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boarding schools in Yorkshire

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diddybobster · 15/03/2014 20:36

Hi, I am hoping for some recommendations or insight into boarding schools in the Yorkshire region. DD will come back to the UK from overseas in September 2014 to start year 10. Websites only tell you so much and we are not able to visit a good selection as we are all abroad right now. Options are for full or weekly boarding depending on location and state boarding schools are also an option. So far Ashville, Queen Ethelburga's and Harrogate Ladies College have caught my eye. Any advice gratefully received! Thanks

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diddybobster · 15/03/2014 21:00

Any experience of Ripon Grammar? I will have a look at Bootham and Ampleforth and the others mentioned

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diddybobster · 15/03/2014 20:57

Thank you for that. DD is outgoing, reasonably academic and quite sporty. As this will be our first boarding school experience I feel quite overwhelmed by the decision we have to make and absolutely agree that the school must be the right one for her personality. She has been offered a place at Dallam in Cumbria but I am still looking at options closer to Leeds where we have family, hence the weekly boarding option. I would also like an international flavour as we have been living abroad for quite some time.

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Northernlurker · 15/03/2014 20:53

I know parents happy with Bootham and Pocklington though as day pupils not boarders. Don't touch QE with a barge pole.

meditrina · 15/03/2014 20:40

What is your DD like? Boarding schools are only 'good' if they are a good fit for the aptitude and personality of the child.

That said, I've known families at both Ashville and Harrogate Ladies Coolege who have been happy with their choice (but I don't know either well enough to comment in detail).

AntoinetteCosway · 15/03/2014 20:40

Search for Queen Ethelburga's on here-it is a shockingly awful school. HLC is nice. Ampleforth is great, all the Quaker schools (Bootham, The Mount and Ackworth) are great, Pocklington is really nice too.

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