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MYTH DEBUNKING Barnaby Lenon, Chair of Independent Schools Council IT’S A WIN-WIN Nick Gallop, of Stamford School, on how bursaries benefit pupils and school alike GET BY ON TALENT UWC Atlantic’s principal explains how to get bursary assistance TALENT SPOTTING Prep schools are paving the way for young scholars, says Dragon School’s Mark Edwards MORAL SUPPORT St Mary’s Shaftesbury head, Maria Young, on the importance of looking after scholars PAYING FORWARD Oundle’s director of development makes the case for donating to your alma mater OPENING DOORS KCS Wimbledon welcomes 11-year-olds SPREADING THE WORD Godolphin and Latymer’s head overcomes means-testing prejudice WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS Filmon Teckle, of ACS Hillingdon, is on his way to the USA STAND-UP CITIZEN Harrison Burns worked for the National Citizens Service

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THE SYSTEM EXPLAINED Eleanor Doughty explains how scholarships and bursaries work A GENEROUS LEGACY Sally Jones on growing bursary funds CREATIVE REWARD Bursaries and scholarships for talented pupils OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE Victoria Lambert on funding gapyear bursaries.

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C O N T R I B U TO R S BARNABY LENON

The former head of Harrow is chair of the Independent Schools Council, has been governor of 22 schools and is a trustee of the King Edward’s Birmingham Foundation. Barnaby is the co-founder of the London Academy of Excellence, Dean of Education at Buckingham University and part of the Ofqual standards advisory group. He wrote Much Promise: successful schools in England and Other People’s Children: what happens to the academically least successful 50%?

ELEANOR DOUGHTY

Eleanor is a freelance feature writer and editor, living and working in London. The former education journalist for the Daily Telegraph, now writing for the national press, these days usually about landowners and the countryside. When not writing she is hot-footing it to the country, or riding out with the Household Cavalry in Hyde Park.

MATTHEW DEAR Director of Development at Oundle School, Matthew has worked in the charitable sector for 20 years, mostly in external relations and marketing, but also administering Charitable Trusts and developing social housing. He holds a degree in Theology from Oxford and a Graduate Diploma in Law from De Montfort University.

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C O N T R I B U TO R S MARIA YOUNG

A graduate of the Universities of Durham and Cambridge, Maria Young joined St Mary’s Shaftesbury as Headmistress in September 2018. She was previously the Deputy Head Pastoral and Head of Boarding at Worth School.

She has had a distinguished career as a teacher of music in a variety of schools including Bryanston and Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School in Kent.

NICK GALLOP

The Headmaster of Stamford School has a long history of working in the independent and state sector. He was a boarding Housemaster and Head of Department at Wellington College, as well as a state school governor.

He is editor of Politics Review and writes for the Times Educational Supplement and Hodder Education’s UK Politics Annual Update.

EMMA LOVE

A London-based freelance journalist specialising in travel, design and lifestyle subjects, Emma is a regular contributor to School House and Country & Town House, she also writes for publications such as House & Garden, the Observer, The Telegraph, Elle Decoration UK and Condé Nast Traveller. For this issue, she looks into the world of creative bursaries and scholarships.

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Many types of scholarships and bursaries are available

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s the debate about whether to add 20 per cent VAT to school fees continues – in what are already uncertain times – independent schools are more aware than ever of their need to be seen to be fulfilling the obligations of holding charitable status. As says Barnaby Lenon, Chair of the Independent Schools Council (ISC) in our leader column (p15). This responsibility to try and enable access to an education that could not be afforded without scholarships and, more pertinently, bursaries, by many pupils, is not however just a cynical step, as some say, to avoid paying taxes. It is part of a centuries-old ethos put in place, in some cases, over half a millennia ago says Matthew Dear, Director of Development at Oundle (p31). Schools like Oundle, Eton, Winchester and Harrow were set up with the specific intention of educating poor boys and have been doing so for centuries since.

Somewhat surprisingly, one of the biggest challenges faced by schools is the finding of bursary pupils, explains Dr Frances Ramsay, head of Godolphin and Latymer school, which uses the media to overcome prejudices surrounding ‘means-testing’ (p38).

To this end, Eleanor Doughty explains the process of obtaining one of the wide range of bursaries

16 available (p20). Some bursaries are specific and others highly specialised. Our Top Scholar, Teri Rithamer (p12), won hers because she lives in a specific area of Hull; others are awarded for individual talents like dance and music, as explained by Emma Love (p40).

Schools want parents to come forward and ask, says Peter Howe, Principal of UWC Atlantic, who describes how it’s done at his school (p24). Andrew Halls of King’s College School, Wimbledon has lowered the entry level age to enable an easier move from state to independent school (p36).

The bottom line is that there is a great deal of support and encouragement for pupils and their parents looking to secure a bursary, whether it’s from prep schools, like the Dragon in Oxford (p26), or from teaching staff within the school, as described by Filmon Teckle of ACS Hillingdon (p48), who believes that it was his school tutor who opened his eyes to the potential out there and is now looking forward to completing his education on a scholarship in America.

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TERI RITHAMER, ST PETER’S SCHOOL, YORK

Teri Rithamer, 18, is on a full bursary at St Peter’s School, York, a co-educational boarding and day school with 650 pupils and two junior schools on the banks of the River Ouse. Founded by St Paulinius of York in AD 627, it is the third oldest school in the UK and the fourth oldest in the world.

Teri is one of four pupils, one a year who has come to the school on the Archbishop Sentamu scholarship set up by St Peter’s to provide opportunities for pupils from deprived areas of Hull. It offers a full bursary which includes school fees, as well as uniform and school trips. St Peter’s also offers scholarships to pupils from London and other parts of the country for both day and boarding places.

Teri (whose father is a self-employed gardener having previously served for 20 years in the Danish army and whose mother is a nurse at Hull Royal Hospital) has recently returned from a ten-day politics exchange programme to Washington. She is a passionate musician, a particularly keen guitarist and is studying A-levels in classical civilisation, history and English Literature, specialising in gothic fiction which, she says ‘is pretty cool’. She hopes to go to Manchester University to study Criminology.

She says that when she first arrived at St Peter’s she had her doubts about whether she had done the right thing; she felt homesick and found moving between the cities of Hull and York challenging but, supported by her housemistress and roommate, as well as her friends from her old school, she settled in within a month. ‘To begin with I thought it was all about academia,’ she says, ‘but then I realised it was so much more about the whole life experience, especially where I have come from. The girls were really friendly; they knew about my scholarship and accepted me as one of their own.’

