The Year 7s have been competing in the ‘Chess Champions League’ since September, playing a total of 87 games. Oliver and Jake reached th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We are delighted to have our state-of-the-art outdoor classroom nominated by the designers, Timotay, for the APL (Association of Professional Landsc...

Our school mission is to develop, happy, confident and successful children who are well prepared for their future. Following the closure of schools ...

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...

Lucy, age 11, has baked the most delicious chocolate Swiss Roll. Our children have developed some incredible new skills during their period in lockd...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

Our wonderful Year 8 helped to run the Easter Egg Hunt for our youngest children today.

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

Six pupils from Year 6 joined eight other Prep schools, at Haileybury College, to attend their Science Discovery Workshop on the 11th February . Eac...

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...

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...

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...

Having become District Champions beating Tring, Longdean, Laureate Academy and Astley Cooper our U12 Futsal squad competed for the County Futsal Cha...

The U11 girls visited Watford FC training ground for the Premier League Stars Girls Tournament. The girls had a fantastic time, playing seven matche...

Our senior children have been working hard for their entrance exams to their senior schools. Interview practice is underway ensuring that our childr...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, Year 3 had a really interesting day deepening their knowledge of soils. They began with identifying the four elements - water, air, humus (no...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Our new school video show how exciting and varied life is for our pupils at Westbrook Hay - the opportunities are endless!

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...

A wonderful end to the season

Our Lower School are waiting in anticipation for our fabulous outdoor learning area, which was designed with a collaboration of ideas from parents, ...

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...

On a sunny evening, Westbrook Hay put out two golf teams against Lockers Park, Aldwickbury and Kingshott. Conditions were very testing with hard and...

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...

Fantastic turnout of former pupils and parents to say farewell to Mr Young

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...

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...

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...

Two pupils from Westbrook Hay Prep School have been selected to play in the England ISFA team (independent schools’ football association)! Thi...

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...

A wonderful event for all the family in the grounds of the school.

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...

Our Year 5 pupil William, wins Premier League Academy writing competition

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...

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 ...

One of our Year 5 pupils, Meredith Ryder aged 9, has recently won the PQA (Pauline Quirke Academy) National Screenwriter Competition for her script ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Westbrook Hay Prep School’s U13 football team are IAPS (Independent Association of Prep Schools) regional champions again, for the fifth time...

Our eighth Year 5 & 6 Survival Trip went down an absolute storm, almost literally! Whilst Storm Bronagh blew our plans to camp overnight somewha...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

The Easter term, at Westbrook Hay saw three glorious performances of our Upper School production, ‘Oliver!’ which left the audience begg...

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...

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...

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...

The Pepper Café and Collectables Sale Friday March 9th ( this FRIDAY !!! ) We want your old puzzles, board games, toys, trading cards, action...

School closed on Friday 2nd March and Open Morning cancelled on Saturday 3rd March

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...

The lower school children are really enjoying their play in the snow.

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 ...

Huge congratulations go to all our singers competing in the Watford Festival on Saturday and Sunday. Joseph & Isaac (Yr6) entered the ‘Bo...

Read the wonderful review posted on Muddy Stilettos. It is wonderful reading and we are delighted with how they found us.... https://herts.muddyst...

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...

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 ...

and also to the UK for our three new GAP students

The Amazing Adventures of Superstan! The Middle School managed (despite the adverse weather conditions) to successfully put on their play at the e...

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...

Eighteen Westbrook Hay children sang some beautiful Christmas carols to the residents of Culwood House Care Home for the Elderly.

Barring biblical intervention, Westbrook Hay will be open tomorrow. However, although no further snow is forecast, temperatures are expected to be ...

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...

Exciting basketball matches against Edge Grove. Very close fought battles for the A and B teams.

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...

The Reception and Nursery children loved their Awe and Wonder workshop in the science lab today.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Despite Wales being its most threatening with hurricane Ophelia, Year 7 had a fantastic 5-day trip. Amongst many adventures we climbed Cadair Idris,...

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...

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...

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...

Year 8 spent Friday morning visiting the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham. The children were enthralled by the talk, given by local ex headmaster,...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

We had an enormously successful turnout for our Bag2School drive, with huge bags of unwanted clothes being generously donated by so many Westbrook H...

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 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 ...

Mrs Harris and her Upper School team made some delicious pizzas for their evening activity. And the kitchen looks quite tidy!

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

In a thrilling game the U12s narrowly lost nine tries to 7 against Edge Grove

On Tuesday our swim squad travelled to Aldwickbury for a gala against our hosts and Lockers Park.

Superb rugby at Haileybury this week.

A great start to Westbrook Hays game this week.

This was our last match of the season and in many ways our best

Orchestra Day at Haileybury

Our Year 8 children help the nursery children.....

The 1st XII opened the competitive session with a win.

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...