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Co-educational day school for ages 3 to 18, boarding from 10 to 18, 145+ pupils, County of East Sussex

About the School
Greenfields School, in the heart of the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, is an independent day and boarding school for boys and girls offering education up to and including A Levels, with special programmes in English-as-a-Second-Language and a Summer School for junior and senior students.
Greenfields currently has 145 students and 45 staff resulting in a great all-round service. The school services different students with different needs and interests in such a way as to add educational value no matter what the variables, within the resources of the school.
Greenfields School is relatively new at 28 years old and continues to expand. There are 30 boarders from around the world. Greenfields offers a full range of GCSEs. The school have a very small number of sixth form students and can offer a limited range of A levels. Last year the head girl was accepted at Oxford.
Greenfields believes that the purpose of education is to prepare children for life and is achieving this by using unique study methods which greatly empower learning and yield measurably better results. Greenfields uses study methods called Study Technology, which first isolates the barriers preventing a child from learning, and then provides precise tools to deal with them. Greenfields children can therefore become self-motivated students, and when that happens, all kinds of results are possible.

Admission
Boys and girls may be admitted to boarding at any age from 10. An assessment and report from their current school will normally be required.

Boarding
With many of its students boarding, Greenfields is a lively community all day, seven days a week. Students should be prepared for a schedule with differing levels of activity from early in the morning through to the evening hours. The weekends include trips, sporting events and a variety of social activities. Students will find it an atmosphere of both fun and challenge and are invited to help create it. Boarding students live in dormitories in the main building. The custom-designed and renovated boarding facilities provide comfortable spaces with views of the picturesque surrounding countryside. The boarding house is supervised by a team of caring and dedicated people headed by experienced staff. Every boarder will, at different times, serve as a dorm in-charge to help students learn to live and work well together and to teach the students leadership skills. All boarders participate in a programme of contribution to the operation and maintenance of the school. This not only helps the school run smoothly, it also helps the students gain a greater appreciation and responsibility for the work involved and gives them experience producing and exchanging as part of an organisation. Students spend some time each week helping out in a variety of areas - for example the dining room, cleaning the building, or the library. Tasks range from simple jobs such as sweeping or filing to more challenging projects. How well each task is done is graded and points accumulate each week. The most consistently productive boarders get rewarded.

English as an Additional Language
Greenfields School developed the English as a Foreign Language Programme for international students who need to improve their spoken and written English in order to be able to study other subjects effectively in English, or who just want to improve their command of the language. The goal is to help every EFL student become competitive with English students in their pursuit of an English college or university education and a chance to succeed in the careers of their choice. 
An initial assessment establishes a student's level of understanding of English and they are placed at the appropriate point on the EFL programme. Reading, writing and phonics tests are then done at regular intervals to help monitor the progress of individual students. Completion of the EFL Programme is based on attainment of an established level of competence with the English language, both written and oral, rather than on the amount of time the student has spent in the EFL class. At the end of the EFL class, an individual has attained a level of competence in English appropriate to his/her age, demonstrated by his/her ability to study, write and converse in English at that level.

Location
By air – Gatwick airport is 20 minutes drive, London Heathrow is just over 60 minutes drive, Stansted airport is under 90 minutes away. Journey by rail to London from East Grinstead will take approximately 40 minutes.

My Guardians offers free placement to Greenfields School. Please contact us and all relevant information will be send to you. We also offer guardianship services to students attending this school.