Life at Framlingham College has been described by some of our pupils as varied, collaborative, interesting, busy, supportive, fun, inspiring and challenging. All of them say that wherever you turn, there is always a helping hand.
Hear more about how our pupils describe Life at Framlingham College:
Billie - Year 8 Day Pupil
Martha - Sixth Form boarder
Daily Routines
Daily routines for the Prep and Senior School (Academic Year 2024/25)
Food at Framlingham
Led by the Kitchen Manager, our catering team is responsible for producing diverse and interesting menus across breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week at both the Senior and Prep school as well as delivering the wide range of events held at the Senior school, including House Dinners and the famous Leavers Ball.
For lunch, pupils and staff can choose from a selection of main dishes, a salad bar, soup, fruit and delicious homemade desserts. A range of cooked and continental choices are available for breakfast and those having supper also enjoy a variety of tempting dishes from around the world. The experienced chefs prepare all dishes in both Prep and Senior School kitchens from fresh, seasonal ingredients which are sourced from a select group of local producers. The kitchens are completely nut free and cater for all allergies and special dietary requirements.
In order to deliver a comprehensive service to all of our pupils and staff, several of the catering team have recently undertaken nutritional based training, with one member of staff specialising in mindful nutrition. This allows us to have a greater understanding of how we can best cater for those that have individual dietary needs, whether due to sports training, intolerances, allergies or religious beliefs.
An army marches on its stomach.”
Frederick the Great
The catering teams are always trying to challenge the pupil’s tastes and encourage them to try new and exciting foods. A new three weekly menu is released every term with each one containing a number of dishes based on feedback from our pupils through surveys and regular meetings.
Both the Senior and Prep schools have an enviable reputation for producing superb Match Teas which are enjoyed by parents visiting for sports fixtures. Whether it’s sandwiches, cakes, scones or a warming soup with a freshly baked roll, everything we do is prepared and cooked on the day.
We have consistently achieved the highest 5 star rating for our food hygiene standards and in early 2020, the Senior School was awarded the Eat Out Eat Well Gold Award by East Suffolk Healthy Living which was only achieved by a handful of other organisations and certainly the only school.
Spiritual Life at Framlingham
The vibrant Framlingham College Community of pupils, staff, parents, OFs and friends, is as much a spiritual entity as it is a place with the chapel at its beating heart. A chapel that has, for over 150 years, offered a place of stillness, a home of Christian tradition, a seat of spiritual learning and a light of love for all involved. It is a Chapel whose tradition and history can be felt as much through its memorials to past pupils and teachers, as through the hearty singing of hymns twice a week before the school day begins.
The Chapel welcomes all, those of faith and those with none, and as part of an holistic educational development, it invites every pupil and staff member to reflect on their belief systems, to pondåer the ‘Why’ questions in life and to look to serve rather than be served.
Various forms of worship scaffold the College calendar. A calendar that marks the Remembrance Service, the Confirmation Service, Founders’ Day, a Community Harvest Celebration, the Leavers’ Service and the Carol Service as a few of the highlights. Every two years, the College celebrates its Carol Service in St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Our Remembrance Service is an occasion for us to pause and remember the Fallen and in 2020, our Remembrance Service was streamed via YouTube to thousands of parents and OFs and weekly chapel services during lockdown have ensured that the community has stayed connected.
In this age of increased pressure on young people, on their wellbeing and mental health, the chapel brings much needed peace, space to think and time to reflect”
Brynn Bayman, College Chaplain
The Senior School ordinarily meets twice a week in the chapel and the Prep School meet once a week in All Saints Church, Brandeston. Midweek Communion, Soul Food, Confirmation classes, Divinity and the Chaplain’s Lunches are just some of the other opportunities for our community to come together and reflect on the bigger questions in life. Our links to the wider community in Framlingham are important to us and through the Chapel and the outreach work of our chaplain, Rev Canon Brynn Bayman, we work hard to ensure those links remain strong. Whether through the community Harvest Festival and lunch, through the sharing of our chapel for different events or through our fundraising, the College community is committed to staying connected and fully engaged with our wider community.
In this age of increased pressure on young people, on their wellbeing and mental health, the chapel brings much needed peace, space to think and time to reflect. We help our young people to find their moral compass, to develop an empathy for all Faiths, Creeds and Religions and a selflessness to put others first.
