Pre-prep football

Last Thursday saw 80 children descend on Sunningdale from London to
take part in our annual pre-prep football tournament. On a perfect
autumnal day, lots of parents joined us to watch the youngsters battle
it out in their six-a-side games.

This was the most successful tournament to date with some stunning
football played and all the boys taking part enjoyed themselves
hugely. Well done to everyone involved.

School in Gloucestershire bans footballs!

In an astonishing move, reflecting the health and safety absurdities
of current times, a school in Gloucestershire has banned the use of
leather footballs in their playground. They have said that children
must use sponge balls instead to play football. What are these people
doing to the children in their care? How are they going to cope with
life in the real world?

Football results

A good day for Sunningdale football. Six out of the eight teams won against Brockhurst. The 1st XI played their best football of the term so far to win 5-0.

Co-education

I learnt this morning that Shrewsbury School is to go fully co-educational from 2014. They have had girls in the sixth form since 2008. I love Shrewsbury; I have been lucky enough to visit the school a number of times with Fives teams and I have always been incredibly impressed. I very much hope that the move to co-education works.

What this means, though, is that there are even fewer choices for parents looking for all boys public schools. I still believe in single sex education, particularly for boys. Boys and girls develop at such different rates and they learn in very different ways. As prep schools, we will have to work even harder to make sure that we continue to get boys into the best schools.

Charity Bike Ride

I was so impressed when a former colleague from Harrow made it to Sunningdale with his group from Orley Farm School on their bikes. They stopped at Sunningdale en route for Eagle House and then Ludgrove all to raise money for the Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund. A terrific effort!

Golf

A beautiful day for golf lessons at the Berkshire!

Start of term

We have been back just over a week now and it struck me that I had been neglecting the blog. Apologies!

The start of term has been great. Certainly having 39 new boys has brought it's own challenges but they are a fantastic bunch and have settled in really well.

The atmosphere in the school is superb at the moment with everyone busy and enjoying life.

There is more to come from the blog but welcome back.