Millfield Prep News

Twenty-Eight Millfield Prep pupils have gained top marks in the UK Bebras Challenge.

Millfield Prep pupils won seven medals for Team GB at the World Biathle/Triathle Championships in Nusa Dua, Bali.

Ten Millfield and Millfield Prep pentathletes are travelling to Bali to represent Great Britain in the UIPM World Triathle/Biathle Championships.

The Championships are due to take place in Nusa Dua, Bali from 2-5 November 2023.

The Modern Pentathlon squad had a successful summer full of international and domestic competitions.

A Millfield Prep pupil travelled to Lithuania to see her clothing designs brought to life.

The Crispin family have had three generations work at Millfield, spanning over 50 years.

OMs Lando Norris (F1) and Oliver Goethe (F3) have provided unparalleled excitement for fans around the globe as they dominated on their home ground track, Silverstone.

Millfield Prep pupils win gold for Team GB at the European Modern Pentathlon Championships.

Millfield Prep School's U13 Girls won the English Schools Football Association National Cup.

Drummer Laurie Swift takes to the stage after Elton John at Glastonbury Festival this weekend.

Millfield Prep School has welcomed a local primary school boy into its equestrian centre to support his needs.

Millfield Prep School swimmers were crowned IAPS National champions for the 36^th year in a row.

Two Millfield Prep pupils have broken the 1500m school record for their year group.

Millfield Prep School celebrate annual May Fair.

Millfield Prep School has achieved the highest possible rating in a recent inspection.

A round-up of sporting highlights from Millfield Prep School.

128 Millfield Prep pupils sat LAMDA exams in March, achieving a 100% pass rate with over 90% attaining the highest distinction award.

Millfield Prep School has been named in The Week's Best of the Best Independent School issue.

33 Millfield Prep pupils have qualified to compete in the British Schools Biathlon Championships in March. 

An incredible 33 Millfield Prep cricketers have been selected into county performance squads from: Somerset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Wales and Jersey.

The Old Millfieldian Society is all about supporting a large and vibrant network of former students across the world – as well as supporting their future endeavours and sharing their fantastic achievements. With 2023 being just around the corner, we would like to take this time to reflect on the year and the wonderful achievements within the Millfield community during 2022. 

Twenty-Five Millfield Prep pupils have gained top marks in a National computing competition.

The Millfield Prep swim team have been crowned national champions in all four events at the Secondary Schools Team Relay Championships.

Eight Millfield Prep pupils won a combined 22 medals at the 2022 Biathle, Triathle and Laser Run European Championships in Greece. 

Millfield Prep School have been crowned joint winners of Independent Prep School of the Year at the annual Independent School of the Year awards this evening.

Millfield Prep pupil Eva Dowden represented Great Britain at the World Laser Run Finals in Lisbon, Portugal.

Millfield Prep School hosted 250 pupils from six local primary schools for their first ever Commonwealth Games Day on Friday.

The pupils in Years 3 and 4 had the chance to compete in two different sports sessions and meet 2022 Commonwealth Games gold and silver medals winner in swimming Brodie Williams and bronze medal winner in hockey Stuart Rushmere, both former Millfield pupils.

Millfield Prep School is delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Hilton as Deputy Head Pastoral.

In September 2021, Millfield Prep School launched a new Wellbeing Curriculum and 81% of pupils believe the curriculum has helped them in a positive way.

Millfield Prep School swimmers are IAPS National Finals champions for the 35^th year in a row.

The team travelled to the London Aquatics centre to compete earlier this month. The morning races for the boys were a success, with the session one relay times faster than they performed at the regional round.

Millfield Prep School’s U13 girls’ cricket team have been crowned national champions at Lord’s.

On Thursday 26th May, over 230 Prep pupils took to the stage for the much-anticipated Summer Concert.

Nine Millfield and Millfield Prep athletes have qualified to represent Great Britain in Biathle and Laser Run at this year’s European Championships.

50 Millfield and Millfield Prep School athletes travelled to the University of Bath to compete in the British Modern Biathlon Championships 2021, after the event had been delayed a year due to covid 19.

Millfield Prep pupil Isla Sully has been nominated to represent Great Britain at the Concours de Dressage International in March.

Millfield Prep School hosted a Boarders' Charity Challenge Day to raise money for Young Minds Trust.

