Horris Hill School Newsbury

[Nicmarmum]

Any comments on this school? I just visited this school a few weeks ago and think this is traditional and academically rigorous. Any sharing from other parents?

We had friends who took their son out because the other boys filled his shoes with broken glass in the changing room....they didn't appear to give a stuff about bullying.

Oh that's bad... when did that happen?

Realise this thread was from a couple of months, but thought I'd contribute: I sent all 3 of my boys there. Brilliant school. Two of my sons are academic and HH got them into Winchester. Son for whom Winchester wasn't right got into perfect senior school for him. We 'left' the school about 3 years ago after all boys were in senior schools, but can't rate HH highly enough. It's a kind environment where boys can be boys. Brilliant.

It's a terrific school, although very small which mightn't suit everyone. Families I know with boys there love it- both parents and sons. Very strong Winchester track record. The main quirk is probably the system by which boys move up a class when they are academically ready, not by year group. I imagine this is brilliant for stretching clever boys but might be a little demoralising for those being caught or overtaken by younger schoolmates. HH is definitely one of the schools my boys enjoying playing against. Their criteria seem to be; boys polite and friendly, not uber competitive at sport, no cheating and a good tea. Sounds like quite a good recipe to me.

@Wallabrook is correct in mentioning that the boys move up when ready. I've experienced this both ways (when boys were moved quickly and weren't). The cool thing about this 'termly remove' is that no one really pays much attention to the academic moves. It's just treated as 'normal', especially as there are a couple of academic sets that a lot of boys won't reach (because they're for Winchester Scholars). The boys still all socialise in year groups. Glad to hear HH is considered a good school to play against :-)