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A round up of sporting activity at Millfield during November 2024.

A round up of sporting activity at Millfield from October 2024.

Millfield School have been awarded Co-Educational Independent School of the Year at the annual Independent School of the Year awards.

Millfield student Luke Barry won a silver medal for Great Britain at the 2024 IFAF European Junior Flag Football Championships.

A round up of sporting activity at Millfield from September 2024.

Millfield Upper Sixth students are celebrating today after receiving their A level and BTEC results.

Millfield pentathletes competed in the 2024 Biathle, Triathle and Laser Run European Championships at Madeira Island, Portugal, producing exceptional results.

Millfield School have received 14 selections for this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, so far.

A round up of sporting activity at Millfield from June 2024.

Millfield student Amelie Haworth has been crowned U19 European Squash Champion.

A round up of sporting activity at Millfield during March 2024.

A round up of sporting activity at Millfield during February 2024.

Millfield rugby captain Steffan Emuanel has signed a professional contract with United Rugby Championship side Cardiff Rugby.

A round up of sporting activity at Millfield during January 2024.

Millfield skier Victoria Meneghetti has been selected for the Great Britain Snowsport Alpine squad.

Millfield is delighted to announce the appointment of Sarah Quenault as Deputy Head (Pastoral), commencing in August 2024.  

Brownlee brothers coach Malcolm Brown is joining Millfield’s sport staff to shape the newly formed cross sport endurance squad.  

Millfield has been named as the number one sports school in the country. 

The rankings, published annually by School Sports Magazine, sees Millfield claim top spot for the tenth time in eleven years. This is in recognition of both Millfield and Millfield Prep School’s continued success across a variety of sports. 

A round up of sporting activity at Millfield during November 2023

Two First Team Millfield netballers have been selected to represent Scotland in the 2023-2024 season.

Toby Smith shares his remarkable journey into the world of blacksmithing.

A round up of sporting activities at Millfield for October 2023.

Millfield netballer Matilda Moore has been selected into the U17 Northern Ireland Long Squad for the 2023-24 season.  

Millfield introduces a wellbeing dog to the school called Stanley who is a nine-year-old Cocker spaniel. 

A Millfield tennis player has been recognised as one of the top six players for his age group in Great Britain. 

A round up for sporting activities at Millfield for September 2023.

Upper Sixth Millfield student Scarlett Hale became the youngest ever international cricket umpire during the Kwibuka Women’s T20 tournament. 

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.

Millfield Year 11 students are celebrating receiving their GCSE and BTEC results today. This year’s cohort have all shown incredible dedication, hard work to achieve today’s set of results.  

Millfield’s Atkinson Gallery and climate change charity Cape Farewell have curated an exhibition promoting changes in cultural attitudes.

Four Lower Sixth Millfield students have achieved fantastic results in their International English Language Testing Systems (IETLS) exams, having joined the school from Ukraine at the start of this academic year.

A round up of sporting activities at Millfield for June 2023.

A record number of Millfield students have signed to attend top US Universities next year on highly competitive scholarships. 

Millfield computer scientists successfully created programs that displayed images to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

A round up of sporting activities at Millfield for April and May 2023.

Three Millfield Upper Sixth Rugby players have been offered senior academy contracts by Gallagher Premiership side Bath Rugby.

Ioan Emanuel, Ieuan Davies and George Timmins will graduate from the Bath Rugby U18 side and join the senior setup this summer. They will also all study degrees at the University of Bath alongside their rugby commitments.

Millfield footballer Charlie Binns has signed a two-year contract with Championship club, Ipswich’s Town.  

A Lower Sixth Millfield student has been selected into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. 17-year-old Beatrice Paterson is part of the 2023-24 intake, following a rigorous audition process.

A Millfield dancer has been selected to represent England at the 2023 Dance World Cup.

Upper Sixth student Noah Miller will compete in the event in Braga, Portugal from 30 June – 8 July this summer.

Millfield Headmaster Gavin Horgan was a special guest at Made By Dyslexia’s second World Dyslexia Assembly in New York City, this week.  

A round up of sporting activities at Millfield for March 2023.

Millfield sailor Maia Delin has been selected to compete for Great Britain at the European Sailing Championships this April, following a series of ranking events in the past year.

