Highfield is a co-educational country boarding school set in 170 acres of fields and woods where we aim to provide for each child the warmth and care of a family and to give them a sound and happy basis from which to proceed to their senior schools. We send children on to a wide range of schools, both single-sex and co-educational, and achieve a number of scholarships and exhibitions every year.
We have both the facilities and the structure for a large number of out-of-classroom activities so each child can develop hobbies and interests as well as broadening their academic horizons. Both boys and girls play a wide variety of sports, and music, drama and art are all particularly strong. Music, art and sports scholarships are also regularly won by our children.
We have our own Chapel as well as having close links with the local parish and seek to make the Christian faith real in the life of each child, whatever their background or denomination.
We aim to offer a comprehensive and fulfilling boarding environment to children who need to board because their homes are abroad or for other reasons, and to those who wish to come to a country school because their homes are in the city.
We also welcome local children, of course, and these may come as day children in their first years. Then, when they are fully settled (and certainly by the time they are ten), they become boarders and this helps them to benefit fully from what the school has to offer and is a stepping-stone towards boarding further from home at their senior schools.
