following on from private school thread

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Someone said that if people stopped buying uggs then more people would relaise how affordable it is.

If this is true, how much does private school actually cost?

Those of you with kids in private school or know about fees, what are they at start of primary school and then at secondary school or gcse year?

im genuinly interested as ive alaways been told it costs a fortune (40k a year?)

The "if you stopped buying [car/holiday/boots/baked beans etc.] you'd be able to afford private school" threads are almost always complete and utter bubble-bollocks. Ignore.

We send our DD to private school and when she started school the fees were around £3000 per term ( £9000 per year) it's gone up slightly every year and we now pay about £3800 per term ( she is now 9).
On top of that we pay £8 per day for breakfast club and £20 per day for the after school/homework club as we both work full time.

Additional costs during school holidays are £30 per day for the the school activity club.

Am scared to add it up but it's probably around £17k year.

It will go up every year but tere wil come a time where she is old enough not to need out of school care so it should even out.

This is Scotland though -I am sure London or the well known schools (Eton etc) are much more expensive.

oh. cant afford it then.

Thank you for sharing!

40K is way off, thats boarding school fees.
I would say it's about 12-22K per year (the prep prep year a few K less) plus extras like uniform and music lessons.

Oh and mean to say -that's a hell of a lot of Uggs..not that DD has any -we buy her the fake ones from Next as she's ruin them in days.

lol id never buy uggs- they are hideous things anyway. its less laboutin or jimmy choos though!

I reguarly spend in excess of 15K on uggs don't we all?

Oh I'd love a pair of jimmy choos, ain't ever going to happen though lol

If you've got a very low income, you may be eligible for a bursary.
For the school I'm thinking of,if your income is around 20K per year,your child might be eligible for a free place.

really i heard that you could only get a 5 or % reduction at that level of income.

Its rather annoying how different schools have differing options

Our school will give up to 100% bursaries for children who's parents earn less than £40,000 per annum. There are only about 10 places a year but definately worth looking into. Also many private school will take children free of charge into senior school if they are very bright academically to boost their exam results.

are those places for life or year by year?

also what about school trips, extra curic activities and uniforms etc

It's not a case of cutting out Uggs, we pay £1,200 a month in schools, rob Peter to pay Paul the months when we don't have £1200 coming into the house, raid savings etc.
It's not affordable to all of course it's not but I regularly have friends tell me I could have 4 holidays and a car for what i've spent on school fees like that would be a better use of my money in their opinion.

Normally bursarys are reviewed each year - i.e. you can't have a £18k a year job, get a bursary, then get a £50k a year job and still receive the same bursary. Also same if you win the lottery, you'd lose the bursary!!

I.m not sure about all schools but in ours it's for the full school career, although if it is an academic scholarship then their is an expectation the the child works to their potential.

Not sure about school trips but there are quarterly second hand uniform sales and lots of parents use them.

Eton is £9900 a term but that excludes registration uniform and extra lessons activities.

My son attends a overseas bi-lingual international school, and the fees are £17500 a year and I have to pay lunch on top at £5 a day (food is expensive but it is prepared by a four star restaurant

It includes sports activities, trips and after school club 3 days a week. There is no uniform thankfully, so he makes do with cheap H&M.

I was paying £1200 a month for nursery childcare in London anyway so that expenditure has always come out of the budget, and it hasn't been an extra hardship.

If we come back to the UK though it would depend on where we settled as to whether we would put ds in another private school again.

DD1 is in Year 7 at a girls private school. It costs about £10,000 per year. This does not include music tuition or school trips. The uniform is also very expensive and can only be bought from a specialist shop. We have another couple of years before DD2 joins her there.

We sent the DDs to a local village primary so have not paid prep school fees.

We are lucky that we can afford it without drastically changing our lifestyle but it is still a lot of money to us. There are girls there for whom the fees are a drop in the ocean and others whose parents have to work all hours and go without to send them there. There are also a number whose fees are paid by grandparents.

Sorry should clarify that's as long as the parents income doesnt change as per oldbeforetime's post

Cutting out Uggs? You'd need to be a bloody centipede!!

All schools vary in cost but you do often get what you pay for. Ds's last independant primary was £50 a week but it was subsidised by the church and had no facilities, not even a kitchen. His secondary school is 3.4k per term but they have scholarships and bursaries availiable (and they have a swimming pool etc). Look around.

is not that fees are hidden from publis - every school has fees and bursaries on their web pages
our's are £2300/term, small independent +£3/day lunch
if there was brakwfast club - £3, after school I think arounf £6/ session but haven't used after school for a while

Scholarships and bursaries are not the same thing.

Scholarships are not means tested, they are awarded on merit, and usually stay with the pupil for the entire school career, subject to good conduct. They are rarely worth much, and may be only titular.

Bursaries are normally renewed annually. They can go up to 100% fees.

My DC's prep is £2,400 a term for Reception rising to £4K at the top end of the school. Lunch, after school prep and all after school clubs are included. The uniform comes from the same local shop that all the state primaries come from so it not expensive. The trips are optional and there is usually a 'cheap' option.

The private secondaries go up (around here) to about £5K per term (including lunch) for boys schools and £4K per term (including lunch) for girls schools. (That is an issue all of its own .)

Sounds like in most schools cost more per term than I earn in a year. So cutting out absolutely everything (including basic food) wouldn't cover it. I must add I have never owned a pair of Uggs.

People who think you can "cut out" anything and thereby save enough for school fees are on another planet, frankly. Support your local state school! :)

My son goes to a private pre-prep school and the termly fees are about £2500 a term, but again the uniform (you can buy 2nd hand) and extras do add to the total.

I suppose the issue is that, for some, it is an affordable option (with sacrifice) - IO would rather use my spare cash (hollow laughter) on other 'luxuries' as nice holidays, out of school activities and supplement their education.