Oska is an alternative, electro, pop artist, producer and songwriter from Glastonbury, Somerset.

Millfield’s Water Polo team have won a national competition after being formed by a Ukrainian student just six months ago.

OM Jazmin Sawyers has jumped her way to gold with a British Indoor Record of 7.00m, claiming the European Indoor long-jump title.

A round up of sporting activities at Millfield during January 2023.

OM Jeremy Gilley has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition for services to global peace. 

Between 4 February and 18 March 2023, four OMs will be representing their respective countries at the annual rugby union competition, Six Nations! 

Millfield skier Katie Saunders has been selected to represent Great Britain at the world’s pre-eminent children’s ski race, the Alpe Cimbra FIS children’s cup in Italy.  

OMs and brothers, Benji and Ollie Goethe, have started their motorsport season with a bang, winning the GT4 Class at the 24 Hours of Dubai.

OMs Toby Reynolds-Cotterill (Wales) and Stu Rushmere (England), will be heading to India to take part in the FIH Men's Hockey World Cup 2023 that will start on Friday 13 January, along with Ian Haley who is the Assistant Coach for team Wales.

Six Millfield netballers have been selected into Team Bath Netball squads for the 2022-23 season.

A round up of sporting activities at Millfield during November 2022.

Millfield footballer Nico Cottle trained with former Manchester United player and captain Antonio Valencia recently.

Three Millfield Hockey players have been selected for the England Hockey squads for their age groups.

Three Millfield athletes have been selected onto highly competitive England Athletics talent programmes.

Fourteen Millfield netballers have been selected into the Somerset Team Bath Athlete Development Centre (ADC) for the 2022-2023 season.

Millfield Rugby have been crowned St Joseph’s Rugby Festival Champions for a record eighth time. The victory makes Millfield the most successful team in the tournament’s history, and the first ever team to win the prestigious competition in consecutive years.

Millfield have been announced as one of the first two schools to be participating in this year’s World Schools Festival of rugby, which is due to take place in Thailand from 12-17 December this year. 

Millfield hosted seven schools and more than 180 students for a RugbySafe Festival aimed at gathering research to reduce head injuries in school rugby.

Millfield School is championing an initiative to better support the needs of girls in sport by piloting a programme with a leading women’s health organisation.

Three Millfield students have gained top grades in the school’s first set of Dance GCSE results.

Bo Edwards, Naphat Rodsawaeng and Ilaria De Neiva Konig all achieved 9s, equivalent to an A*.

Tanya Hammoudeh and Narissara Chaiyarat both achieved a 6 and 5 respectively, equivalent to B grades.

Millfield Year 11 students are celebrating receiving their GCSE and BTEC results today, following the return to exams this year. This year’s Year 11 cohort have all shown incredible dedication, hard work and resolve to achieve today’s set of fantastic results. 

Three weeks after achieving her dream of competing at the Commonwealth Games, 16-year-old Millfield swimmer Jade Phiri has achieved outstanding GCSE results.

Millfield leavers are celebrating their A level and BTEC results today following the return to exams this year, with grades higher than in 2019 as predicted. The 284 students in this year’s Upper Sixth cohort have displayed exceptional resilience, hard work and determination. 

An incredible 24 Millfieldians competed at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, winning a total of 14 medals during the competition.

As the Lionesses kick off their Euro campaign, Millfield’s Director of Football Steve Perkins is creating a blueprint for talented girls to achieve success in the women’s game.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during June 2022.

Four Millfield netballers have been selected for the U15 Team Bath long squad in preparation for the upcoming 2022 School Games.

Millfield business studies teacher Hilary Shergold has won a lifetime achievement award for her services to teaching.

Millfield were honoured to host double Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold OBE this week to inspire students. 

Great Britain’s most successful Winter Olympian, Lizzy won her two Olympic gold medals in skeleton, coming out on top in Sochi in 2014, and then retaining her title four years later in PyeongChang. 

Millfield School have received a 23 selections for this year’s Commonwealth Games, so far.

The 22^nd Commonwealth Games will take place in Birmingham between Thursday 28 July and Thursday 8 August, featuring some of the best athletes from around the world.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during April and May 2022.

Millfield’s musicians took in our second ensemble showcase of the year, Music at Millfield. The concert celebrates the hard work and dedication our students have shown throughout the year towards their collaborative music making endeavours, and for many of them this was their last major ensemble concert of the academic year.