Millfield Prep School recently performed an adaptation of the Disney film Moana, in the first production in front of a live audience for over two years. 

Dan Thornburn has started his tenure as the Head of Millfield Prep School.

James Guy has recently been awarded an MBE, which stands for ‘Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire’ and is the third highest ranking award on the New Year's Honours list. James was awarded for his services to swimming. 

Twenty-Eight Millfield Prep pupils have gained top marks in a National computing competition.

Double Olympic gold medallist James Guy visited Millfield Prep School today to reopen his childhood swimming pool and inspire the next generation of swimmers following in his footsteps. James’ swimming career flourished at Millfield Prep when he joined the school in Year 8, in 2008, followed by five years at Millfield.

Millfield Prep School debuted ‘The Eye Meets the Ear’ concert, a collaborative art and music event, encouraging pupils and parents to create art whilst listening to live music.

Eight Millfield Prep pupils have been selected to represent Somerset Netball this season.

Millfield Prep School rider Emily Gulliver has won the 128cm Championships Final as part of the England side competing at the Scottish Harbo Home Ponies 2021.

Millfield Prep pupils took part in the first live music event in over a year – the much anticipated annual Rock and Pop concert.

Millfield Prep Schools pavilion has been named the ‘Shayler Pavilion’ as Headmistress Shirley Shayler retires after 11 years at the helm.

Millfield sailors Maia Delin and Vanja Ramm-Ericson have qualified for the World Sailing Junior Championships in Germany.

Tuesday this week was Somerset Day, which gave Millfield Prep and Pre-Prep pupils a great excuse to celebrate the amazing county that we live in

Millfield Prep pupils enjoyed their first inter-school cricket matches for two years on Wednesday. Cricketers from Taunton Prep were welcomed to the school's 11 cricket pitches for a series of friendly matches.

Last week, 56 pupils from Millfield Pre-Prep and Prep performed in the school's Tea & Music Concert and Cushion Concert. The musicians were able to play their pieces in front of an audience of classmates in their bubbles, the first time they have had an audience this year.

Millfield Prep School is delighted to announce the appointment of Dan Thornburn as Headmaster from 1 January 2022.

This week, pupils from Millfield Prep and Pre-Prep took part in the final Tea & Music Concert of the spring term. The concert was premiered on YouTube for the whole Millfield community to enjoy. There were an incredible 45 performances from pupils, from Pre-Prep all the way up to Year 8.

Being away from campus did not deter the pupils of Millfield Prep from taking part in World Book Day 2021. A full programme was provided for the whole school, with fun activities, competitions, lessons and challenges taking place all through the day.

Millfield Prep School pupils celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight from their homes all around the world.

Millfield Prep School Year 6 pupil Keeleigh Cooke gained a total of six gold medals in Swim England’s new Level X competition.

On Wednesday 10 February, a staggering 37 pupils from Year 3 through to Year 8 presented recorded performances for Millfield Prep's first remote Tea & Music Concert of the spring term.

Millfield Prep School pupils were joined by professional Welsh rugby player Callum Sheedy for a remote question and answer session this week.

Millfield Prep School pupil Megan has placed sixth in national virtual dance competition The Great Big Dance Off, out of almost 100 children in her category.

Millfield Prep School pupils Maia and Noelle Delin have been selected for regional sailing pathways. Maia has been accepted into the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Regional Training Group whilst her sister Noelle will train as part of the SW Regional Optimists Squad.

Congratulations to the six Millfield Prep pupils who placed in the top 10% of their age group nationally in the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.

Millfield Year 10 student Oliver Reynolds has been named as the overall winner of the Millfield Biology Photography Competition 2020, with his close-up image of a bee.

The Millfield Biology Photography Competition invites students at both Millfield and Millfield Prep, staff and the wider community to submit photographs on a particular theme, with this year’s theme named as ‘Conservation’.

Millfield Prep pupil Alfie McAnespie has been honoured to receive a letter from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to thank him for his fundraising work for charity Help For Heroes

Millfield Prep Equestrian hosted an internal showjumping competition for riders this week, to raise money for Children in Need.

After the success of the Virtual Cushion Concert before half term, Millfield Prep's Music Department hosted the first Tea and Music Concert of the year last week, giving talented musicians in Years 6, 7 and 8 the chance to perform.

