News Chess Champions The Year 7s have been competing in the ‘Chess Champions League’ since September, playing a total of 87 games. Oliver and Jake reached th... 02 December 2020
News Poetry Competition Winner Brown Eyes We are so pleased to announce that James, aged 11, in Year 7 has just won 1st place in the 11-16 category of a national poetry competitio... 26 November 2020
News Remembrance 2020 At 11:00am on 11th November, the whole school assembled in the grounds for our Remembrance Service. Our children from Nursery to Year 8 wore their p... 22 November 2020
Events Music lesson in Reception Reception loved their music lesson with Mr Wagstaff this afternoon. They learned all about keeping a beat whilst performing The Grand Old Duke of Yo... 08 October 2020
News Preparation for the future Our senior pupils are preparing for their entrance exams - 11+ tests for Grammar Schools and their ISEB tests. We are delighted to have our new Assi... 07 October 2020
News Award nomination for our Outdoor Classroom We are delighted to have our state-of-the-art outdoor classroom nominated by the designers, Timotay, for the APL (Association of Professional Landsc... 23 September 2020
News The Summer Term 2020 Our school mission is to develop, happy, confident and successful children who are well prepared for their future. Following the closure of schools ... 18 August 2020
News Reception pupils enjoying school We have been extremely lucky to have our Reception children back at school for five weeks. Although the remote learning was a huge success and the c... 06 July 2020
News The Great Lucy Bake Off Lucy, age 11, has baked the most delicious chocolate Swiss Roll. Our children have developed some incredible new skills during their period in lockd... 20 May 2020
News The Robson Times Our budding newspaper editor, Peter (11 years) has published his brilliant Robson Times. We have been able to enjoy Issue 1 and Peter has just relea... 10 May 2020
News Lockdown Lights Some of the work that our children have produced during the lockdown has been both outstanding and creative. We are so proud of the quality of the w... 10 May 2020
Events Virtual Open Mornig We look forward to welcoming you to our Virtual Open Morning where you will be able to find out more about Westbrook Hay. Meet with our Headmaster, ... 06 May 2020
News Remote Learning at Westbrook Hay Our Remote Learning Programme is now well underway with all our children from Reception upwards following a timetable of lessons for each day. Our s... 21 April 2020
News DT Tournament Winners Westbrook Hay entered three teams into the annual DT Tournament that is organised by the Hemel Hempstead and Berkhamsted Rotary Club and held at Ash... 06 April 2020
News Easter Egg Hunt Our wonderful Year 8 helped to run the Easter Egg Hunt for our youngest children today. 19 March 2020
News Watford Festival Our children have achieved some excellent successes at the Watford Festival. Sophie did very well winning the cup for Grade 4 Piano and Meredith won... 16 March 2020
News Our ECO warriors Westbrook Hay Eco Warriors Committee have met 3 times so far this term. The committee is made up of representatives from Years 2 to 8. The aim of... 16 March 2020
News World Book Day What a wonderful World Book Day we have enjoyed! Over 300 children and staff wholeheartedly took part in our Book Character parade in our Performing... 06 March 2020
News Maths Week The week started with Smarties Day, a whole school investigation into Smarties. From a mathematical point of view we studied the nets of the packs, ... 05 March 2020
News Ultimate Activity Camps With the Easter holidays in the not too distant future and many parents making holiday plans for the Summer we would like to remind you that Ultimat... 04 March 2020
News Detective work at the Haileybury Science Discovery Day Six pupils from Year 6 joined eight other Prep schools, at Haileybury College, to attend their Science Discovery Workshop on the 11th February . Eac... 13 February 2020
News LAMDA Success On the 27th January Years 1 / 2 children who participate in LAMDA classes performed their individual and group poems to their parents in a special a... 12 February 2020
News A fabulous week of sport What a week of sport we have had. The highlights: Mr Summerfield’s U13 basketball side took on St. Martin’s in a tight game here on Mo... 11 February 2020
News The Nationals for Finlay Our Year 7 pupil, Finlay Rennie (age 12), has been selected to play for the U15 England Schools Golf Team (ISGA) against Scotland in March. Finlay i... 06 February 2020