Millfield Cricketer Dominic Kelly has been selected to make his first-class senior debut for Hampshire County Cricket Club, at the age of just 16.

Millfield have welcomed a new school nutritionist, Adam Sutton.  

Adam will be working for the school’s catering provider, Chartwells, ensuring that food provision is meeting student’s diverse requirements and creating a positive experience in the dining hall.

Millfield students have scored highly in the spring American University application SAT exams. 

The exams, which were held at Millfield in March, test students on their aptitude in reading, writing and mathematics, and are an essential component of admissions evaluation for competitive places at top universities in the United States. 

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

Millfield fencers have competed internationally at the African and Asian Zonal Championships.

Following its inauguration in 2019, and a two-year hiatus as a result of Covid 19, Millfield celebrated its second ever ‘Chinese Food Day’ this year. The event, designed to immerse students within Chinese culture, saw over 100 students and staff take part in two mornings of food-making and tasting. 

Upper Sixth Millfield students have signed to attend top US Universities next year on highly competitive scholarships.

Dewi John, Harry Barton, Ines Braithwaite, Lily Thomas, Tottie Taylor and Wyatt Walsh were amongst the latest group of students who have signed to attend prestigious universities in the United States.

Millfield linguists have excelled in this year’s UK Linguistics Olympiad. Students across the year groups have been awarded with exceptional marks in this year’s competition, in which students are required to solve linguistical data puzzles and problems.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during March 2022.

The Millfield fencing team have been crowned 2022 Public School Overall Champions.

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 students have won the European Youth Parliament South Wales Regional Debating Session in Cardiff, qualifying for the National Finals.

Millfield skier Katie Saunders has won the overall U16 female category at the English Alpine Championships.

Millfield Netballer Ella Honey has been selected into the U17 Ireland Squad for the 2022-23 season.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during February 2022.

Millfield hockey senior girls team have won the Smile Independent Schools Cup.

The culmination of three weeks of incredible music making within the Millfield Music School was the Instrumental Finals.

Millfield Physicians have excelled in this year’s British Physics Olympiad.

Students across the year groups have been awarded with exceptional marks in the nationwide programme.

The second final in the Millfield Musician of the Year Competition 2022 was the Contemporary Finals. After a seriously impressive week of heats, those selected from the Vocal, Instrumental and Songwriting categories competed in the finals, adjudicated by Simon Chalk.

A Millfield Mathematician has received an offer to study at the prestigious University of Cambridge.

Old Millfieldians have been selected for their respective home nations for the upcoming Six Nations tournament.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during December 2021 and January 2022.

Millfield swimmers have been selected for Scotland and Wales’ national programmes.

Millfield students have been selected for the national Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA) teams.

Millfield netballers have been selected into the Team Bath National Performance League (NPL) squads for the 2021-22 season.

Two Millfield students and a swim coach have been selected into Swim England’s Junior Squad for 2021-22.

Millfield cricketer Gabriel Gallmann-Findlay has been selected to play for Scotland in the U19 World Cup in the West Indies in January.

Millfield fencer Steffi Berndt De La O has won the prestigious International Fencing Epee Cup in Dubai.

Millfield hosted its annual invitational shoot at the Mendip Shooting Ground, welcoming twelve schools for the day to compete in seven stands of varying difficulty.

Millfield chess teams have qualified for the regional finals of the Schools Chess U19 tournament.

The House Song Competition is one of the highlights in many of the student’s calendars and this year was no different. This year's Abba-themed competition saw all house groupings record their entries, one main choir performance of an Abba number, and one chamber choir entry.

The Staff and Scholars’ Recital was a joyous occasion for both performers and the audience.

Millfield Lower Sixth student Matthew Rees has won the British Formula 4 title.

Millfield squash player Amelie Haworth has become the Under 17 English Squash champion at the age of just 15.

A record number of Millfield swimmers have been selected onto a variety of national talent pathways.

Millfield student Sarah Bugeja has been selected into Switzerland Netball U17 long squad for the 2021-22 season.

Current Millfield swimming duo and four Old Millfieldians, have been selected onto British Swimming’s World Class Programme (WCP) for the 2021-22 season.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during October 2021.

