Evening & Weekends

Millfield house basketball
A group of young women in red and white sports attire, some with face paint, pose with a %22Southfield%22 banner on outdoor steps in front of a building.
House event cricket
Millfield Giving Day activity
A group of smiling people in wetsuits and helmets give thumbs up while posing on a rocky cliff face.
Prep

There is a specific time set aside each evening for boarders to complete their prep. Students are registered at 7pm and prep commences after a short house meeting until 8:30pm. Sixth Form students may work in the library using IT and research facilities. The Art Department is open throughout the week for students studying Art or Photography at A level.

Evenings

Millfield's Boarding Programme is a series of activities throughout the week, covering physical and cerebral challenges. Students enjoy swimming, dodge ball, gaming, prep club and many other activites. The Chindit League is a highly popular and competitive football tournament played between the houses at junior and senior level on the school astro or on house courts. Games are played at least once per week.

Weekends and Exeats

Millfield ensures that there is always a diverse range of exciting and engaging events at the weekends. Trips and ‘Hops’ for junior students are held regularly. This is supplemented by the many cultural events that our Music and Drama Departments hold on Saturday evenings. On Sundays, houses often take trips, go to events and can use the sporting facilities. All boarders can visit the cinema in Yeovil as trips are frequently organised and trips further afield, such as to Thorpe Park, occur on a termly basis.

Boarders are allowed three exeats per term. These must be taken after games on a Saturday and boarders are required to return by 10pm on Sunday. This is organised in cooperation with the relevant Housemaster/Housemistress. These exeats are in addition to the school exeat held in the autumn term when all boarders leave the campus for the weekend. There are no restrictions to boarders seeing family on Sundays.

 

House Events

House Events are always a wonderful display of house pride, spirit and camaraderie. House Sport Days happen four times a year (one per term) and sees students from each house compete against each other in a number of seasonal sports, as well as House Maths, Spelling Bee, Linguistics, Pub Quiz, Chess, Debating and Drama. All students take part, whether on the track, sports field or stage competing for their House, or supporting in the wings or on the sidelines, donning their House colours, flags and face paint!

Four young women in wetsuits walk on a wet sandy beach carrying surfboards, with the ocean and a distant coastline in the background.

My favourite thing about boarding is the people around you as you’re living with your friends who later become family.

Lourdes, Lower Sixth Student

Millfield Key Messaging poster - We are Full Boarding