THE TOP PREP AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE UK

The team from Tatler came to visit Brighton this term. Here’s what they had to say…

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Brighton College.One word: exceptional

Music, drama and dance – you’ve guessed it:

exceptional

The Headmaster… yup, he’s exceptional too

Brighton is the highest achieving co-educational

school in the UK

Here is the Tatler report on Brighton in full:

One word: exceptional. You want more? Cosmopolitan and urban but with the sea on one side and the South Downs on the other, and London a short train-ride away.

Brighton College is the highest achieving co-educational school in the UK for the third year running (99 per cent  A*-B at A-level; an average GCSE score of 10 A*s; 29 Oxbridge offers) and is, in the words of one publication, the most ‘forward-thinking school in Britain’.

Alongside the substance, there’s a whole lot of style: pupils learn presentation skills, and there are ‘how to’ clubs, where they learn to lay a table, iron a shirt and read a map. The rugby 1st XV is unbeaten in Sussex and Hampshire for the past eight seasons; the girls’ U15 cricket team are national T20 champions; runners won gold medals for England at the ISF athletics championships… ‘We know – we don’t know how they do it either,’ says the school. Music, drama and dance – you’ve guessed it: exceptional. When we asked, ‘What’s new?’, they said, ‘It’s more a question of what’s not new’: one major building project per year under Richard Cairns’s headship. The elegant new girls’ boarding house has won a RIBA award and all the others have had sleek makeovers by international interior designers – even the table football is chic grey and white. Mr Cairns told us he feels ‘incredibly lucky to be Headmaster of this amazing school’. Yup, he’s exceptional too.

www.brightoncollege.org.uk

Brighton College. One word:

EXCEPTIONAL