Headmaster’s Welcome
"This individualised pastoral support has a highly positive impact on pupils' academic achievement and personal development and is a significant strength of the school."
ISI Inspection Report 2025
A very warm welcome to Summer Fields. I trust that in exploring our website you will begin to get a sense of the quality of opportunity that we offer, as well as a sense of the ethos and atmosphere which make Summer Fields such a special place.
We are a boarding and day school for boys aged 4-13, situated in a prime location in the heart of Oxford and within easy reach of London and several airports. We have 70 acres of beautiful grounds and the boys take full advantage of this exceptionally pleasant environment.
At Summer Fields we nurture the boys academically, morally, spiritually and culturally to develop their confidence and sense of independence. In doing so, we help them to discover talents, interests and values that not only prepare them for the next stage of their education, but which stay with them for life.
Summer Fields has an outstanding record of winning awards and scholarships to top public schools like Eton, Harrow, Radley, Stowe and Winchester, among others. This success is dependent upon dedicated teachers who inspire the boys to work with enthusiasm and enjoyment.
We are fully committed to boarding life: there are a vast number of activities on offer and the school’s exceptional facilities provide an ideal setting for the boys to cultivate their talents. The extra-curricular life of the school is active both during free time and in more structured clubs.
There is really no substitute for a visit, and we will be happy to welcome you at the school. Please do arrange an appointment by contacting Mrs Christine Berry, the School Registrar. We look forward to meeting you.
David Faber
Headmaster
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David Faber took up his appointment as the tenth Headmaster of Summer Fields in September 2010. He is an old boy of the school, a former parent and had previously served as a governor for nine years.
After attending Summer Fields, along with many other members of his family, David Faber was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern Languages, played 2nd XI cricket and won a half-blue for rackets. After university he worked for the Conservative Party in a number of roles, before contesting the Stockton North constituency unsuccessfully at the 1987 General Election. He was elected to parliament in 1992 for the Westbury seat in West Wiltshire, which he held for nine years.
During the 1992-1997 parliament he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Overseas Development and then to the Secretary of State for Health. He also sat on the Social Security Select Committee and was Secretary of the Conservative Education Committee. Between 1997 and 2001 he was for a time Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, as well as a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and the Public Accounts Committee.
He stood down from parliament at the 2001 election to pursue a career as a writer. His first book, Speaking For England, published by Simon & Schuster, is a tryptich biography of the Amery family – Leo Amery, a prominent imperialist politician between the wars and his two sons, John, who was hanged for treason at the end of the war and Julian (OS), who enjoyed a long career as a politician himself. In 2008 he published Munich, The 1938 Appeasement Crisis which has also been published in the United States.
David has served multiple terms over the past twenty years as a member of the main MCC Committee, including as chairman of the club’s Arts and Library Committee; he is currently one of the club’s three trustees. For many years he was a trustee of two prominent addiction charities, the Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust and Clouds, which, during his time as chair of trustees, merged to become Action on Addiction; they are now part of The Forward Trust.
He is a governor of Harrow School (where he is the governor responsible for safeguarding) and the John Lyon’s Foundation, and has recently become a governor of the Francis Holland Schools for girls in London.
Cricket remains one of his principal hobbies, as is golf (he is a member of the Royal & Ancient) and Chelsea Football Club. He is married to Sophie whose career has always been in marketing and communications, and has two daughters who have recently graduated and an Old Summerfieldian son who also works in the world of education.