Press releases
Caring Peer Listeners Make It A Decade Of Support
A successful scheme built on kindness, care and compassion is entering its tenth year at an independent school in Liphook. The Peer Listeners project has for a decade offered children at Highfield and Brookham Schools a friendly sympathetic shoulder or a kindly listening ear. The listeners themselves are a dedicated and trained group of pupils…
1st Sep 2023
2 mins
Pupils Harvest Another Healthy Crop Of Senior School Scholarships
Highfield and Brookham is celebrating another bumper crop of scholarships. Our children have this year been awarded 14 scholarships to a range of top senior schools, including Marlborough College, Charterhouse, Cranleigh and Sherborne. The award of 137 places since 2014, which this year includes an eclectic mix of academia, art, drama, design technology and sport,…
21st Jul 2023
2 mins
School Shortlisted For Second Pastoral Award
The continuing commitment to the wellbeing of our children has been recognised for a second time this year by a national school award. Highfield and Brookham Schools have been shortlisted in the ‘Student Wellbeing’ category of the Independent School of the Year Awards. These awards are run by Independent School Parent magazine and finalists will…
10th Jul 2023
2 mins
School Named Finalist In Pastoral Care Awards
The ongoing dedication to the health and wellbeing of children at Highfield and Brookham School has been recognised. The independent nursery, pre-prep and prep school has been named a finalist in the National Awards for Pastoral Care in Education. Highfield and Brookham is one of four hopefuls in line for the award in the Raising…
3rd Jul 2023
3 mins
Everest Conqueror ‘Peaks’ Children’s Interest
A mountaineer who scaled the world’s highest peak twice – 18 years apart – has shared his inspirational tales with our inquisitive children. Jake Meyer left the children in raptures as he entertained them with amazing and humorous tales of determination, discipline, danger and delirium as he first reached the summit of mighty Mount Everest…
21st Jun 2023
2 mins
Art Exhibition Nets £18,000 For School Bursary Fund
Add to the fundraising total and help change even more lives. Our treasured Bursaries Fund with a focus on social mobility has been boosted to the tune of £18,000. The funds raised came from a successful art exhibition which featured work from 29 professional artists and four galleries, as well as eight Old Highfieldians who…
16th Jun 2023
2 mins
School Named As Finalist In Business Awards
Highfield and Brookham Schools has been named a finalist in the Environmental Practice category of this year’s national Education Business Awards. We are one of five schools with big plans and strong green credentials to be shortlisted. We are no stranger to environmental initiatives and has long championed a greener and more eco-friendly way of…
12th Jun 2023
2 mins
Hugh Bonneville Officially Opens Nursery Extension
Marmalade sandwiches were the only thing missing as Hugh Bonneville, star of the Paddington Bear films, paid a visit to Highfield and Brookham on Thursday. There was no shortage of sunshine, excited children and equally excited grown-ups as Mr Bonneville, who played Mr Brown in the charming film and its equally charming sequel on the…
26th May 2023
2 mins
Clean Bill Of Health For All-Weather Facility
Our prized all-weather facility has passed its latest inspection with flying colours. The artificial pitch was given a clean bill of health by inspectors as part of the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) stringent Hockey Turf and Fields Standards programme. After rigorous testing, the independent school’s impressive pitch and surrounds were found to meet the FIH’s…
25th May 2023
2 mins
Pupils Follow In Head’s Footsteps On Wartime Freedom Trail
Pertinent wartime history has been brought to life for a group of pupils from an independent school in Liphook. The eight academic scholars from Highfield and Brookham Schools got the chance to follow in the footsteps of former headmaster Peter Mills, who escaped from a German prisoner of war camp in northern Italy in 1943….
18th May 2023
2 mins
School’s Pride At Latest Five-Star Food Hygiene Rating
Food-hygiene standards at an independent school in Liphook have earned the highest possible praise. Highfield and Brookham Schools has again been awarded the maximum five stars from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the wake of its latest unannounced inspection. Run in conjunction with the environmental health department at Chichester District Council, the school’s local…
12th May 2023
2 mins
Arran’s Peak Performance Boosts Conservation
The coffers of a wildlife conservation project in Africa have been boosted to the tune of four figures by the efforts of a kind-hearted pupil of an independent school in Liphook. Arran MacDonald, in his final year at Highfield and Brookham Schools, put his best foot forward to complete the tough Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge…
4th May 2023
2 mins
No Holds ‘Bard’ As School Thespians Strike Gold
A thriving independent school in Liphook has struck gold with its continued commitment to the stage. Highfield and Brookham Schools has performed plays penned by the Bard at public theatres for seven consecutive years as part of a scheme run by the Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation. As a result, the progressive prep, pre-prep and nursery…
27th Apr 2023
2 mins