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Summerhill Review

by Which School Advisor

‘Despite its hugely controversial teaching approach, Summerhill pupils have been successful in many walks of life, and many go onto study at universities worldwide.’

Suffolk: School heads 'intimidated' by Ofsted inspectors

Zoë Readhead, headteacher at world-renowned Summerhill School in Leiston, which prides itself on its democratic ethos, recalled how she became embroiled in a dispute with the education watchdog in 2000.

Summerhill: ‘Think of pupils as colleagues if you want a harmonious school’

Ordinary schools could learn a lot from the Summerhill approach without making radical changes, writes the school's principal Zoё Neill Readhead

Summerhill: 100 years of the school that makes its own rules

Founded by A.S Neill in 1921, Summerhill was established with the belief that school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around.

Summerhill documentary celebrates school's centenary

A new documentary film has been released showing Suffolk's best-known school through a two-year period as it prepared to celebrate its centenary.

‘She had magic’: my grandmother’s forgotten role at Summerhill, the English school with no rules

For 100 years, the controversial Suffolk school has let its pupils run free. And one remarkable woman has played a huge part in that

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Axel Kuehn, a young graduate from Germany, has written his thesis of about A.S. Neill. It is in German. Details are available at the above website.