South West Prep feeder to Winchester College

[Doloresvivamarie]

Can anyone recommend a boarding prep school in the South West that feeds Winchester College?

DS is not sporty, very bright and sensitive. Please no schools with a 'jock' culture.

Thank you.

The anti boarding brigade love to tell us about how unhappy their DH/BIL/friends friends brother was when he boarded but I think you're right grovel children are adaptable and can be happy in a whole variety of situations.
Lots of fathers at my DS's prep boarded themselves often at the same prep, most talked about how happy they were there which is why they sent their own DC's.

Pilgrims ok, but my godson not being as interested in his work as he was at his London prep, interesting. Horris Hill caters for both sporty and non, nephews have thrived there, though there is/ was a bit of a " ny father is arriving by a helicopter" which was tricky for the less air borne.

I love the image from your last sentence ancientbuchanan . TBF don't know any HH families who are airborne.

Perhaps it was just the years they were in. But as far as I could see, an excellent school with really good teaching and a happy atmosphere. I thought it better than Pilgrims , by far.

We had friends with a DS at HH they also really liked it. But maybe my geography is different from everyone else's especially as my heart is very firmly in the "West Country" but I personally but I wouldn't describe either Newbury or a Winchester as the "West Country". The West Country for me is Devon and Cornwall maybe Somerset and Dorset at a pinch.

I would not recommend The Elms, go for The Dragon or Sommerfields or Cothill. We have had two boys at the Elms, both bright but I do not rate the teaching or the attitude of the staff, it is backwards and does not understand scholarships etc. My son was billed for extra help this term, I asked him if he had received any, he said no as he had not turned up to the lessons. He is a fully boarder, i cannot get him there, this is the schools job. We had no letter to let us know this was the case, how do they have the cheek to put this on the bill without ensuring that he has attended. He is a child at their school, the documentary on the Cardiff state school showed the teachers going way and beyond this level of care. At the top attaing Cardiff school teachers called children to wake them if they were not in etc. My son was not chased to get to his lesson etc. He is just a very easy going normal boy, but the school is badly run and lazy.

We thought it offered flexi boarding and was cosy, so that is why we chose it over and above the Oxford full boarding, don't do it. The others are proper schools with wide reaching facilities and classes. This only suits middle of the road types. The staff are lazy, there are few of them supervising at supper and they therfore shout a lot at the children to be heard, and they do not watch the table manners. (I am having to retrain my boys about elbows etc.) I have been really upset with the level of pastoral care at the school. My son other son was left to flounder, not acceptable. Each top year there is a case of bullying, my son experienced this, but we were told that he was the problem etc. However for the past three years a child has been bullied in the top classes so they have either left or their has been an expulsion.

Hello, I know your post was long time ago but i wonder where son ended up as we have similar situation currently.

Thank you,
Ays