Safety & Security of Pupils

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At Felsted, the safety and security of the children is of paramount importance to us as part

With this in mind, all employees of Felsted (Senior and Prep) are DBS (Disclosure and

Barring Service) checked and are required to wear Photo ID Badges at all times on the

School site. Our pupils are taught to report and not approach any adult who does not have

this authorisation.

Children’s responsibilities are communicated to them through assemblies, year group

assemblies and meetings, form tutorials and through daily activity. All visitors to Felsted

Prep School are required to report to the School Office.

Parents’ Safety & Security Agreement

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During the school day, all Parents should report to the Main School Office (Years 3-8)

Match Days: parents are welcome to have “Post Match Tea” in the Ross Hall or Lord Riche

language lessons, will be issued with Name Badges for these activities and registers are

Parents of Pre-prep and Ffrome Court (Y3 & 4) pupils are issued with FPS family name

badges (at the start of each academic year), which they must wear when accompanying

their children into school and when collecting them at the end of the school day.

Safeguarding

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Nicola O’Brien is Felsted School’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and she can be

contacted by email [email protected] or 01371 822507.

Fees

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School fees and Supplemental Charges can be found on the School website here.

“Supplemental Charges” means any items charged to you that are supplemental to the

fees. By way of example, this includes any extra-curricular activities (such as private music

lessons, trips and visits), cost of damage to School property or property of other people,

and all public examination charges.

Payment of Fees

school bill. Please call 01371 822626 or email [email protected]. For any other finance

queries, please contact the Bursar on +44 (0)1371 822621 / burspa@felsted.org.

full term’s notice is required in writing if your son/daughter does not take up the place

You will be sent the first fee account in August for the Autumn Term fees. All extras are

charged for in arrears at the end of each term. Please ensure that your account is paid in

full by the first day of each term. The late payment of fees is subject to an interest charge of

5% per annum in accordance with the School’s terms and conditions.

Payment Options

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Please note that all fees are payable in GBP.

Flywire: Flywire allows you to pay by bank transfer and by debit/credit card payments

address to set up an account with Flywire and you will be able to track your payment from

payment – these can both be found on your school bill.

Fee Plan for the payment of school fees by Direct Debit, your arrangement will continue.

Payment of fees in advance: Felsted is able to offer a modest discount on fees where

during the student’s time at the School. These may cover all or part of the expected fees for

future terms and must be a minimum of three terms fees. Please contact the Head of

Finance on [email protected] if you would like to consider this option.

Medical Matters

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The overall health care of our pupils is managed by the Day and Resident Health and

Wellbeing Assistants and the Prep School Nurse who deals with minor ailments. Felsted’s

Medical Centre is staffed by registered nurses, one of whom is on duty at all times. A

General Practitioner provided by Blandford Medical Centre holds various surgeries during

monitoring. Pupils who are not well enough to participate in lessons should remain at

[email protected], if a pupil is ‘off-exercise’. Please remember to let the Health &

Vomiting or Diarrhoea: If a pupil is vomiting and/or has diarrhoea they should not return to

person to whom prescription has been written, strength of medication, dose, time of

discretion of the Health and Wellbeing Assistants and Prep School Nurse, in agreement

nits. The recommended course of action to keep your child ‘nit free’ is to comb their hair

with a nit comb thoroughly at least once a week. This should be done when they wash their

child’s form teacher if you find nits and confirm treatment is taking place.

If your child has nits, parents should consider whether their child should be in school

depending on the severity of the condition. We recommend your child is kept off school until

after at least one treatment has been completed.

General Information

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Uniform & School Shop

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The School Tailor’s Shop (sited next to Stephenson’s Gate in the Senior School grounds)

undivided attention.

Curriculum

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Information about the Prep School Curriculum can be found on the School website. An

outline of the Learning Pathways for each year group are updated each term and these are

covered from Reception to Year 8. Felsted Learning Standards are reviewed each year and

there are downloadable documents available on the website.

Educational Visits

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Educational visits occur frequently throughout the school year. The governors’ regulations

for the conduct of these (and for holiday events) are comprehensive, with emphasis placed

Parents are sent a form in their New Joiners’ Pack requesting permission to allow recording

of events and publicity, including our weekly Newsletters. If you do not give your

permission, your request will be recorded.

on the School minibuses are allowed to bring personal mobile devices/phones to school but

must hand them in to the relevant office at the start of each day. Other pupils may bring

their mobile device into School only with the agreement of the Head of Phase for a valid

reason and may only access their phone if specifically directed to by a member of staff for a

specific task.

Full and weekly boarders can bring personal devices for use in Hamilton House. Devices

are kept secure and boarding pupils are taught to use their phones responsibly. Please

note that this does not apply to flexi-boarders.

Within Hamilton House any social media sites on personal devices must be sanctioned and

monitored by parents and fall within the relevant age restriction. Boarders in Hamilton

appropriate whilst boarding.

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All meals and snacks are included within the school fees (with the exception of day pupils

staying for tea). There is a wide selection of healthy and nutritious food available and there

are always vegetarian options available. Please indicate any special dietary requirements

(allergies, intolerances, religious etc.) on the New Joiner Forms. Please let us know if you

would like to discuss any special dietary requirements with our Catering Manager and / or

Medical Team prior to joining.

All pupils in the School are placed in one of five different houses or Leagues. You will find

out which League your child is in during the summer holidays. The first league events

usually don’t take place until around October Half Term.

Speaking and other competitions, while all smiley faces and plus/minus points, as well as

stars and stripes (for Years 3-4) count towards the termly total for the much coveted Hopton

League. League meetings are held fortnightly.

Support for Learning

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We are keen for pupils to receive any appropriate Support for Learning which would help

individual attention is required.

