Yarm School

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Looking for advice, due to possible work relocation, we might need to move from SE to NE. What are the experiences of Yarm School (Year 8 and 6 - at the moment), and both are excelling in school and sports.

Cousin had his two there, both did very well academically and they are both very active too.

You probably won't get many replies as MN heavily London + SE centric.
Whereabouts in NE and which sports?

Thank you...! Mainly rugby and cricket... and my oldest is leaning towards classics

We send DD to Barney school and they have several notable England Rugby + Cricket alumni. Strong links with Newcastle Falcons and a % seem to get signed each year.
Academics not as strong as Yarm but she loves it. They offer Classics + Latin through to 6th form.

Yarm is academically selective and drives hard. Barney isn't, has a strong sporting reputation and more of an all-round education.

Excellent Classics results at Barney.

Yep very strong department

Thank you for the information - very very helpful!!

Yarm was in top 200 indy schools a couple of years ago (around 195 ish if I remember correctly) but it really depends what you want and where you will be living.
Some decent indy schools around York + Newcastle (RGS etc) too. NE is a big area.
I would choose a location and then go and visit the schools, each one is very different.

Just for info I have a relative who lives in Darlington and has 1 dc at Barney and 1 dc at Yarm, they both travel by school bus, I think this is the only place you can live and access both schools. Apart from academics the big difference is much longer school day and Saturday school at Barney.

Thank you - very helpful!

Have a look at Red House, similar area to Yarm but much more laid back. I had friends attending one and I attended the other. Yarm had much more of a drug issue (could be due to it having a college attached). RH was less sporty though

thank you all for your feedback! they re very helpful!!

repatexpat Good morning, I know its been a while but which school did you end going with? We might be relocating to a similar area and are also looking at Yarm. Thanks

Not sure if this is still relevant, this thread came up today when I was searching for a page on the school site. Our kids are at Yarm, one has only been in seniors and one has done a few years of prep too after we saw how well seniors was working for our older child. We absolutely love the school and are very happy with our decision (because it was a hard decision with 3 indies in the area to choose from). Also never seen a hide nor hair of a drug problem either while our kids are there the last 4 years or when my sibling was there until 2009. Yarm do seem to have a strict approach to young people who don't follow the rules, if you're a disruption to others, bully or break school rules in any serious way it's one strike and then you're out, a few of my daughter's year have been asked to leave (with the alternative being you'll be told to leave and no one wants that on the school reference!) but this does make it a really calm and focussed environment, good for a child who is inquisitive and wants to learn because there are so many clubs and societies as well as many teachers being happy to welcome children into their department at lunchtime to discuss a topic that has them excited or support them with independant learning, not the right fit for families with money who hope the school will force a misbehaving child into line. It is performing very well nationally in hockey in particular at the moment and yes they are sporty in general, but neither of mine are into team sports and that's never been an issue for the school, they have lots of time for outdoor ed (I love that they can do this or rowing instead of more traditional sports for all games lessons from year 3), academics, music etc for those children who are not driven by team sports.