Brymore is a Secondary Technical School and a state boarding school - education is free, parents pay only the modest boarding fees. Brymore is a small school - there are up to sixty boys in each year and the largest class holds 24 students. Boys arrive aged 13 (Year 9) and take GCSE and NVQs in Year 11. We have a Year 12 course as well.Support for learners is an important part of the Brymore experience. High achievers continue to do well while those with additional needs find personal support throughout the school. Half of our boys come from farming backgrounds, but the practical education appeals to many, irrespective of their future destinations.
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Religious Observance
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Brymore has no particular religious affiliation. An assembly is held daily, however, attended by all boys and teaching staff. This normally takes the form of a talk or reading, a prayer and a hymn. Visiting speakers are also invited to conduct assemblies. Parents can withdraw their sons from collective worship if they so wish. |
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Student Welfare
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The basic unit for pastoral organisation is the tutor group: each tutor group being in one of three 'houses' - Galsworthy, Taylor and Walker (all named after ex members of staff). Boarders, of course, have the added support of House Parents - two are in each boarding house. |
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Behaviour and Rewards
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Brymore is a very friendly school, but discipline is firm: necessarily so, since work with animals and machinery requires strict adherence to rules of acceptable behaviour and safety procedures. |
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Day Boys
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Dayboys are, in fact, "outboarders" as all boys board at Brymore for at least part of the time. This is paid for on a weekly basis. |
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Boarders
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Boarding at Brymore is as up to date as it can be following the opening of Kemp and Reid Houses in January 2009. 100 boarders are accommodated on the school site (50 in each house) in two and four bedded rooms and a further 40 live at Cannington House situated in the middle of the village. There are two resident houseparents in each house. School house is currently being refurbished and will provide a further 50 beds on site (completion in late 2010) following which Cannington House will be sold. |
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