Pastoral Care

At Chesham Prep every child is nurtured and looked after with the utmost care and attention to their welfare and safety. We strive to meet all our children’s changing needs on a day-to-day basis.  We communicate any pastoral concerns immediately and ensure that our anti-bullying measures are robust. All our teachers work hard to really get to know each child in their care.  We have excellent relationships with the children and identify and solve any pastoral concerns immediately.

Our Pre-Prep provides an extension of the love and security that your child has received at home. Our older children are offered a wide breadth of opportunity, the chance to develop new skills and gain confidence. They are encouraged to take increasing personal responsibility, to be self-disciplined, fair-minded, honest and reliable, all within a supportive and caring framework. We encourage them to be responsible for their own learning and to show resilience when faced with challenges.

As well as a School Nurse and School Counsellors, the school provides a confidential counselling service for children who wish to discuss any matter that might be troubling them.  All our counsellors have a certificate in counselling skills.

We have a strict school filtering and monitoring system to ensure our pupils do not have access to harmful material when using the school ICT resources. Our E-Safety policy can be found here.

Safeguarding

Keeping our Children Safe at Chesham Prep – Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we work collaboratively with parents to support our children to be happy and safe.

All children have the right to grow up safe from harm. No child should experience harm, either at home or in school. Everyone who works at Chesham Prep School has a responsibility to make sure that all our children are safe.

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead, Mr Martin Cook,  has overall responsibility for safeguarding at Chesham Prep with a dedicated safeguarding team throughout the school.

We ensure all staff and visitors to the school site wear a lanyard at all times so that we know they are authorised to be in school and do not use mobile phones in the presence of children.

School Nurse

Minor accidents and incidents are an inevitable part of school life, at Chesham Prep our children have access to our fully qualified nurse, Nurse Hayley and a number of qualified First Aiders all day, every day.

Nurse Hayley is approachable and caring and our pupils feel comfortable visiting her Nurse’s station whenever they have a medical need.

“The Head and Senior Leadership Team promote a fundamental awareness of roles and responsibilities and safe conduct, creating and reiterating a cohesive structure and a shared vision which filters through to pupils, parents, carers and volunteers.” 2025 Independent Safeguarding Audit 

Visit Us

We look forward to welcoming you and your family to our wonderful school. At the whole school Open Mornings there will be tours of the school and the opportunity to speak to our class teachers and specialist teachers as you go round. At the end of the tour you will meet me and members of the Senior Management Team and the Registrar, Mandy Chase, will also be available to answer any admissions questions.
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