The sixth form committee, elected by you at the end of your second term and serving for a year, take the lead in organising the sixth form itself, talking with staff as how best to achieve the joint aim of making it work for all. They will organise your communal social life; not just the glamorous leavers’ ball at the end of the summer term (in a school originally built as an Edwardian pleasure dome with its ballroom, drawing room, billiard room, lawns and terraces it would be criminal not to use them) but lots of smaller parties too and other special evenings during the year. We also run a series of lectures on “living the life less ordinary”.

We have a School Council with teeth. How effectively they bite is down to the Chair, again elected at the end of the second term to serve for a year, and the co-representatives from the sixth form who work with pupils elected from each of the school year groups. If they operate well as a team they will influence the school’s attitude on issues varying from the education they receive to the environment in which they work.

Our mentoring system is central to the “Frensham spirit” – that indefinable quality of happiness upon which all our visitors remark. We ask for volunteer mentors to assume the role of “older brother or sister”, giving advice, help, guidance and supervision in boarding houses, within academic departments, helping run sports or extra curricular activities for younger pupils. You will be amazed at what you will discover about yourself as you face the challenge of leading others – if necessary taking incremental steps to a longer term goal. Just offer your services, skills and enthusiasm – the latter being the most important.