The Sports Hall also has a state-of-the-art mirrored dance studio to allow our talented dancers to check their posture! Throughout the winter months, the pupils will get full use of the Sports Hall, with different activities running each evening for them to let off some steam and it is an opportunity for a mixture of all ages to play together, supervised by a member of staff. 

Holiday stories were swapped and new parents and pupils spoke of the warm reception they had received.

We hope very much you will enjoy being a part of this very special community.

Miss Lozano Arcas has taken up her new role leading the ever-popular ‘Piglet’s Pantry’. 

The extra-curricular cookery club has been full of happy smiles each afternoon as stories of recipes from all over the world which had been cooked over the summer holidays were discussed. 

The club for pupils in Years 3 – 8 runs four times a week and provides pupils with valuable lessons in health and safety as well offering them the opportunity to create delicious meals which they take to be enjoyed at home.

This week, tuna pastry twirls with homemade dipping sauce was on the menu.

The Rotary Club of Eastbourne Sovereign Harbour kindly marshalled the route and our thanks goes to all those who manned the walks as well as to the staff involved in planning the walks and, of course, to the participants themselves. 

Welcome.  Whether this is your first or  your last year at St
Andrew’s Prep as a pupil or parent; or if you are a potential parent,
guardian or child visiting our website, we wish you well and look forward
to seeing you at school very soon.

In the light of the recent European Union (EU) Referendum in the United Kingdom EU parents may be wondering how the outcome of the vote may affect their son/daughter attending St Andrew’s Prep.

St Andrew’s Prep is proud to be an outward-looking and broadminded educational community that welcomes international pupils from the EU, other European countries and from the rest of the world. As an independent school with a strong boarding culture, pupils of many different nationalities and from a range of countries have always been warmly received at St Andrew’s over its 140-year history, and have successfully and happily made Eastbourne their home.

We have long-standing links with families and excellent working relationships with educational agents across the EU and further afield; all our international pupils are highly valued and make a vital and significant contribution to the success and richness of the St Andrew’s community.

It is therefore a clear priority for us to maintain these excellent associations and connections and to reassure EU families in particular that their children will always be an important and valued part of our pupil body. We have always happily and successfully recruited pupils from the EU and we will continue to do so in the future.

In time, we can expect to see new school legislation as the UK moves away from the EU. St Andrew’s Prep will be able to offer its own thoughts on changes to policy and legislation through the Independent Schools Council and Independent Association of Prep Schools and as new policies and legislation are passed, these will be passed on to parents.

St Andrew’s Prep is unwavering in its commitment to remain a warm and friendly educational community, offering all that is good about an independent British boarding school that embraces and values pupils from other countries.

We very much look forward to welcoming you to St Andrew’s Prep.

Speech day dawned, bright and sunny on Saturday 9 July and St Andrew’s Prep was delighted to welcome Governors, staff, parents and pupils to the event which celebrated the academic year and bade a fond farewell to the boys and girls from Year 8. The school was also delighted to host guest speaker, Guy Andrews, a television writer, who has written for television programmes including Lost in Austen, Absolute Power, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Inspector Lewis, Chancer and Blandings (the latter adapting the works of P G Wodehouse) and most recently, the televised version of Fungus the Bogeyman which was shown on Sky One at Christmas. 

Headmaster, Gareth Jones launched the proceedings with a humorous and rousing speech which highlighted much that has happened at school over the course of the year, all of which is driven by the school’s three main aims, Breadth, Excellence and Integrity. He also touched on two new initiatives for the coming year. In a busy world where Google is the go-to option, it is imperative the children are taught how to form opinions, how to substantiate ideas and self-reflect without over-analysing, how to listen and value other opinions, how to be aware of the wider community and so on. A weekly Mind Matters session with the children’s form tutors will hope to guide the children in this regard. And, continuing the community theme, The St Andrew’s Prep Community Award will also be introduced next year which will see children in Years 6, 7 and 8 collecting credits in five specific areas: Physical, Service, Personal Development, Cultural and Challenge. The Award will encourage the children to develop skills for work and life to fulfil their potential to have an even brighter future. 

Chair of the St Andrew’s Committee of Governors, Nicky Eckert thanked Mr Jones for his own contribution and marvelled at all that had taken place during the course of the year before the Head Boys and Head Girls took to the stage to offer their thoughts about Academia, Drama, Music, Sport, outside of the St Andrew’s prep classroom and the ups (and downs) of Year 8. 

Once the prize winners had received their awards from Mr Andrews, he gave an entertaining and passionate speech, aimed at the children, about grabbing every opportunity St Andrew’s had to offer. To try it all and enjoy every day at “this fabulous school.”

The ceremony concluded with a hearty three cheers from the Heads of school and was followed by a mouth-watering buffet picnic on the fields afterwards.

On Monday morning Mrs Stokes took 4 very excited children, Barney, Laila, Isabella and Will down to the Congress Theatre to take part in the ‘Wind Power’ Challenge as part of the Eastbourne Primary Schools Year 2 Technology Challenge.

The children were met by a team of engineers from several local engineering companies and were set the task of making a boat with sails and to move it along a carefully constructed canal using wind power. They had to design and make their own pump and a set of bellows to create enough force to push the boat forward.

The children were given a wide selection of materials to create their designs and had to work together as a team. We were competing against 10 local primary schools and came second overall with marks given for the children’s ability to work together, the quality of their ideas, their level of perseverance and the speed at which their boat travelled from one end of the canal to the other. Well done and congratulations to them all for doing so well.

St Andrew’s Prep hosted an Olympic Challenge on Tuesday and welcomed 1992 Hockey Olympian, Rob Hill; Dr Gary Brickley, Paralympic coach and part of the coaching team for cyclist, Dame Sarah Storey; Will Miller who has represented GB at two veterans Fencing World Championships and Fi Tillman, 2014 GB wheelchair basketball world championship player.

St Andrew’s also invited 40 children from four local primary schools to enjoy the day alongside St Andrew’s pupils.

In the morning, the children all got stuck in to workshops presented by the special visitors including hockey skills and drills; how to lunge and parry in fencing; how to steer a wheelchair and shoot goals from the sitting position and a fascinating talk about the training undertaken by the Olympic and Paralympic cycling team.

After a tasty BBQ lunch, the children took part in a decathlon including, among other events, 100m, long jump, high jump, discus and vortex throwing.

Each child was given a t-shirt in one of the five colours of the Olympic rings and competed in their team colours comprising representatives from all five schools to add to the community spirit.

One of the children commented, “It was amazing to meet so many top athletes and to try out their sports. The day was brill-i-ant fun and it was special to be in teams with children from other schools.”

Gareth Jones, Headmaster said, “The aim of our day was very much in line with the goal of the Olympic Movement which, to paraphrase, is to educate youth through sport without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship and fair play.”