Wellington College Prep

Word From The Head

From Ed Venables, Head

Wellington College Prep is Wellington College’s prep school, located on the South-Eastern corner of the Wellington estate. We are predominantly a day school but also have around 70 boarding beds for flexi, weekly and bi-weekly boarders. We aim to offer the best preparation for Wellington (with a similarly broad co-curricular experience) but every year children leave Wellington College Prep to go to at least 20 different schools and all, we hope, will be the best pupils at those schools. Our vision is ‘to prepare every child to flourish and succeed throughout their lives’ and an aspect of that is providing the best advice about and preparation for the right senior school for every pupil.

There are so many advantages to working seamlessly with Wellington and yet being a standalone school on a standalone site. We are able to operate according to a coherent and modern educational ethos from Nursery through to Year 13 albeit with different age-appropriate emphases. Wellington College Prep pupils benefit from the use of Wellington’s facilities, we share a number of co-curricular specialist staff and our pupils will interact regularly with Wellington girls and boys.

My background in the City and via academic and pastoral leadership positions at Wellington (and, not forgetting the knowledge gained from being Director of Admissions) has prepared me well for being Head of Wellington College Prep. My wife, Kate, also works at the school and our three boys are all products of Wellington College Prep. It is a genuine privilege to be helping our young people to find out who they are as people and to be playing a big part in giving them the self-confidence to enter their chosen senior schools fully prepared to flourish.