CURIOSITY • CREATIVITY • COMPASSION

Donhead Preparatory School is an outstanding, nonselective, coeducational school for 3–11 year old pupils which achieves excellent academic results and an impressive number of senior school scholarships every year. Our sense of purpose and character formation is bespoke and we strive for each child to develop “improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.”

The grounds are spacious and leafy with a lawn, adventure playground, outdoor classroom, climbing wall, and 3G artificial sports court. Over the years, the play areas for the children have been transformed, both in terms of quality and safety. It is a joy to watch the children explore and enjoy the school grounds.

• Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, becoming men and women for others.
• Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.
• Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.
• Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.
• Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relations between people, and the world.
• Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.
• Curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better.
• Intentional in the way they live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience; and prophetic in the example they set to others.

Lord Jesus, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labour and not to seek reward, except that of knowing that I do your will.