Farlington School


Farlington School is an independent day and boarding school for pupils aged four to eighteen in Horsham, West Sussex, England. Farlington was founded in 1896 originally in Haywards Heath but moved to its present site at Strood Park near Horsham in 1955. It is situated about northwest of Horsham. Farlington joined the Bellevue Education group in September 2019. The school also has a long association with the University of Chichester in the field of teacher education.

The school

Farlington has approximately 300 pupils, and is co-educational in Prep-Prep but currently girls-only in the Prep and Senior Schools. However the school will become co-educational from September 2020. Farlington is sited in of parkland at Strood Park and also have a Nursery on this site. The Prep School is housed in the New Courtyard buildings and the Peto Building. Senior School accommodation includes the Jacobean Mansion House, Moberly Building and the Simpson Science block. The Sixth Form is located in the dedicated Sixth Form Centre.
For the most part, students attend as day pupils; however, Farlington also offers boarding from the age of 8, on a full, weekly or occasional basis. There are two boarding houses; Fishponds is the junior boarding house and the Mansion House is home to the senior boarders. The boarding community is both British and international.
Farlington's distinctive uniform features a French navy jacket embroidered with the school's 'clock tower' logo, and a blue and green tartan kilt.
The Senior School houses are all named after famous pioneers whose surname begins with 'C': Cable, Cavell, Cheshire, Curie.

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