Figure 1.--Prep schools expect their students to seriously approach their work. And we noted the children in the classrooms we visited hard at work on their assignments. |
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Prep schools when discussing academic achievement like to discuss two aspects more than any other. First they like to focus on the number of children who pass the Common Entrance Examination and are accepted by their senior schools. The other aspect i the number od students who earn scholsrships. Most schools have a schrship stream and scholarships forms to help assist students win the comptitive competition for those scholaeships. Some schools do much better than others. A factor here of course is the fact that some schools cater to children that are academically oriented. Of course the school program and masters involved are also important.
No Headmaster's report would be complete without some comment on the academoc sise of life. Pride of plasce must go to Simon Hallwho won a £350 to Pocklington. Andrew Parker and James McMurdo gained places at Rugby and Sedbergh respectively as the result of taking their Scholarship exams. David Gray won an Art Award to Trent College and Bryan Hyslop a Games Scholarship to Trent which he will take up when he enters Trent in January. Ny heartiest congratulations to all these boys on their achievemets. I would also like to contratulate Jonathan Bell who had a go at both the Art and Music Scholarships at Oakham, but failed to gain an Award. I've no doubt he will quickly show Oakham his considerable talebnts.
Michael Floyd, The Bramcote Magazine, Autumn 1978
I feel that the political future of all independent schools should be bound up with every sector of the population and that help should be given to all groups. Assisted places should start in the prepratory schools and help should be guven to particularly bright childrenas it is in these children that the best prospects for the nation's future lie. There is certainly a bright future ahead academically. It will be most dangerous for independent schools to become to academic, their range must be as wideand as varied as possibleand it is unwise to seek excellence merely for selfish ends. What one must look for is the genuine aducatin of children for the modern society in which we live, and in which they will live in 15 to 20 year's time. Today's parents are looking for high standards hat will enable the young men or women of tommorow to cope with the society and to make the various social adjustments which they themselves probably found most difficuklt to cope with in their own late adolesence and early adulthood.
Headmaster'd Editorial, The Down's School Record, 1979.
