The school's declared aim is

'to make available to the widest possible range of able boys an educational experience that is the richest, most diverse and most exciting possible in an atmosphere that provides support, encouragement and care for everyone, pupils and staff, here. We want our pupils to love coming here and to go from here prepared for all that human life has to offer.'

These words are not carelessly chosen. We do actually believe in excitement and diversity and care and the vast majority of boys would say, without much prompting, that they do love coming here. This website is an attempt to represent all of these aspects of school life. There are words and there are pictures, almost all of them taken by a member of the teaching staff, but there are also two sizes of film, a brief trailer and a longer DVD. Both of these have been filmed and produced over the last year by Elliot Weaver, a young man who left the school only two years ago. A former pupil of independence and talent who has left the school recently is, in our opinion, the best person to convey what we are doing.

All of these words and images convey a truth about the school, but it is worth a visit, too, either at an Open Day or on an individual tour. Even as I write, the times they are a'changin: the school is now a Candidate School for the International Baccalaureate Diploma which will start in September 2010, the plans for the Performing Arts Centre are close to complete, the Under 16 water polo team has just become national champions for the first time. By next month, what I have written will already be old news: schools, like children, keep growing and changing.