Independent school deposit, advise need ASAP!

[doubletiger]

Hi

I need advice on the independent school deposit and fee please.

My DD was offered a place at an independent school, for study A levels from Sept 2019, the offer was on a conditional that DD need to get 7 (equivalent A on the old grading system) on her 5 best GCSE subjects. The offer was in December 2018 and I paid £1000 deposit to secure the place. On GCSE result day (yesterday), we found out my DD did not get 5 subjects of 7, DD only got 3 subjects of 7. We emailed the school; the school came back said they would still offer my DD the place. But we feel the school is no longer suitable for my daughter, as we feel DD academic does not meet the school minimum requirement, and DD will be struggling at this independent school if she is studying in this school. We prefer to send DD to local state school now.

I am now worrying about the deposit and fee. I have not contacted the school yet. my two questions are:

(1) Prior we paid the place deposit, the school told me " if your daughter did not meet her GCSE requirements and we ended up retracing our offer of a place, we would reimburse the £1000 place deposit to you.". but in this case, my DD did not meet GCSE requirements, but the school still offer the place, do I have any right to get this £1000 place deposit back?

(2) I heard someone was forced to pay a whole term fee if the place offer did not take up. Does it apply to our case?

please advise ASAP!

thank you

Dd1's just done her A-levels. She has two friends, one got a mid level 8 GCSE and has just got an A single maths and B further maths. Another got a good 9 at GCSE and has just got a C in single maths and dropped further.*

I’m in awe of your ability to remember your DD’s friends’ exams results from two years ago

@familyofaliens
They were discussing it in front of me earlier in the day, can't tell you anyone else's results.
I can't even remember exactly what dd got in her GCSEs without looking it up.

Hi , I am thinking of moving back to UK with twins age 14 who have been on French Education since the age of 3. They are to do their first Major exam next year the Brevit, buy after reading your posts I realise if they are not back in UK now next year will probably be too late for GCSE.Has anyone had a similar experience?and how did they fare?

Sorry posted that by mistake

Are they bright? Any special needs?

Are you proposing they come back for just year 11?

If very bright they may still do very well. If not it’s a bad idea. See if you can get them into year 10 instead.

Further maths A level with an eight is not realistic

I know plenty of kids that did further maths with an 8. One only had a 7. Not sure what they got in their As but they didnt drop it and got into good unis so 🤷‍♀️

I thought number gcse started in 2017 and so this is the first year for a level results. Good to know that lots have done so well

Yes, my daughter's year in a big comp, large maths and further maths contingent. I have no idea whether they ended up with As or A*s, but lots off to Warwick, Bristol plus lots of non rg unis to do engineering or maths. Maybe they all got Es in further maths who knows!