Although it is classed as a state boarding school for boys aged between 13 and 17, only the the education is free so boarders, who currently make up over half the average 200 pupils, have to find around £12,000 a year to live there.Įven day pupils are expected to work on the 60 acre farm at the school which includes dairy and beef herds, sows, poultry and a flock of ewes. Mr Parish attended the unusual school until he was 16 and then left to work on the family farm in Somerset. READ MORE: MP Neil Parish announces from Somerset home he's resigning after watching porn in Commons while looking for tractor website School uniform includes overalls and steel toe capped boots and pupils are forbidden from wearing anything that might get caught in farm machinery. It tells parents that it is the only one in the UK offering a vocational experience that exploits pupil's interest in agriculture, horticulture and technology.īoys have to be up at the crack of dawn to feed the animals and fit milking cows and growing food for the kitchen around traditional lessons. Now an Academy, the oversubscribed, small school boasts that practical duties are as important as academic lessons. The 65-year-old who has been forced to resign after admitting twice watching porn in the Commons attended the unique single sex Brymore School near Bridgwater, Disgraced MP Neil Parish went to a unique boys boarding school in Somerset where milking cows and learning about tractors was as important as lessons in English and Maths.