Thornton College or Akeley Wood Junior (near Buckingham)

[slp123]

Hi, I tried posting on primary education but no responses so far, I was wondering if anyone have any experience of either Thornton College or Akeley Wood Junior (near Buckingham)?
Would appreciate any opinions/experience.
Thank you

[TizerorFizz]

Not necessarily. However what’s wrong with having money? Also boarding schools tend to have shorter terms and longer days with more going on. Sport is taught everywhere. Dc at Stowe accept school life and everyone buys into that as it’s boarding. It’s a way of life. So if it means Saturdays, so be it. You get more holidays.

I think if you pay, 92% of the population don’t, you are flashier than the vast majority anyway. Clearly money is not short and there’s enough to buy schooling which many consider very flash. In North Bucks the private schools take those who don’t get the 11 plus and are therefore about the same as the better secondary schools because they are largely populated by dc who cannot get into RLS. All those parents are doing is turning their noses up at dc at the secondary moderns and paying to stay separate. Universally they think they are a better quality family and don’t want their dc to mix with dc at the secondaries. It might not be quite the London flash but it’s north Bucks snobbery at its best. Anyone not snobby should move to Waddesdon catchment and save the money.

We used to get Thornton girls into RLS 6th form and they were let of the leash for the first time in their lives!

[Nicashappy]

@TizerorFizz

Not necessarily. However what’s wrong with having money? Also boarding schools tend to have shorter terms and longer days with more going on. Sport is taught everywhere. Dc at Stowe accept school life and everyone buys into that as it’s boarding. It’s a way of life. So if it means Saturdays, so be it. You get more holidays.

I think if you pay, 92% of the population don’t, you are flashier than the vast majority anyway. Clearly money is not short and there’s enough to buy schooling which many consider very flash. In North Bucks the private schools take those who don’t get the 11 plus and are therefore about the same as the better secondary schools because they are largely populated by dc who cannot get into RLS. All those parents are doing is turning their noses up at dc at the secondary moderns and paying to stay separate. Universally they think they are a better quality family and don’t want their dc to mix with dc at the secondaries. It might not be quite the London flash but it’s north Bucks snobbery at its best. Anyone not snobby should move to Waddesdon catchment and save the money.

We used to get Thornton girls into RLS 6th form and they were let of the leash for the first time in their lives!

Sorry but you're talking absolute rubbish. Mine were at Akeley for the dyslexia provision. You may not want to mix with what you perceive as lower quality families in North Bucks but that sure as heck wasn't our reasoning....

[TizerorFizz]

Ah! So that’s not flash then? Not in the 8% who can afford private fees? You still didn’t want state provision. It is available and has to be good enough for others. You might put yourself on a moral pedestal but nearly everyone else is paying to stay separate from other dc they aren’t keen on. Unless of course Akeley Wood is a sen school now. You still had money to separate your dc from others and that’s flash. How much did you pay each year?

[Nicashappy]

@TizerorFizz

Ah! So that’s not flash then? Not in the 8% who can afford private fees? You still didn’t want state provision. It is available and has to be good enough for others. You might put yourself on a moral pedestal but nearly everyone else is paying to stay separate from other dc they aren’t keen on. Unless of course Akeley Wood is a sen school now. You still had money to separate your dc from others and that’s flash. How much did you pay each year?

If you knew the area then you would know that it has always sold itself on its SEN provision, 20 odd years that I know of? If course it's a privilege but to say we did it to separate our DS from other families for snobbish reasons is just utter rubbish. Even our primary advised us to send him if we could, I'm not going into the detail to a total stranger but we had very extenuating circumstances which are as far away from snobbery as you could ever begin to imagine.

[rudolfy]

The Bedford harpur trust schools are worth a look if you are the Milton Keynes side of north bucks.