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Farlington is an independent day and boarding school, providing an exceptional, all-around education for children aged 4 – 18. Please click on the links below for further information. We are a school that values individuality, celebrates diversity, and encourages our pupils to have the confidence to think for themselves, whilst emphasizing the importance of tolerance, teamwork, and collective responsibility. Each child, from Reception through to Sixth Form, is known and valued as an individual and contributes uniquely to our happy, successful and purposeful environment. It is our goal that students leave Farlington as well-educated young people with strong interpersonal skills and a broad range of interests. They will have the confidence to pursue their personal goals and to make a positive contribution to the wider community. At Farlington, our vision is to inspire our pupils to embrace learning in all its forms. We are a forward-thinking school where academic success and co-curricular achievement are valued equally. Every pupil is nurtured here and encouraged to fulfill their potential and engage with opportunity. Your child is unique we foster individuality and nurture success. No subject is considered off-limits, no position of responsibility unattainable. We are proudly and intentionally a smaller school where each pupil is valued and where opportunities abound. Pastoral care is paramount, with the happiness and well-being of every child at the core of daily life. Farlington’s ‘can-do’ philosophy instills confidence in our pupils enabling them to thrive as they go out into the world and shape their future. Our most recent Independent Schools Inspectorate report described Farlington as providing ‘an excellent curriculum with outstanding teaching.’ Our staff pride themselves on an ability to harness your child’s academic talents and their priority are to provide an education that challenges and inspires. For many years upper and middle-class boys went to school but their sisters remained at home, often under the care of an unqualified governess. However, by the mid-1800s a few determined individuals craved a life of greater independence and from them grew a movement to improve secondary and higher education for women. It was in the context of this movement that, in 1896, two sisters, Miss Edith and Miss Mary Buller, founded Farlington. In looking for a new school in Sussex they chose Haywards Heath that at the time was a burgeoning new town with good mainline railway connections between London and Brighton. Isabel and Charlotte Moberly took over the School in 1898. Their vision and inspirational leadership ensured that the School grew and prospered through the first half of the 20th century, surviving both the hardships of two world wars and the challenges of the Depression Era. In 1948, after an inspection by the Ministry of Education, Farlington became officially recognized as an Independent School. Partly as a consequence of that recognition, Effie Simpson, then Headmistress, realized that for the School to prosper it needed larger facilities. In 1954 she purchased Strood Park, the last day at the Haywards Heath site was 15th December 1954 and the School opened in its current location at Strood Park on 20th January 1955. View full school