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LEADER COLUMN | SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES 2019/20

FI RST WO R D

MYTH DEBUNKING

Barnaby Lenon, Chair of the Independent Schools Council, explains the importance of the independent schools sector in maintaining education standards across the UK increasing, both in the sums available and the number f you are part of the education system, you are likely of children benefitting. Last year, ISC schools provided to agree that these are very interesting – albeit over £420m in means-tested fee assistance. challenging – times for the independent schools Independent schools are not immune to funding challenges, sector. Independent schools have had their fair demonstrated by increases to employer contributions under the share of headlines, amidst a factious and uncertain Teachers’ Pension Scheme. In recent weeks, the Labour Party has political landscape. We have regularly engaged in public debate with reiterated its commitment to vocal critics, whether countering Barnaby Lenon imposing VAT on independent activists and pressure groups school fees, as well as considering who want to promote damaging a review of charitable status. This policy proposals taking choice would be hugely damaging over education away from parents, to the country’s education system. or explaining to Labour Party Increasing school fees would members how the significant make independent education contribution independent schools unaffordable for many. More make to communities would pupils would be displaced into be diminished if a VAT-on-fees the state sector, adding further proposal were enacted. Yet through strain to already stretched it all, independent schools still resources. Let’s not forget that continue to deliver the best possible fee-paying parents have already education to their students. paid for state school places Much of the criticism levelled through taxation but choose at independent schools stems not to take these up. The new from an unfortunate lack of campaign, ‘Labour Against understanding. For many, the Private Schools’, is calling for independent sector is synonymous the abolition of all independent with the big, academically selective schools, attacking parents’ rights schools, but these are not typical. to choose the education best suited If our detractors visited an average to their child’s needs – a right school in membership of one of enshrined in the UN Declaration the Independent Schools Council’s of Human Rights. Fundamentally, (ISC) constituent associations, you do not improve education they would see the true picture.

Ironically, increasing the price of school by tearing down excellent schools.

The majority of ISC schools have fees would make independent education As well as causing widespread fewer than 300 pupils, typically and irreversible disruption, just under 190. Less than half unaffordable for many families. As a understand this abolition are academically selective. Many result, more pupils would be displaced we pledge would involve the state schools support pupils from into the state sector, adding further unilaterally seizing private disadvantaged backgrounds with strain to already stretched resources property. The impact on society greatly reduced or free places. of such a dangerous precedent Some work hard to support has wide-ranging implications. children on the edge of care, It is fundamental that more transforming lives through focus is given to the ways independent schools can be a part of the fully-funded boarding school places. Approximately 500 of all solution, through partnerships with state schools, bursaries and independents are specialist schools for children and young scholarships. These schools want to continue their work providing people with special educational needs and disabilities. life-changing opportunities for their pupils. All schools want the best Schools appreciate the sacrifices families make to educate their for their students and, instead of deepening the divide between the children privately, and want to help. The support they can provide depends on their resources, but schools are committed to widening sectors, we should continue working together to focus on improving educational outcomes for all children. n access to families from all backgrounds. Bursary provisions are

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SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES NEWS

Schools building bridges and star pupils soaring

Fair Play Milton Abbey School is working with

Christ’s Hospital, Horsham

Champion Sports Group, to offer an Elite Football Programme with ability-tested scholarships and means-tested bursaries to talented young footballers. Those chosen receive top-level football training and access to the school’s sports courses, combined with a personalised approach to their wider education.

St Dunstan’s College has partnered with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club to create a Player Development Programme which delivers training methods developed within the Club’s Academy for students aged 11 to 18 reach their full potential.

Meanwhile, Saint Felix School, Suffolk,

OPEN DOORS

is launching a new full-time tennis

Reigate Grammar School, Latymer Upper School and Christ’s Hospital have been shortlisted in the prestigious UK Social Mobility Awards to recognise their efforts opening up world-class education opportunities to children from all backgrounds. Reigate Grammar School Headmaster, Shaun Fenton, says that the school is working towards being ‘needsblind’ in admissions, so places are awarded solely on the basis of ability, without applicants’ financial circumstances being taken into account.

An online fashion manufacturing marketplace, Sewport, is offering a budding fashion designer from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background a £2,000 scholarship and free manufacturing of their design, to address the diversity issue within the industry – a sector where 90 per cent of the workforce is white and only 12 per cent of design managers and business owners are from a BAME background.

Lee Austrin to nurture young talent on the road to tennis stardom.

MEDIA MENTORS

Complementing d’Overbroeck’s reputation for preparing students New creative for the world of work, it scholarships at has recently launched d’Overbroeck’s, Oxford two new scholarships in journalism and photography/video/film. Scholars will have access to mentors working in their fields of interest and will be encouraged to submit their work and ideas to the school’s blogs and social media channels, as well as accessing work experience with d’Overbroeck’s partners in journalism and visual media.

SCHOLARSHIPS BREAKING STEREOTYPES

As part of Women in Football’s #WhatIf initiative, the University of Liverpool is offering two full-fee scholarships on its Football Industries MBA exclusively to female applicants. The award includes full fee remission and the opportunity aims to encourage women to take up roles in football, off the pitch.

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A Helping Hand St Swinthun’s School, Winchester, are to provide two places a year for girls dependent on care with The Bramstom Bursary Foundation, covering the cost of the school fees, plus ten per cent. Educational charities, The Royal National Spring Board Foundation and Buttle UK are working with St Swinthuns to help identify pupils most in need of this life changing bursary.

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NEWS | SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES 2019/20

LEADING TALENT

SING FOR A SCHOLARSHIP King’s Ely has educated the boy choristers of Ely Cathedral for over 1,000 years. Expanding its offering, it is now the only cathedral in the UK to offer this kind of intensive chorister experience to girls from year seven. The choristers sing daily and all are educated at King’s Ely, receiving a scholarship that pays a generous proportion of their fees. Auditions are held in January or February in 2020.

UNITING SUBJECTS IN AMERICA Taunton School year 13 student, Cerys Lee, gained a coveted combined scholarship (academic and track and field) to Queen’s University of Charlotte in America to study Psychology. Cerys aspires to be a clinical psychologist but is excited to continue with her passion for athletics, particularly the heptathlon and long jump.

FAST FINGERS An upper-sixth form pupil at King Edward’s Witley who holds the Godalming music scholarship is celebrating his win of a scholarship place to the Royal Academy of Music in London. Remarkably, Josef Gaszka only started to learn the organ when he joined the school four years ago.

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SCHOLAR ON SHOW Two pieces from a Blackheath High School student, Mia Dyson, were selected from over 6,000 submissions to be among 329 pieces that form the Royal Academy of Arts’ online exhibition, 2019. Art scholar, Mia, is studying A-level textiles taking advantage of the school’s new studio, which opened this year as part of a wider £18 m redevelopment.

Ely Cathedral Choir choristers are educated at King’s Ely School

Kingston Grammar School host local state schools regularly

Dialling It Up

BETTER TOGETHER

Cheltenham Ladies’ College has been working with local charities, Heidi’s Heroes and Move More, to deliver top-up swimming lessons to primary school pupils in its health and fitness centre, designed to help youngsters who had not met National Curriculum standards for swimming.

Kingston Grammar School’s careers and universities department developed a range of partnership activities, such as mock interviews, with local state schools over the past three years to support student aspiration for applying to top universities including Oxbridge. Recently, it hosted year nine students from six local schools who attended a STEAM (Science, Maths, Engineering, Art and Maths) day run in collaboration with Imperial College London.

Among many other initiatives to celebrate 400 years since Edward Alleyn’s Foundation was formed in 1619, Alleyn’s School launched an anniversary telephone campaign, ‘Growing Bursaries for the Future’.

Thirteen recent alumni called over 500 alumni and parents over two weeks raising more than £100,000 to go towards The Founder’s Fund for bursaries. This will ensure that Alleyn’s can continue to provide meanstested financial support to one in ten of its senior school pupils.

