Winchester college v canford?

If he is quirky and into drama, have you looked at Bedales?

from everything i have heard the advantage of the single sex issue at winchester is that a lot of the boys find it easier to concentrate on impressing peers/teachers in lessons rather than impressing the girls!

they get plenty of time to spend with girls both officially and unofficially so there is not the fear that they are locked up and do not know how to speak to girls when they are released.

i would imagine that the physicality is no different in a boys' dorm at a co-ed to a single sex school.

wykehamists seem to prefer mental sparring to physical sparing which has set up those i know for very good careers in law!

hi. they are very different schools. Canford is co-ed, Winchester boys, Canford campus based, Winchester in town etc. Canford quite rounded, winchester rigorously intellectual

from my experience Wykehamists are more quirky, always exceedingly polite and "intellectual". i would imagine that if he was likely to get into winchester he would be higher than the top 30% at Canford.

if he has been in the top range at prep school and then finds himself in the lower levels at winchester it can be hard (similar to the transition between being a prefect of a prep school in the June then finding yourself the lowest of the low when starting at 13 in September)whereas being in the top ranges can be easier.

winchester is definitely more "old school" and inevitably produces a different "product" from the newer public schools, especially co-ed.

go and look at both places and get the feel - you will know your child. also try and meet some of the alumni and look at what they are doing with their lives!

good luck