About Us
A harmonious and happy community
Holyport College is a state boarding school partnered with Eton College. We welcome students from all walks of life and aim to bring them together with a shared ambition to become the very best version of themselves. Holyport College aims to create a community which is full of joy and positivity. We promote kindness and intend our students to think of others before themselves yet understand the importance of fulfilling their own potential.
We therefore set out that Holyport College should have the following distinctive features:
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Excellent teaching, engaging lessons and a relevant curriculum that set ambitious expectations for all our pupils.
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Pastoral care that is proactive, kind and a source of confidence for students who know they are safe, valued, supported and that they belong.
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An environment where a healthy blend of mutual respect, self confidence and self discipline lead to naturally high standards of behaviour.
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An inclusive community that values difference, provides opportunities for all and champions those who need extra support.
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A College that is about so much more than the timetabled lessons we deliver – a joyful community with boarding at its heart, buzzing with purposeful activity.
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A College that is instinctively collaborative, outward looking, exemplary in its practice and, working in partnership with Eton, has a hugely positive impact on communities far beyond the College.
We want our students to leave Holyport College as resilient learners who are equipped with the skills, qualifications, confidence and character to flourish in our changing modern world. We also hope they will look back on their time at the College with great fondness and enormous pride in what they achieved.
Holyport College was founded under the Government’s free school programme as the UK’s first State Boarding free school. We opened our doors to our first students in September 2014 with our Sixth Form provision opening in September 2017. The intake of the College is all ability from Years 7 to 11 and the Sixth Form is academically selective. Whilst the College is modelled on an independent boarding school, we aim to emulate the best of both the state and independent sectors.
We pride ourselves on the diversity of our community and our students and staff are drawn from all walks of life however they are united by our high aspirations and traditional yet caring ethos.
Entry points
There are two points of entry to the College: Year 7 and Sixth Form. From Years 7 to 11, we are an all ability, comprehensive school and we are academically selective in our Sixth Form with a focus on preparing students for access to Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group Universities. The College has an unashamedly academic curriculum with all students expected to take up to ten GCSEs including the English Baccalaureate (English, Maths, Science, Geography or History and a Modern Foreign Language).
Boarding
Boarding is at the heart of the College and this is reflected in many aspects of College life for both day students and boarders: we operate a longer school day than traditional day schools; we offer a full and varied co-curriculum to all students with many activities taking place in the evenings or at weekends as well as in the afternoons; our pastoral care is structured around our boarding houses.