RAISING FUNDS TOP OF THE POPS Former scholar at Millfield Prep and Millfield, Somerset, and international popstar, Ella Eyre, took a trip back to the school to accept an award for her inspirational work in music. Ella attended the school between 2005 and 2010.

ACS International Schools increased its bursary fund with a Charity Gala

ACS International Schools have held an inaugural Charity Gala to raise £64,000, providing scholarships and bursaries for students who would otherwise be unable to attend its schools.

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HEAD VIEW | SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES 2019/20

IT’S A WIN-WIN

Nick Gallop, Headmaster of Stamford School, in Lincolnshire highlights the benefits of bursaries for schools as well as the pupils ightfully, and thankfully, more attention than ever before is being devoted to the significant levels of financial support provided by independent schools to assist aspirational families on lower incomes. This joint endeavour, between schools and families, has two main outcomes, both hugely positive.

Firstly, ever greater numbers of young people are benefitting from the outstanding levels of specialist educational support (often unavailable to them in state maintained schools) that is provided by independent schools. In the case of the Stamford Endowed Schools, well over 300 students are on meanstested bursaries, and many tens of thousands more are on similar schemes nationwide. This level of assistance, in most cases, allows for life-changing access to educational support for talented students who otherwise would never have the opportunity to benefit from an independent school education and all that it offers.

Secondly, the schools themselves benefit, preserving as diverse a pupil body as they possibly can. Diversity across all aspects of life at school, whether it be culturally or socially, has significant benefits for all pupils during their school career and beyond.

The vast majority of our independent schools are, after all, charities; spending every penny of their incomes on sustaining a level of educational provision that makes them so attractive to Nick Gallop, headmaster so many parents each year. Being independent, these schools have also been able to keep the torch alight for vital areas of the wider curriculum (music, the arts, competitive team sports, languages both modern and classical) that have been marginalised for so many years in their state counterparts. In seeking to take advantage of this provision, many parents make substantial sacrifices to send their children to independent schools.

However, the unfamiliar course of school admissions can be made especially challenging due to the language often associated with financial support, and particularly the subtle yet profound difference between what constitutes a bursary, a scholarship and methods of means-testing.

Scholarships are generally regarded as prestigious

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awards recognising a very high standard of achievement in a competitive examination or assessment. They are not typically linked to parental income (although a small number of schools do offer means-tested scholarships), but they can involve financial support. This is likely to be low in financial value, but instead many schools place significant importance in offering highly developed programmes to ensure that children reach their potential in any given area. At the Stamford Endowed Schools, for example, a variety of scholarships from all-rounder, music, art and drama to the ‘Talented Athlete Development Award’ are much more than simply a financial reward.

Scholars are mentored by the appropriate head of department, guided and supported to achieve their own goals and aspirations, provided with access to specialist workshops and lectures and, where relevant, given the opportunity to share ideas and compete with their peers nationally.

Bursaries, on the other hand, are means-tested, and the most common method by which families are granted financial assistance to enable their child to attend an independent school, are where their parents’ financial circumstances merit it.

Bursary amounts can vary hugely across independent schools and depending on individual circumstances, a reduction of anything from ten per cent up to the full cost of fee (sometimes even with additional support for uniform, trips and other extras) can be made available.

In an environment where independent schools are increasingly coming under financial scrutiny, it is more important than ever for them to continue to provide opportunities to all pupils who would not otherwise have had the option to even consider the merits of pursuing an independent school education. As a headmaster, I would always encourage any family who might not be able to afford the full cost of fees to have a conversation with us.

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SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES 2019/20 | SCHOLARSHIPS EXPLAINED Fettes College, Edinburgh, offers 100 per cent bursaries

THE SYSTEM EXPLAINED Eleanor Doughty demystifies how scholarships and bursaries work

f you’re an 11-year-old from a sea fishing family in Banff, Scotland, you have a unique opportunity: a discounted place at the Duke of Edinburgh’s alma mater, Gordonstoun, could be yours. So too if you’re the child of a clergyman or woman: you’re eligible for 65 per cent off the £11,195-a-year school fees at Rossall School in Lancashire. Welcome to the world of scholarships and bursaries, a seemingly opaque universe of charity names, financial revelations and apparently impossible jargon.

According to the Independent Schools Council’s 2019 census, 34 per cent of pupils educated at independent schools currently receive help with their fees, at a cost of £1bn. The majority of this is provided directly from the schools themselves. But fee assistance comes in different shapes and sizes. ‘First thing’s first,’ says Susan Hamlyn, director emerita of the Good Schools Guide, ‘is to establish the difference between scholarships and bursaries. At some schools, the former can refer to a portion of money off school fees, the

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result of exceptional ability, awarded for excellence in art, music, or academia. This amount can vary from five to 100 per cent.’

Bursaries are usually hosted by charitable foundations or private individuals, offering financial support singularly, or on top of a small – possibly honorary – scholarship, according to means testing. ‘Parents often come to us in a state of complete misunderstanding about what scholarships are, what bursaries are, and on what basis they are given,’ says Hamlyn. ‘Some feel that they are a government initiative and they have an entitlement to them, some say they will move anywhere if they can get a scholarship, or bursary, or a combination of both.

The information is out there, they just don’t know where to find it.’

‘It is understandable,’ Hamlyn adds, ‘that parents aren’t armed with all of the facts. Whether or not you were independently educated yourself, things have changed. Parents doing this for the first time, why should they know?’

What can make things tricky is that different schools give different names to their individual types of fee assistance. One school might

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Harrow awards academic, sports and arts scholarships

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Shrewsbury School, Shropshire

According to the Independent Schools Council’s 2019 census, 34 per cent of pupils educated at independent schools currently receive help with their fees, at a cost of £1bn offer a ‘scholarship’ worth ten per cent, whereas at its neighbour down the road, it might be 50 per cent. At Shrewsbury School, the four Butler scholarships are worth up to 30 per cent of fees, while at Harrow School each of the means-tested bursaries is linked to a scholarship. These are generally worth five per cent. ‘If you can afford to pay full fees, then you do,’ says Dr Philippa Davies, the school’s awards and sixth-form registrar.

Scholarships at Harrow can be awarded for academic excellence, sport, and the arts. ‘In a lot of cases the scholarship is just a nice title, and a little bit of financial help,’ says Davies. ‘In some cases it’s the access to bursary funding.’ Other schools apply a similar structure.

At Fettes College in Edinburgh, 100 per cent means-tested bursaries are available to any pupil who passes the entrance exam, with

academic, music, art, sport and piping scholarships offered with up to ten per cent off fees. In other cases, the scholarship is honorary. Alongside its academic scholarships at 11+ and 13+, Ampleforth offers the Basil Hume scholarship to students ‘who display excellence in art, music, design & technology, sport or theatre’. These awards may support a further means-tested bursary application, but are essentially a recognition of talent and ‘top candidates may be awarded ten per cent remission on school fees’.

At Roedean, the 650 girls-strong boarding school on the edge of the South Downs near Brighton, a variety of scholarships and bursaries are offered. As well as the conventional academic and practical specialisms, the Brighthelm scholarships provide access to girls from the state sector living within a 20-mile radius of the school. ‘This is for a day place,’ says Diana Banham, Roedean’s director of admissions. ‘They are for top academic girls in either year seven or year 12, and are essentially means-tested scholarships. We are looking for children performing at the highest level but who couldn’t necessarily afford the fees.’