News U12s are County Cup Futsal Champions Having become District Champions beating Tring, Longdean, Laureate Academy and Astley Cooper our U12 Futsal squad competed for the County Futsal Cha... 04 February 2020
News Girls Football at Watford FC The U11 girls visited Watford FC training ground for the Premier League Stars Girls Tournament. The girls had a fantastic time, playing seven matche... 04 February 2020
News Good luck to our Year 8 and Year 6 sitting entrance exams and scholarship papers Our senior children have been working hard for their entrance exams to their senior schools. Interview practice is underway ensuring that our childr... 14 January 2020
News Once upon a crime..... The Middle School children have been working hard for most of the term on this year's Christmas Term production, Porridge! The children aged bet... 13 December 2019
News Under 11s Secure County Win On Saturday 7th December, the Colts A squad (a mix of 10 and 11-year olds) travelled to Watford to play against the best schools in Hertfordshire in... 09 December 2019
News Christmas Fair Fun The WHA, staff, parents and children hosted a wonderful Christmas Fair this year. Mr Brain kindly gave up his study for Santa's Grotto and the E... 06 December 2019
News Dance display Wow! A very big well done to all of Westbrook Hay's dance pupils! 159 of Westbrook Hay's children were involved in the 2019 dance display an... 05 December 2019
News Cross Country Winners On Monday 11th November three of our Year 7 boys plus Oliver M from Year 6 competed in the District Cross Country Championships. It was a bitterly c... 12 November 2019
Events, News Bonfire Night Saturday 9th November Don't forget to buy your tickets for our wonderful Bonfire Night organise by our WHA. We have hosted this event for many years and it is a firm ... 04 November 2019
News 1 st Team Triangular Football 1st Team We entertained Keble and Quainton Hall in a triangular festival this week. We shuffled our players around so they had some experience in ... 10 October 2019
News It's all about soils for Year 3 Today, Year 3 had a really interesting day deepening their knowledge of soils. They began with identifying the four elements - water, air, humus (no... 10 October 2019
News Exciting visit to the science lab Year 1 had an exciting visit to the Science lab where they got to meet lots of interesting creatures! As part of our topic, ‘Animals including... 10 October 2019
News Year 3 learn about Roman life Year 3 had a great day at St Albans Roman Museum. They learnt all about Romans in Britain, why they came, where they settled and why they finally le... 07 October 2019
News Muddy Stilettos - new review Muddy Stilettos came back last week to see our new, state of the art outdoor classroom and meet with our Headmaster, Mark Brain; and have written a ... 03 October 2019
Events, News Open Morning Saturday 7th March 2020 Book your place at our Open Morning on Saturday 7th March 9:30am - 12:30pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to view the school in action. Our senior... 30 September 2019
News Open Morning Come and visit Westbrook Hay at our Open Morning on Saturday 28th September. This will be a wonderful time to meet our new Headmaster, Mark Brain an... 27 September 2019
News U10 boys win the ISFA Futsal Competition Congratulations to our U10 boys who competed at St Martins Prep against five other schools to win the ISFA competition. They won four games and drew... 27 September 2019
News Watch our fantastic new video Our new school video show how exciting and varied life is for our pupils at Westbrook Hay - the opportunities are endless! 16 September 2019
Events, News Teddy Bears' Picnic 14th September We would be delighted to welcome you to our lovely family event for nursery aged children. The Teddy Bears' Picnic is on Saturday 14th Septemb... 09 July 2019
News Wonderful new lower school playground Our Lower School are waiting in anticipation for our fabulous outdoor learning area, which was designed with a collaboration of ideas from parents, ... 13 June 2019
News Swimming at the Nationals Alexander Kalverboer (aged 12), a pupil in Year 8, swam in the IAPS National Swimming Finals at the Olympic Aquatics Centre on Saturday 8th June. On... 13 June 2019
News Inter Prep School Golf Competition On a sunny evening, Westbrook Hay put out two golf teams against Lockers Park, Aldwickbury and Kingshott. Conditions were very testing with hard and... 04 June 2019
