We are keen to give our DS all the benefits of a private education, but in all honesty he is not an academic superstar. Currently in Year 4, he is very sporty but reports from his current Prep still have him as "Working towards age related expectations" in all three of the key subjects - English, Maths and Science. "Exceeding age related expectations" in Games. 🏉🏑🎾🏊🙄
Prep will help him in preparing for Common Entrance, but I don't know if we really want to put him through the pressure of conditional offers that are reliant on achieving a specific mark. Assuming his sportiness continues I think that will make him attractive to schools, but I guess he would still have to achieve the required CE mark to get into a good school.
With that in mind, I wondered if anybody could help us identify good non-selective schools in the South/South West (i.e. schools that may use CE for setting, but not for entrance). I know that King's Bruton and Taunton are both specifically non-selective. Are there any others that we should keep in mind in case his academics do not improve? Alternatively, are there any good schools people know of that allow you to bypass the process by sneaking them into Prep with an automatic pass to senior school? I know a couple of schools that do this, though they would not be top of our list.
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
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