Anyone know any schools offering a Y7 (or Y9) Maths scholarship??

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... apart from Wells Cathedral school, which we are pretty well informed about. I think Dulwich College have one?? Anywhere in the country - just need to know how (un)common they are.

Specifically an academic Maths scholarship.

Will post on G&T board as well -thanks

Very common but most take place in the next 2-3 weeks and schools will have expected you to have already made an application to the school - then scholarship application. A quick online search should give you more information. I don't know many schools that do specific subject scholarships at Year 7 - mainly general papers which will include maths.

Sorry scholarships common, but maths less so.

It's OK - my son is currently Y5, so we're planning ahead.

He is gifted in Maths (his primary is having to get special materials in for him already) but not so outstanding in English.

so it's specifically Maths we are curious about

Thanks

Dulwich don't mention it on their website. Or has an admissions person told you that someone excelling in one subject can still secure an academic scholarship there?

No - the Dulwich thing was just anecdotal, so who knows? Wells did intimate that their scheme was unique - I'm just wondering if that is really the case

DS2 has a maths scholarship at Trinity, Croydon. However, we asked for it - it wasn't offered.

Lots of independent schools offer academic scholarships if a child is outstanding in any core subject. Unfortunately most schools now only offer tokenistic scholarships (usually between 5% and 25%). 100% scholarships are very rare and there is very fierce competition for any that exist so they usually go to children who are exceptional in a combination of maths, English and reasoning.

Planning a little further ahead, you might be interested in something like this for year 12: www.kcl.ac.uk/mathsschool/Home.aspx

Thank you - the Kings College thing is very interesting - hadn't heard of that one