Welcome to our Family.
Clarendon Cottage Preparatory School – where caring is personal, education feels like family, and every child is known, supported, and inspired to thrive.
As a family-founded and family-led school, we pride ourselves on maintaining an environment as nurturing as your own home. As a truly independent school, decisions are made in-house, meaning we shape our ethos, curriculum, and community events without outside influence—just our passion for children’s happiness and success.
From our youngest toddlers in Early Years to our confident Year 6 leavers, every pupil is guided on a journey of academic excellence, emotional growth, and whole-child development.
In an age of growing class sizes and impersonal institutions, Clarendon Cottage offers something rare: a family-first, small-school environment where children experience the richness and familiarity of a rural village school—right in the heart of Salford. We foster deep relationships with our pupils and their families, creating a close-knit community where confidence, kindness, and curiosity are the cornerstones of every school day.
At the heart of everything we do is our school promise—a reflection of our ethos and aspirations for every child:
