Summer Fields is a fee-paying boys' independent day and boarding preparatory school in Summertown, Oxford.

Its owner, Archibald MacLaren, had been educated at Dollar Academy and was a fencing teacher who ran a gymnasium in Oxford.

A second school, "Summers mi",[a] was opened at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, for boys to benefit from the sea air.

By the centenary year in 1964, the school's appearance had changed relatively little (see illustration), but it was thriving and energetic enough to celebrate with a hardback book of 332 pages, with contributions from "O.S.

He put the school on a sound financial footing through a series of appeals which paid for an ambitious building programme: new classrooms, the Macmillan Hall and Music Centre, an indoor swimming-pool, the Wavell Arts and Technology Centre (named after Earl Wavell), and the Sports Hall.

Each league has its own identifying colour: Case red, Congreve yellow, Maclaren green, and Moseley blue.

On Sundays as well as on special days, such as the school concert, and the end of term, boys wear a tweed jacket, with a light blue coloured shirt, black shoes, and grey flannel trousers.