SPGS Question

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Gzornpla · 27/01/2020 15:06

Hi all,

Does anyone know if SPGS offers academic scholarships (not bursaries)? There doesn't seem to be any mention of them on the website but I am sure I have heard of them being given.

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HighRopes · 27/01/2020 15:12

No, they used to (years ago) but at Y7 entry now they don’t exist, though they do have music scholarships (spgs.org/admissions/entry-at-11/scholarships/). From what I’ve heard, the school prefers to put money into bursaries.

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Gzornpla · 27/01/2020 15:19

Thanks, @HighRopes! I thought they had something called a High Mistress' Award that was the equivalent of an academic scholarship but I must have got the wrong end of the stick (not for the first time!).

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HighRopes · 27/01/2020 15:23

If they have a High Mistress’ Award, I haven’t heard of it. I do know they used to do scholarships (years ago) so possibly that’s what they were called back then. Are you applying this year?

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Gzornpla · 27/01/2020 15:24

Not this year (DD is Year 5) - we are thinking about it for next year though.

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ForeverbyJudyBlume · 27/01/2020 16:32

Why would you want a scholarship and not a bursary? Simply for the prestige? If you can afford the fees they will make you cough up.

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Gzornpla · 28/01/2020 10:16

It's not about "wanting" either. I'm just researching potential future schools, noted that there wasn't anything on the website about them when I thought I'd been told that they offered them and was just curious.

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pasternak · 28/01/2020 12:17

There is a high mistress award based on 11+ exam results but is honourary as opposed to monetary. Music scholarships have some money off ~£1600pa for full and ~£800 for exhibitions, the total of the two pa is around 4-5.

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Gzornpla · 29/01/2020 11:12

Thanks @pasternak - good to know.

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