I don't think it's anything like this much. Thank goodness we are still benefiting from the attitudes of the last head teacher who wanted a truly inclusive community school. Thanks to her, the school's results and popularity have rocketed and it is a VERY mc intake now but it didn't used to be. I hope things don't change too much.
No uniform for a start - well, not quite true - you need to buy one item of school wear for school trips, say £10. Cake sales you can get away with 20p a week, actually i never remember to give ds any money for this but let's say, that's £7.80 a year. Recorder lessons, football club, chess club, netball club and a few others are free, but cost of a recorder would be £5 (actually they will always lend you one but let's assume you wouldn't know that). There is likely to be at least one other event requiring a donation per term, say £3 a year. There is usually one big school trip a year, the PTA help with costs; it might be £15, but this year is the big one, the residential which will cost £250. Lunches, yes, they are expensive so there is a big packed lunch cohort, but we pay - about £400 a year. Total is £670 this year due to the residential, normally more like £450 and not very much of that is due to the school really.
However, it has to be said that we have a good income nearly at the national average, so it is not too hard for us to provide cakes, music, clothes and other trips out for ds, so we spend a lot more than this on his entertainment and enrichment outside school. If I couldn't do this, I would want to take advantage of the cheaper rates and support that school provide, and would end up wanting to spend more on school things.