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sandwoman · 29/06/2008 22:06

I'm looking into private school for DS for when he starts secondary. The website says £2747 per term, is this from September to July? a full school year or half a year?

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Bink · 29/06/2008 22:08

? term means term - 3 a year - (1) September - December; (2) January - Easter; (3) April - July. So a full school year will be £2747 x 3 ... not much short of £9,000.

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Orinoco · 29/06/2008 22:08

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Lilymaid · 29/06/2008 22:09

Three terms per year, therefore three times £2747 = £8241 per year.

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fuzzywuzzy · 29/06/2008 22:10

if it says per term I would imagine the full years fees would be £8,241

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katiekkrruunncchh · 29/06/2008 22:11

Has the school gone to a 6 term year? Worth checking!

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smartiejake · 01/07/2008 22:23

Don't think this is all you will be paying either! There are loads of hidden extras they don't always tell you about till you get the bill. Things such as dinner supervision fees, stationary, insurance etc.

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LadyMuck · 01/07/2008 22:28

Also fees go up in April next year for the following academic year (starting in September)

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Quattrocento · 01/07/2008 22:33

It's pricey because this will not include extras. Extras mean the following:

Uniform (around £500-£600 to get DS kitted out at first go - there might be a second hand shop though)

Music lessons (around £15-20 a week)

Meals (some schools include, some don't but taking them is almost invariably compulsory)

School trips (day trips compulsory but also "optional" school type holidays in Italy or France or Germany - usually a skiing trip a year too)

There might be some form of assistance available though - worth looking into

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UnquietDad · 08/07/2008 16:06

If I were a billionaire philanthropist I'd be setting up superbly-equipped schools, with no religious or other agenda, for bright kids whose parents don't wish to educate them in the state system but for whom school fees would be a laughably unlikely luxury.

I don't mean "poor" people either - I'm thinking of all the people who work in the public sector and in creative industries, on salaries of say £35k and under.

They would be unashamedly academically elitist, with entry at 11 judged not on tests but on academic performance over the previous year, and with no fees, funded entirely through philanthropic donations.

I know, cloud-cuckoo-land. But the ghastly state of education today has me wishing this kind of thing existed.

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Loshad · 10/07/2008 19:27

Ogden has done that quite a bit though UQD, he's funded loads of full fee paid places at a number of fee paying schools. My ds2 has one such lad in his class, came from a very rough primary in the dog end of town, not only is he super bright, nice lad but also appears to be talented at anything he chooses to try at (eg sport etc) full marks to anyone who funds/part funds such opportunities.

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Quattrocento · 10/07/2008 19:36

UQD

I have a vague memory of schools like that

Weren't they called grammar schools?

We abolished them for being Very Unfair because only clever children could get in.

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LIZS · 10/07/2008 19:41

It would be that times 3 for the year. tbh for secondary that is still pretty reasonable. Check the extras though , some may or may not include lunch and books/stationery in fees, plus allow for musical instrument tuition, specialist sports ie sailing, extra curricular activities, after school supervision, trips, uniform ....

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Cammelia · 10/07/2008 19:42

That is extremely cheap for secondary private

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LIZS · 10/07/2008 19:43

and bear in mind that it may well go up year on year by 5-10% plus increases as the child moves up the school

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Lola234 · 21/07/2008 10:44

a term is about twice a year. winter and summer.

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geekgirl · 21/07/2008 10:46

whereabouts are you Lola? UK schools have 3 terms per calendar year.

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SqueakyPop · 21/07/2008 21:23

It's 2747 x 3

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SqueakyPop · 21/07/2008 21:25

There are three terms a year, Lola - Michaelmas, Lent and Summer

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suefas · 05/09/2008 12:37

£2747 is just under the average cost for a term's fees at an independent secondary school (for a day pupil, not boarder)
If you're still looking for a school - try www.find-a-school.co.uk

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batters · 05/09/2008 12:40

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suefas · 05/09/2008 13:09

sorry, stand corrected...... except for London!
Still a far cry from full boarders at some schools paying over £30000 per year. Imagine earnings needed to send 2 children there!

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southeastastra · 05/09/2008 13:11

what about poor, clever children uqd

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suefas · 05/09/2008 16:06

assisted places scheme for independent schools should not have been abolished

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Cammelia · 07/09/2008 21:24

suefas there are lots of schools outside London that charge double those termly prices

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Cosette · 12/09/2008 13:45

Yes, I'm in Surrey and they're all around £4000 a term here - at senior school level.

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