News Ultimate Activity Camps - Summer offer Ultimate Activity Camps will be back this Summer using our fantastic facilities for their fun, safe and active camps, Summer dates are Monday 15th J... 22 May 2019
News Former Pupil Reunion 2019 Fantastic turnout of former pupils and parents to say farewell to Mr Young 22 May 2019
News Nature Ramble With perfect weather conditions on Tuesday 21st of May, a group of Year 3 and 4 children enjoyed a lovely evening exploring the WBH grounds, looking... 22 May 2019
News Year 5 boys meet the Sri Lanka one day cricket team Ten Year 5 boys had the opportunity to play in a pairs cricket festival at Merchant Taylor’s School. Even though we had rain for most of the w... 13 May 2019
Events, News Lower School Stay & Play sessions We are delighted to let you know about our two "Stay & Play" sessions for children between the ages of 3 and 5 years old. These sessio... 30 April 2019
News ISFA England Squad Two pupils from Westbrook Hay Prep School have been selected to play in the England ISFA team (independent schools’ football association)! Thi... 29 April 2019
News IAPS Swimming Finals Late in the Spring Term, our top swimmers travelled to the IAPS Regional Swimming Finals. We had to wait until the Easter holidays to find out where... 15 April 2019
Events, News Family Easter Egg Hunt Saturday 23rd March A wonderful event for all the family in the grounds of the school. 26 February 2019
News Muddy Stilettos Review Muddy says: This co-ed day prep school has an outdoorsy culture, offers an all-round education and puts children’s happiness and wellbeing fir... 21 February 2019
News Pupil wins Premier League Academy Writing Competition Our Year 5 pupil William, wins Premier League Academy writing competition 31 January 2019
News District Futsal Champions! What an incredible 2 days of Futsal from the U13s A team! We competed in the District Tournament against the schools within Dacorum beating Cavend... 18 January 2019
News Welcome back to Westbrook Hay and 2019 Welcome to our new pupils, parents and staff to Westbrook Hay and 2019. A particular welcome goes to our new GAP students who have joined us for ... 07 January 2019
News Westbrook Hay Screenwriter wins PQA competition. One of our Year 5 pupils, Meredith Ryder aged 9, has recently won the PQA (Pauline Quirke Academy) National Screenwriter Competition for her script ... 13 December 2018
News Year 2 Visit St Albans Museum On November 20th Year 2 went to St Albans Museum. They had the opportunity to play with old toys paying attention to what they were made of and how ... 06 December 2018
News Under 11s secure County Win On Saturday the Colts A squad travelled to Watford to play against the best schools in the area in the county finals. We started excellently, playin... 21 November 2018
News District Cross Country Championships On a lovely autumn afternoon six of our Year 8 pupils competed in the District Cross Country Championships, at Abbot’s Hill school. The boys h... 15 November 2018
News National football champions again We’ve done it again, again! Our U13 football team has won the IAPS National Football title, for the third year in a row. What an amazing achie... 07 November 2018
News Year 7 enjoy a wonderful week in Wales The Year 7 children enjoyed a fabulous trip in North Wales - rain, gales and glorious sunshine. The children visited a slate mine, completed a river... 23 October 2018
News IAPS Regional Winners Westbrook Hay Prep School’s U13 football team are IAPS (Independent Association of Prep Schools) regional champions again, for the fifth time... 08 October 2018
News Girls' survival trip... Our eighth Year 5 & 6 Survival Trip went down an absolute storm, almost literally! Whilst Storm Bronagh blew our plans to camp overnight somewha... 26 September 2018
News Year 8 visit Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham Another successful trip to the Stanley Spencer museum in Cookham. After an inspiring talk about the works of Stanley, our boys were taken on a walk ... 18 September 2018
News Year 5 enjoy Victorian life at the Chiltern Open Air Museum Year 5 had a treat visiting The Chiltern Open Air Museum to start off their study on the Victorians. The museum specialises in old buildings and obj... 10 September 2018
News Year 8 at PGL Following their entrance exams and Common Entrance, our Year 8 are enjoying their PGL trip and a stop off at Drayton Manor on the way. 12 June 2018
News Year 1 at Chiltern Open Air Museum Year 1 had a very exciting trip to Chiltern Open Air Museum on Tuesday. We learnt about how it was like to live in the Stone Age and had to help mak... 10 May 2018
