Barfield School A GSG School
- Barfield School
Runfold
Guildford
Surrey
GU10 1PB - Head: Mr Andrew Boyle
- T 01252 782271
- F 01252 781480
- E admin@barfieldschool.com
- W www.barfieldpst.org
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 2 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 299
- Religion: None
- Fees: £14,688 - £21,513 pa (last updated on 15/01/2025)
- Open days: See website for details
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Head says his biggest fear is children leaving school ‘having passed their exams but without the character strengths needed to excel at secondary school and beyond’. The expansive curriculum therefore includes a skills-based strand that encourages pupils to ‘put their pencils down and use different parts of the brain’ with timetabled lessons for adventure, current affairs (year 3 upwards) and life skills (from table manners in reception to money management in year 6)...
What the school says...
Barfield is a co–educational preparatory school for children aged 2 to 11 in Farnham, Surrey. We aim to give our children a complete educational experience, with outstanding academic teaching in an excellent pastoral setting, and to prepare them fully for the senior school of their choice. Our central belief is that our children should be happy and positively challenged in what they do, and they will achieve to very high levels. A happy and respectful rapport between children and staff at Barfield is a wonderful platform for engaged learning. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2019, Andy Boyle BA. Grew up in Yorkshire (still detectable in his dulcet northern tones) where he attended Ashville College in Harrogate. Loved every moment of school life – excelling at sport in particular – but dreams of playing professional rugby were thwarted by injury and he left the line-up to study sports psychology at Leeds.
A placement at his former school ignited a passion for the classroom and steered him along the teacher training route, with his first teaching position back at Ashville. Left the north to travel the Americas before settling in Oxfordshire, where he took up a position at Chandlings, part of the Prep Schools Trust (along with Barfield), and stayed for 12 years. Rose quickly through the ranks to head of boys (pastoral) then deputy...
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Special Education Needs
The school has a newly built Learning Support suite manned by three staff; two part time and one full time. The children are withdrawn from class for one to one or group lessons, depending on need.
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