School Buildings and Grounds:
The buildings stand in 7 acres of ground, including well-planned gardens for the practical side of the rural science work, and there are large playing fields. There are six large classrooms, an Assemblv Room, Laboratories for Chemistry and for Botany and Rural Science, a Manual Instruction Room, Cloak Rooms, etc. There is central heating throughout the School.Admission.
Application for admission must be made to the Head Master, and boys are required to pass an entrance examination. Except with the permission of the Head Master no pupil of the School rnay reside elsewhere than with his parents or guardians or with near relations (not more remote than uncle or aunt) unless he is a boarder in the Head Master's house.THE NORMAL AGE OF ENTRY IS BETWEEN 10 AND 12. Boys can only be admitted at a later date under special circumstances (if, for example, they have previously been at another secondary school), and provided that they are able to take their place in a form suited to their age. The parent or guardian of each boy is required to sign an undertaking to keep the boy at school until the end of the school year in which the boy reaches the age of 16. Boys are encouraged to stay at School for a further two years after reaching the age of 16, in order to take the Higher School Certificate Examination or to do more advanced rural work. It is important for boys who wish to take a University Course, or to enter the teaching profession, to obtain the Higher School Certificate. At the same time, the extra two years are important for those boys who intend to take up the more highly specialised agricultural or similar posts. The normal age for leaving school is 18, and boys may only remain at school after the end of the school year in which the age of eighteen