Once upon a time, the Brighthelm was given out on a more limited basis: ‘there were three Brighthelm girls in the school at any one time, and they were 100 per cent funded’. Over the years, this has changed.

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‘Now a number of awards are up to 50 per cent, with some higher ones that allow more access for more girls.’

In the last ten years there has been a shift away from scholarships towards bursaries, says Hamlyn. ‘This is partly down to governmental pressure, and partly down to justifying charitable status. Increasingly schools are running appeals to raise money for bursaries – they’ve got to, if the sector is going to survive.’

Awards given are not just limited to academic excellence. Other criteria also applies, as schools look for specific individuals to add to their student body. Those who transfer from the state sector have some unique opportunities. At Eton College, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation’s music scholarship is awarded to an outstanding musician from a state school ‘whose family could not otherwise afford the school fees’.

Local awards are also on the rise. At Stowe, a limited number of Buckingham Day bursaries are available for prospective day pupils, while at Harrow, the sixth-form award funds boys from the London Borough of Harrow up to 100 per cent fee remission.

‘The school is proactively trying to increase local applicants in need to try and encourage students to see this as a place that is accessible,’ says Davies. In these cases, it’s not always the parents who take the helm during the admissions process – sometimes it is the children who drive the application. ‘Given that the child is nine or ten, that is quite an extraordinary thing. I see at least one of those every year,’ adds Davies.

Other groups of families also qualify for fee assistance. In 2016/17 the Ministry of Defence spent £80m on the continuity of education allowance (CEA). Although, as one colonel laments, ‘who knows whether that will be around in five or ten years time?’

But discounts for pupils whose parents are serving members of HM Forces are still available at a wide range of schools nationwide. At Badminton School in Bristol, 20 per cent discounts are offered, while at Cheltenham College, discounts range from 15 to 25 per cent depending on the parent’s rank.

At Ardingly College in West Sussex, parents ‘who are not in need of financial assistance may wish to waive the fee remission element

of a scholarship’. In Rutland at Uppingham school, the same applies: ‘the parents of some would-be scholars may not be in immediate need of financial assistance and such parents may waive their right to emoluments, passing it on to another pupil.’ If required, this can be reversed: ‘parents who waive their rights to emoluments can subsequently reinstate them if their circumstances change.’

‘For gaining a scholarship is not always about the money,’ says Banham. ‘It’s about trying to get recognition for their children’s talents and skills.’

But for many it is very definitely about the money and this can make an enormous difference. Roedean’s full boarding fees for sixth-formers can be as much as £38,565 a year, but ‘40 per cent off on a weekly boarding place for London parents brings us in line with London day school prices.’

Getting the finances right for families from the get-go is crucial.

At The Whitgift Foundation, which runs three schools in Croydon, the support offered is broken down by income. The foundation offers assistance to families earning up to £93,000 a year, and can halve its £20,640 day fees for a household with an annual income of £63,000.

‘Parents come to us worried about being able to pay the fees for the next seven years,’ says Banham. ‘We reassure them that if their circumstances change unexpectedly for the worse, they will be able to submit an application for a bursary to gain financhial support.’

At Roedean, parents can pay by monthly direct debit with no fee, ‘after all, most people do their budgets monthly,’ says Banham.

Parents shouldn’t worry when approaching their school of choice, says Hamlyn. ‘They are often frightened of going to a school that they are keen on in case they say the wrong thing.

Of course, it may well be that their child is exactly the kind of child that the school is looking for.’ But the important thing for parents to realise is that the schools are as keen to give out bursaries and scholarships as parents are to secure them. ■

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GET BY ON TALENT Peter Howe, principal of the sixth-form school, United World College Atlantic in Wales, explains how pupils can secure funding

hen I arrived at United World College (UWC) Atlantic as Principal just over two years ago, I had the express intent of reclaiming our position as the flagship college of the UWC movement and as world leaders in experiential education. I also wanted to re-energise our commitment to the group’s founding principles, the core tenet being ‘to provide opportunity to deserving students from around the world to access a UWC education, irrespective of their ability to pay.’

‘Irrespective of their ability to pay,’ certainly resonates with people keen to find out more about a UWC education, so I will endeavour to shed more light. It’s a fact that the UWC movement does things differently, as evident by its unique recruitment and selection process and in its awarding of scholarships, which here at UWC Atlantic, will apply to at least 75 per cent of our students within the next ten years.

Crucially, applications for places to study at the College do not come directly to us. Parents are not able to apply to us for scholarships, nor are our scholarships awarded typically based on what a student has already achieved academically, as a number are not from a ‘traditional’ educational background, coming as some do from refugee camps or war zones, for example. The simple truth is that if a student is selected to attend one of the 18 global UWC colleges and needs a full scholarship, they will get one.

Peter Howe Students are selected for their mindset, attitude and genuine passion to serve society. Service is the DNA of our two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, co-created with the IBO in the late ’60s and which we are now re-engineering for the 21st century. We look at the magic of ‘promise and potential’ and at how each individual could benefit from the transformative UWC experience, unfettered by financial constraints.

So, who are we looking for and how do we recruit? Students join UWC Atlantic from more than 90 countries each year.

To find these exceptional young people we rely on UWC National Committees based in 156 different countries to select them from their respective territories and match them

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to individual UWC colleges, anywhere in the world. They are also responsible for awarding scholarships. National Committees work alongside non-government organisations like Voluntary Service Overseas, charities, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UWC alumni organisations and also with Ministries of Education in various countries. This ensures talent – regardless of socioeconomic, educational, political, cultural or religious background – is discovered, embraced and given the opportunity to be nurtured.

The annual scholarship round begins in early summer with each college offering their scholarship funding to the National Committees for the following academic two-year cycle. A rigorous selection process begins the following January through to April. We don’t have a one-dimensional entry exam.

Instead, the selection process is multi-layered and assesses each candidate’s potential.

Again, equally crucially, it is the student who applies, supported by the parent.

Students are asked to write a thought-provoking essay on the global issues that matter most to them; this is followed by an interview and an assessment weekend. When a student is successful, the level of financial support we can then offer is calculated through means-testing. Not all students will be eligible for scholarship funding and so a number of successful applicants are asked to make a contribution towards the costs of their place or to pay full fees. Students with the ability to pay and who wish to choose the UWC college they’d like to attend can also apply through the central UWC Global Selection Programme.

I am immensely proud of the UWC ‘scholarship way’, making it easier for students with the motivation and commitment to UWC values to join this incredible movement as a launch pad to do good in the world, contributing to peace, sustainability and social justice. But it is, admittedly, a unique approach; one that demands a degree of research into the UWC model of education, its vision and values, upon which scholarship awards are predicated. It will be worth the time, I promise. n SCHOOLHOUSEMAGAZINE.CO.UK | 25

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TALENT SPOTTING Mark Edwards, deputy head (academic) of Dragon School, explains how prep schools prepare scholars for senior schools

Towards the end of year seven, Dragon’s head of scholars here was a time when scholarships to senior schools and I sit down with the heads of sport, music, art/DT and often attracted a significant reduction in school fees. drama to identify children who are ready to try for an award However, the landscape has changed significantly to their senior school. In a typical ‘leavers year-group’, well over and now it is more usual for scholarships and awards half of the pupils will enter for a scholarship of some variety, and to attract a very modest reduction in school fees, in 2018 our children broke the school record to reach 57 total with larger fee remissions offered through means-tested bursaries. awards – a fabulous achievement.

