Independent schools GCSEs and Alevels summer terms fees

[Threeschools]

Is it true that despite the DCs being on study leave most of the summer term for their exams, parents have to pay full term fees when the children actually spend 2 weeks in school all together? Plus nearly a grand worth of external exams fees? Are the exams fees free in the state system? This is still a few years away for us but I was quite shocked when I heard this.

Does the school not offer revision courses during the summer term? DC school - which does charge for exam entries and asks for full fees for summer term - does not encourage students to go home for study leave, though they can do so if they wish after consultation with house masters. But teachers run revision groups and are available to offer extra help up to the day of the exam. School also runs a post exam programme.

user1491148352 - our school offers none of this. School as normal until 5th May, then that's your lot until one half day end of June for returning books.

Many independent boarding schools met their yr 11's and yr 13's go home on study leave once they've finished all their public exams with the option of coming back for school events. For some ye 11s this can be as early as the end of May beginning of June. Parents are usually billed for the whole term I've heard quite a few complaints about this over the years.
DS2's school didn't in yr 11 lessons carried on as normal with prep all through their IGCSE's and right up until the last day of term irrespective of whether you were continuing the subject or not into yr 12! In yr 13 the boys could go home once they'd finished their Pre Us but had to be back for the last few days/weekend but this was only the last two weeks of the term.
I assumed all independent schools charged for public exams.

For a boarding school I would be livid.

When I worked in a boarding school we would teach normal lessons until that particular exam was done and then they would either come to our classroom for their scheduled lessons to do revision for other subjects or revise in their boarding houses. Once all their exams were over They could then go home for a couple of days before coming back for end of term concerts/speech day etc. We did finish term at the end of June though so there wasn't much time left over really.

I teach at a private school and parents of Year 11 and Year 13 students pay full fees for the summer term as well as full fares for the school buses and the full cost of lunches (lunches are compulsory). They pay the exam. entry fees, which I have always believed to be rare as I understand most other schools do not charge for these unless the exam. is a re-sit, plus an admin. and invigilation fee to the school for each exam.

As a result,any parents send their children to school every day for lunch and some send them every day as they've paid for the bus so think at least their child can use the school's WiFi and other utilities all day.

The invigilation fee is the biggest scam as teachers are used for invigilation!

*many, not any

We have some boarders too. They can stay in the boarding house during study leave. We also finish at the end of June so there is no time to return to lessons/school at the end of term after the public exams.

The cost of exams will be the whatever the board charges for the session they are taken, so it's not possible to say in T&Cs exactly what the charge will be (they might change exam board, or the exams themselves might change).

That should be discoverable from google, and I think it's around £25-£95, depending on board and subject and whether single or doubt award; with most around the £35-£50 mark.

For boarding school, you would have had over 2 years knowledge of what the normal procedure is (more if school starts to at 11+) and considerable notice of the exact dates.

OP, why would you be livid for a boarding school?

If they finish at the end of June they have a short term anyway.
Mine isn't at exam age yet but when she goes back on Monday if we take off half term she will only be at school for a nine week term.
As I believe that the school add up all the weeks and divide the cost into 3 equal payments, I can't see the problem.

Y11 start study leave 12th May and Y13 Fri 26th May.
They come back for exams and stay until the end of June.
This also includes a half term so they'd be off anyway.