Together we create

Our recently-refurbished sports hall is a popular and versatile space. Home to many indoor PE and games lessons, it is used regularly for basketball, badminton, netball and volleyball, as well as indoor hockey and five-a-side football. The bright sports hall is also home to our after-school club cricket net sessions in the autumn and winter months. But the sports hall is not just a home for indoor sport, as the spacious area also hosts yoga sessions for our prep school children during their weekly Keys sessions and is the perfect setting for our Year 8 leavers to stage their spectacular end-of-year show.

Your child will take their meals in our dining hall where all children and staff enjoy delicious, freshly-prepared and nutritious food in sociable surroundings. Food at Highfield and Brookham is a true highlight of the day and our skilled and dedicated catering team prepare a fabulous range of healthy and tasty dishes. The dining hall is steeped in history as every child that has earned a senior school scholarship has their name on our honours boards which take pride of place all around the hall.

Tennis is really popular at Highfield and Brookham and your child will take to the court on rotation in their weekly PE lessons. We have four hard surface tennis courts, which double up as netball courts, three of which are floodlit. Additional tennis lessons are offered for those keen to develop their skills, and for our younger children just starting out on their tennis journey there is an after-school tennis club. Parents can get involved in our weekly tennis club too. Netball is played internally during PE and games lessons and forms part of our regular series of competitive matches against other schools.

The theatre is fully equipped with stage lighting and sound equipment and will be the venue for your child’s annual year-group drama productions. Our theatre can house up to 300 people with its state-of-the-art, fold away, tiered seating and welcomes proud parents who come to watch their children perform. Our theatre is also the location for our whole-school assemblies, a vital weekly activity which helps strengthen our educational community. During the holidays, the theatre is also a hive of activity as we welcome children to Holiday Activity Clubs such as Musical Theatre and Multi-activities.

Home to our own 3D printer and precision laser cutter, as well as an abundance of wood and metal-working equipment, our DT studio is very well equipped and is the place where practical ideas and imagination are encouraged to flow freely. From Year 3, your child will learn to use a variety of design and technology tools in their weekly DT lessons under the expert eye of their subject specialist teacher.

Our Art Studio is a haven in which your child can nurture and develop their artistic talent. It’s equipped with two kilns and its very own potters’ wheel, plenty of space for painting and drawing and is flooded with natural light. The studio, with its mezzanine level for more individually-tailored tuition with our Head of Art when needed, provides the perfect environment for your child’s weekly Art lesson with their subject specialist teacher from Year 1. Our Art Studio also hosts a variety of Holiday Activity Clubs where children can join us for print-making, pottery or mixed-media workshops.

Our woodlands are a natural haven in which to learn and explore. They are carefully managed to ensure that the native trees flourish and provide a welcome habitat for a variety of flora and fauna and provide the most wonderful of outdoor classrooms. There is plenty of evidence that children learn best outside. Children from Nursery through to Year 2 enjoy forest school where they learn bushcraft techniques such as fire making and cooking over a campfire, as well as shelter and den building. You child will have an amazing time hunting for minibeasts or producing fabulous forest art as they reap the benefits of simply spending time outside in the fresh air. During the holidays, children can join us for our popular bushcraft camps.

Our Music School is a really popular area of the school complete with its soundproofed practice rooms, where children can hone their skills on guitar, violin, piano and drums, and a music tech room where children have state-of-the-art digital equipment at the fingertips to help learn the basic physics of music and how to make and shape electronic sounds using virtual synthesizers. They can also develop song-writing techniques and gain experience using a variety of music-making software. Performance spaces are abundant too. Your child might start their musical performance in the less formal setting of our music room or at one of our weekly cushion concerts before progressing to more formal concerts in our theatre or chapel, or outside at our annual summer term music festival, HighFest.