The busy life at Repton offers unbounded learning opportunities.

One passion is never at the expense of another passion. Academia is balanced with pastoral care, sport with a rich extracurricular programme. Here, equilibrium is achieved as ambitious goals in one area fuel equally ambitious goals in another.

ACADEMIC STUDY EdTech

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The average amount of paper waste in a secondary school. Repton’s use of technology significantly reduces paper consumption.

A study by Dr Susan Hallam, Professor of Education and Music Psychology at the Institute of Education and Kevin Rogers of Hampshire Music Service found that playing a musical instrument has a positive impact on academic attainment in young people and that the impact is greater the longer a young person has played an instrument.

‘Playing a musical instrument has a positive effect on attainment’ –Music Education Works.

There is an emphasis on preparation for life after Repton. In the Sixth Form, Future Leaders is timetabled and taught by subject specialists across three areas:

PUBLIC SPEAKING

CAREERS AND HIGHER EDUCATION

THE LECTURE SERIES: ECONOMICS, POLITICS, GEOPOLITICS, SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ART.

Repton’s enviable choice of academic societies pique pupils’ interests across a wide variety of interests, promoting concepts such as freethinking and academic discovery.

Pupils are well supported to achieve academically. All of our academic staff live in Repton and Tutors are based in every boarding house, so guidance and support is available to pupils whenever they need it. Added to this, our ‘Pupil Dashboard’ monitors all aspects of every pupil’s attainment and wellbeing.

After breakfast we set out from the House for the day’s lessons. Depending on which House you are in you will walk past games pitches, incredible school buildings and facilities of all kinds, where learning, sport, activities, interests and societies happen daily. The sport gets your body going and the lessons get your brain going.

And what specifically does that balance mean for us?

Well, particularly at Repton, school is about many things, but most of all it is about our academic development because, although life-skills are often the ticket to success, exam results are the price of entry. Then with all our sport(and there is a lot of it) and all our activities (there are a lot of those too) everyone quickly finds something they are good at and enjoy doing.

“Everyone quickly finds something they are good at and enjoy doing.”