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Cumnor House School is an I.A.P.S. boarding and day preparatory school for boys and girls from 7 to 13 years old, with a pre-preparatory department for children of 4 upwards situated on the edge of the Ashdown Forest in Sussex. At Cumnor House we seek to educate children in the fullest sense. We aim for academic excellence, certainly. Indeed, we expect our children to set themselves high standards in everything they undertake. But there is so much more. We are privileged, through our excellent facilities, to be able to expose them to a wealth of opportunities that will allow them to discover their talents and tastes. They will form friendships and begin to understand the intricacies of human relationships. And they will make mistakes and learn from them in a secure and supportive environment.  Whilst Cumnor can no longer describe itself as primarily a boarding school, it is firmly rooted in the boarding tradition. Our working day is long, not because we pressurise pupils but because there are opportunities a boarding school can offer that are beyond the scope of the normal day school. Our day children take little or no work home with them – prep is generally done at school – and on weekdays they miss out on few of the activities normally available to boarders.
However, Cumnor remains strongly committed to boarding, especially for children in their last two years. Most of our leavers go on to boarding schools, and boarding at Cumnor is an ideal preparation in the more sheltered and familial atmosphere that we can offer. It is an opening onto a host of new experiences, both in communal living and the particular opportunities we can offer at weekends. None of this is to suggest that boarding can or ever should be a substitute for family life and we believe that Cumnor's fortnightly-boarding system offers the best of all worlds to children and parents alike. |
