Play Area with giant sized games and a real fire-engine to play on at break times.

Half-sized football pitch, cricket pitch. Five floodlit, all-weather tennis courts, floodlit netball courts, floodlit rounders/ cricket practice nets.

Separate, safe, play area for younger pupils with slides, swings, play house, etc.

Pet area for pupils’ pets.

A change machine for the telephones, a postage stamp machine, tuck shop and chilled drinks machines, aluminium can-crusher for environmental recycling.

Science & Technology area

Ballet Area

Drama Centre/Brontë Hall - can seat 200, complete with stage, electric curtains, full theatre lighting, sound system with radio mike, closed circuit videos and full audience colour monitor vision coverage, air conditioned, sound proofed, with electronic control centre.

Modern kitchen and main refectory servery. In-house pizza bakery. Daily choice of two hot dishes, vegetarian meals and large salad selection. Regular surveys of what is popular, and what is not, ensure an enjoyable and varied menu.

Satellite TV for languages.

Annual residential trip for older pupils.

Refectory bistro and ice cream parlour with professional kitchen for use by staff and senior pupils for creation of meals or creation of special food for international supper nights.

Two hundred seat refectory with 4-slice toasters on every table. (If you have ever boarded at school you will know why this is popular at breakfast time.) Ice machine, chilled water machine, microwave machines for pupils’ use.

Comfortable lounge seating for fifty, complete with daily selection of news-papers and magazines. Chess and other board games.

Large new fully equipped gymnasium.

Indoor leisure swimming pool always heated to 28°C. Small water slide. Forty pool-side loungers. We have Sunday brunches twice a term, where students get up late and enjoy a cooked breakfast/lunch with games. We also provide a huge blow-up water snake in the pool for people to see if they can stay on it.

Language/ski trip to Europe (from year 6 upwards).

Our gymnasium can cover many different sports and activities with all the equipment you remember from your youth - wall bars, ropes, vaulting horses etc. This huge room can also double as a 500 seat theatre.

Special needs area.

Our newly-installed, 140 seat, university style lecture theatre has comfortable seating with extra-width writing tablets for all. Large screen video projection, full stereo sound system, lighting, rostrum, etc., means that this room has a variety of uses - for in-house public speaking, guest careers speakers, meetings etc.

Fully carpeted classrooms.

The Trading Post - the school shop. We carry a whole range of new and secondhand uniforms plus over 200 different, inexpensive items: pens, paper, games, toys and a large selection of books.

Tasty, well-cooked food with choice.

Digital pay-phones positioned all over the site. The ability for all pupils to send and receive faxes - particularly useful for overseas parents - and to receive e-mails.

New Art & Design and Drama Centres.

Home Economics Centre with fully equipped mini kitchens. Air-conditioned.

Over 40 other high quality resource and teaching areas.

Large fully floodlit car park for 350 cars.

Separate bus/coach park for all the school’s buses and visiting schools’ coaches. Can hold 15 full-size coaches, with zebra crossing and passenger collection areas. Fully lit.

All changing rooms are to full sports club standards. Showers with plenty of hot water. Each changing room also has its own toilet.

Day Pupils Centre where students can also stay overnight.

Outdoor chess and draughts games in the grounds. Also, in the summer, croquet in the Secret Garden.

Superb new boarding accommodation.

A fleet of properly serviced, modern school buses, with seat belts for all passengers.

Chapel (warm and welcoming).

Well stocked library.

Bully Box. We have a children’s charter and all staff are constantly on the alert for any signs of bullying, rare though it be. Our pupils find talking to the staff easy and the occasional incident is solved through this medium. The bully box is situated discreetly so that pupils, in total privacy, can put in a note to say what or who is troubling them.

New Music Centre and practice area.

A modern, comprehensive fire alarm system with smoke detectors/heat sensors in EVERY classroom, bedroom, cupboard, corridor etc.

Fully-equipped medical centre staffed by a nursing sister.

Plenty of green grass and fresh air.