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Mosman Preparatory School

Field	Value
name	Mosman Preparatory School
other_name	Mosman Church of England Preparatory School
nickname	Mosman Prep
logo	Mosman Preparatory school.jpg
image_size	250px
motto
motto_translation	Not for ourselves alone
location	Lower North Shore and the Northern Beaches, Sydney, New South Wales
country	Australia
coordinates
type	Independent single-sex primary day school
denomination	Anglicanism
educational_authority	New South Wales Department of Education
established
religious_affiliation	Diocese of Sydney
headmaster	Peter Grimes
chairman	Amanda Robertson
enrolment
gender	Boys
slogan	Educating for tomorrow, today
houses	Yarnold, MacDougall, Bradley
colours	Navy blue and white
website
campus_type	Suburban
campuses

The Mosman Preparatory School, officially the Mosman Church of England Preparatory School and commonly abbreviated as Mosman Prep, is a dual-campus independent Anglican single-sex primary day school for boys, located on the Lower North Shore and the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school was established in 1904 and is based on the UK preparatory school system.

The school provides a religious and general education to boys from Year K to Year 6 across two campuses, located in and in .

History

Mosman Preparatory School was founded in 1904 by A. H. "Tibby" Yarnold, who aimed to create a school to which parents could "confidently send their boys". The school started with 26 boys with ages ranging from 9–14 and numbers grew but then dropped during the Great Depression, after which numbers steadily started to rise once more. There are now more than 300 boys attending the school, with the range of years being from Kindergarten to Year 6. The school opened its outdoor educational campus in Terry Hills. Nowadays the school aims to provide a social and sporting as well as academic education.

Houses

The school's three houses were named after three previous headmasters of the school. Houses were introduced to the school in Mr. Begbie's time as headmaster.

Yarnold
MacDougall
Bradley

Campuses

The School has two campuses, the main school in the suburb of Mosman and its outdoor educational campus located in Terrey Hills, it was designed to teach students about the outdoors, to have a change in the learning environment from in a classroom to an open area and to be used as a sporting facility for weekend sport and training.

Headmasters

The following individuals have served as Headmaster of Mosman Prep:

Officeholder	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
A. H. Yarnold	1904		years
E. C. Macdougall		1959	years
P. Duffett	1959	1962	years
Alan Bradley	1962	1977	years
Ian Begbie	1978	1993	years
Garry Brown	1993	2019	years	Retired in Term 3, 2019
Peter Grimes	Incumbent

References

"Map of School Location". Google Maps.
"School Information". www.mosmanprep.nsw.edu.au.

Wikipedia Source

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