The Belvedere Preparatory School environment creates happy, well-rounded pupils who look forward to coming to school every day. As well as having a reputation for academic excellence, we are also known for our welcoming family atmosphere. Our pupils and their parents are at the heart of the school and an integral part of the community. Our teachers are dedicated and inspirational professionals, praised by parents for their energy and commitment. They spend quality time with every pupil in a disciplined yet caring environment, ensuring that the unique and natural talents of each child are recognized and encouraged. We provide a safe, exciting, and well-resourced environment for your child to grow and develop.
The success of any school is judged by looking at its pupils’ work and talking to them. We are confident that you will be welcomed by our happy smiling pupils who are courteous and proud of their school.
The Belvedere Preparatory School provides a creative, vibrant, and academic education. At Belvedere Prep expectations are high, but aspirations for every child are higher.
Our pupils receive a robust, challenging, and inspiring 21st Century education. This experience prepares them for life and makes the primary schooling years an enjoyable time, filled with rich and memorable experiences. Each child’s unique skills and talents are released and enhanced in an environment of care and respect.
In a culture of collaboration and co-operation, where pupils are taught to value diversity, our pupils are encouraged to work individually and with each other. Children are also encouraged to be thinkers, calculated risk-takers, creators, and self-directed learners, but equally respectful of others, displaying positive behavior and attitudes at all times.
Our curriculum combines traditional teaching and learning practices with the best contemporary and innovative approaches.
Additionally, our children will benefit from a specialist and expert teaching across the curriculum. We provide enhanced opportunities for exploring the arts (art, music, drama) fostering an appreciation of culture and language growing personally, socially, and emotionally developing a sense of teamwork and leadership, and physical well-being (physical education).
We are a single-form entry school and great attention is given to Year Level Standards in literacy and numeracy. We equally encourage our children to work collaboratively across year groups, developing resilience, independence, and teamwork skills.
Our lessons are approximately 50 minutes in duration, however, we work flexibly allowing pupils to engage in areas of interest for longer if they wish to do so. Music, Drama, and Art are also taught for extended periods allowing children to immerse themselves fully in a subject before needing to ‘move on.
School arrangements are reviewed annually to ensure our program of study and timetabling meets the needs and interests of our pupils and school community. Parents are notified of any significant changes. Our school term dates are set in consideration of local authority schools.
The Belvedere Preparatory School promotes learning beyond the classroom. During each academic school year, all classes will be involved in school trips. We believe that Educational visits help children to gain a better insight into aspects of their learning. To support this, some of our recent visits have included: The Globe Theatre (London) The Imperial War Museum (Manchester) Liverpool Planetarium The Catalyst Museum Potter’s Barn Manchester Airport The Walker Art Gallery, and Liverpool World Museum.
Further educational opportunities are sought from specialist companies and guest speakers, who are invited into the school to support the curriculum. Most recently on World Book Day, we invited Bernard Young, a guitar-playing poet, to perform at Belvedere Prep. Bernard provided us with such an enjoyable and entertaining day. All children produced a variety of high-quality poems rapidly and painlessly.
The Belvedere Preparatory School was originally founded in 1880 as the Junior Department of The Belvedere School, Liverpool. Originally housed at 17 Belvidere Road, we moved to our current premises at 23 Belvidere Road in 1939. It is widely recognized as one of the best Independent Schools in Liverpool.
The Belvedere Preparatory School is an Independent Co-Educational School, for pupils aged 3-11 years. Our School is housed in a beautiful Victorian mansion which is located in a historically rich area of Liverpool. With neighboring Princes Park and nearby Sefton Park providing a leafy backdrop, it is an exceptional environment in which your child can begin their educational journey.
At The Belvedere Preparatory School, we take into account the skills, knowledge, and experiences that our children bring with them to school. We recognize that our children have the potential to achieve high standards, often beyond age-related expectations. Therefore, we aspire for all our children to become competent learners.
From the start, children are encouraged to become resilient, confident, and self-assured. We provide opportunities for our children to form positive relationships which enable them to be strong and independent. We aim to extend their development and learning in an enabling environment. We equally acknowledge that all children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and that all areas of learning and development are equally important and interconnected.
We believe in the concept of lifelong learning, and in the belief that we are laying the foundations for learning throughout life in terms of skills, strategies, and attitudes. We maintain that learning should be a rewarding and enjoyable experience for everyone. Through our teaching, we equip children with the skills and a broad range of knowledge and understanding that is necessary to be able to make informed choices about the important things in their lives. We believe that appropriate teaching and learning experiences help children to lead safe, healthy, productive, happy, and rewarding lives.
Our philosophy is that success will be a by-product of everything that we do. We are certainly not an ‘exam hot-house’, where exam preparation takes over the whole of the curriculum. We give it due to focus, we practice for exams (technique, etc.) just like anyone would if they were to play in a music concert, tennis match, etc. but it isn’t at the expense of the development of the ‘whole child. The emphasis on developing confidence and potential, along with technique, enables our children to achieve the results that they are capable of.
