Choosing the next school is an important decision for parents to make. Robert Morse, the headmaster, encourages parents to come to and discuss senior schools and their child. Children leave Perrott Hill at the end of Year 8 (aged 13).
Parents should look at a number of senior schools, preferably on a personal tour, and meet the Head. If parents are considering a popular school they must register their child early as lists for certain years close quickly. Some schools now run pre-Common Entrance tests in Year 6, when the child is 11 years old. Other schools are slightly more relaxed and flexible. By the time a pupil starts Year 8, the parents should have made a decision about the senior school. A pupil takes Common Entrance exams to one school in June of Year 8.
Perrott Hillians have gained scholarships and Common Entrance to a number of independent schools. In the last five years a third of leavers gained scholarships to their senior school, and the school has a 100% pass rate in Common Entrance.
Pupils have gone to the following independent schools: Blundell's, Bruton School for Girls, Bryanston, Canford, Cheltenham Ladies College, Chilton Cantello, Clifton College, Dauntsey's, Downe House, Downside, Eton College, Godolphin, King's College Taunton, King's School Bruton, Loretto, Marlborough College, Millfield, Milton Abbey, Pangbourne, Prior Park, Queen's Taunton, Queenswood, Sherborne Boys, Sherborne Girls, St Antony's Leweston, St Mary's Ascot, St Paul's School, St Swithun's, Taunton School, Wells Cathedral School, Wellington and Winchester College.
Some pupils also go on to Colyton Grammar School.
The Perrott Hill Scholarship record is broken!
2010 has had been an outstanding year for scholarships at Perrott Hill with boys and girls from a group of 30 leavers gaining 18 awards.
Scholarships 2010
Edmund Blowers - All Rounder Scholarship - King's College, Taunton
Tamsin Bracher - Academic Scholarship - Marlborough
Rollo Bryant - All Rounder Scholarship - Bryanston
Libby Catchpole - Performing Arts - Queen's, Taunton
Jess Clarke - Academic Scholarship and Sports Scholarship - Taunton
Tom Clarke - Sports Scholarship and Art Scholarship - Taunton
Helena Davidson-Houston - Art Scholarsip - King's Bruton
Rafe Fraser - DT Scholarship - King's Bruton
Quentin Martin - Art Scholarship - Bryanston
Lucie McFarlane - Haywards Sports Scholarship - King's College, Taunton
Alice Mitchell - All Rounder Scholarship - Queen's, Taunton
Chris Pang - All Rounder Scholarship - King's Bruton
Phoebe Smith - All Rounder Scholarship - Queen's, Taunton
Grace Thorner - Academic Scholarship - Leweston
Jamie Turvill - All Rounder - King's College, Taunton
Scholarships and leavers' destinations 2009
Abigail Askew - Academic Scholarship - Taunton SchoolCharlie Barnes-Yallowley - All Rounder Scholarship - King's Taunton
Alexandra Blanchard - Academic Scholarship - St Swithun's
Jasper Mallinson - DT Scholarship - Bryanston
Iona Oliphant - All Rounder Scholarship - Sherborne Girls
Charlie Smith - All Rounder Scholarship - King's Bruton
Harriet Smith - Academic Scholarship - Sherborne Girls
Successful Common Entrance to:
Canford
King's College, Taunton
King's School, Bruton
Leweston
Marlborough
Portsmouth High School
Queen's College, Taunton
Sherborne Boys
Sherborne Girls
Taunton School
Scholarships and leavers' destinations 2008
Katy Weld - Head's Scholarship for all round performance - Downe House
Melissa McFarlane - The Hobhouse Scholarship - Bruton School for Girls
Sophie Atkin - The Golledge Scholarship - Bruton School for Girls
Katharine Blowers - Scholarship - Leweston
Jessica Kennedy - Sports Scholarship - Leweston
Connor Bryant - DT Scholarship - Bryanston
Connie Campbell - Sports Scholarship - Millifield
Archie Goodall - Academic & All Rounder Scholarship - Monmouth
Charlie Samways - Sports Scholarship - Canford
Holly Voorspuy - All Rounder Scholarship - Loretto
Others pupils went to:
King's School, Bruton
Exeter School
Queen's College, Taunton
St Mary's, Ascot
Wellington
Winchester College