Millfield’s Director of Netball, Jenna Adamson has become only the second coach in England to attain a Level 3 Netball Coaching Qualification alongside holding her A award in officiating.

Millfield Music School opened to the public for the first time this academic year.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during August & September 2021.

Millfield Cadet Force rifle team have won the Regional South West Championships.

Millfield netballer Sarah Long has been selected for the Isle of Man Under 21 squad for the Netball Europe Open Tournament in November.

Three Millfield Team Bath Academy Development Centre (ADC) netballers have been invited to attend an England Roses Academy Positional day this month.

Former Millfield horse rider turned swimmer Suzanna Hext is competing in her first Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Millfield’s clay shooting team have enjoyed a successful year, winning every competition they entered.

An inspiring twelve Millfieldians competed at the Toyko 2020 Olympic Games, winning a total of three medals during the competition.

Millfield Year 11 students are celebrating today after receiving their GCSE exam results. Another different year for exams as we know them has seen the Millfield Year 11 cohort excel in this year’s set of teacher assessed examinations.

After another unique year for exam-aged students, Millfield’s Upper Sixth embark on exciting journeys, in academia, sport, music and the arts, in the UK and overseas.

Millfield leavers are celebrating their A level and BTEC results today after another year of ambiguity surrounding exams due to coronavirus. Students have displayed exceptional resilience and determination.

Millfield students have excelled in the latest national Biology Challenge which saw 160 Year 9 students take part in the ages 13-14 category.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during June 2021.

Seventeen Millfield athletes have been selected to compete in the English Schools Athletics Association (ESAA) Championships next week.

Millfield BTEC Enterprise students have won three National Flash Challenge awards, run by the Peter Jones Academy. The Peter Jones Enterprise Academy (PJEA) is a flagship programme for schools and colleges which offer a number of Flash Challenges in association with PJEA partners.

Seven Netballers from the Team Bath Academy Development Centre (ADC), hosted at Millfield, have been selected into the Team Bath U17 Long Squad.

Five Millfield swimmers have been selected to compete at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Rome next month.

Millfield netballer Ella Porter has been reselected into the Wales National Senior Squad for the 2021/22 season.

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

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during May 2021.

Seventeen year old Millfield student Tamryn van Selm was part of the quartet who won gold at the European Championships over the weekend, securing Millfield’s first female senior international medal in over 20 years.

Millfield athlete Lucy Chalmers has been selected to represent Great Britain U20 at the Loughborough International Athletics meet this weekend.

Another fantastic evening of live music making of the highest quality, Millfield students took to the stage for an opportunity to showcase their instrumental and vocal talents in this summer term’s Evening Recital.

Millfield Careers welcomed professional Exeter Chiefs rugby player and co-business owner of No. 1 Cubs Coffee and Clothing, Billy Keast for a virtual talk via Microsoft Teams.

Millfield Lower Sixth student Tom Williams has been supporting his local community by volunteering at a local vaccination centre.

Millfield artist Dalya Inan has received offers to study at some of the most prestigious art univerisites in the world.

Millfield fencer Renee Nassozi Kiggundu has represented her home nation Uganda in the World Junior Fencing Championships.

Leading independent school Millfield in Somerset has been featured in a new book exploring elite athletes and the environments that create them.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during March 2021.

Millfield linguists have scored highly in the annual United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad (UKLO).

Over 15,500 secondary school children from over 300 schools across the UK have had the chance to travel to Australia, Iceland, Japan and Italy for free as part of a virtual school trip of a lifetime, thanks to a new initiative from Millfield School in Somerset.

A round up of sport activities at Millfield during February 2021

This year’s Millfield Musician of the Year 2021 brought a delightful remote edition of the competition, which saw over 100 entries from students from all year groups. To adjudicate the competition, Millfield Music School welcomed Magdalen College School’s Director of Music Jon Cullen providing insightful feedback for each performance.

This year brought a delightful remote edition of Millfield Musician of the Year 2021, with over 100 entries, it was a pleasure to see so much talent and determination, even if they were performing from their own homes. Millfield Music School welcomed Magdalen College School’s Director of Music Jon Cullen to adjudicate, providing insightful feedback for each performance.

Almost 50 students from leading independent school Millfield in Somerset have partnered with local care home residents on a virtual pen pal project to share letters and birthday cards during the pandemic.