News Apple Juice sell out! Thank you parents for supporting our Apple Juice sale - we raised about £150 for the WHA and sold out of homegrown apple juice in first 30 min... 25 April 2018
News Oliver The Easter term, at Westbrook Hay saw three glorious performances of our Upper School production, ‘Oliver!’ which left the audience begg... 26 March 2018
News Watford Music Festival More Success Our Westbrook Hay children won three more medals at the Watford Festival at the weekend. In a class of 14, for Age 9 & under Lucy won the Silver... 26 March 2018
News Inter School Cross Country 2018 This week we hosted the annual schools’ x-country meeting, with around 250 athletes from the ages of 8 – 13 competing. On the day we enj... 13 March 2018
News Book Character Dressing Up Day Well bless my whiskers, I wanted to email to say a HUGE thank you to you all for joining in so completely with our dressing up today. Having postpon... 06 March 2018
News Pepper Cafe and Collectables The Pepper Café and Collectables Sale Friday March 9th ( this FRIDAY !!! ) We want your old puzzles, board games, toys, trading cards, action... 06 March 2018
News Snow News 1st March 23:00 2018 School closed on Friday 2nd March and Open Morning cancelled on Saturday 3rd March 01 March 2018
News Snow News 1st March 16:45 Our intention is to open the school on Friday 2nd March and also for Open Morning on Saturday 3rd March. If the weather situation worsens and our pl... 01 March 2018
News Lower School fun in the snow The lower school children are really enjoying their play in the snow. 01 March 2018
News Snow News 1st March 2018 7:30am Thursday 1st March - The drive is clear and the school is open but please only travel to school if it safe for you to do so. Our message from ... 01 March 2018
News Watford Music Festival Success Huge congratulations go to all our singers competing in the Watford Festival on Saturday and Sunday. Joseph & Isaac (Yr6) entered the ‘Bo... 25 February 2018
News Muddy Stilettos Review Read the wonderful review posted on Muddy Stilettos. It is wonderful reading and we are delighted with how they found us.... https://herts.muddyst... 06 February 2018
News New Ultimate Activity Camps We are delighted to let you know that we have chosen to partner with Ultimate Activity Camps to host the holiday clubs at Westbrook Hay over the Eas... 23 January 2018
News Music exam success Last term Westbrook Hay had very successful ABRSM exam results including a Distinction at Grade 5 Piano and a Merit at Grade 6 Guitar. Well done to ... 22 January 2018
News The Amazing Adventures of Superstan! The Amazing Adventures of Superstan! The Middle School managed (despite the adverse weather conditions) to successfully put on their play at the e... 19 December 2017
News National Children's Orchestra Joe Tong has been offered a place in the National Children’s Orchestra U11 for 2018. The NCO provides a wonderful opportunity to musically tal... 18 December 2017
News The Choir visit Culwood House Eighteen Westbrook Hay children sang some beautiful Christmas carols to the residents of Culwood House Care Home for the Elderly. 13 December 2017
News Snow News Here Barring biblical intervention, Westbrook Hay will be open tomorrow. However, although no further snow is forecast, temperatures are expected to be ... 11 December 2017
News Haileybury Rugby Festival Westbrook Hay’s under 12s and under 13 sides took part in the Haileybury pre-season rugby tournament. All the teams had minimum time to prepar... 06 December 2017
News Basketball matches v Edge Grove Exciting basketball matches against Edge Grove. Very close fought battles for the A and B teams. 30 November 2017
News The Skills Show Year 8 visited The Skills Show at the Birmingham NEC last Friday 17th November. This was a fantastic event that supported the boys’ careers st... 20 November 2017
News Awe and Wonder Workshop The Reception and Nursery children loved their Awe and Wonder workshop in the science lab today. 15 November 2017
News Chamber Choir at the Royal Albert Hall 40 Westbrook Hay children from the Chamber Choir, aged between 8 and 13 years, sang with the English Festival Orchestra on Sunday 12th November at t... 13 November 2017
News Westbrook Hay Pupil Wins Judo Competition Over 200 competitors from Belgium, Holland and England took part in a regional U13s Judo competition in Lendelede, Belgium. Rush Judo had a squad of... 09 November 2017
News U13s Win the IAPS National Football Tournament We’ve done it again! Our U13 1st Team has won the IAPS National Football Final, retaining the title we won last year. On Sunday the U13 squa... 07 November 2017
