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Millfield

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Millfield is in Street, Somerset, UK. Poor buggers.

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It is one of the most prestigious, and expensive, schools in the UK. Over 200 students go on to University each year, over a quarter of which move on to one of the top 10 institutions as listed in 'The Sunday Times University League Table'. However, it is most famous for its sporting prowess. It has a large purpose built campus, with outstanding facilities - possibly the best sport-campus facilities in the UK.

Millfield sport enjoys an international reputation based on superlative facilities and the skills of 130 staff coaches. Each year 25 or more of Millfield’s students win international honours across a broad spectrum of games. In recent years Millfield teams have won national championships in Basketball, Golf, Hockey (Indoor and Out), Girls’ Athletics, Modern Pentathlon, Triathlon, Rugby 7’s, Boys’ Squash, Girls’ Squash, Cricket, Orienteering and Boys&Girls’ Tennis.

The sports facilities of the school are very extensive they include

2 olympic quality water based astroturfs, 1 sand based astro turf, 2 18 hole golf courses, A running track with track and field facilities, 2 multi purpose sports halls, A large equestrian centre (including an indoor riding school), An indoor tennis centre with numerous courts, Squash courts, An olympic sized indoor swimming pool, A large gym, A fencing salle, A Judo Dojo, A significant number of tennis courts, rugby pitches, football pitches and cricket pitches.


The school motto is Molire Molendo.

Foundation

Millfield was founded in 1935 by RJO Meyer (always affectionately referred to just as "Boss") in the house originally owned by the Clark family, who owned and ran the major shoe manufacturer Clarks. Over the years the school acquired land and houses around the locale, and a result there are now many boarding houses within a 15 mile (25 km) radius of the original site. In recent years a campus has been developed and most of the boarding houses are close to or on the campus.

Boarding Houses

The school is quite unusual in the fact that many of the boarding houses are located in distant villages - requiring the pupils to be bused in each morning and out to games sessions at distant fields etc. However the school is slowly bringing the furthest flung houses or the ones that are no longer suitable back on to campus. Several large new boarding houses have been constructed just past the riding school.

The houses include:

  • Abbey (Girls)
  • Acacia (Girls)
  • Butleigh (Boys)
  • Etonhurst (Boys)
  • Keen's Elm (Boys)
  • Kingweston (Boys)
  • Martins (Girls)
  • Millfield (Boys)
  • Orchards (Boys)
  • St Anne's (Boys)
  • Shapwick (Boys)(Originally in the village of shapwick was moved to its present location on campus)
  • Warner (Girls)
  • Kernick (Boys' house until 1975 - when it became a girls' house)
  • Walton (Boys)
  • Joan's Kitchen (Boys)
  • School House (Boys)
  • Westholm (Boys)
  • Holmcroft (Boys)
  • Ashcott (Girls)
  • Grange (Girls)
  • Portway (Girls)
  • Cottage (Girls)
  • High Ham (Boys)
  • Soutfhields (Girls)
  • Northfield (Boys)
  • Oaklands (Girls)
  • Chindit (Boys)
  • Keinton (Boys)
  • Hornblotton (Boys)
  • Johnsons (Girls)(Combined with Warner house to become a much larger single house)
  • Tor (Boys)
  • Georgian Cottage (Boys)

Famous Parents

Millfield has been the alma mater for the children of many rich and famous people; in the 1970s, the children of the following were at the school:

Famous former pupils ("Old Millfieldians") include:

Famous Masters

One of the main policies of the school is to insist on excellence, whether academic or sporting. Many pupils receive subsidised tuition in the form of scholarships. Those pupils who can afford to pay full fees subsidise these pupils. However, everyone is expected to find their individual field of excellence — and preferably more than one field — sport and music do not replace academic achievement but complement it. Boss succeeded in enabling the pupils to find their field by a very wide curriculum; virtually no sport was ignored and virtually no academic discipline. The classes are small, frequently about 6 pupils, and in many cases tuition is on a one-to-one basis.

Unusually, quite a few pupils have appeared at the Olympics, whilst still at the school.

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