Sevenoaks School or Twggs

[NoeB]

Hi, my daughter missed the TGS cut-off by 1 point. We have been offered TWGGS as a second option, as well as a scholarship at Sevenoaks School. We need to decide about Sevenoaks School before the second round of school offers.
Is Sevenoaks worth the money compared to these two grammar schools? Could anyone advise on the chances of getting an offer from TGS? If we don't receive an offer from TGS and decline the Sevenoaks scholarship, would TWGGS be as good as TGS, or should we accept the Sevenoaks offer over the possibility of TGS? Another option we are considering is trying to enroll in Sevenoaks at Year 9 instead 😐

What would you do? Any experience or insight on this will be really appreciated!

Apologies, maybe this advice is too late but my15yrs dd, having spent a day Sevenoaks school returned disappointed; staff hadn't answered her questions on Maths, Further Maths at the level she'd asked. Also when another teacher prompted 'So, your mum's a dr. & your dad's a surgeon .." and my d. quitely replied 'I have no interest in studying medicine, I'm hoping and planning to study the Cambridge Maths Tripos" - both teachers looked taken aback as if knowing your intellectual direction at 15 is odd. I explained to her things might be a little different here since we/she moved recently from SPGS to this area.
I wouldn't recommend paying for a private school where the staff aren't super-excellent/confident in every area of the A-level curriculum. - Pleasant, nice people, just not in our experience, the right fit.

Had a far superior experience at TOGS, which she now attends.

TWGGs is a very good school. I’d be tempted to accept the place. If school fees are fairly doable for you, why not pay each term’s fees into a high interest account for dd? Over 7 years, that would give her a great deposit for her first property. Win-win.

Hi @newtonsaville, thank you for your advise. Yes, unfortunately we had the same impression! In the end, we declined SS and accepted a place at TGS 😊

hi, DD is currently in Year 5 and we’re starting to plan ahead. Our target is TGS but we’re also looking at Sevenoaks School and Walthamstow Hall as independent routes. If anyone has experience or insight with any of these schools, I’d love your thoughts.

Also any knowledge about Sevenoaks’ IB programmes, and how the government funding change from 2027 might affect things going forward (heard TGs are moving to A levels) in terms of uni applications would be gratefully received. thanks so much.

Bump in case anyone is still awake?

@OrangeandGold1, Sevenoaks is a private school so not impacted by the DfE decision to withdraw funding in state schools for IB, but the head of Sevenoaks part of the movement to reverse the cuts as it’s not in anyone’s interest to restrict a qualification to only those who can afford to pay.