News House Music Competition 2017 Over 200 children took part in the annual House Music competition in our fabulous Performing Arts Centre, the competition is a mixture of solo perfo... 25 October 2017
News Year 7 in a very windy Wales Despite Wales being its most threatening with hurricane Ophelia, Year 7 had a fantastic 5-day trip. Amongst many adventures we climbed Cadair Idris,... 23 October 2017
News Year 3 visit Verulamium Year 3 recently spent the day at the Verulamium History Museum in St. Albans. In addition to having a fun time exploring the museum exhibits, the ch... 23 October 2017
News Teddy Bears' Picnic 2017 Our nursery children enjoyed a Teddy Bears' Picnic held in the grounds at Westbrook Hay. Mr Marvel started the afternoon off with a Punch and Ju... 28 September 2017
News Bushcraft Another great set of girls and another fantastic camping trip; it is easily one of the highlights of the year for me! The positive attitude displaye... 27 September 2017
News Stanley Spencer Year 8 spent Friday morning visiting the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham. The children were enthralled by the talk, given by local ex headmaster,... 22 September 2017
News Victorian experience for Year 5 Year 5 visited The Chiltern Open Air Museum as part of their study on the Victorians. The children enjoyed having a first-hand experience of what it... 13 September 2017
News Year 4 go back in time Year 4 enjoyed a lovely day at Hatfield House where they were taken back to 1543 when Henry VIII was married to Katherine Parr. After a tour of the ... 29 June 2017
News Year 3 Visit the Living Rainforest On June 21st, year 3 took a very warm coach ride (on the hottest day of the year) to the Living Rainforest exhibit in Berkshire. The children had a ... 22 June 2017
News Bag2School collection We had an enormously successful turnout for our Bag2School drive, with huge bags of unwanted clothes being generously donated by so many Westbrook H... 16 June 2017
News Nursery enjoy Mead Open Farm In true British spirit, Nursery soldiered on with their trip to Mead Open Farm, despite the extremely wet and windy weather. Great fun was had by al... 15 June 2017
News Parent Pupil Golf Competition 15 intrepid parents partnered their sons in the Parent/pupil Year 6-8 golf competition. The best golf was played by the children with only 5 adults ... 14 June 2017
News Pizza Making Evening Mrs Harris and her Upper School team made some delicious pizzas for their evening activity. And the kitchen looks quite tidy! 14 June 2017
News Year 8 off to PGL After working very hard towards their next school entrance exams, common entrance and end of year exams our Year 8 pupils are off to Shropshire to e... 12 June 2017
News Former Pupil Reunion 2017 The school welcomed over 70 former pupils ranging in age from 53 to 11! The weather was kind and the school was seen at its best. It was wonderful t... 22 May 2017
News Golf Team Trials On a windswept evening 15 children competed in a twelve-hole tournament at Royal Westbrook Hay Golf Club. The standard was impressive and it needed ... 16 May 2017
News Snowing in Les Orres The children on the Westbrook Hay ski trip are having a super time, on and off the piste. The heavy snow fall was very exciting for everyone. 06 April 2017
News Peach of a Play The Upper School children performed James and the Giant Peach to over 300 people on two evening performances in March. The evening started in the de... 06 April 2017
News Inter Schools Cross Country This week we hosted the annual schools’ x-country meeting, with over 200 athletes from the ages of 8 – 13 competing. On the day we enjoy... 21 March 2017
News U12s Vs Edge Grove In a thrilling game the U12s narrowly lost nine tries to 7 against Edge Grove 09 March 2017
News Our swimmers are back in action On Tuesday our swim squad travelled to Aldwickbury for a gala against our hosts and Lockers Park. 06 March 2017
News Basketball vs Orley Farm This was our last match of the season and in many ways our best 02 March 2017
News Nursery children learning how to look after pets workshop Our Year 8 children help the nursery children..... 17 February 2017
News Rugby season starts victoriously The 1st XII opened the competitive session with a win. 18 January 2017
News Snow News 12th January 2017 - 11:00 - The BBC weather reports that snow is expected at 17:00 today. The school will remain open and will operate as normal, bu... 12 January 2017