Tatler Schools Guide 2014
The College have a great write up again this year in the Tatler Schools Guide 2014. Please do share with friends and family (it is on sale at the moment!). The next College Open Morning is Saturday 28th September, so if you have children of an appropriate age and would like to receive a prospectus please do get in touch with a member of the Admissions team on registrar@brightoncollege.net or by telephone: 01273 704343 (Pre-Prep and Prep Schools), 01273 704200 (Lower School, Senior School and Sixth Form).
For the full entry in the Tatler Schools Guide read on.
TATLER SCHOOLS GUIDE 2014
We gave Richard Cairns our Best Head of a Public School award last year – something of a no-brainer because it seems this man can do no wrong. Pupils love him, staff revere him and even Michael Gove calls his leadership 'visionary'. Record results at GCSE and A level (96.8% A*-B) again last year; every single pupil who took Chinese (Mandarin) at GCSE gained an A* (its compulsory for everyone up to Year 9); and there was the highest number of Oxbridge offers too. Mr Cairns has a great line about wanting his pupils to be a 'first-rate version of themselves, not a second rate version of someone else' – it's all about celebrating the individual. You want proof? Among the finalists in the sixth form's 'Strictly Come Dancing' contest were a first XV rugby stalwart and an English National Schools' bronze medallist shot-putter. An artist had a painting accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; a dancer won a National Ballet scholarship; and a lower sixth was runner-up in BBC's Young Apprentice. The 1st XV rugby squad has been unbeaten in Sussex for six years, and girls' cricket is extraordinarily strong – the under-15 team is the national indoor champion. Girls play in the boys' 1st XI cricket team too – 'on of the fundamental principles of the college, which believes inclusion should be based on merit, not gender', we're told. There's sky-high demand for places, so they're building a fifth boarding house to keep up.