Independent/public secondary schools for DS

[ameliacampbell]

Hello!
At the moment my 6 yo DS is at Wetherby Prep, and 3 yo DD will be starting at Pembridge Hall in Sep. We are starting to think about secondary schools for DS, and whether we should choose boarding or day, and co-ed or single sex. My DH went to Eton, and I went to St Paul's Girls, so we have both experiences! We need to decide whether to go for the 11+ or 13+. DS is evidently v academic, and has been playing the piano for 2 years. He adores sports, especially rugby and football
At the moment, we have looked at:
Latymer Upper
St Paul's
Eton
Winchester
Westminster
City of London
UCS
Charterhouse
Harrow
One of my best friend's sons goes to Latymer, and it seems to be doing very well - it came 20th in this year's league tables and is the top co-ed school in the country, but obviously Westminster etc is 1st! Of course it isn't all about academics, so we'd love to know about these school's facilities and opportunities for sports, drama, music etc, and their atmospheres - DS seems to be rather shy when with friends and peers etc.
Thanks so much, and happy new year!

By the way I have a feeling the OP is doing this as a joke, oh well!

OP - really strange to post randomly about something like this? you seem to have 2 distinct scenarios that you ask questions about - did you not think someone would notice?

The OP having been rumbled seems conspicuous by her absence.

OP may be real or fake (I don?t particularly care) but it?s good for genuine posters to post continuously as there would be hundreds, if not thousands, of genuine and interested (silent) readers to read the postings and learn from them. After all, this is what MumsNet - Education - is all about.

There is a magazine called Private School Magazine that you might want to google..... lots of info in there... I just wrote a feature for them about nutrition and stress! Beginning to see why they asked me. Good luck with your research.