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Harvest Giving Event
In celebration of our Harvest Giving Event, our Year 6 Charity Prefects were presented with the numerous donations our parents provided for Harrow Foodbank – we are absolutely overwhelmed with your kindness for people who are less fortunate than we are. The Manager of the Foodbank told us that donations were declining so any donations they receive is very much appreciated...our donations weighed a massive 220.5kg which is the largest donation they have received from a school in quite some time.
Thank you very much for your support and generosity for donating so many items which were taken to the Harrow Foodbank by our Charity Prefects.
More International Success for Alpha!
Recently, Ibraheem (Year 5) entered the 8th International Scratch Creative Programming Olympiad 2024. Candidates were asked to build a game where the avatar had to clean a range of litter and rubbish from the city and the oceans. Mr Fahy, Mr Gonsalves and Mr Kanvar tried out the game Ibraheem created, but they could not beat, or even come close to, Ibraheem’s score! When the results of the competition were announced, Ibraheem was the only participant from the UK who managed to reach a position in the Top 10! What a super achievement – well done!
Music Tour to Malta
18th to 22nd March
A huge thank you, congratulations and well done to the 37 children from Year 4 to Year 6 who attended our Music Tour in Malta before the Easter holidays. During the week, in addition to enjoying the Maltese weather, the children performed a concert in Popeye Village, San Lawrenz Primary School on the island of Gozo and they performed to over 300 secondary school children in Maria Regina College. The trip was an ambitious, enjoyable and successful adventure and the children were fantastic ambassadors for Alpha. A rather large thank you also goes to Mr Griffiths, our Head of Music, for arranging the trip.
Young Voices 2024
Congratulations and WELL DONE to Year 3 and Year 4 who performed in Wembley Arena on Thursday 1st February as part of the Young Voices choir. The children were incredibly proud of being part of 4932 voices performing for parents and guests...and their dance moves were pretty good too! Parents of Years 3 and 4 were also provided with the opportunity to sing and dance to a 90's medley of songs and those dance moves were also pretty good! What a wonderful night!
European Day of Languages
26th September marks the celebration of European Day of Languages - thank you to Ms Rasheed, our Catering Manager, for creating a wonderful European-inspired menu for the day!
A Happy Moment Arrives
Since March 2020, we have not been able to take the children off site for obvious health and safety reasons. On Thursday 22nd April, Mr Holland, Mr Silvester and Miss Trott were extremely happy to be taking our equally happy Year 5 and 6 Boys to Stanmore Cricket Club. Here is Mr Holland marking the moment just before leaving the school...
The Oscars Arrive at Alpha?
Not this year, unfortunately, but never say never!
We are extremely proud of all our ex-Alpha students’ achievements and we send our huge ‘CONGRATULATIONS’ to Riz Ahmed who, on Monday 15th March 2021, became the first Muslim to receive an Academy Award nomination in the Best Actor category. This year marks the first time two actors of Asian descent have been nominated for a lead actor category in the same year.
The nomination also makes Mr Ahmed the first performer of Pakistani descent to land a nomination in any acting category. He previously was the first Muslim, and the first Asian, to win a lead acting Emmy in 2017.
Well done, Riz!
LOCKDOWN WORLD BOOK DAY 2021
Can you name the Toilet Roll Characters?
22nd November 2020
ALPHA PREPARATORY SCHOOL has been ranked SECOND in the national preparatory school league tables by Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide, published in The Sunday Times and online on Sunday, November 22.
The 28th edition of Parent Power identifies the 2,000 highest-achieving schools in the UK, ranked by their most recently published examination results. A fully searchable national database by school name, local authority, town and postcode, together with regional rankings will be available to Times and Sunday Times subscribers at: thesundaytimes.co.uk/parentpower
As well as assessment of all academic results on a school-by-school basis, Parent Power enables parents to compare the performance of a given school with other schools in the same town, local authority or nationally. There are also live links to school websites and schools’ most recent inspection reports.
Parent Power is widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s best schools.
Welcome Message
I am delighted to welcome you to Alpha Preparatory School’s website. Although the whole world has gone through some challenging and different times recently, it is a privilege to be leading the School at an exciting time in Alpha’s history: the 2024 - 2025 academic year marks Alpha's 129th anniversary.
As part of the ethos of the School, we aim to nurture, encourage and challenge each child to grow as a learner and a responsible citizen of today and of the future. Now in my seventh year at Alpha, our school community thrives with the children's many successes and achievements.
We are a small, friendly school with a long history of helping our children to develop the personal, social and academic skills that will underpin their future success in life.
Our belief at Alpha, is that the School and the parent body should work in partnership with each other. Parents and children will often see me around the School, including at the start and end of the School day as I greet or say farewell to the children.
If you do have any queries or would like to arrange a tour of the School to see us in action, please contact our school office on 020 8427 1471 or email us on sec@alpha.harrow.sch.uk.
I look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to Alpha, a place where your child will be immersed in a stimulating, inspiring and supporting environment, a place where we help the young women and men of the coming generation to find their own unique place in the world.
Mr Pádraic Fahy
Headmaster of Alpha Preparatory School
We are delighted to be offering our widest choice, and greatest number, of clubs Alpha has ever seen. Get yourself involved in extra-curricular activities!
Please click here to see which clubs are on offer in the MichaelmasTerm 2024.