Millfield Prep School Pupils have enjoyed a virtual site visit to the Battlefield of Hastings.

Pupils at Millfield Prep and Millfield Pre-Prep School enjoyed a non-uniform day on Friday 13 November, raising a total of £920.00 for Children in Need.

Pupils at Millfield Prep and Millfield Pre-Prep joined organisations across the UK for Odd Socks Day 2020, wearing mismatched socks to support and raise awareness for Anti-Bullying Week.

Millfield Prep School musicians have performed and sent a virtual concert to ten care homes in the local area.

Last week, Millfield Prep hosted the first Cushion Concert of the year via YouTube Premiere.

Millfield Prep School’s Chaplain Michele Kitto has been ordained at Wells Cathedral by Bishop Ruth to become a Deacon.

This week is National Coding Week in the UK. Here at Millfield Prep, we have embraced the vision that effective use of information technology should be integral to the teaching and learning process.

Every pupil in Millfield Prep got the year off to a flying start with the annual Inter-House Fun Run!

Every year, pupils in Year 4 are lucky enough to learn an orchestral instrument as part of the Millfield Prep Orchestral Project.

On Sunday 30 August, three generations of Old Millfieldians played an integral role in the very special event ‘One Enchanted Evening’. Some of the biggest names from the world of theatre travelled to Glastonbury to perform at the event which was held at Glastonbury Abbey.

Despite the decision announced by Ofqual that Centre Assessed Grades would be awarded to students at GCSE and A Level at the eleventh hour causing further delays, most Millfield pupils are today able to celebrate an exceptional range of GCSE results. Some students are still awaiting BTEC results after last minute changes. Students were unable to sit exams this year as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Eight Millfield Prep School pupils have been selected to participate in the Somerset County Pathway Programme due to their performances at the Somerset County Championships earlier this year.

Pupils from Year 5 at Millfield Prep took part in a virtual version of The Freedom Project.

During the Summer Term, Millfield Prep were delighted to host two Tea and Music Concerts. The relaxed concerts ordinarily take place in the Millfield Prep Recital Hall, and provide pupils with performance opportunities in and friendly and supportive setting.

Last term, pupils at Millfield Prep took part in the Millfield Prep School Gratitude Project.

Millfield Prep pupils Daniel and Helena have raised over £2,000 with a cricket-themed fundraiser.

Members of Millfield Prep's Chamber Choir and Tour Choir have spent their remote rehearsals practising a special song to celebrate Captain Tom Moore’s 100th Birthday.

Millfield Prep School’s new website has won a Platinum Award under the category ’Overall Website for an Educational institution’ in the 2020 Hermes Creative Awards, which is the highest level of achievement possible in a very competitive judging process.

Millfield and Millfield Prep students Freddie and Harry have helped their family set up a food delivery service that provides fresh fruit and vegetables to key workers and vulnerable self-isolators.

Millfield School in Street, Somerset is working with the District and Parish Council, The Salvation Army, Crispin Hall and the Community Centre on a number of initiatives to help the local community during the Coronavirus outbreak.

Millfield students send video messages of support to local care home

Congratulations to our 14 Millfield Prep pupils, who placed in the top 10% of the country in the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge and were invited to participate in the TCS Oxford Computing Challenge.

Last week, 178 Millfield Prep pupils took part in the annual Spring Concert.

Millfield Prep School table tennis player Jack Liu has become U13 Somerset County Champion.

What a brilliant World Book Day we had here at Millfield Prep and Pre-Prep.

Millfield Prep School’s U11 and U12 Netball teams have qualified for the IAPS National finals, after winning the regional finals recently.

At the end of February, Millfield Prep pupils had their first Breakfast Masterclass of 2020. This time they were given the opportunity to explore the inner workings of the concert band.

Millfield Prep School pupil Sophie F competed at the All England Dance Championships this month making the quarter finals in the ballroom, Latin and classical categories.

The Rock & Pop Concert is one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the Millfield Prep Music calendar and this year’s concert certainly lived up to the hype.

Millfield Prep celebrated Safer Internet Day with a whole assembly lead by our Year 8 Digital Monitors, Stasha Clark and Jimmy Jamieson, and Mr Ford.

Year 3 went on an exciting and tasty trip to Barber’s Cheese factory.

