The Mill School is a complex community of people differing widely in ages, interests and talents. We exist to assist every child to make the most of his or her ability in a stimulating and sympathetic environment, and to prepare each individual to be a useful, compassionate and responsible member of society.
The Mill School is neither narrowly selective nor academically exclusive, and welcomes pupils having a wide range of talents and abilities. The more able children acquire excellent examination results for entry to senior school, but we care for all our pupils alike, and endeavour to help them set their own high standards, and encourage them to develop their talents in a confident, disciplined and responsible way.
The Mill is a small school, with small classes. A school with small classes puts the emphasis back on individuals, and this enables us to create a family community, in which children feel themselves treated as individuals. Our teachers quickly acquire a detailed knowledge of each child's academic, social, emotional and physical strengths and weaknesses. It is the sensitive use of this knowledge that enables each child to work to an optimum standard - secure in the knowledge that help will be given in any areas of difficulty.
We are proud of the fact that The Mill School has kept pace with the many recent changes in education, whilst retaining the important traditional values. Our curriculum is based on the core and foundation subjects which make up the National curriculum, and we aim that our children should acquire not only lively, enquiring minds, and the understanding knowledge and skills relevant to secondary education and beyond, but also personal moral values and respect for their own and other religious ways of life.
We encourage our children to learn to play a musical instrument at an early age, and also to take part in the wide range of activities we provide, which include: Pottery, Drama, Cookery, Computing, Short tennis, Badminton and Scrabble.
These are in addition to the normal range of sporting activities provided as part of the School curriculum.
