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Help!!!! need private but very good IB schools in Surrey Pls.

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Lovingme · 12/03/2010 05:27

Dear Mums.

Please l am new to this site and really need all the help l can get.
We are moving to the UK this July (expats, never lived in the UK before) and l have 3 kids 16,13 and 9. l will love for them to be in the same school but it has to be the international Baccalaureate since that's what the are doing presently in Dubai. They are presently in grades 11, 8 and 4. Please could you help me out with names of very good private schools because that will determine where we will live in Surrey. Sorry for my long mail but really confused and desperate. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

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janinlondon · 12/03/2010 13:12

JSB - v funny! I am employed full time rewriting the work of doctors so you may have something there! (Sorry Lovingme for taking it off topic)

jackstarbright · 12/03/2010 12:40

Loving me - if you want IB from grade 4 up you are really only looking at International Schools - the Surrey ones having all been mentioned (I think). Have you checked the IB website for names? You could then post on mn for direct experience of any you like the look of.

titchy · 12/03/2010 12:29

I thought a lot of the med schools thought the IB was too broad and didn't offer enough depth of each subject.

Also don't quite understand the need for them to do IB, except maybe in the case of the 16 yo.

jackstarbright · 12/03/2010 12:29

Jan - Because they have to study English and a foreign language upto 18! Good communication skills and writing not being essential for doctors .

Seriously - if you talking KCS then I've heard the same thing - many go into medicine.

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Lovingme · 12/03/2010 12:00

Any other school please.

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janinlondon · 12/03/2010 10:44

Titchy I met some IB students who had been accepted for medicine at an open day at a London IB school recently. Why would an IB prevent anyone from studying medicine? I don't understand?

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Lovingme · 12/03/2010 09:33

l actually want a strong Academic school and with great sports too. l don't mind living abit far from the school but provided it is Surrey. l just checked the Worth and Ardingly schools but they are from 11-18years only. Thanks for all your response but please send some more.

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Lovingme · 12/03/2010 09:27

l tried the ACSchool which seems ok but the insist on making the kids repeat the same grade, because you have to be in a particular grade at a particular age, My son is presently writting his IGSCE exams, so to go back and rewrite it even when he has good result is a No No.

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titchy · 12/03/2010 09:13

Can't help with your question, but if you're choosing a school and an area to live based solely on your dcs doing the IB please check, double check and triple check this is definitely the sort of education you want for them.

The IB isn't suitable for all degree courses - e.g. Medicine, and COUL restrict them in the future. A Levels are a good alternative you know, and much easier to find a good private school that does these as standard.

LIZS · 12/03/2010 08:40

this any good ? Relatively few UK schools adopt it before diploma though. Ardingly and Worth are on the Surrey/W Sussex border, Box Hill only secondary age and not strongly academic.

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 12/03/2010 08:27

Richmond College does IB, not private, state college and a friend's daughter is doing extremely well there and loves the course. Our DC going to independent secondaries, but considering RC for IB if they're inclined that way instead of A levels.

MmeBlueberry · 12/03/2010 06:09

There are two ACS schools in Surrey, both of which do the IB from Primary Years, through Middle Years to the Diploma.

One is in Cobham, and the other Egham.

I have worked in one of them, and they are good school.