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Nice boarding schools for girls!!

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egyptiandancer64 · 22/06/2015 21:20

My daughter left her country Prep school and we tried a London Day school which was very pressurised and a disaster as she didnt fit in. I then sent her to a boarding school where she is having a very tough time with a very disruptive year group and a lot of bitchy girls... Any ideas on nice schools ? Tudor Hall? although I think not very academic or Downe House which I fear may be pressurised as well and full of eating disorders...! Any other ideas for schools within an hour and a half of London. Preferably single sex but am beginning to think maybe co-ed too.She starts her GCSE syllabus in September so I need to move quickly and have been trying to find somewhere. She is rather fragile at the moment and I am terrified if I move her again and get it wrong again I shall have a child with rock bottom self esteem. Any ideas please?

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00100001 · 22/06/2015 22:40

Try Queenswood, but it is super expensive. But lovely school, really caring :)

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egyptiandancer64 · 22/06/2015 22:38

thank you for all helpful messages, re St Leonards Mayfield have heard good things and may try that one if not too local. We live in London so need a few from here if poss! Re what is she like... well hard working and quite driven and i think just wants to get on and do some work and if poss some sport. She has had severs very badly for almost two years so no sport hasnt helped her at all. We are not well off and I think her present school is full of rich girls who just talk about clothes and boys which really isnt her. London School was v pressurised three hours homework a night at 13! Plus no-one else had been to country prep school so fish out of water there as well! Happy at prep school until severs and knee probs meant she had to give up sport and in the last year I think all the girls got rather bitchy and hormonal and she felt left out in some way. I think she just needs a nice reasonably academic school thats not all about what clothes you are wearing! I fear this may be impossible though..

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Oakmaiden · 22/06/2015 22:38

My friend's daughter is very happy at St Swithins, in Winchester.

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egyptiandancer64 · 22/06/2015 22:33

yes too far for us am afraid... and very few English girls there these days! not being xenophobic but true!

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ZeroFunDame · 22/06/2015 21:53

So what is your DD like?

What (beyond niceness) would be needed to make school enjoyable for her?

What kind of environment is she happiest in?

What, as far as you have discerned, went wrong at the London school? What is there at her current school that might not exist elsewhere?

It's awful to feel a fish out of water at school - do you genuinely think she will settle once you find the right place? Was she happy at her prep?

P0llyP0cketR0cket · 22/06/2015 21:43

Mayfield, East Sussex? All girls, small, girls join in year 10 I think, horsey, creative, academic...

Kent College? Bedes?

IndridCold · 22/06/2015 21:40

Queen Anne's at Caversham, near Reading. Have no personal experience but might be worth a look.

KingscoteStaff · 22/06/2015 21:34

Is Roedean too far? Maybe 1 hour 45 mins from West London. Lots of girls starting in Year 9 and a few in Year 10.

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