However, scholarships and awards We assign a mentor to each to senior schools continue to Dragon School deputy head (academic), Mark Edwards of our scholarship candidates; provide recognition of a special a senior member of staff to guide talent in a particular area. In fact, their scholarship preparation, help regardless of whether a child is with portfolios and give specialist successful or not in gaining an support. Our sports candidates award, when managed well, the have an extra hour of fitness and particular syllabus content and training; the art scholars have required pupil focus that comes a dedicated after-school club and with scholarship preparation can can visit the department in their be a real boost to a child’s selffree time; our music scholars esteem and educational progress. meet every Saturday at 7.30am At the Dragon, we want to for additional theory and musical give all our children the chance appreciation discussions. to enrich their learning in and The scholarship route out of the classroom. Our overall is not for everyone. Very often, ethos is very much inclusive and a good set of Common Entrance we are always looking to identify grades can present a pupil more and support children with a effectively and successfully than special talent from the moment results in scholarship exams they arrive. We are fortunate if they are not ready. Of course, to have eight academic classes curricular and extra-curricular from year six, and we set enrichment and challenge should separately for science, Latin, not be the preserve of ‘scholars’ French and maths, giving us and good schools provide the opportunity to place children opportunities for all pupils according to ability in specific We assign a mentor to each of our to be stretched and stimulated. subject areas. From year seven, scholarship candidates – a senior At the Dragon, we have weekly our top two classes will broadly ‘spectrum’ evenings and invite be on an academic scholarship member of staff to guide their all children to fortnightly trajectory, but children mature scholarship preparation, help with ‘disco’ presentations, aiming to at different rates, and there portfolios and give specialist support make them think outside of the is plenty of room for manoeuvre standard curriculum. Similarly, throughout the year. all schools should have a full That is only the case for sports fixture list where any child academic scholarships. Senior who is keen can represent their school on a regular basis, as well as schools offer a wide array of awards from the familiar art and music groups, plays and after-school clubs challenging all to excel. music, to sport, drama, IT, dance, design and many kinds of If you (or your child) are keen to try for an award, do go and speak all-rounder awards. At the Dragon, we nurture talent with to their tutor, the deputy head (academic) and the head. They will be selective sports and art after-school clubs from year six, as well able to guide you through the options and help assess whether it as a huge palette of music groups, from our Junior Baroque is a good route for your child to take. Whatever you decide though, Quartet to the ‘blue riband’ Concert Band and Big Band who be sure to make the most of everything your child’s school provides. toured Paris last Easter. LAMDA is very popular too, with If something isn’t on offer, ask if it can be started; we greatly appreciate professional drama teachers coaching enthusiasts to grade five, hearing suggestions from parents, and exciting new opportunities. n six and beyond.

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Maria Young, Headmistress of St Mary’s Shaftesbury, advocates strong pastoral and emotional support for scholars to enable them to fulfil their potential Any problems should be discussed with tutors and house staff he award of an independent school scholarship from the outset, so that they can be vigilant, and pro-active where is an offer by that school to recognise the talent necessary. Musicians (particularly multi-instrumentalists) have of a child and a commitment to nurture and to gain practice time from somewhere and the most obvious develop that child within the school community. source is what might be considered ‘social time’. In a boarding Scholarships widen access to fee-paying schools school, music scholars will typically be found practising before and the presence of scholars enriches a school community for breakfast and after prep, neither of which necessarily make for the benefit of all. For the child with a scholarship, the a strong social life. It may opportunities are manifold, be that some prep periods from being able to access an Maria Young could be substituted for independent education that music practice, or the school might otherwise be out of might offer a slightly reduced financial reach, to benefitting timetable so that the burden from specialist tuition and of prep is proportionately following an elite pathway reduced. Scholars can put in something they love. huge pressure on themselves: In accepting a scholarship, it tutors and house staff need to is vital to understand the pastoral be very vigilant in this regard, support on offer for your child. and help the child to be kind Highly able and usually selfto themselves. This includes motivating children, scholars can nutrition, as a very busy child also develop strategies for success can easily rush or miss meals that neatly conceal emotional and and the school should be social difficulties, which need mindful of the potential for careful watching. Key to success eating disorders among their is the relationship with the tutor, hardworking scholars. and, in an ideal world, the school Demands on scholars will match a tutor carefully to can come from opposing the child, ensuring a good fit directions. The typical clash of personality and interests. I arises between music and would encourage parents to build sports, both being team events a rapport with the tutor at the where the absence of one child earliest opportunity, encouraging impacts the rest of the group. a two-way flow of information.

If a child is a scholar in one Time-management is likely discipline, that may occupy the to be a challenge. Children will moral high ground in such have reached scholarship level dispute, but if a music scholar by becoming adept jugglers, is also a key player in the 1st squeezing in thousands of hours Scholars can put huge pressure on XV, what is the right answer? of training or practice alongside themselves: tutors and house staff need This common situation is a their academic studies in a way to be very vigilant in this regard, and help real test of the school’s pastoral that is almost unimaginable to mettle and the tutor must most children. However, this the child to be kind to themselves manage expectations in a way process will have been driven that allows the child to flourish or overseen by parents, and and not to feel the weight and a considerable transition period emotional pressure of territorial colleagues in conflict. might be needed before a child can manage it for themselves.

A scholarship is a life-changing opportunity, but do be aware The tutor or head of department can really help to inculcate of the potential challenges that lie alongside the obvious gains good habits: they have seen it all before! and work with the school’s pastoral team to ensure the happiest The many hours of training needed to reach an elite standard outcomes for all. n may mean that a scholar has encountered some social challenges.

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PAYING FORWARD Matthew Dear, Director of Development at Oundle, endorses the centuries-old culture of successful independent school alumni honouring their debts

perception (and more recently the media narrative) has conflated hen times are challenging in educational ‘charity’ with ‘poverty’, only one of the three specified charitable fundraising, especially in the schools’ sector, purposes established in 1601, since widened to 12 in 2006. we often tell ourselves the comforting lie that The controversy, such as it is, is whether the fees charged for that it is a new and somewhat alien concept in the provision prevent it being accessed by a ‘sufficient section of the public’ UK, which we have only recently imported from as required by long-standing law. Many charities charge fees for their the United States. We tell ourselves that it is yet to take root culturally, services, from the Sea Cadet Unit in the way that giving back to one’s to which my children belong, through alma mater is considered an almost Matthew Dear, Director of Development at Oundle to independent schools and hospitals. absolute duty across the pond.

The only difference is the scale. With To a certain extent that may be true the purpose stated in our Royal as regards to the methods, but it Charter being, somewhat archaically, is certainly not true of the concept. ‘the provision of an education of the At Oundle we recall our foundation highest class’, we would be in breach in our current form by the legacy of of our charitable duty if we were to Sir William Laxton in 1556, who gave be so parsimonious as to substantially back to the guild school out of which reduce the quality of the education we grew, motivated by gratitude for that we provide. the education that he had received.

That is not to dismiss concerns That principle of ‘paying forward’ that the demographics able to the benefits of one’s education has access our education have changed continued down the centuries and fundamentally from those envisaged has made Oundle what it is today. by our founder, and others like him.

