Best Prep School for Innovation 2020 This award-winning co-ed day and boarding school in West Sussex is one of the most innovative preps in the country. Children learn Spanish from the age of three and Mandarin from the age of five, develop life skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and creativity and get to grips with the latest technology. It’s one of only 15 schools in the world to be named as an Acer Innovation School and is one of the few Google Reference Schools in the UK. Children use virtual reality headsets to travel back in time in History, cross the world in Geography and explore inside the human body in Science. Handcross Park is part of the Brighton College family of schools. About 30 percent of Year 8 pupils progress to Brighton College each year, many with scholarships.