Does anyone turn down an offer at GHS in favour of Tormead? DD has offers at both to start in year R next year. Finding it hard to choose, especially given that everyone else seems to treat Tormead as the "fallback option".
GHS is Prep School of the Year/Decade, girls in the senior school obviously achieve stellar exam results. The kids I spoke to in junior school seemed very happy and loved their school. I didn't really get that much of a feel for the school culture though.
Tormead seemed a lovely school, the head teacher of the prep is fairly new but I loved her passion for the place and the girls and felt I got much more of a feel for the school. It felt a bit more nurturing than GHS. I have read on MN that many girls leave Tormead for sixth form, which is a bit off-putting but there's a newish head in senior school so that may well change by the time DD gets there.
They're both all-through schools so the decision is one likely to be for the whole of DD's education. People seem to just assume that if you get an offer from GHS you go there, but I am torn.