"South Africa, Belize, St. Lucia...no, you're not reading the Tatler Travel Guide, just Papplewick's take on the school trip. They're a well-travelled bunch here, where eccentricity is celebrated, selection is by character, and the most prestigious award at speech day is for enthusiasm for life. Head Tom Bunbury ensures Papplewick is 'designed, to the core of its being, for boys'; not many preps can boast an American football team, antiquarian book club, pet tarantula or bearded dragon. (NB: Major kudos for boys in the herpetology club, who even get their own tie.) Compulsory boarding in the top two years is priceless preparation for senior schools, and boys hope off to the crème de la crème of the South-East - an Eton King's Scholarship or two is the norm."