Thank you for all those who posted on an earlier discussion who gave me the confidence to bring the family back to the UK from a few years is Melbourne. I have reflected on how my choices of school have changed. The children will have had three years in an 'academic' private school in Oz (no selection over here, diff schools have diff emphasis) but still do loads of sport and really enjoy it, much to my surprise. And I mean lots - 7 periods of maths ,6 periods of sport plus loads of extra curricular matches, training - maybe another 10 hours a week all told. And my kids are average sporting ability, but they just enjoy and have embraced it. AS well as dance, drama, triathlon, debating. 12 year old boy/girl twins - boy is probably academically number 1 or 2 in his year (out of 40), girl in top 10 %. Before now I would have sought academic grammar, but now I look at what they do in Australia with emphasis on sport, drama, debating etc (and my kids are year 6 in Oz, would be Year 8 in Sep in UK) and wonder where to go? Husbands job in central london, we last lived in Midlands, so where in Berks, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire do we start? Prefer coed school, would pay 20k a year at most (but would be really really pushing it). Happy with comps - I had a great time at mine and ended up at Oxbridge. When you don't know many people with kids same age as yours it's a bit tricky. How do you see past the school website????
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melbournesunshine1 · 27/07/2016 14:01
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