How to get to Queen Ethelburga's

@Ladymom I have actually lived in Asia.

I don’t get your posts. At all.

I hope you find the right school.

Do not expect taxi queues like in Asia

I had a huge argument with a taxi driver in Beijing. He refused to put his meter on because it was raining, and I refused to get in the cab because I don't get in cabs without the meter on. The entire argument was conducted using hand signals and numbers typed into our phones, as he didn't speak a word of English and I can't speak Chinese. I'd have gone to the taxi queue and got into a different taxi. Only there were no taxi queues, anywhere. I'd walked around in the rain for over an hour looking for one, as this was Asia, right? Or have I got my geography wrong again? Damn.

Their lawyers are very slow this week. I might even manage to dig out the redacted thread by the time they get wind of this thread.

I worked there many years ago. It was in interesting experience! It's changed so much since I was there though.

Camper/others:

Let me correct myself - I am no longer so sure that there has been any ownership change: According to the UK holding company, Care & Recreation Holding, it is (still) ultimately owned by Foxlow Limited in the British Virgin Islands - this is from the 2016 annual report filed as recently as 6 June 2017. (Shareholdings in Foxlow in BVI may have changed, of course).

Googling "Foxlow Limited" brought a surprise: Panama Papers! The website created by ICIJ, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, with documents from Mossack Fonseca... Not joking!

I can call this allegations if it makes the lawyers less unhappy.

Suppose you have not lived in Asia where convenience is the key. Visited other schools and they were easily located.
Am laughing heartily at this sentiment!
Some British schools are older than lots of other countries... they're located where they are- take it or leave it!

* It was fascinating - all about wherever they were in the world and whatever the circumstance, they could always use one phone call to St Ethelburga's Made them all sound like potential international diamond smugglers, it was ace.* 

Given the context of the stuff mentioned in the other threads, I’d say sinister is a more appropriate description than fascinating.

This is all fascinating. And people pay the price of a house every year for it?

I loved 10 minutes from there as a kid :)

There's no question that it's a funny kind of place, very inward looking in lots of ways. But the teaching is fantastic, genuinely, and the results aren't fudged. As a PP said, the school is now very upfront about splitting into college and faculty at KS4. Happy to answer questions if anyone's really that interested

You can't leave that sentence hanging, Noneed

I don't think the school can be blamed for your lack of location awareness op. Yabu

I may or may not work there...

I think it got removed after the last debacle, Feenie. There must be a cached version somewhere though.

Does the letter to past students still exist on the website?

It was fascinating - all about wherever they were in the world and whatever the circumstance, they could always use one phone call to St Ethelburga's

Made them all sound like potential international diamond smugglers, it was ace.

I see Amy replaced her father on the Board of Governors.

And seems to run a range of independent businesses from the school site. Insurance companies, and other 'service' companies.

Sounds all very successful.

Honestly @Ladymom, I don’t see how they could be more helpful or clear on their website!

Good luck searching for the right boarding school though. Most great UK boarding schools are not for profit, and so all money is invested back or put to enable a wider variety of pupils to attend. That was the kind of school that appealed to me.

I agree elf.
Whatever issues people have with the school, it's sort of obvious that it is rural and they do give decent travel information. It's hardly a shock.

I don't see how it could be more helpful tbh. You just need to be able to read and understand it.

On this point, the school are not at fault at all.

You call them, they organise collection from the station. It’s actually very helpful of them.

Not a school on my shortlist when I was living abroad and planning on my eldest coming back to board. There are so many other schools that do pretty much everything better in my opinion, but they don’t organise pick up from the station which QE helpfully do. That’s what makes this thread so funny for me! You are criticising their good thing!

"Pardon us for not being familiar with the rails. QE website is not of much help, neither the school which says the nearest station is Cattal (no mention that it's a really local, quiet station).
Also pardon us who don't drive so the only way is through trains and taxis."

Except of course, if you'd read the website - verbatim helpfully already added to this thread - you'd have seen that your options were not just train/taxi and the school meets and drops visitors at the local station.

This is not a point where the school is at fault or unhelpful.

There was an application to vary bail conditions hearing on 21 Aug 17 ?

It can be seen on LinkedIn that Amy Martin is the current CEO of the Thorpe Underwood Estate.

She would also appear to be a registered director of a number of companies which include Queen Ethelburga's in the company name:
www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/490402/amy-martin