Academic
Overview
Pupils are prepared for Common Entrance and Scholarship to our destination public schools. Typically the boys feed in to Eton, Harrow, Oundle, Radley, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Stowe, Winchester and Uppingham. Throughout the school children are taught by subject specialists; in their first year they have most lessons in their form room but thereafter all lessons are taught in subject classrooms. They are streamed from arrival at the school. Small class sizes are a feature; the maximum class size is 15 but the average is 12.
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The main curriculum subjects throughout the school are English, Mathematics, Science, French, Art, Design, Geography, History, ICT, Latin, Music and Religious Studies. In addition each child has one lesson per week in PE, Swimming and PSHE. There is a full-time Learning Support Department which offers extra lessons to those who need them working closely with individual departments. In order to encourage recreational reading and to make sure that all children have a book ‘on the go’ at all times we have a 20 minute reading rest every day immediately after lunch. In their penultimate year all children go to France as a year group during the summer term for a week of cultural immersion and language experience.