This year, St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School decided to support the Teenage Cancer Trust and their ‘Rock Your Shades Day’ on Thursday 5th May.

Whether in the style of Lady Gaga, Tinie Tempah or Elton John, we encouraged staff and children to wear their shades with attitude and donate £1.00 to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Every single [...]

Sixteen members of the St Martin’s Ampleforth Girls Choir and two boy trebles have just returned from a very successful tour of Prague.

The choir sang in a variety of venues during the four day tour including the Cathedral of St Vitus and the magnificent Church of St Thomas. The tour was not all work and [...]

St Martin’s Ampleforth have broken their record for the second successive year in gaining scholarships to Ampleforth College. A record number of pupils were entered by parents for the senior school’s all rounder Basil Hume scholarship examination. Pupils were tested in their chosen fields, various combinations of Sport, Drama, Music, Art, and sundry specialities, with [...]

Two St Martin’s Ampleforth School pupils, Henry Laird and Rupert Waley, are celebrating winning the Under 17 Duet section of the Skipton Music Festival by singing ‘Give ear unto me’ by Benedetto Marcello. Henry and Rupert were praised by the judges for their beautiful blend of sound, good diction and sense of style and were [...]

Rowathon 5th/6th March 2011
After the great success of the 2009 Rowathon, St Martin’s Ampleforth were pleased to be invited to take part again in this year’s fundraiser for ‘Hope and Homes for Children‘.
About the charity
‘Hope and Homes for Children‘ works with families and communities across Central and Eastern Europe and Africa to ensure children grow [...]

The Headmaster of St Martin’s Ampleforth, Mr Nicholas Higham, was delighted to find out that three former pupils have succeeded in their Oxbridge entrance exams.

Eleanor Kirk (Classics – Corpus Christi, Oxford), Henry Hawkesworth (Music/Choral – King’s College, Cambridge) and Shobha Prabhu-Naik (English – Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) are all pupils at Ampleforth College, where they [...]

Each year, on the eve of Remembrance Day, Year 6 from St Martin’s Ampleforth visit the Alba Rose Nursing Home in Pickering to entertain the residents by singing songs to bring back memories. The children sang a repertoire of songs from the war period, old music hall songs and more classical pieces, with Henry Laird [...]

St Martin’s Ampleforth are celebrating as they learned that they were nominated for Best Prep School of the Year at the Tatler School Awards. The Tatler Schools Guide is an annual supplement to the October issue of this prestigious magazine and schools are chosen for entry according to their own criteria and not because entry [...]

Michael Higham, aged 12, from St Martin’s Ampleforth, was honoured to be invited to be part of the parade to greet the Pope’s arrival in Edinburgh on Thursday 16th September. The youngest drummer in the Ampleforth Highlanders (the Ampleforth College pipe band), they had to march half a mile along Prince’s Street, before lining up [...]

St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School are very proud of their Year 8 pupils who have achieved the best scholarship and Common Entrance results in living memory. Fr Gabriel, the Headmaster at Ampleforth College, described the results as ‘excellent‘ and is looking forward to welcoming so many talented and able pupils to the College this September.