This is a message that we seek We are resolutely committed both to emphasise. Every major facility to continuing to provide the high from which we benefit is, without standard of education which is our exception, a product of philanthropy. constitutional duty, and to ensuring We are only asking people to do what that as many promising children previous generations have done, as possible can come to Oundle, and to make their school the very regardless of their family’s financial best that it can be – and the most circumstances. Moreover, we have accessible that it can be through recently introduced an extensive bursary funding – for the benefit ‘partnerships programme’ involving of future generations.

Many charities charge fees for their a number of state schools; state I suspect I am unusual, though schools based on mutual learning probably not unique, in that I came services, from the Sea Cadet Unit, support, but which recognise to my current role with a background to which my children belong, through and the resources that we have and the in charity law. I wrote a post-graduate to independent schools and hospitals. duties that we owe to the wider dissertation in 2009 on the recently The only difference is the scale world of education as a result. introduced ‘public benefit test’.

The successful pursuit of What escaped most people’s attention our duties has always depended is that not one jot or tittle of the on philanthropy, for which we law was changed by the introduction continue to be eternally grateful. We are never complacent about of this reporting requirement; the public benefit test remained the our position in the market, nor the appeals that we make, but we same as it was when it was introduced in 1601, and as it has evolved do, very proudly, invite the current generation of parents and Old by case law in the coming centuries. Certain activities were, and still Oundelians to renew and reinvigorate the culture of philanthropy are, considered to be fundamentally ‘charitable’, including the from which they themselves have benefitted. n provision of education. It is only in the last few decades that the public

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A GENEROUS LEGACY f you divide Britain’s independent schools into the financial haves and have nots, a small handful dominate the premier league of big hitters. The lucky few, like Christ’s Hospital, Eton, Winchester and The Whitgift Foundation, enjoy huge historical endowments. They are the fortunate beneficiaries of extraordinary bequests of money and property made centuries earlier, from far-sighted philanthropists like William of Wickham and John Whitgift. Wisely invested, these assets have produced hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, cushioning such schools from economic uncertainty as they fulfil their traditional purpose of educating children, including the poor and disadvantaged.

Eton spends £6.5m a year on bursaries and scholarships and more than a fifth of its pupils receive financial help, among them 75 boys

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with full fee remission. Its ‘New Foundation Scholars’ (gifted boys from state secondaries) are the modern-day equivalent of the ‘70 poor scholars’ for whom Henry VI founded the school in 1460.

The three Whitgift schools spend over £5m a year on bursaries with around 45 per cent of their pupils on fee assistance.

Christ’s Hospital, founded in 1552 to educate and house needy children, is the best-funded of all. Thanks to its links with the City of London Corporation, plus generations of philanthropic alumni (Old Blues), it enjoys a whopping endowment of £380m, raises £4m a year in donations and spends £16m on providing bursaries. Many of its 860 pupils come from deprived or dysfunctional backgrounds, over one third are on free places or paying less than ten per cent of the fees. The school continues to grow its funds as successful pupils who have benefitted themselves from this largesse routinely donate

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generously, helping future generations of financially poorer youngsters fulfill their potential.

But what of major schools lacking such financial security: those founded more recently, such as Brighton College, Canford, Gordonstoun and Millfield? Or top girls’ schools where elements of the ‘glass ceiling’ remain, thanks to a proportion of alumnae devoting potentially high-earning years to raising their families, reducing the flow of possible donations to their alma mater?

Brighton College, founded in 1845 and originally without huge financial reserves, is using the power of its reputation for academic quality and high value-added scores to partner award-winning international schools in the UAE and Bangkok. The income generated boosts the college’s endowment and mission to broaden access for charitable purposes in the UK. Good financial management, corporate sponsorships and extensive alumni donations have helped to fund projects including its £37m stateof-the art combined sports and science centre and its partnership with the London Academy of Excellence.

Gordonstoun’s royal connections have proved invaluable. HRH Duke of Edinburgh helped found the school with a commitment to service and sent his children there, who in turn sent some of theirs there as well. This inspired the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the life-changing adventure it offers to children from 144 nations.

Earlier this year, the Duke gave his name to a foundation to allow more students from less privileged backgrounds to attend Gordonstoun. It has already attracted generous donations and is helping to expand the school’s endowment fund significantly.

Principal Lisa Kerr says, ‘A third of our pupils already receive some kind of bursary, however we want to do more.

It is part of our founding ethos that everyone benefits from living in a diverse and inclusive community. By generously giving his name to the Prince Philip Gordonstoun Foundation, the Duke of Edinburgh has helped to ensure that our unique education will be accessible to many more deserving young people.’

When Cheltenham Ladies’ College recently began fundraising for a new Health and Fitness Centre it leveraged the connections and spending power of parents and former pupils, with a high end fundraising auction. Auction lots included stays in villas and chalets worldwide, spa days, wine tastings, the opportunity to name new boats for the CLC rowing teams and even ‘money-can’t-buy’ behind the scenes experiences including tickets to the X-Factor Live.

Sporting powerhouse Millfield was founded only in 1935, initially in rows of unprepossessing-looking Nissen huts and without longstanding endowments or the nostalgia-quotient of older institutions. However, with its renowned focus on professional-level sport, success has bred success and it numbers scores of Olympic medallists

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and world champions among its alumni. Its reputation of providing high-quality coaching and facilities and the presence of like-minded pupils striving for excellence have made it the go-to school for would-be Olympians. It was one of the first big-name schools to support numerous talented, low income children by offering them free or heavily subsidised places, with fees charged only to parents who could afford to pay; a system still in place today.

Many successful alumni remain loyal, acknowledging the role Millfield played in their later triumphs and the school understands the power of a big name and the networking opportunities that donations offer. After launching the Gareth Edwards Scholarship Fund earlier this year, they are already half-way to their target of £1.2m. This funding will be used to support young rugby talent, hoping to follow in famous Millfield footsteps like those of Edwards and Chris Robshaw whose time there helped him manage his dyslexia and gain the self-belief that contributed to his appointment as England captain.

‘Millfield gave me the opportunity to do what I am doing today,’ said Robshaw. ‘I’m very privileged to have been a pupil there. They give you the opportunities, through top-class facilities and coaching in all sports. No surprise that the school produced top-class players in Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, Chris Oti, and Mako Vunipola.’

Malvern College too is raising its already high cricket profile with its new scholarships in the name of England great Rachael Heyhoe Flint, becoming the first school to offer dedicated awards for talented female cricketers.

For Canford, the sensational discovery in 1994 that a valuable original Assyrian frieze (previously used as a dart board in its tuck shop and believed to be a plaster copy) boosted its endowment

Gordonstoun School, which spawned the Duke of Edinburgh Award, places a strong emphasis on community service

by a welcome £7m. These days Canford is working hard to bring in smaller, regular windfalls for bursaries, by engaging alumni to donate to its Martin Marriott Foundation launched in 2016, in honour of a popular former headmaster. Each year Canford aims to provide full bursaries for one sixth-form pupil and two other pupils from its academy school, the Bourne Academy.

‘Transformative bursaries are our main driver, benefiting children from disadvantaged backgrounds,’ explained Rowena Gaston, Canford’s Director of Development. ‘We aim to raise awareness as well as money, introducing a culture of giving back to the school.

