Caversham Preparatory School

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Does anyone send their children there? Is it considered to be good/ worth the money? How hard is it to get your child in?

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how come?

It's not worth the money, the school has a lack of resource. They use NQ staff to keep cost down. Obviously if you were paying you would expect experience as well as everything else. The teaching style is designed to obtain good results in the tests which arguably for very young children is damaging, along with the constant pressure. Young children need nuturing, however unfortunately that doesn't happen and any child who is falling behind begins to feel like an outcast. Children learn at such different rates particularly when younger. They are so young an delicate they have no realisation of what is happening or why. Most council run schools in Caversham will be much better than this school be they graded 1 2 3 or 4, an inspection being really required to know. I was pleasantly shocked after having so many problems in this school to see and experience all the ideals I had been reading about, so well executed in a Caversham council run school that were distinctly lacking in this school. If I would have to summarise the school it would be unfounded elitism an extremely damaging educational style.