Seeking private secondary recommendations- commutable from Brighton & Hove

[SwabianMrs]

Looking for your opinions of private schools for year 7 starting Sept 2023. For a girl, but I went to a girl’s school and it was utterly horrible. I’ve spoken to a 2 teenage girls - one at Burgess Hill and the other at Brighton Girls. They both described all the things I hated about my school (the cult of fitting in). My girl is pretty typical and middle of the road academically. No SEN. Thank you!

Have you thought about Roedean? I know it's all-girls but it seems to have a really lovely culture there and the selection process doesn't seem to be quite as acadmic as some of the other schools I'm looking at you Brighton College

My dd has just been offered a place for Sept 2022 and the admissions process was very gentle.

I’m so scarred from my own experience that I’m not prepared to consider a girls school. BC feels too competitive for my girl and Shoreham too small. I’m veering towards LOGS or Hurst.

Is Bedes too far? It has a very different feeling to some of the other schools you mention

For the person who finds this post via Google ….. Shoreham College while possibly lovely at Primary is way too small at secondary. BC doesn’t feel nuturing for the academically average. Ardingly & Bedes too far from B&H so not going to view. Worth is too catholic (did I mention it was a catholic girls school I went to). Hurst is looking very positive. Need to go to see Lancing and LOGS.

Lancing college, and honestly I would recommend you go visit Roedean. It's a visit, not a commitment

Worth a visit to any you're thinking of. A girls school hadn't been our plan either but Burgess Hill felt really welcoming from the start - and big enough to work but small enough to really know the girls (which for ours has meant encouragement and loads of support to try activities not considered before but that have really suited her and been great confidence boosters).