Millfield Sport have launched a new student-led well-being and mental health campaign through sport based on the World Health Organisation’s framework for well-being.

Millfield Upper Sixth student Saina Sodhi from Delhi has developed a social media platform based on TikTok that has seen her named as India Achievers’ Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Millfield Rugby has a representative in every home nations’ squad for this year’s Guinness Six Nations rugby championships.

Millfield Upper Sixth swimmer Tatiana Tostevin from Guernsey has been named Young Sportsperson of the Year at the Guernsey Sports Commission Sporting Achievement Awards. The teenager was nominated after her success in Portugal at the Arena Lisbon international Meet after setting two new Island records in 100m backstroke.

Millfield Photography students welcomed professional photographer Lottie Davies via Microsoft Teams to hear a talk about her journey as a photographer, the ups and downs of the job and some of her past projects. Lottie’s work is a fragrant mix of surreal set up scenes to more commercial and brand photography.

Millfield football students were given the opportunity to take part in a live Q&A session with one of the sport’s best-known former managers and pundits, Ian Holloway. 

Four Millfield students have received offers to study at two of the world’s most prestigious universities.

Millfield Upper Sixth student studying History heard from Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler BEM to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2021.

Millfield Upper Sixth hockey player Kitty Chapple from Taunton has been selected for the Great Britain Elite Development Programme as the only schoolgirl in the squad. Kitty becomes the third Millfield student in recent years to be selected for the programme whilst still at school.  

A round up of remote sport activity from Millfield School

Millfield Upper Sixth musician Woon Ngee Ng has received offers from four of the UK’s top music universities, including Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has also received scholarship offers from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, both with Double Bass as her principal study.

Millfield Upper Sixth musician Tom Bradley has accepted a scholarship to study at the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world, Berklee College of Music in Boston. Notable alumni of Berklee include American indie/pop artist John Mayer and singer/songwriter Charlie Puth.

Millfield Upper Sixth artist Will Smith has launched a successful clothing business during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leading independent school Millfield in Somerset has appointed former Women's Tennis Association (WTA) professional Alexandra Walker to head up the school’s growing tennis department.

Millfield dancers and actors have begun a series of workshops and projects as part of the bespoke Curiosity programme for the spring term. Devised by Director of Dance and Drama, Rhian Fox, students will be working with one of the biggest dance companies in the UK, as well Royal Academy of Dramatic Art mentors.

From what has been a momentous term, with 12 concerts, involving over 140 individual student performances, the Music School presented its immense and ever-popular Music At Millfield concert to end the term

The latest news and updates from our Millfield Sports Departments in December 2020.

Students, staff and members of the Millfield community have donated over 50 Christmas food hampers to vulnerable local families in the Street area. The joint initiative with Millfield’s food supplier Chartwells is aimed at ensuring everyone has a special meal on Christmas day.

Millfield dancers took part in the annual dance show, a favourite in the Millfield arts calendar.

Three Upper Sixth Millfield swimmers and two recent leavers have been chosen for the Swim England National Junior Squad for the 2020-21 season.

Upper Sixth students Joseph Deighan (1500m Freestyle), William Ellington (200m Breaststroke) and Tatiana Tostevin (100m Backstroke) have been named as some of the most promising English athletes of the future.

Millfield Year 9 student Alex H has scored in the top 1% nationally in the 2020 Bebras Challenge in computational thinking.

This annual competition presents students with a series of problems to solve using concepts such as logic, abstraction, pattern-matching, decomposition, and algorithmic thinking.

Amongst our thriving calendar of events, our fifth event in nine days saw our second Evening Recital. After having an enjoyable concert last Monday, this concert featured an array of students playing some remarkable repertoire to reflect the immense talent these students inhabit, as well as the mere popularity of performance opportunity within the music department.

Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has given his stamp of approval on Millfield’s new Indoor Cricket Centre after visiting the school to host a series of Q&A and masterclass sessions.  

Kait Weston, the Deputy Head of Pastoral at Millfield, is one of our Millfield Transform a Life x #TOGETHER FUND ambassadors this term. Kait chose to support Goal 14: Life Below Water, as she actively supports the conservation of the oceans, seas and marine resources, and the promotion of their sustainable use and development.

