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About Framlingham College and Framlingham College Prep School

Ask anyone in East Anglia which school is leading the way in the area it won’t be long before Framlingham College is mentioned. Recent years have seen this remarkable school emerge as one of the real quality independent schools in the East of England. Educating boys and girls from 2-18, first at the College’s prep school (2-13) at Brandeston Hall and then at the stunning College site in the market town of Framlingham, the school is absolutely thriving. It prides itself on producing rounded, decent, articulate and very well-educated young men and women, who leave the College both well-qualified and well-prepared (the two are not the same) for the world that awaits them.

Recognising the demands placed on modern parents, the school offers real flexibility in many areas of school life, including timings for drop-off and pick-up at every age; as one parent said recently, having moved from London, ‘In London our lives revolved around the school but here the school revolves around our lives!’. The school offers outstanding provision from Nursery and Early Years right through to A levels, with an innovative and creative curriculum that seeks to create a genuine love of learning among all pupils.

Framlingham is a strikingly modern and forward-looking school where emphasis is placed on educating the whole person as well as (not, note, instead of) the examination candidate. The school embraces a wide range of abilities, believing that breadth and diversity builds a richer environment, and every pupil has a role to play in the community. The teaching is excellent, and success at Oxbridge and top overseas universities shows that the brightest student will do as well here as they will anywhere. The strong focus on pastoral care and the individual management of pupils (‘the core of any good school’, according to Headmaster Paul Taylor) combines with an extraordinarily rich, varied and successful range of co-curricular activities to make this school a vibrant, outward-looking and dynamic community. 2015-16 alone has seen eight pupils representing their country across four different sports; two gaining scholarships at leading Music Conservatoires; a show at the Edinburgh Fringe; and the school becoming a leading force in identifying and addressing the increasing concerns regarding the mental health of today’s schoolchildren.

Above all, Framlingham College is a happy school with wonderfully ‘can do’ outlook on life. As Headmaster Paul Taylor explains, ‘Framlingham works - with parents - to create balanced, happy and resilient human beings; ones that have achieved academically and in other areas at the top of their potential, but who also have a sense of self, an innate sense of right and wrong and the moral courage to do something about the difference.