Woodcote House vs Claremont Fan court

Sofid · 2025-02-14T12:50:28+00:00

Hi everyone, we are between Woodcote House and Claremont Fan Court.. any thoughts either way would be highly appreciated. Thanks

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Emjem73 · 14/02/2025 15:47

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tennissquare · 14/02/2025 16:14

@Sofid , I live near CFC, I don't think you will many people who know both schools. What year groups are you looking for and do you have an offer from CFC? It's a good solid middle of the road day school and the school bus routes show you where the pupils live as it isn't near public transport apart from a few public bus routes. Not all pupils stay for 6th form if that is important.

tennissquare · 14/02/2025 16:38

@Sofid , I saw you post in the primary section, if you are looking for a prep school place do you want your ds to move school as CFC is a all through school so he won't be prepared to take an exam and move to another school etc age 11 or 13, he will stay until 16 or 18.

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Sofid · 14/02/2025 17:12

tennissquare · 14/02/2025 16:38

@Sofid , I saw you post in the primary section, if you are looking for a prep school place do you want your ds to move school as CFC is a all through school so he won't be prepared to take an exam and move to another school etc age 11 or 13, he will stay until 16 or 18.

Thank you so much for that.

It would be for Year 3 and no, we do not have a space yet but wanted to start knowing more about them.

We are happy for him to either stay or change school after 12 but our main thing is for him to get challenged and also for him to have good sport background as he loves playing sports.

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tennissquare · 14/02/2025 17:55

@Sofid , wait until you get a place because it's quite competitive. Parents like to move a dc to an all through school in year 3 to avoid the 11 plus process. It's a good school but if you want him to move at 11 to a different senior school you will need to do the heavy lifting (tutoring, selecting schools to sit exams for) etc yourself. There are many many preps in the Esher area and they are not all full. Have you considered Shrewsbury House, Feltonfleet or Milbourne Lodge?

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Sofid · 14/02/2025 18:18

tennissquare · 14/02/2025 17:55

@Sofid , wait until you get a place because it's quite competitive. Parents like to move a dc to an all through school in year 3 to avoid the 11 plus process. It's a good school but if you want him to move at 11 to a different senior school you will need to do the heavy lifting (tutoring, selecting schools to sit exams for) etc yourself. There are many many preps in the Esher area and they are not all full. Have you considered Shrewsbury House, Feltonfleet or Milbourne Lodge?

Hi, yes I think is the best thing to do and see what happens.

We are based in London really, but we don't mind for him to take the bus but I think we will see how everything goes along but thank you so much for that and a have a great half term.

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CurlyTop1980 · 15/02/2025 14:10

Claremont. Amazing school.

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Sofid · 15/02/2025 14:38

CurlyTop1980 · 15/02/2025 14:10

Claremont. Amazing school.

Hi, thanks for that! question... will they push them academically? given that they do not have to really sit for any big exams will they still push them? Also, i noticed not much push on sports below senior.

Thanks again,

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Heroto4 · 15/02/2025 17:52

I know Claremont well. For a few years they were accepting all kids and had a load of SEND children which seems to be fine. But I think it was a struggle as its not a send school. But I belive more recently they have been looking at academics at admissions. The grounds are beautiful!

In terms of private schools in the area, it's pretty congested in surrey. Something like 1/3 of all schol age kids in surrey attend a private school. Ibstock is also good.

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Sofid · 15/02/2025 19:03

Heroto4 · 15/02/2025 17:52

I know Claremont well. For a few years they were accepting all kids and had a load of SEND children which seems to be fine. But I think it was a struggle as its not a send school. But I belive more recently they have been looking at academics at admissions. The grounds are beautiful!

In terms of private schools in the area, it's pretty congested in surrey. Something like 1/3 of all schol age kids in surrey attend a private school. Ibstock is also good.

thank you so much for that 🙂

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snowgirl1 · 22/03/2025 19:26

DD started at Claremont in Y7 (so I can't comment on the Prep school) but have been impressed with the Senior School.

Don't know about sport in the Prep school, but I'd say there are a lot of opportunities to participate in sport at the Senior Schoo.

whysomanyleafblowers · 01/04/2025 22:48

Claremont - the amount of mud in that place I couldn’t deal with that school 🤣 a mum from Claremont totally fell over there whilst I was watching my daughter place a match about a month ago. It was slide city 🤣 worse than a pig farm down by the netball courts and no paths

If you want pushy place for academics then I wouldn’t pick either of those 2 schools.

Woodcote have a tiny year group only one team generally so your always going to get the children aren’t as great at sport which can be frustrating if your amazing at sport / county level

Bromeliads · 19/05/2025 18:46

Woodcote House have announced they're closing at the end of the year, so not them 😕