Good Schools Guide Review 2022

We are delighted to see Sherborne School's review in the Good Schools Guide - the UK’s number one school guide, helping parents in every aspect of choosing the best education for their children.

Here are just a few of our favourite quotes from the review:

Headmaster... "The boys find him ‘attentive, involved, visible, friendly’ and appreciate that he knows them by name – he stopped to ask after the progress and recovery of an injured rugby player sporting a moon-boot when we were walking through the courts. Parents rave about him: ‘Everyone thinks he’s fantastic."

Teaching & learning... "Excellent results achieved alongside the kind of array of anything extracurricular that anyone could possibly want must be testament to the quality of teaching (‘amazing’, according to one mother)."

The arts & extra curricular..."Truly extensive, with excellent facilities and opportunities. Music probably top of the pops with a charismatic head of department and fabulous dedicated block with intimate concert hall, plus Sherborne Abbey where the school meets regularly for collective worship and lusty hymn-singing and which provides the setting for a rigorous grounding in the English choral tradition for the abbey choir. The chamber choir has just 22 auditioned members, who are well set up for choral scholarships to the UK’s most prestigious universities; the school also recruits its own gap year organ and choral scholars. We were thrilled to visit on a Friday and so able to pop into the weekly Cheap St recital, where musicians of all standards perform. "

Sport..."As extensive as you would expect for a school of this prominence and location, with acres of pitches surrounding it, some running right up to the fence with the girls’ school. Most venerated of these is the Upper, where only the first XV generally get to muddy their boots. Rugby is huge here but not at the expense of everything else and, refreshingly, offered as part of a carousel of choice right from the start: the game plan (ha!) is to ensure that every boy finds a sport he will carry on enjoying once he leaves the school."

Boarders... "Houses engender fierce loyalty rather than tribalism and the school tries hard to achieve a balance of the brainy, the sporty and the arty in each."

Ethos & heritage... "Four laughing boys tumbling arm in arm into the street was our first sight of the school and those impressions were not dispelled during our visit. Time and time again we heard how happy the boys are, sometimes from impartial observers."

To read the full review, please click here.