Many children with bursaries are very driven in helping raise funds for more bursaries, realising the opportunity they’ve been given.

Fundraising is a long game. We build relationships with alumni over years and encourage them to develop an affinity to the school, donating and eventually leaving legacies.

‘Fourteen pupils do a telethon, ringing alumni to update them on what’s happening here. We match callers with alumni on their

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sporting interests and university destinations. Connor Elliot, one of our telethon sixth-formers is typical of the youngsters who’ve benefited. He’s a local boy who came to Canford on a full bursary and he’s done so well he plans to study Medicine at Imperial College London.’

High-flying King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham, has also used imaginative methods of increasing its endowment.

Like Canford, it regularly runs a highly successful telethon, which provides thousands of pounds for its ‘Delyvere’ bursary fund. It also aims to raise £400,000 a year from regular donors and legacy pledges to ensure that 25 per cent of pupils will receive an assisted place by 2020, engaging alumnae with intimate bespoke events like the recent piano recital at an Old Edwardian’s home by high-profile pupil Lauren Zhang, the BBC Young Musician of the Year.

Collective fund-raising is becoming increasingly popular. Best-

placed are well-known schools in London and the Southeast, thanks to the numbers of well-heeled families they attract.

At socially diverse Latymer Upper School in west London, leavers’ parents raise enough money each year to support a pupil on a bursary throughout sixth-form.

‘Our target is £40m for our bursary campaign by 2024, which will be our 400th anniversary,’ said Amanda Scott, Latymer Foundation’s Director of Development. ‘Half for our endowment and half for annual bursaries. We’ve raised £24m so far and eventually hope to be able to offer a quarter of our 1,200 children means-tested bursaries.

‘The parents, together with alumni and staff, contribute £500,000 a year to our annual Bursaries Appeal and also run events like The Great Latymer Dinner Party, hosting people in their homes. Some members of the Latymer community give fund-raising talks or concerts, like the actor Mark Strong and alumnus Raphael Wallfisch, world-renowned cellist. The pupils also have a fundraising club called RAISE which organises a wide range of events such as film nights, sweatshirt sales and University Challenge-style quizzes.’

‘Our head David Goodhew came from a humble background and was the first member of his family to take A-levels,’ added Amanda Scott. ‘He went on to read classics at Oxford and his education turned his life around. That’s why it’s so important to him that as many children as possible, regardless of circumstances, get the same chances he did – and that’s why we and good schools like ours are so focused on raising our endowment and the life-changing opportunities it provides.’ ■

‘Transformative bursaries are our main driver, benefiting children from disadvantaged backgrounds. We aim to raise awareness as well as money, introducing a culture of giving back to the school. Many children on bursaries are very driven in helping raise funds for more bursaries, realising the opportunity they’ve been given’ ROWENA GASTON, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, CANFORD

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OPENING DOORS Andrew Halls of King’s College School, Wimbledon, explains how an 11+ entrance age makes his school more accessible to state school children

secretly biased against children who need bursaries and therefore bursary really can change a life, and any almost certainly will be applying from state primary schools? headteacher will be able to quote many They will have no means of entering via Common Entrance, examples of children who have been nor have the faintest idea what this is. At King’s, I felt the fact transformed that our main entry point was by their school. at 13+ was incompatible with Most very good independent Andrew Halls, headmaster the governors’ desire to offer secondary schools will offer places to more boys from poorer bursaries, and these will homes. We introduced a new be carefully means-tested, 11+ entry and it is now our most increasingly by means of an competitive entry point with external organisation. They about eight candidates for every will look at income, assets and place. About half the candidates outgoings before paying a home are from state primary schools, visit. At King’s, we take careful and a good number request note of such research, and then fee assistance. Often, we must offer about seven completely free provide ‘100 per cent, plus’ places each year to our 11+ entry. bursaries, meaning we need We then offer more free places to provide the costs of uniform, to our 16+ entry into the sixth lunch, trips and the daily form. In almost every case, the boy commute in addition to the or girl thrives and often goes on to fee remission. enormous success. Two of the sixth But what about the children form girls we took on 100 per cent themselves? Do they feel at home bursaries won full scholarships or out of place? We conducted to Harvard. A younger boy given a survey with bursary holding a 100 per cent bursary went on parents and were delighted by to Cambridge, gained a blue, the responses.‘The bursary has and has now set up an educational altered the course of our son’s charity of his own. life dramatically: we will always Understandably, primary be grateful.’ ‘My heart feels heads do not always feel at peace when my son leaves comfortable encouraging their the house, knowing he is best pupils to look at awards at going to spend his day in a selective schools like mine. This calm, stimulating and caring means it is essential schools who environment.’ ‘Words don’t want to increase their numbers do justice to what we experience of children from poorer homes every day when we come to King’s think about the ways they are At King’s, I felt the fact that our main and see the difference in our son.’ appearing open and welcoming.

As a school we run Making the bursary offer clear entry point was at 13+ was incompatible a partnership programme on the website, providing open with the governors’ desire to offer involving 30 local state schools. conversations with prospective places to more boys from poorer homes That is fundamental to our parents about the way bursaries belief that we have a duty work, and inclusive advertising to the community as well are all essential. as to our own pupils. But we know we must find ways to open But the structure and atmosphere of the school matters too. our doors ever wider to children who cannot afford fees. Yes, Does it really feel the sort of place where the daily mission of the these boys and girls will benefit from what we can offer, but school is so encompassing and vital that where each boy and girl they make us a far better school, too. n comes from really is a total irrelevance? And is the entry structure

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SPREADING THE WORD Dr Frances Ramsey, Head of Godolphin and Latymer School, uses the media to overcome means-testing prejudice

we are launching the Bridge Programme for year five girls and boys n common with many independent schools, from primary schools in the local area. Pupils nominated by their Godolphin and Latymer has a long tradition head teachers will come to Godolphin and Latymer on one Saturday of providing bursaries and scholarships to help every month for 12 sessions taught by our teachers which includes families who cannot otherwise afford school fees.

Maths, English, and other lessons and activities. In addition, experts As a former grammar school, we have a historic will run special courses to help with entrance exam preparation. mission to provide places for bright pupils from a wide range The aim of the Bridge Programme of backgrounds, based purely is first and foremost to provide on their academic ability and Dr Frances Ramsey academic enrichment for bright potential, which is something I am boys and girls from families keen that we build on. One of the who wouldn’t normally consider challenges we face is how to spread sending their children to the word to West London families independent schools. Parents who perhaps couldn’t imagine will also be provided with advice sending their child to a private and information about meansschool and for whom terms such tested bursaries, our aim being as ‘means-tested bursaries’ are to demystify the whole application unfamiliar and off-putting. process and to help families To raise awareness we feel comfortable and welcome are taking a committed and in the school. imaginative approach, which Helping parents navigate includes social media campaigns the bursary admissions process and advertising on the local bus is critical and they need to start network, using terms to explain their application in good time. what bursaries mean such as Some families may feel awkward ‘help with school fees’ and ‘fee about asking for financial assistance’. We have also teamed assistance; they might think they up with a number of the top don’t qualify or that asking for independent schools in London a bursary will damage their to advertise collectively on the child’s chance of a place.

Tube network and on social media.

