Successful art department under the enthusiastic, flamboyant Trevor Boyd, runs excellent inexpensive art tours to eg Paris, Amsterdam, New York. New structured minority studies programme with Sherborne Girls' to ensure breadth and continuation of more non-examinable subjects, excellent modern languages continuation courses pioneered by heads of department of the two schools. Lots of discussion and debate - boys do well in public speaking. Many later additions. Strong sense of tradition and moral fibre pervades.
Food is plentiful.
Firm rules, slacking frowned on. Firm policy on alcohol. Appeals to parents in professions and Services. At 13 via CE, or by scholarship exam or school's own papers as appropriate. Also to London, Newcastle, Birmingham, Durham, Edinburgh, Bristol and Reading.