Millfield is a distinctive Independent school in Street, Somerset, England. It is the largest co-educational boarding school in the country and renowned for its sporting excellence, as well as for dedicated teaching across a very wide range of standards.
The classes are small, sometimes as small as six pupils. In some cases tuition is on a one-to-one basis. Over 200 students go on to University each year, over a quarter of whom go to one of the top ten institutions as listed in The Sunday Times University League Table.
It is one of the most expensive schools in the country, but many pupils receive subsidised tuition in the form of scholarships financed by those who can afford to pay full fees.
The school motto is Molire Molendo. Which roughly trasnlate into drive forward by grinding, hence the name Millfield, where in a Mill grinding.
Contents
1History
2Sports
3Boarding houses
4Millfield Governors
5Famous parents
6Notable Old Millfieldians
7References
8External links
9Schools in Somerset
History
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 were 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.
Sports
Millfield is most famous for its sporting prowess. It has a large purpose-built campus, with outstanding facilities and 130 staff sports coaches - possibly the best sport-campus facilities in the United Kingdom. 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 outdoor), girls' athletics, modern pentathlon, triathlon, rugby sevens, boys' and girls' squash, cricket, orienteering, and boys' and girls' tennis. Recent famous sporting products have been rugby players Anthony Allen and Olly Morgan and cricketers Rory Hamilton-Brown, Simon Jones and James Hildreth.
Unusually, quite a few pupils have appeared at the Olympics whilst still at the school.
Many tennis courts, darts centres, squash courts, rugby pitches, football pitches, cricket pitches and netball courts
Boarding houses
The school used to be quite unusual in the fact that many of the boarding houses were 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 has now brought the furthest flung houses onto campus, apart from three houses, St. Anne's, Kingweston and Walton. Several large new boarding houses have been constructed just past the riding school.
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