silly question fee paying 6th form

[MrsBrendaDyson]

having no experience of fee paying schools, excuse my stupid question. if a school charges per term, how many terms are there?

thanks

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i am looking for somewhere for the academic year 09/10

is it too late?

thanks

Not necessarily, though it may be too late for any scholarship entry. Any offer they make will probably be conditional on GCSEs.

However you need to be careful about applying for places. Private schools usually ask for a terms notice in advance. So if you say apply for 2 schools now (one as a back-up in case you don't get the right grades), then in September you will be paying 2 sets of school fees if in fact you do get accepted at both. So when you apply make sure that you investigate this aspect.

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You can apply for sixth form any time up until the start of term.

What you need to know is their policy on subject choices (and the deadline for getting the choices in, and the GCSE grade requirements. Does the class depend on a certain number of students signing up for it? Are the AS levels guaranteed to continue into A2?

Year 9/10 isn't the Sixth form. It's the GCSE years (in fact 10/11 are GCSE years).

Years 12/13 are AS/A2 years = sixth form.

Or is it different in the Independent sector (apologies if it is).

Bags, I think Mrs BD means starting 6th form in academic year 2009/2010.

Some schools will have closed their 6th form applications. Alot of the London day schools set their own tests, then have interviews, then make offers which are basically whatever grades needed for existing pupils to go up.
Cos GCSE grades tend to be quite high in the independent sector they cannot go by these alone.

That aside it is always worth a phonecall to school/college to see if there are places.

Oops...sorry.