So, if you did win £100m, where would you educate your child?

[Basketofchocolate]

Was not me who won, but we did have a discussion at home about what we would do.

Options open up for sure, but which to pick?

Just need to know in case my numbers ever come up

same school but with AMAZING holidays
starting with Borneo

Whichever school I thought that they would be happiest at. DS would leave his current school as he doesn't like it there, I'd home educate him until he starts at a new school.

I'd send them to one with bloody good security if I had been stupid enough to go for the publicity option and also announced I have a child.

I think that £100M would make it next to impossible to attend the local state primary (or at least our local state primary). To be honest with that kind of money our children wouldn't have to worry about earning their living. I think you could afford a nice house, private ed and nice holidays with that amount of money.

I would pay for the kid who lives round the corner from me to get the special needs education that he desperately needs. I would also put a fair amount of money into worthwhile community projects.

There are kids at DCs school with tens of millions in the bank
we know who they are but they do not flaunt it so that's that

the chap in Purley : well its Purley !

It'd probably be impossible to get into many of the local state primaries as well, if you had that much money i can't see that you'd want to live in any of the houses close enough to absolutely guarantee a place at a lot of state schools

I'd keep mine at our lovely local comp, but I'd donate a shed load of money to it too.

Hmm...so it's just us that think the local primary options suck and we can't currently afford the private schools nearby.

Am really happy that there are so many people who are really pleased with their local schools. Am jealous of that

I guess once they are settled in further along the line, it does make a difference. DS is only in YR so we'd whip him out of there no problem.

Is there a correlation between how pleased you are with your local primary school and your proximity to London?

We're not in London. We chose our school mainly because it's the local school.

I'd leave them where they are (state primary).

And, as I'm already thinking the local state secondary may actually be perfect for dd1 - as opposed to local indies - and we're not wanting to move areas, I think we'd have to use the money to enhance rather than fund education

And, I do like Fux's thinking, too.

Basket how about this then, looks like the original chalet school :)

chalet school

If they would be happy I would go for a round the world long term venture and home school them.

If not, I'd keep them where they are which is a lovely little village school. But they could have music lessons, tutoring etc.

Beast = looks good, but then I'm not sure I'd like to live in Switzerland. I don't fancy skiing and the number of languages baffle me.

That's the sort of thing though that I kind of think is the epitome of a 'good education'. But whether staying near family is the best thing, near friends, near....I don't know. Just interesting to think that if money wasn't an issue, it's still hard to know what's best. Obv the gold play room. That's a given

The winner's from Coulsdon, not Purley. (We live in Coulsdon; sadly he is not one of our friends). I predict he'll be moving soon; there are some huge expensive houses just down the road in Banstead if he wants to stay local

In reply to the OP, I'd probably leave DD in her lovely primary, then blow the budget on a top fee paying secondary school, get tutors for whatever she's interested in, and then get her into her uni of choice, (if she wants to go).

Phillip Exeter Academy then Ivy League...or home school with best tutors money can buy - and amazing worldwide trips to exotic places like those suggested by nilbyname as well as encouraging volunteering in less exotic ones...

the issue with that kind of money ...they will be part of the global elite able to live anywhere in the world and create businesses or even do a lot of good if they were allowed to adopt the right social conscience ...and need to be educated as such.

I'm uncertain between home ed with a tutor do we could go away plus have famy time whenever, or pop them into the local private day school. Certainly no fancy pants expensive status school as we live too far away.

I quite miss the spontaneous afternoon trips to the coast we did when do was in nursery and we could do that with a home ed tutor. On the other side, he adores school so I would be torn and probably leave him where he is and enjoy the money in meals out, weekends away, school holidays away, music lessons at home etc.

We would stick to the plan we're on for the state schools they're going to. Rather than putting the money into giving them extra privileges, I'd look at helping out with children's MH services in the SW, particularly eating disorder services.

motown3000...."With that kind of wealth it has to be Private ( You Would still be the Richest family there) "

Sadly you wouldn't be, there are billionaires' children at least three (could be more) of the private prep schools round our way all within a ten mile radius of each other.

I'd leave them where they are, they go to a lovely school. But the other school in the village recently got rebuilt, it is all shiny with great facilities, I'd see what could be done about our school. Not sure about when they go to secondary though.

I love the idea of pimping the school they are in :) dd loves her state school and has good friends. They've looked after her well and it would be nice to be able to help them. I would pay for a computing department as they don't do computing gcse which is a shame and their email system keeps going down!

It would be nice for her not to have to worry about uni fees I have to say and we could maybe set up a sponsorship thing so others wouldn't have to worry either.

DS's school fees are already in the six figures (because it's a specialist ASD school, and funded by the local authority through his statement). He's made amazing progress there and absolutely loves it so wouldn't consider moving him anywhere.

I'd probably offer a private donation though so they could add facilities of their choice, maybe an indoor pool or climbing wall.

I would move to a nicer catchment area, but stick with state school as I think it would be easier for me. Unfortunately, the £100 million won't sort out a lot of the behavioural problems and get rid of the headteacher at their school, so we would probably give some but leave.

"You're" not Talking Hartlepool are you ...

In the United kingdom, There are according to the Times Newspaper about 1000 People who have £100 Million ( I wonder How Many of them send their kids to the local Comprehensive .

Nibs . There are about 40 Billionaires In the United Kingdom , so the Prep Schools you talk about must be the "Richest Schools in the World" filled with Russians .

According to Barclays Wealth Report 2011 there are 619000 Millionaires in the United Kingdom and about 90000 of them are worth £5 Million. you are talking about 1% and 0.15% of the Population

. A family with only a couple of Million in everywhere outside Central London and pockets of wealth is extremely rare and probably among the Wealthiest in the town.

In many Northern towns They could be The Wealthiest family in the town.

motown
Get real,
DH was at a school recently where half the kids are the children of uber rich forriners
they were REALLY worried about sanctions re Crimea affecting their cashflow and parents being able to collect the kids

there are lots and lots of millionaires and multi millionaires - that Barclays report is as reliable as Mumsnet, as is the Times