Sherborne Schools are Finalists in National Boarding Schools Association Awards 2020 

Sherborne School and Sherborne Girls have been announced as Finalists in the Boarding Schools Association’s national annual awards. 

The Schools’ conservation work to rewild areas of their campus across both sites, and their partnership with local state schools, has been selected for the ‘Best Community Work’ category. 

In 2019 Sherborne School and Sherborne Girls were the first schools in the country to sign up to a new initiative launched by the conservation charity, Operation Future Hope (OFH). The Conservation School Award scheme aims to restore and rejuvenate biodiversity in school grounds and to encourage community partnership by sponsoring and working alongside a local state school. The resulting collaboration between Sherborne School and King Arthur’s and Sherborne Girls and The Gryphon, shows environmental action is clearly a priority which the pupils are keen to drive forward.  

The aim is twofold: to educate young people about the devastating decline of nature and wildlife at a global scale, and for pupils to get involved in a practical, hands-on and sustainable way to create real change.  

Sherborne School and Sherborne Girls have been instrumental in encouraging other local schools to join the initiative too.  The environmental impact has been gathering momentum resulting in a truly collaborative and synchronised approach to rewilding within the local community and beyond.   

 Dr Dominic Luckett, Headmaster at Sherborne School, commented:  

 “Participation in OFH has been a wonderful opportunity for our schools in to work together to help address, on a local level, environmental issues about which we should all be concerned.  I am delighted this has been recognised by the BSA.  As well as the environmental impact, the educative aspect of the programme has allowed our pupils to learn more about the environmental challenges that the world faces and, we hope, to be inspired to do something about them not just today but in the future. This project also serves as another example of our unique ‘separate yet together’ partnership with our sister school, Sherborne Girls.”