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Millfield School is a remarkable place. From its foundation in 1935, with six princes brought from India, Millfield is today one of the leading UK independent schools for boys and girls, aged 2-18 years and spans from Pre-Prep and Prep, to Senior and Sixth Form, and Millfield Enterprises offering English language holiday courses. We pride ourselves on providing an exceptional, all-round education that enables each child to try everything on offer, to find out what they enjoy and are good at. The capacity to engage pupils at many different levels is central to life at Millfield and we offer countless opportunities across many different learning contexts both inside and outside the classroom. Talented and committed staff work with our pupils to achieve these ends. The school is grounded in the strength of relationships that are the bedrock of all great communities. Millfield is tremendously diverse in terms of the academic, cultural, and sporting backgrounds of its pupils, and we celebrate this diversity. Millfield is committed to building on its legacy to look forward without losing sight of what has come before. As a community, we have established a collective set of values for all: every child, every employee, and every volunteer. Our values will act as a target and a guide, in our learning, our work, and our life at school. They will help each individual to discover their brilliance. We are diverse in a way that others are not we are on a scale that others are not we have ambitions for our students that others do not. We encourage our students to question and challenge and ask why? To be bold, to be honest, we champion student's voices, we are disruptors for positive change, and we seek new and better ways to do things. We want to be at the forefront of child development, they are the future. We help each individual to discover their brilliance. This starts in the Pre-Prep, through the Prep School, and into the Senior School. From the moment our children arrive, aged two onwards, we help them develop their character, resilience, relationships, abilities, skills, and knowledge. The Millfield Way is an attitude that brings together key staff in a child's life in a way that does not happen in other schools. It is an excellence of teaching and coaching with the child at the center. Once your child has found their passion, we tailor an education program that is right for them, wherever their talents lie. As one of the largest co-educational boarding and day schools in the UK with over 1280 pupils in the senior school (75% are boarders) and 440 in the Prep School (31% are boarders, aged 7+), we have the resources to offer world-leading teaching and coaching. The Millfield Way - an attitude that brings together key staff in a child's life. Excellence in teaching and coaching with the child at the center. We tailor an education program around them. Our Prep school is on 160 acres of grounds and has a 25m swimming pool, recital hall, art, design, and technology center, five science laboratories, a golf course, an equestrian center, and a shooting range. Around our three boys boarding houses and two girls boarding houses, there is plenty of outdoor space for building camps, and we have an assault course, climbing wall, and tennis courts. Our Senior school is set in 200 acres and features an Olympic sized swimming pool, golf course, equestrian center with stabling for 90 horses, indoor cricket and golf centers, fencing salle, a wonderful concert hall, theatre, art gallery, and a world-class music center, spacious dining room and cutting edge science facilities. The school has 18 boarding houses, including specialist Year 9 only houses, and five-day houses. View full school