Website: www.barnardiston-hall.co.uk

Address: Barardiston SUFFOLK

Barnardiston Hall is described as a particularly jolly, no-nonsense, characterful prep school, chiefly thanks to its much-loved headmaster, Col Keith Boulter, a theology graduate and hockey Blue, who also owns the school (his daughter runs the pre-prep); last term, he read the bedtime story and cooked breakfast for the pre-prep sleepover and outing to a dinosaur park. Activities include orienteering – Barnardiston has won the National Schools Orienteering Championship – and, recently, a trip to the Darley Stud in Newmarket. A bus service from Cambridge starts this term.

  • 200+ pupils aged 4–13, co-ed, mainly day
  • £2,680–£6,695
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