Our hockey pupils had a special visit from former pupil and Ireland Ladies’ Hockey player, Millie Regan.

Boys from Millfield Prep’s Chestnut House visited nearby local landmark Shepton Mallet Prison to learn team building exercises in an escape room.

Millfield Prep’s Under 11 boys’ and U11 girls’ trampolining teams have qualified for the National Schools Trampolining Championships in March, with Year 8 pupil Ellis also qualifying in the individual competition after placing third at the Southern Zonal Schools Championships in Kent in January.

The annual Music Scholars’ Concert was held last week, in the Recital Hall.

Millfield Prep School pupil Hector Jones from Walton has been invited by Pentathlon GB to represent Great Britain in the Laser Run World Championships, held in Xiamen China in May later this year.

Musicians from Millfield Prep School visited Glastonbury Care Home to perform a concert for the residents.

Our boarders enjoy Sunday trips, which usually take them outside of school, or using the school's facilities to participate in new and exciting activities.

Pupils and staff at both Pre-Prep and Prep enjoyed a day of celebrations in honour of Chinese New Year.

Millfield Prep pupils performed a Carol Service at Wells Cathedral at the end of the Autumn Term.

Our year 7 geographers had fun creating their own volcanoes as part of a challenge prep that the pupils worked on over the holiday.

Our boarders from Chestnut House went to the school orchard to have a traditional Somerset Wassail.

Year 4 went on a voyage of discovery to the Fleet Air Arm Museum last week.

Every Wednesday afternoon a group of pupils in Year 7 and Year 8 are selected to visit Shapwick Moor Nature Reserve, owned by the Hawk and Owl Trust, on the Somerset Levels.

At the start of the Christmas holidays, a group of 20 pupils set off on an exciting trip to New York City!

We were delighted to be able to support the work of St Margaret’s Hospice Care again this year, by hosting one of their ‘Light Up A Life’ Services.

Over the past term, the Year 8s have been working towards their production of Dick Whittington.

On Monday 18 November, 30 pupils took part in the first Tea and Music concert of the year.

Pupils at Millfield Prep finished off the first half term of the year with their annual House Singing Competition.

Millfield Prep School joined organisations across the UK for Odd Socks Day 2019 by wearing mismatched socks to support and raise awareness for Anti-Bullying Week. Pupils, teachers and all staff wore bright and colourful odd socks to help break the cycle of bullying in schools.

Last week, 14 pupils from Years 5-8 gave a concert at Hanover Retirement Estate in Shepton Mallet.

Monday brought around the first of our Cushion Concert series for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Year 7 undertook a pilgrimage to Glastonbury, putting into action their learning in History, Geography and Religious Studies.

On Saturday, we had our first Music workshop of the 2019/2020 academic year. Entitled ‘Endangered Instruments’, we were treated to demonstrations on four instruments, which music departments up and down the country are keen to encourage more uptake of – bassoon, viola, trombone and tuba!

Millfield Prep pupils all took part in the annual Harvest Service last week.

Year 7 pupils spent the day at the Aerospace Museum in Bristol, gaining useful knowledge to aid their dragster technology project, as well as finding all sorts of information about the history of flight and design in the local area.

Despite rain and flooding being forecast across the UK on Tuesday, Year 8 pupils found some sunshine at the coast and had a successful Geography fieldtrip to Lulworth Cove in Dorset.

Professional Somerset County Cricket hero Max Waller and Olympic hockey legends Simon and Richard Mantell returned to their former school, Millfield Prep in Somerset, to formally open its new cricket facility.

The Year 4 Orchestral project got off to a fantastic start on Tuesday.

Millfield Prep Year 6 pupil Shunsaku has had an incredible summer of squash after winning the Japanese, Chinese and Korean Squash Open tournaments in the U11 age group.

Mr Stickley, Head of Outdoor Pursuits at Millfield Prep School, lead a group of pupils on the exciting trip to Scotland during the summer holidays.

Two former Millfield Prep cricketers have signed two-year contracts for Somerset County Cricket Club at the Cooper Associates County Ground in Taunton.

Year 6 spent a fun day at Mojo Active, working in their new Group Tutors to problem-solve through some exciting team challenges including an assault course, as well as some friendly competition in archery.

The sun was shining for our first house event of the academic year, the Fun Run.