As a result of the global pandemic, Millfield’s annual Showcase charity talent show in aid of the school’s three chosen charities was broadcast online to students and parents this month.

Sport Updates from Millfield Sports Departments throughout November 2020.

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 Music had their first Evening Recital of the academic year, an evening full of high-quality classical music from our exceptionally talented students.

Millfield Sixth Form sailing scholar Lucy Davis has begun a campaign towards Olympic selection after being called up to the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) GB pathway at just 16 years old.

Millfield BTEC Enterprise and Entrepreneurship student Ailbe Bartlett has been awarded the Highly Commended prize of £1000 and a full mentoring programme from BBC Dragons' Den star Peter Jones CBE after reaching the final of the Peter Jones Foundation National Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

OM Sarah Stirk (1994-1996; Warner) has become the face of Sky Sports Golf as one of their main journalists, and a bright talent in television broadcasting. She is one of the network’s most valuable presenters as a result of her professionalism and expertise. 

OM Milly Tanner (2013-2017; Martins) has just won a silver medal at the UEC European Track Cycling Championships in Plovdiv, as part of The Great Britain Cycling Team.

Millfield footballers took part in a professional development session with former Championship league management duo Lee Johnson and Jamie McAllister. The students were able to experience a simulation of a professional training session, including structured practices and games, strategy presentations and a Q&A with the managers.

Millfield have been selected as one of a small number of pilot schools across the UK to offer the prestigious Rambert Grades.

OM Alison Oliver (1987-1989; Warner) has recently been awarded an MBE in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list for all the work she has done for the Youth Sport Trust. This achievement is the third highest ranking award in the Order of the British Empire and is bestowed on individuals who have contributed significantly to important services in society. 

Four Millfield students have scored in the top 10% of students in the country in the latest SAT (US admissions) exam.

Millfield’s first evening concert in the Johnson Hall brought us The Open Musicians’ Platform to kick start the academic year. This concert is made for our intermediate students, between grades four to seven where we saw a great range of repertoire from various genres and instrumentation take stage, as well as some students performing for the first time in front of a socially distanced audience, as well as viewers at home via the live stream on Millfield’s Senior School YouTube Channel.

Millfield School’s Outdoor Department has seen 108 students complete their Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh award qualifying expeditions in a safe environment during the first half of the 2020 Autumn Term, despite current COVID-19 restrictions in some regions.

Dr Alexei Parakhonyak, a current Professor of Economics at Lincoln College Oxford University, presented a talk for Millfield Economics students on how the internet has reshaped competition in retail markets.

Representatives from day and boarding houses came together in a revised format to perform classic hits as part of the annual House Song competition, amended this year in line with social distancing and Covid-19 secure guidance.

Old Millfieldian Edward Chudleigh (1993-1996; Shapwick) presented a talk to Millfield BTEC Art students on the links between engineering and art and how he has used art technology to develop his new sustainable energy machine, Genesis2, and created thousands of PPE face shields for frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Millfield Upper Sixth student Yuka Machino was the highest placed female competitor in the world at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), held online this September.  She was the only female to win a gold medal and was placed 22^nd out of 616 competitors, each one the very best from their country.

Millfield Sixth Form hurdler Lucy-Jane Matthews from Salisbury broke celebrated British Olympian Sally Gunnell’s 36-year British age 17 100m hurdle record at the 2020 British Championships in Manchester.

Millfield recent leavers and rugby stars Oliver Burrows and Dan John have signed contracts with Exeter Chiefs for the 2020-21 season.

Millfield student Lily Della Valle from Shepton Mallet has won the Marie Curie Young Supporter of the Year as recognition for her outstanding fundraising and support in her local community.

Millfield School is launching an exciting campaign, Millfield Transform a Life x #TOGETHER FUND, to raise vital funds for bursaries to enable talented children to access a transformational education.

Millfield has appointed accomplished event rider Mel Wilder as Equestrian Sports Programme Manager, beginning in September 2020. Mel will work with Millfield’s newly titled Chief Coach Danny Anholt, who has been the Director of Equestrian Sports at Millfield since 2000, to help evolve and develop a new approach for equestrian and education at Millfield School.

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.

Three Millfield music scholars have received confirmed offers to study Music at the University of Manchester, one of the top UK universities for music. Music scholars Rowan Wilson from North Wootton, Harvey Morland from Ashcott and Cameron Murray from London have all received offers to study Music at University of Manchester in September 2020.

