Senior schools for boys (London day or boarding)

Hope this helps! My son has done his first term at Winchester College. Academically, we are so impressed with WC and the housemaster approach, support for settling my DS . I am hoping WC will take my youngest son in 2014!. Winchester College is not for the light hearted, many very intellectual and naturally bright boys, which come from abroad. Music is excellent. There is roughly about 2 and half hours off Toy Time (Prep), every night. We I think IGCSE is the way forward and Cambridge Pre U. Over all my son is very happy and hopefully he will go onto Harvard from here. Winchester Scholarship, majority off these papers are written by the master of WC and these boarder line beyond AS papers, preparation is a minimum of 2/3 years. My youngest son personnel tutor (old Etonian - Scholar) mentioned that you should reach 90% on common entrance by the time your son is eleven,(2/3 years before entrance) before even preparing for scholarship.

Well, esperance, that suggests you are a tad common. The tailors hate dealing with servants. So infra dig.

I am not sure about other parents grovel. In our case, I always sent one of the servants to purchase uniform

I don't think many parents buy all this stuff new. The tailors in Eton High Street do second hand (and buy back when a boy leaves).

I love the fact that on one of those links, under the Harrow uniform, this comes up Is it for Freddie Mercury evenings in the dorm?

And here's The Genuine Article.

For Eton wannabes that's the nearest they can ever come close to the genuine article.

I think your comments are highly inappropriate now given that children wear these coats.

esperence esperance

esperence - Oh I already have one of those. It's part of my auto erotic asphyxiation kit.

Congratulations to son of yesbutnobut

MrsJ This is an anonymous forum. It's okay, really okay, to just admit that you want this:

goo.gl/m5jDG

We're delighted too and very proud; have some thinking to do now ...

Great news - do you plan to accept?

yesbutnobut, delighted for you and your DS.

Received our offer from Harrow today!

MrsJAlfredPrufrock if we are happy for our children to indulge in "class ridden fripperies (uniform, peculiar sports that nobody else plays, silly rituals)" what difference does it make to you or your children especially as not one of us is trying to inflict them on you? I dont believe it makes them better people than your DC's or worse it gives them a difference experience of life thats all. We need this difference in our world.

Milkshake You should perhaps try and separate the education and the class ridden fripperies (uniform, peculiar sports that nobody else plays, silly rituals) that will do nothing for you children once they leave to go to university. My eldest son is very happy at university reading medicine, I have one son about to choose A level subjects and two littles (for whom schooling has not yet been decided). So I don't know why you think this thread is irrelevant to me.

MrsJ - I am not going to post on your other thread as it is irrelevant to me and I have nothing to add about St Albans school, but I am wondering how you reconcile your views about private schools, yet send yours to one? The uniform a child wears does not concern me...the education does. So if mine ends up wearing a swishy tailcoat or boater, so be it. You clearly think St Albans gives your son the best education, so good choice. Don't belittle others just trying to make the same decision for their children. If you disagree with the opportunity that private education can give (depending on the school), then lead by example and remove your child from the private school you have chosen for him.

You can stop hijacking this thread now.

MrsJ, you really are most unpleasant.

Milkshake -well you could always start a fee paying forum of your very own. You could even wear swishy tailcoats and engage in a bit of sponging if the participants diverted from tradition, just for larks. Hell you could even have a latin motto, though you might have to translate it for Happygardening to postis to serve

MrsJ - I read these threads to give support and get support....not to behave like a petulant child. If you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say it...that was what I was taught at my very nice all girls school. I for one really value what Colleger, HappyG, Grovel et al have to say as, from what I can tell they've already been through it, and can offer valid advice. I don't hand around other threads, irrelevant to me, trying to score points.....

I'm a sink comp girl! how ariviste!

Colleger - show me the 'plenty of negativity'? I was merely keen to point out the plural of prospectus is definitely not prospectus's, especially as this thread purports to care so much for academic rigour.

Btw I'm a grammar school girl and not therefore possessed of fine manners and a tailcoat.

What is more sad worse? The person who writes on a thread that is relevant to their current circumstance or the person whom it does not affect but has plenty of negativity to spout? Hmmm, let me think?!

Latin did I mention Latin??