I am delighted to announce that the British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC) has been selected as the main Senior School charity for 2011. Fundraising has already got off to a great start. Read more

The Millfield Camerata Choir (pictured above) travelled to Berlin over the first weekend of the term and performed at the Berlin Choral Festival. Venues included the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, St Matthias’ Church and Kaiser-Wilhelm Gedaechtnis Kirche. The Choir were awarded the prize for the best programme of the Festival which is an outstanding achievement considering Millfield were the only student choir competing against very experienced adult and University choirs from around the world. Thanks to Mr Jensen, Elena Fraser and Semra Kurutac for organising the trip. Read more

The Music Department are delighted to be welcoming virtuoso violinist So Ock Kim for a series of pupil workshops and a concert in the Johnson Hall on the 23rd June. Tickets for the concert are selling fast and are available here.

The Millfield Jazz Band are rehearsing a new original composition by renowned jazz and funk musician Pee Wee Ellis. Having worked with the band on a number of occasions Pee Wee has written an original three movement Jazz Suite for the Band which will also feature a number of vocalists.

It is not often that we get to herald World Champions, so it is exciting to begin by acknowledging the efforts of our golfers in retaining the World Schools Golf Challenge won two years ago and retained this Easter in South Africa. The party of Katherine Carragher, Jamie Clare, Joe Clare, Digby Edgley, Nic Elliott, Patrick Fereday, JJ Fletcher, Moritz Hausweiler, Sophie Keech, Joe Lovery, Anthony McGeorge, Freddie Sexton, Adarsh Shah, Matthew Sheehan, Zhanna Tarasko and Adan Yates won the Boys Team, Mixed Team, Individual Boy (Gross), Individual Girls (Gross) and Individual Girl (Nett) titles, with various second places to boot!  Many congratulations to all and coaches Karen Nicholls and Stuart Wells.

The golfers were preceded in South Africa by our senior rugby players, whose 11-day tour took in the magnificent St John’s Festival and a coaching session in Soweto.  Their junior counterparts were similarly involved in tournaments in Portugal (U15) and Italy (U16). Thanks must go to the staff and parents who make these tours possible, providing such wonderful sporting and learning opportunities, and we look forward to further news when our hockey players, footballers and cricketers visit South Africa and Sri Lanka, respectively, later in the year.

Closer to home our pupils enjoyed further international recognition, with Harry Turner selected for England Basketball, Tom Hurley winning 4 caps for England Schools Football, Jess Orrett and Harry Gibson playing hockey for England, Xavier Vrigneau representing Britain in Modern Pentathlon, Fiona Murphy selected to play squash for Wales senior ladies team, and Marwan El Shorbagy winning his first PSA Squash Title to move in to the World’s Top 100.

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Congratulations to Year 9 pupils Ali Hussey and Charlotte Smith who, along with two Year 8 pupils, George Downing and George Hazel, will compete in the national final of the UK Mathematical Trust Team Maths Challenge after they won the regional event hosted by Millfield in the first week of term. Read more

Last Thursday, Year 9 pupils also took part in a Physics Challenge in the Barracuda. Pupils were paired up and given a box of equipment to make a balloon powered car. The idea of the Challenge was to promote the engineering side of Physics and to make the subject more accessible and fun for the pupils.  The winner was Nick Thorp, whose car travelled a remarkable distance of 6.65 metres. Libby Letchford and her teammate Georgie Kloos finished second with a distance of 4.4 metres.

The Junior production featuring Year 9 and 10 pupils is always an eagerly awaited event in the school calendar. I am very pleased to invite you to come and see 'Dracula'  from 24th–26th May at 7pm in the Meyer Theatre. Read more

The cast and production team hope you can make it along to the play. Due to some of the themes and imagery in the production, this show is not suitable for very young children. Parents' discretion is advised. Tickets are available from boxoffice@millfieldschool.com

Wednesday 16th March saw the lively House Debating Final. The Johnson Hall attracted a large audience of enthusiastic deliberators to discuss nuclear power. The House grouping of Orchards, Grange, Abbey and Overleigh proposed that the world still needs nuclear power and triumphed in the debating final.  Read more