Hi
I am after some advice about secondary school for my dd. DD is very bright (i.e. would probably qualify for one of those awful gifted programmes if she didn't have sensible parents) and I therefore feel a huge pressure to get her education right. I am more worried about where she will fit in best opposed to results as I have no doubt she would come away with decent grades at any good school.
She is currently at an OK State Primary where she has been happily coasting for the last couple of years.
She is very self motivated (works loads at home), finds distraction when she is working difficult, is extremely confident/independent but can also be quite sensitive. She would also be a prime target for bullying in some schools I think. She has said she wants to go to an all girls school and yesterday said she wouldn't mind weekly boarding (I'm not sure her Dad and I could either afford this or bear to be without her all week though!!)
So to sum up all we know so far is we would like an excellent, quite strict (dd's words not mine), small girls school which celebrates learning for it's own sake and where being a bit geeky is the norm! I couldn't bear anywhere which was too snooty though or where skiing is compulsory.
If not boarding would need to be in Yorks/Derbyshire area.
Any ideas would be hugely appreciated as really don't know where to start??
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mangochutney · 10/03/2009 13:47
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