatory School

After a year of careful preparation, King Henry VIII Preparatory School will officially open on Monday 1st September 2008 and will receive its first pupils a few days later when Autumn Term officially begins.

Coventry Preparatory School and King Henry VIII Junior School Coventry are two outstanding independent schools which are already part of the Coventry School Foundation and have membership of the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools. Each currently has close to 250 pupils. Coventry Prep educates children from the age of 3 to 11 and King Henry VIII Junior School educates children from the age of 7 to 11.

After careful deliberation, the governors of Coventry School Foundation have decided to create a school that provides seamless education for children aged from 3 to 11 by combining the two schools. Children may then advance into secondary education at King Henry VIII Senior School, at the age of 11, or another school of their parents’ choice. For those who wish it, however, from September 2008 education from the age of 3 – 18 will be available at the same school (KHVIII).

King Henry VIII Preparatory School will have a pupil capacity of 500, making this one of the largest independent 3 - 11 schools in the Midlands. There are significant advantages to be gained from a big school but class sizes will remain small with a maximum class size (up to the age of 8) of 16 pupils and between the ages of 8 and 11 of 20 pupils.

The School will retain its two excellent, existing campuses. Children aged from 3 to 8 (Nursery to Year 3) will be educated at the Prep School campus, to be known as Swallows; children aged from 8 – 11 (Years 4 – Year 6) will be educated at the Junior School campus, to be known as Hales. Each campus is a few minutes’ walk from the other, thus there will be good communication between the two but at the same time each campus will be able to retain a sense of being a small school where all children are well known to staff and where there is a family atmosphere, so important to the well-being and care of children in the primary age range.

There will be one overall head teacher with responsibility for leading the whole school and a deputy head in charge of the day-to-day running of each campus. The new headmaster will be Mr. Nicholas Lovell.

The combining of two excellent schools to create a single outstanding school represents a very important step forward in the strategic thinking of the Governors of Coventry School Foundation and is one aspect of a comprehensive review of the education for children aged from 3 – 11 undertaken by the Coventry School Foundation at the start of the 21st Century.

If you would like to learn more about our new school, please look through the various pages linked to this one. Over the next few weeks and months more content in this website will be unlocked, so please revisit us periodically.