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Is this the UK's poshest girls school?

48 replies

Dinaprettyballerina · 25/10/2022 10:56

www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/rishi-sunaks-little-known-link-28315618

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ManefesationofConciousness · 25/10/2022 11:55

no not all

Dinaprettyballerina · 25/10/2022 12:01

Really, I thought the fact that the Sunak's & Beckham's sent their daughters there gives it serious credentials... Read on here that the Sunak's eldest girl has moved to Wycombe Abbey

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WormEater · 25/10/2022 12:15

Definitely not.

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Unseelie · 25/10/2022 12:47

No, but it looks really nice, wish I’d gone there. 🙃

There are many many posh schools in the UK. I’ve finally been able to send DS to one and he bloody loves school now. I loathed my school years, so I’d rather have smaller house & happy son.

NC12345665 · 25/10/2022 12:50

Can't be that "posh" if the Beckhams send their child there.

Dinaprettyballerina · 25/10/2022 12:54

Whatever about the Beckham's but I would class the Sunak's as extremely posh!

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catandcoffee · 25/10/2022 13:16

What school did the Beckhams sons attend as I'd avoid that one.... they're not exactly high achievers. 🤔

Dinaprettyballerina · 25/10/2022 13:18

I'm actually not sure where the sons attended but I remember reading years ago they weren't accepted into a couple of top notch ones!

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Gihi · 25/10/2022 13:26

There's a difference between posh and high achieving schools though.

I don't think Eton produces exceptional exam results?

Dinaprettyballerina · 25/10/2022 13:53

True but I'd imagine the Sunak's would be very ambitious academically...

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palygold · 25/10/2022 13:55

NC12345665 · 25/10/2022 12:50

Can't be that "posh" if the Beckhams send their child there.

😀

blacksax · 25/10/2022 14:37

catandcoffee · 25/10/2022 13:16

What school did the Beckhams sons attend as I'd avoid that one.... they're not exactly high achievers. 🤔

What makes you think that was anything to do with which schools they went to?

Many rich people send their kids to private school, and not all those kids will become high achievers just because their parents are loaded.

KittyWithStripes · 25/10/2022 16:56

It’s really not that posh. It’s pretty identical to probably a dozen or more other London preps. I know the fees are eye-wateringly expensive, but honestly the day-to-day experience of the children that go there is not that different to anyone else. They come home grubby wearing the Spaghetti Bolognese they ate for lunch. They forget their maths homework and lose their jumpers every bloody week just like any other kids. Despite the best efforts of pushy parents, children are incapable of being friends with another child just because they are rich or well connected… They only care about whether you’re into minecraft or whatever 😁

in London, they are such an international community that the “English“ children are in a minority in any class, so “Posh “doesn’t really have any meaning… the main thing is that there may be some really filthy rich parents but very few of them are so stupid that they would openly spoil their children, as all the other kids would be like wtf Alexander has his own iPhone in Y2 😠. It’s not done. Well… at least not at primary school level… secondary’s probably a different ball game 😆

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 25/10/2022 17:55

You have to be very bright to go to Wycombe Abbey. Money alone will not get you a place.

Dinaprettyballerina · 25/10/2022 19:40

@KittyWithStripes I would love to know this! It's a very different league! Apparently in some of the most expensive boarding schools it's nearly all international with students mainly made up of filthy rich Russians, Kazaks, Nigerians & Chinese. .. I'd say the normal UK toff just wouldn't be able to compete...

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IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 25/10/2022 19:44

The younger Rees Moggs go to Hill House in Chelsea I believe. I'd put that high in the rankings of the country's poshest school.

Dogsgottabone · 25/10/2022 19:47

The Beckham boys were at a very expensive very sporty school in the southwest.

It isn't the most academic but still has a good enough reputation.

C8H10N4O2 · 25/10/2022 20:08

Dogsgottabone · 25/10/2022 19:47

The Beckham boys were at a very expensive very sporty school in the southwest.

It isn't the most academic but still has a good enough reputation.

Kelly College? They used to run a number of sports scholarship programmes along the lines of US sports scholarships, not sure if they still do.

Dogsgottabone · 25/10/2022 20:10

C8H10N4O2 · 25/10/2022 20:08

Kelly College? They used to run a number of sports scholarship programmes along the lines of US sports scholarships, not sure if they still do.

Nope.

Begins with M.

cantba · 25/10/2022 20:10

I thought the beckhams went to milfield. I can't imagine they would have chosen a school in tavistock 😂

tenbob · 25/10/2022 20:18

C8H10N4O2 · 25/10/2022 20:08

Kelly College? They used to run a number of sports scholarship programmes along the lines of US sports scholarships, not sure if they still do.

Millfield…
Romeo was on their instagram account a few weeks ago returning to the school to play a football match against current students so must have enjoyed his time there

Dogsgottabone · 25/10/2022 20:19

cantba · 25/10/2022 20:10

I thought the beckhams went to milfield. I can't imagine they would have chosen a school in tavistock 😂

Yes you're right @cantba they did.

C8H10N4O2 · 25/10/2022 20:46

Dogsgottabone · 25/10/2022 20:19

Yes you're right @cantba they did.

Plainly I get a Fail on keeping up with Celeb culture 😀

Dogsgottabone · 25/10/2022 21:01

🤣 I only know because I know current pupils who give me all the goss, it isn't information I'd go looking for!!

ManefesationofConciousness · 25/10/2022 21:10

I am in my 50s but a friend went to Millfield in the very early 80s.

Children chose if they went to lessons or not? And it had quite an open approach to relationships?

I assume it is not the same now.