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WELCOMEIt is with great pleasure that I welcome you to The Downs, Malvern College Prep website.
Our school is an independent day and boarding school for boys and girls aged from 2½ to 13 years. The school is situated in extensive idyllic grounds in the beautiful Malvern Hills. Here we all value its surroundings along with our well-established traditions and values based on respect and care for one another. These traditions easily rest alongside our deep desire to move with the times, striving always to exceed the confines of the national curriculum in academic achievement, as well as excelling in cultural and social accomplishments. This aim is realised through a commitment by all, staff and children, to the highest standards of teaching and care.
The Downs, Malvern College Prep School exists to make the most of, and to make time for, childhood.
Alastair S Cook
Headmaster
News Items
| PLEASE BE AWARE THAT A NEW WEBSITE IS BEING DEVELOPED AND WILL BE ONLINE VERY SOON.
New Website
Whilst these pages will give a very good overview of the school, I would far rather show parents and children around the school. I am certain that you will not only receive up to date information during that visit, but you will also get a true feeling of The Downs, Malvern buzz!
Alastair S Cook
Headmaster
HELP FOR HAITI
 In Assembly on Monday, Sarah Grout very kindly presented to us one of the"Green Boxes" seen on Sky News and other news channels.
These boxes are being put together at the
ShelterBox Centre
at Helston in Cornwall and are being funded by, amongst others, The Rotary Club of Great Britain.
ShelterBox is usually one of the first aid agencies on the ground in emergency situations, like the
terribly tragic disaster currently unfolding in Haiti.They use their military expertise – founder Tom Henderson is ex-military, as are many of
Shelterbox employees and volunteers – to
transport survival boxes to the heart of disasters
as quickly as possible.
Each box has the equipment
for a family of up to ten people to survive when they are left with nothing: A purpose designed tent, cooking equipment, water purification kit, bedding
and other supplies depending on the nature of the situation.
Each box costs
£490
to fill and transport to where
it is needed, with the support necessary to make
sure the equipment is distributed and used to its utmost advantage.The children here are determined to help the
children in Haiti and, having seen the contents of
one of the ShelterBoxes laid out in front of the tent
in the Memo Hall, we would like to raise enough money to buttwo boxes to send to Port-au-Prince.
If any parents can come up with any whizz ideas, please do send them into me at this address and
we will try and put them into our programme. One idea was that the Headmaster and Mr. James should
be sponsored to sleep in the tent on the school front lawn for a whole week!!!!
If you would like to read more about ShelterBox and the work this terrific charity does, please click on;
http://www.shelterbox.org
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