Millfield Prep is not as bad as Millfield Senior School. So if your children would only be there for the Prep then that is not quite as bad. But if you were thinking about them then going on to the Senior school I would strongly advise against it! Even though the prep school is not as bad as the senior school - it is still bad! The ethos of Millfield overall seems to condone arrogant, bullying behaviour and just ignores that students who are nice, normal and pleasant. From our experience the only students that rise to the top at Millfield are those who take 'banter' towards other students just too far each and every time, who have no empathy to others, those who bully, and who are arrogant beyond words. The other very worrying part of Millfield is the fact they like to keep the parents as far removed from their children's education as possible. If you, as a parent, have concerns about your child's education then Millfield make you feel like a too-involved busy-body when you have the 'audacity' to actually contact the senior management about your concerns. In our personal experience the Millfield attitude to parents is 'just give us your money and then stay away'. Plus a lot of the really nice teachers at Millfield don't seem to be happy with how Millfield treat them from our conversations with various staff members. The nice pleasant teachers seem to get brow beaten and quite often have a resigned, 'beaten' atmosphere about them. Millfield expects their staff to do an awful lot outside lesson times and such like. It is expected by Millfield. We found the whole atmosphere of Millfield was basically to step and climb and scramble across or on or up anyone to get wherever you wanted to be. Certainly not the values that my teachers ever taught me at school when they were trying to make us into pleasant members of our future communities.
Shamonts - for sport there could not be a worse school you could choose than Millfield. I would never choose Millfield for the 'sport' they claim to offer.