How much were your 'extras' on this terms fees?

[TheDogsBollocks]

£477

mainly books, exam entry and 'compulsory clubs'

£15/week for piano lessons.

£40 for swimming lessons

Prep school, DD in P2/Y4.

Fees include all books, exams, compulsary classes, almost all non residential school trips, school meals, milk, swimming, and sport, individual English and Maths support (inc Dyslexia support), G&T support, etc.

Additional expenses:

Non compulsary clubs - DD did lunch time drama and scrapbooking at £4 a week each

Individual music tuition - DD did piano at £14.50 a week

Payments for next term's residential trip (not compulsary but everyone has chosen to go) - £180 for the 4 day trip

Virtually nothing £8 for a magazine or something.
Music lessons paid direct to the teacher. School trip is free/included in fees. Lunches included in school fees. School clubs all free.

I think they were about £480 between the two - plus another £500 in music fees paid directly for teachers (2 instruments plus additional aural training)

Its usually about that much - there's always a theatre trip (Eng Lit A level), a conference, a field trip and a residential trip somewhere, each term for one of them....

ds - £25 for week long CCF camp and that's it - ds has packed lunch and everything else is included

dd - £250 for week long PGL type trip - lunch, most clubs (all the ones she does) are included

neither does individual instrumental lessons which would bump the costs up though

Less than 5 quid last term but already over 100 quid this term.
DS in the private school doesn't do any exC activities, though. His sis (in state school) costs at least 20 quid/week in exC activities.

£36 for ballet (Compulsory in Nursery and Reception)
£81 for Speech and Drama lessons for DS1 in Year 1 - not sure of the exact benefit of this class, but DS loves it.
£30 for fruit snacks for 2 children.
Lunches are added in with the fees bill, but we are still waiting for the Spanish class invoice which will probably be about £30.

Y3 DD at local girls school:
Lunch £191.00
Insurance £5.95
After School Club £7.50
Moses extra £11.00
Rainbow Theatre £11.00
Museum £24.00
Science Visit £16.00
British Museum £11.50
Richmond Theatre £18.00
Music Lessons £165.00
PTA £5.00
Swimming £84.20
Swimming undercharge Spring £22.00

I always think her fees should be printed on a length of wallpaper.

Y6 DS is at a cheaper more academic school, his extras were £10.00!

Academic exams/books/lunch etc all included in fees.

Our extras

£7.50 Insurance
£1 Parents Association
£190 out of hours club
£5 Music Book
£155 Music Lesson
£15 Music Exam
£220 Minibus
£55 Karate
£35 Cookery
£10 Trip
£685

Very jealous of those with no extras - never had a bill with no extras this term is norm, prob one of the cheaper extra ones we have had.

DS - lunches, trips, clubs all included...only the optional trips to pay for (skiing, classics trip to Italy).

DD - the extras were over £500, including non-optional trips, LAMDA, medicals, extra kit and equipment. And her fees are higher too!

Oh and I have to pay for music teachers directly (£20 per week) and the minibus (£500 per term.)

Annual Fees are 5,600 per term and I estimate approx 6,000 with expenses making the overall annual total 18,000. That includes everything except optional school trips which we limit to one per year so up to another 1,000

£25 for Saturday Football Club

Everything else like trips, lunches is included in fees.

The only expense I am not looking forward to is the uniform - DS leaves PrePrep to go to Prep in Sept - uniform bill is coming up to £400! but then again the second hand sale will halve this

Mine were both a lot moe than usual. ds £221 up from typically about £40. this included a lot more sundries than usual, but the main extra cost was exams. Breakdown - xmas party: £10, sailing: £20, ccf subs: £15, careers report: £18, university visit:£5 , a sweatshirt: £16 (why?) music incidentals: £2 (a CD I think) and exam charges: £117.

Dd has moved to a school where they tend to charge for everything that moves (but the baseline fees are much lower). Hers were £81 exams (bizzare, she's only sat one maths module as far as I know), £70 DofE exped (VERY steep for one nights camping, ds's school charged £10 for same exped), drama costume contribution £10, Homework time £5 (that's just one day and it seems very odd to me to charge for after school supervision for 15 year olds!), and ski trip £200 (1st installment, fair enough), tennis lessons charged separately were about £90. So very expensive this term!