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Box Hill School

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Lunklet · 17/02/2011 12:45

Anyone got an opinion/experience of Box Hill?Been offered a place and having a debate over whether to accept. State school likely to be Glyn in Epsom at best.

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NikkiSurrey · 17/01/2014 12:29

Can anyone tell me why Mark Eagers left? Where has he gone?

Bellie · 17/01/2014 16:44

He left suddenly over the christmas period.

I do know the reason, but it would be unfair on him or his family to share it without him being able to respond.

NikkiSurrey · 17/01/2014 16:52

Thanks Bellie - that makes sense.

justmeinlove · 19/01/2014 14:48

I'll try and remember to ask tomorrow!

justmeinlove · 20/01/2014 14:28

Just remembered to ask - apparently there was no drop in numbers, instead there was actually a significant increase :) Which is excellent :)

JMJA · 20/01/2014 15:15

Wow! That's brilliant :) thanks for asking. I have a good feeling about the school :)

Elisa62 · 21/01/2014 10:32

I used to teach there although it was a long time back.

Feel free to PM me if that helps.

justmeinlove · 22/01/2014 20:18

:) Glad to help

Luckypup22 · 12/02/2014 12:10

It's in the national press today why the head teacher left suddenly if you didn't already know.
www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10632455/Married-public-school-headteacher-quits-over-relationship-with-his-deputys-wife.html

anotherparent · 20/02/2014 02:54

Well done Lukypup22, I am sure the information you gave will be welcomed by a few readers. The papers too think so. I, however think it is sensationalist propaganda.

As per for us, our child is going to BoxHill because it is the only school around that seems to offer attention to the well being and individuality of every child. It ethos promotes the very things that make our future adults aware that there is a world out there and that we are all responsible for it (See IDEAS in the web page) and believes that pastoral care is key to produce confident individuals.

We, as parents, share these opinions and strongly believe that education is far more than getting the highest possible number of A*'s and the best possible universities. We believe that a happy child in school, with the right guidance at home will give his/her 120%, without the trade off anxiety-health problems that many of them will incur in so called academic ( or wanting to be) schools with traditional values, where only the highest achievers are celebrated. The rest will be left to be the mediocre ones, pushed in the wrong ways for success and just with the 'having been in so&so school' as their mayor achievement.

Not propaganda, not member of the staff. Just anotherparent.

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 22/02/2014 08:53

Yes but...most people manage to praise the school they choose without such wholesale condemnation of other schools, parents who choose them and the children who result from them. Your criticisms say more about you than about others.

Luckypup22 · 22/02/2014 13:19

I didn't share for propaganda, just wanted people to be aware and have the information, no one wants scandal about

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 22/02/2014 18:29

I didn't suggest you were writing for propaganda. What I did suggest was that it is unusual to see someone justifying their school choice with such wholesale condemnation of other schools, and if that were a typical attitude from a school or its parents I would personally find it turning me off the school being praised in such a negative way.

So for me at least if this was propaganda it had the opposite effect desired.

henrypage · 21/06/2014 15:06

What I can tell you, for what it is worth, is that Box Hill School is a very nurturing and caring environment that achieves results. It is a small school with just over 400 pupils. The parents (I am one and my son is a full boarder) get on well and the school is highly accessible to you if you get involved in supporting your child and, perhaps, the school association. My son has flourished there and I am extremely pleased with the school for that because his previous school had somehow left him behind a year - probably because of class-size and other variables.

The numbers at the school have increased, despite the recent news, because the school is successful at what it does: exploiting each child individually and encouraging them to succeed in their own way. My son is happy, confident and loves his school and the academic successes he now enjoys. For the first time in his life, my son is truly happy at school.

bigel · 11/06/2018 11:50

PLEASE AVOID BOX HILL. It is absolutely awful. The new head is terrible, ineffective, full of marketing speak and rubbish. They have failed to deal with serious bullying over five years with the result that one child has tried to kill himself. The teaching is jaw droppingly poor in some subjects. We have had four bad teachers over two years leading up to GCSE chemistry. Even though its made its name for SEN, my son routinely doesnt get offered laptop use although he is entitled to it and my worst nightmare just came true when he didnt get a laptop in his GCSE this year. DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL

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