Where children have an existing diagnosis, the Head of Support for Learning will be in

contact with you before the start of the school year to discuss reasonable adjustments that

written to ensure that this information is available to all teaching staff. This will also include

any reasonable adjustments for support with in class assessments.

If your child already receives additional support for their learning outside of the classroom,

an assessment of your child. Please email the Head of Support for Learning via

[email protected] if you have any queries. Support for Learning lessons carry an

additional charge and are billed in arrears at the end of each term. Please see the

Items that are NAMED are easily returned to pupils. If an item is lost, please ask your child

to have a good look for it and also ask them to check with their Form Tutor and Head of

Phase. If something is not named, it is very difficult to return it to its owner.

Car Parking

Parents are asked to respect the car park signage and exit the Felsted Prep School Main

car park by turning LEFT into Braintree Road. Please do not turn right as this causes traffic

times.

Pre-prep Parents using the gravel car park by Stewart House should exit via the red &

that you can EXIT without having to go past Stewart House. Where possible, it is then

Parents are expected to park in allocated parking bays within the car parks. These bays are

finite and immovable so demand will always exceed supply. Prompt collection of your

spaces. Please do not double park in the car parks or block other vehicles as this impacts

the smooth flow of vehicles in the car park.

remaining in attendance of their vehicle. This lane is specifically aimed at trying to keep

the pedestrian area of the car park. Children must not be dropped from a double parked

Prep School - Years 3 to 8

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Children are taught and become very familiar with the following mnemonics:

Open doors for everyone

Structure of tutor groups: We hope that pupils will mix with as many of their fellow year

group peers as possible during the school day in lessons, tutor periods and in co-curricular

activities. To facilitate their overall pastoral care, all pupils in Years 3-8 will have a tutor with

whom they meet each morning at 8.20am, including PSHE lessons each week.

Year 3 & 4: Tutor groups are the same as teaching classes

Structure of Teaching Classes: As part of the gradual transition as pupils move from

Pre-prep (Years Reception - Year 2), into Ffrome Court (Years 3 & 4), through into Cloisters

STREAMING (based on general ability) and SETTING (based on subject specific ability),

so that teaching can be aligned to what is best for each individual pupil’s learning and

developmental needs.

The exact provision could vary when we look at the year group cohort (eg: we might have

top, middle and lower streams in one year group, but one top and two mixed middle/lower

classes in another year group), but in general terms this will be similar to the following:

Year 3: No streaming - teaching groups are the tutor groups. Setting only for Mathematics

Year 4: No streaming - teaching groups are the tutor groups. Additional setting for English

Pupils are encouraged to learn, understand and apply a target setting process (mainly

based on our LEARN acronym ) to drive self-management and self improvement. They are

given considerable guidance by tutors. You are asked for your support and interest in this

process.

The outcomes of this will be progress, success and happiness!

Teachers aim to differentiate their teaching to incorporate the needs of each individual.

tracked to ensure progress in line with their child’s ability (see Reports and Parent/Teacher

this review process is to set realistic targets for each pupil over the next few months.

The plus point system is used in lessons when teachers are able to award points for the

children’s effort during the lesson or for a piece of work: because they are awarded for

effort or achievement, everyone has an equal chance of gaining them. Plus points are also

awarded for good manners, helpfulness and politeness outside of the classroom.

Heads of Phase issue Value certificates rewarding pupils for embodying our values of

sessions on Friday and Saturday morning (if Saturday School is attended; optional for

Years 7 & 8

be completed within the school week.There may be times when some additional work

Years 3 & 4: no Saturday School

Years 5 & 6: optional Saturday School *

Years 7 & 8: compulsory Saturday School

Years 5 & 6 (Optional) - Registration 8:20am / Depart 12:00pm

Assisted Prep, co-curricular activities, brunch, co-curricular activities

Years 7 & 8 (Compulsory) - Registration 8:20am / Depart 12:45pm

Normal lessons followed by a prep session, a games session and lunch. There may also be

inter-School fixtures.

We offer the following boarding options in our Prep Boarding House, Hamilton House:

happy to talk to parents and offer trial boarding nights. Those pupils who choose to board

Pupils from Year 2 to Year 8 will complete GL Assessments at the start and end of the

academic year to measure individual growth and identify areas for improvement. These

One of the key benefits of using GL Assessment for progress testing is its ability to provide

weaknesses. By tracking progress over time, we can tailor instruction to meet individual

needs, intervene promptly when necessary, and ensure that students are on track to

achieve academic success.

In addition to this teachers carry out ongoing, regular checks on progress as part of our

assessment for learning programme.

Felsted has a deservedly strong reputation on the games field – we wish to be successful

their skills and we are very lucky to have a well qualified staff for the coaching of major

games.

in our core sports of Rugby, Hockey, Cricket and Tennis for boys and Hockey, Netball,

Swimming galas.

Gum Shields - must be worn for Hockey and Rugby from Years 3 to 8. Pupils will not be

Opro Silver Range multi use gum shields can also be obtained and fitted by our Health &

gum shield that is fitted. Before the gum shield is provided, they will call home to obtain

permission for the charge and authority to fit the mouth guard (boil and bite). If Health and

Wellbeing Assistants are unable to contact parents for authority, the pupil will be unable to

participate in the match/games session. The Felsted Tailor’s Shop also stocks Opro Silver

& bite).

Fixtures are published in the calendar and parents are welcome to support their children

and the Felsted teams. Parents are warmly welcome to stay for ‘match teas’.

Match Day arrangements: Team sheets are normally published at least the night before a

Please follow the Prep School Twitter feed: @felstedprep for updated information. If pupils

letter) prior to the match. This can be given at the beginning of the school year for