The Next Big Step: Highfield and Brookham Schools
Phillip Evitt, Headmaster of Highfield and Brookham Schools, Hampshire, talks about the process of choosing the right senior school and the importance of listening to your gut instinct
Choosing a school for your child is one of the most important decisions you?ll make as a parent. This topic has been even more on my mind than usual recently, either in light of the results of senior school assessments that Highfield and Brookham pupils have taken, meetings with current parents to advise on next schools, or from the opposite perspective of meeting prospective parents.
We welcomed many to our open morning at the beginning of January and met a large number of prospective London parents at our annual Educating Outside London drinks reception that we recently hosted in Chelsea. Advising parents on senior-school choice and working closely with them to find the very best fit for their children ? coupled with promoting the virtues of Highfield and Brookham to prospective parents ? are two highly enjoyable and stimulating facets of my role as headmaster, with each complementing the other.
Visiting senior schools and prep schools, and meeting heads, registrars and directors of admissions allows me to regularly play the part of a prospective parent, weighing up the merits of a school and responding to their strengths, offering, character and atmosphere. On the basis of many such visits over the years, I can reassure parents that it?s genuinely very difficult indeed to encounter a bad ...
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