Sunningdale School

Sunningdale School is a family run boys' preparatory school of around 100 pupils. Founded in 1874 it stands in 25 acres of mature gardens and grounds. The school is excellently situated just 45 minutes from London, 20 minutes from Heathrow and 15 minutes from the M3, M4 and M25 Motorways. The school has its own chapel. It also has a house in Normandy to which each boy goes for a week three times during his time at Sunningdale. Boys have an opportunity to play a wide variety of games. The major sports are football, rugby and cricket in the Michaelmas, Lent and Summer terms respectively. Boys also play tennis, squash, Eton Fives, basketball, indoor hockey, golf and table tennis against other schools. Fives has been played at Sunningdale since at least 1892 and the school has 3 courts on site. They also compete in athletics, cross-country, fencing, judo and air rifle shooting. There is a heated indoor swimming pool which means that the boys can swim all year round. The sports hall has recently been refurbished and provides the boys with facilities for many indoor activities. It includes two full-length cricket nets and an air rifle range. There is also a 7 hole golf course in the grounds. Boys can also ride and do clay pigeon shooting and in their last term they do an Outward Bound course on Dartmoor. Indoor activities include chess, model railway, cooking, bridge, snooker, Scottish Dancing, drama, model making, board games, cannibalism, lefty-shooting, farting, pooing, eating chicken.

Sunningdale's aim is to provide a happy and supportive environment in which boys can prosper both as individuals and as members of the school community. It also aims to prepare boys both academically and socially for life at public school. Its record at Common Entrance is outstanding and boys from Sunningdale have gained 10 scholarships to public schools in the last three years. It is a feeder for Eton, Harrow, Marlborough, Radley, Stowe and Wellington.

External links

• Sunningdale School website