The Year 6 pupils from St Martin’s Ampleforth School enjoyed a whole school day conducted entirely in French.

The children enjoyed a range of activities from a treasure hunt, cooking and arts activities. The day concluded with the children giving an exciting drama performance of the 1789 storming of the Bastille complete with Louis XVI [...]

Thanks to the generosity of former pupil and current parent, Peter Savill, St Martin’s Ampleforth were able to open the impressive newly constructed ‘Savill Centre’, a specially designed five classroom teaching suite. This impressive new high tech facility will be used primarily for teaching English, French and Latin to Years 6, 7 and 8.

The Abbot [...]

Twenty two girl choristers from St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School have just returned from a very successful five day tour of Venice. Highlights included singing Mass in Venice at the San Marco Basilica, impromptu singing in St Mark’s Square and of course, the ride on the gondolas. The San Marco Basilica was only five minutes [...]

This popular Yorkshire prep school is delighted to announce that pupils have won almost 50% of the 25 scholarships offered this year at Ampleforth College.

The Gifted and Talented programme, introduced in September, provides a range of activities to stretch the more academic pupils throughout the school, and the staff were pleased to have their extra-curricular [...]

March 2010
To celebrate ‘World Book Day’, the librarians at St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School hosted a ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’. Each of the librarians had the thrill of dressing up in the costume of their favourite character from the book ‘Alice in Wonderland’.

‘I loved dressing up as Tweedle Dum’ said Justin age 13. ‘The chocolate [...]

Lydia Bramhall (13) of St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School has won the senior section of the Simon Beaufoy Creative Writing Competition with her short story entitled ‘The Ghost Ship’. As well as a trophy, Lydia was presented with a fountain pen, books and a cheque for £50.00. ‘I was excited and very nervous, because, as [...]

All three pupils, from St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School, entered for the Ampleforth College Music Scholarship passed with flying colours.
For Isobel Miles (12) her love of playing the violin started when she was age five. She is now Grade 5 on both the violin and the piano. ‘I really enjoyed talking about music to Mr [...]

St Martin’s Ampleforth will be sending supporters to Birmingham this weekend to cheer on three pupils who have succeeded in being selected for the Prep Schools Barbarians Northern Rugby team. Robert Brunskill (13) will be playing for the U13 team, Toby Pratt (12) is in the squad for the U13 team and Charlie Innes (11) [...]

Fifty children from St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School are celebrating having reached the penultimate round of the BBC Songs of Praise 2010 School Choir of the Year competition.
The school is having to compete in the senior section of the competition, against sixth form students, but will be the youngest choir in this section as there [...]

The pupils of St Martin’s Ampleforth are celebrating the fact that they have raised just over £2,000 during the last year for CAFOD. The money was raised through a series of activities including concerts, a Bring and Buy sale, ‘Dress as a Character from a Book Day’ and sponsored events. CAFOD is the Catholic Agency [...]