News & Events
Nursery Squiggle While You Wiggle!
The Explorers and Little Learners (age 2-3) have started a new exciting programme this month called Squiggle While You Wiggle! The Squiggle Early Learning Programme is a developmental approach designed specially for the early years and encourages the early stages of mark making and physical development used in writing when the children are older. The…
Little Eden Awards Launch
We launched an exciting new scheme in January for children in our Early Learners and Reception classes – the Little Eden Awards. Similar to the Mini Duke Awards, the Little Eden Awards have been designed to introduce the children to different challenges throughout their time in the Early Years Department at Edenhurst. These 18 activities…
Teaching and Learning at Edenhurst
At Edenhurst, we are committed to ensuring that we keep up to date with the latest research and pedagogical developments in education. This academic year, staff at Edenhurst have been working with other schools in the Bellevue group to upgrade our ‘charter of excellence’, otherwise known as C.O.D.E 2.0 – challenge, ownership, dialogue and engagement….
Edenhurst Prep School Welcomes New Headteacher
Edenhurst Preparatory School is this month welcoming Emma Mousley as its new Headteacher. Emma brings extensive curriculum development and senior leadership experience to her new role at Edenhurst. Most recently she was Deputy Head of Pastoral and Wellbeing at Repton Al Barsha, Dubai, where she had taught since 2013. Emma has also taught at St…
Top 10 Tips For Preparing Your Child For School
Posted on 19th Jul 2019 Starting school is one of life’s major milestones and for many parents it can be an emotional time. It’s natural to feel both nervous and excited, but with a little advance preparation both you and your little one will be able to cope with the transition more smoothly. Here…
EPTA
A BIG THANK YOU FROM THE EPTA What a year it has been for Edenhurst and the EPTA! I cannot believe how far we have come since the start of the Michaelmas Term back in September 2021. We, at the EPTA, were adamant that the money raised in 2022 was going to make a…
End of 2022 Message
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…A newly appointed Head teacher stood in front of an expectant audience of parents, teachers and children, in the King’s Hall in Stoke-on-Trent, ready to set his stall out. His message: Your children need a Growth Mindset! That was me, 4 years ago, and today I…
Edenhurst Preparatory School Appoints New Headteacher
We would like to announce the appointment of the new headteacher, Emma Mousley, who joins the school in January 2023. Emma will succeed current headteacher Michael Hibbert, who took on his headship at the school in 2018. He is leaving the school with excellent growth mindset foundations in place for its new leader, an ISI…
The Importance of Being Weird
The importance of being weird. At Edenhurst we do things differently. As I write this I am in my office and it is 9:27pm on a Thursday. That is not because I am a workaholic, it is because the children in my school are camping on the school field. Weird! Some might think that this…
Fair Play
When the rules aren’t applied consistently or when people behave in such a way that leaves me feeling unjustly treated, I get annoyed. I see the same in our children in the playground and around school. Treating people fairly has always been important to me. I do my very best to apply this in all…
Why Edenhurst?
Why Edenhurst?