Millfield Lower Sixth student Benjamin Goethe has begun a career in professional motorsport after signing for Belgian Audi Club team WRT for the GT (Grand Touring) World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, a four-round series which began in Imola, Italy and runs until Autumn 2020.

Millfield students are celebrating their achievements today following an extraordinary year with no public summer exams.

Despite the difficulties with A level results this year, it has been fantastic to see Millfield students’ achievements and we are thrilled to finish with 42% of grades at A* or A and 73% of all A levels graded at a B or higher.

Millfield Upper Sixth student Omar Khaled El Dokani has been named as one of the youngest CEOs in the world after founding and establishing his own professional networking company, InterJoin, which is currently valued at 3.75 million USD.

Millfield Upper Sixth student Lucie Gonder has gained a place at the world-renowned Central Saint Martins’ School of Art after studying BTEC Art & Design along with an A level in Product Design from Millfield School in Somerset.

An eighteen-year-old student from Poland has gone from arriving in England with barely a word of English to a promising career in Nuclear or Aerospace Engineering, thanks to a former local Somerset MP and leading Somerset independent school, Millfield in Street.

Millfield Upper Sixth Sam Krolikowski has achieved his dreams of studying to become a doctor after gaining a place on Queen Mary University of London’s Medicine Programme with the help of Millfield’s Learning Support Centre (LSC).

After using his stage management experience from school to illuminate local landmark Glastonbury Tor on Thursday evenings after the national clap for carers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Millfield Upper Sixth student Sam Wardell from Glastonbury is now going on study part-time in Events Management at the Events Academy in London, as well as starting his own events company.

Millfield recent leaver Will Joseph has been selected as one of only seven promising future stars for the 20-21 London Irish Senior Academy. Will follows in the footsteps of his brother, England and Bath Rugby centre Jonathan ‘JJ’ Joseph, who is also a former Millfield student, towards a career in professional rugby.

Students at Millfield in Somerset have raised a total of £10,000 for UK charities including the Somerset NHS Foundation, MIND UK, CALM and St Margaret's Hospice during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Millfield BTEC Business and Entrepreneurship student Ailbe has made it through as one of only five finalists in the national Peter Jones Foundation National Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

On Thursday 18 June, The OM Society hosted its first virtual event. The webinar was based on how to make a CV stand out - mainly aimed at the Class of 2020 and OMs under the age of 30. 

Millfield students and staff celebrated the School’s second annual Identity and Inclusion Week online as part of its Pastoral programme during the month of June. 

Lockdown has not quelled the Millfield spirit, with the annual celebration of our Upper Sixth Media students’ fabulous work hosted virtually at the end of June as part of a YouTube premiere.

Millfield Upper Sixth students studying Photography, BTEC Art and Design, Art, Product Design and Food Science have received a range of offers from the UK’s top universities for further education.

Former Millfield Head Boy Jack Dickens, who now works as the international editor for the Reaction newspaper, joined Millfield Politics Certificate students to give a talk on how we, as a society, think about the coronavirus.

Millfield Rugby lock and back row forward Ewan rom Street, Somerset, has been named as one of only seven players from the Bath Rugby U18 Academy to progress to the senior academy, continuing his progress towards a professional career in the sport.

Politics student Maddie outlines British educator and contemporary historian Sir Anthony Seldon's lecture on leadership in times of crisis.

Millfield Sixth Form student Yuhka has been selected for one of only six places in the UK team for the 2020 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). 

Millfield Sixth Form student Polly has placed as a runner up out of over 500 entrants in The Oxford Scientist essay competition, run by students at Oxford University.

Millfield Upper Sixth student Jackson has received early acceptance offers from two of the top business schools in Canada, The Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and the Ivey School of Business at Western University.

Millfield’s premiere chamber choir, Camerata, joined together with talented musicians from Somerset Sinfonia to pay tribute to key workers during the coronavirus outbreak with a heart-warming rendition of Tim Rice and Elton John’s Lion King classic ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight’.

Millfield students have the opportunity to take part in over 55 different Millfield Activity Programmes from their homes in a new virtual MAP offer.

Millfield students have been able to hear from over 35 experts from fields including academia, professional music and sport as part of their remote learning programme.