Providing examples on our Forging mutually beneficial website of levels of bursaries partnerships with feeder primary awarded, encouraging parents schools has also been successful; to email or call with any we find that the heads and One of the challenges we face is how questions and having admissions teachers can be powerful to spread the word to West London staff on hand to chat at open advocates, particularly if they days is invaluable. At Godolphin see a child who could really families who perhaps couldn’t and Latymer we do our own benefit from the opportunities imagine sending their child to a means-testing and assessment, an independent school can offer. private school and for whom terms rather than outsourcing, helping We provide tailored activities for such as ‘means-tested bursaries’ us to build a relationship with sports, maths, science, drama the applying family. We find and debating while our girls gain are unfamiliar and off-putting that ongoing support is key, and valuable volunteering experience there is a fund to support all assisting in classrooms or setting children with the cost of school up clubs such as the ‘Reading trips, uniform or extra-curricular activities, like music and drama. and Beyond Club’ or the ‘Globetrotter’s Club’ - our own students are As the head of an independent school, there is a moral imperative our best and most persuasive ambassadors! Partnerships with local community groups are also important, for instance, our sixth-formers to offer scholarships and bursaries that can provide children with a life-changing education. Fostering an inclusive and cosmopolitan volunteer as academic mentors at the Rugby Portobello Trust after community where children from different backgrounds enrich each school homework club, near Grenfell Tower. other’s educational experience is also very compelling. n Taking this partnership’s model a step further, later this year

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CREATIVE REWARD

Bedales aims to encourage inquisitive thinkers

Emma Love explores the means by which schools support talented artistic pupils t’s a well known fact that talented dancers and musicians need to be properly nurtured and supported from a young age. This is the thinking behind the government’s long-standing, means-tested Music and Dance Scheme, which offers financial help for specialist education at eight independent schools and more than 20 centres for advanced training across the country. ‘The aim of the scheme is to help identify and assist children with exceptional potential, regardless of their personal circumstances, to benefit from world-class specialist training as part of a broad and balanced education,’ commented the MDA advisory group in a statement in 2001, before the scheme was introduced in its current guise.

Schools that are part of the scheme include Wells Cathedral School, the Royal Ballet School and The Purcell School, Britain’s

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oldest school for young musicians. ‘People’s perception of specialist schools might be that they are elite, which they are in terms of the standard of students, but with regard to finance it’s hugely important that parents know there are opportunities for their child to audition if they are talented,’ says Ruth Blake, fundraising and development manager at The Purcell School, where 79 per cent of students receive full funding from the MDS scheme. ‘Students are only auditioned on their musical talent and not on their ability to pay. We know nothing about their financial circumstances when they arrive and it’s not a question we ask at that stage.’

It’s the same situation at Elmhurst Ballet School, which has close links with the Birmingham Royal Ballet. ‘It’s my passion to dispel the myth that specialist schools are for rich kids,’ says Principal Jessica Wheeler. ‘What we’re here to do is nurture young people who

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cherish independent thought.’ Now, instead of a reduction in school fees, art, design, drama and music scholarships all come with a research grant of £500.

‘We looked at scholarships and asked the question, how are they useful,’ explains Phil Tattersall-King, Deputy Head, Co-Curricular. ‘A good scholarship allows for opportunities for growth, so we decided to ring fence the money for a project of the student’s choosing which develops their area of creativity.’ He cites a drama student who is planning to use the grant to put on their own play next year and music students accessing additional, out-of-school music lessons in different genres, as examples.

Alongside the scholarships, means-tested bursaries, including fully funded places, are offered through a separate charity, the John Badley Foundation (successful applicants also need to show talent or potential in at least one specialist area, such as art, design, sport or academic). ‘We have always offered bursaries but a few years ago it was stepped up a gear in terms of commitment. The school matches donations received, which is appealing to donors and means we can help transform the lives of more great young people,’ says Tattersall-King.

Whichever school pupils are considering, the competition for scholarships is tough.

‘It’s not unusual to have students apply for a scholarship who are working a whole key stage above where they would be expected Heathfield School’s annual fashion show to be,’ confirms Eve Feilen, Head of Humanities and a subject leader in art and design at Heathfield School.

‘We believe in rewarding young people for outstanding practice and if there is more than one candidate who exemplifies this, we would consider all possibilities to extend the scholarship numbers.’

As well as the accolade that comes with simply being awarded an art scholarship, the school also has a Scholars’ Programme, which consists of a series of events and workshops. ‘There is an emphasis on sharing best practice, for instance, an A-level scholar delivering an oil painting workshop to Form II students. As part of this they are able to monitor their progress in specifically designed journals.

We would also expect the older art scholars to take part in life drawing and join in workshops, such as printmaking or fashion, led by outside providers,’ says Feilen.

Caroline Lang, sixth-form registrar and senior sixth-form tutor at Moreton Hall, agrees that the kudos of an arts scholarship All Hallow’s Prep is part of its appeal but it also allows more rewards inventiveness academic pupils to still shine creatively

have the talent to be dancers, artists and choreographers of the future. Our motto is that talent is classless and we do everything we can to facilitate those coming in, no matter what their background. No parent should be put off considering training at this level for their child.’

While there are no set academic criteria, the school takes a holistic approach to education which means equal importance is placed on other subjects too.

In the lower school, 86 per cent of pupils receive funding from the MDS scheme; in the sixth form, the school is one of 17 across the country (others include Laine Theatre Arts and the Northern Ballet School) to receive funding though the means-tested Education Funding Agency’s Dance and Drama Awards, which are available for those aged 16-23. ‘The difficulty we have is that this award was only set up for pure dance training and we offer boarding, A-levels and a healthcare programme too, so we fundraise ourselves to try and meet that shortfall,’ explains Wheeler.

Of course it’s not just specialist schools that champion the arts. Take Bedales for instance, which is known for fostering creative talent. Two years ago the school shifted its approach to scholarships so that they align more closely with the school’s aim of developing ‘inquisitive thinkers with a love of learning who

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Godolphin & Latymer School offers music scholarships

Moreton Hall has arts scholarships

‘Students are only auditioned on their musical talent and not on their ability to pay. We know nothing about their financial circumstances when they arrive and it’s not a question we ask at that stage.’

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after their GCSEs. ‘We have one girl in year 9 who is academically brilliant but also has an art scholarship.

She may well be a future Oxbridge candidate for a subject such as PPE, but having this scholarship now has enabled her to continue valuing that creative part of who she is,’ she says. ‘Creative scholarships celebrate the fact that talent comes in many shapes and sizes; that really is

hugely important to us. We also give art scholars a membership to the Royal Academy, which is just one way that we try to encourage that sense of them as artists exploring the wider world of art.’

This idea of rewarding inventiveness in all its forms is something that is also being embraced at All Hallow’s Prep. To mark being shortlisted for the TES Creativity Award 2019 in September, the school introduced two new creative awards: scholarships (with free weekly boarding) and bursaries for local day pupils in Somerset. ‘For us, creativity is about much more than artistic skills and being able to draw; we use the term creativity in a much broader sense,’ says head, Dr Richards. ‘Creativity can be seen as the preserve of designers, artists and performers, but this should be far from the case. Our children need to be allowed to explore their creative sides to enable them to go beyond the straightforward regurgitation of rote learning and let them develop the confidence to produce their own ideas.’

Teachers in all subjects take a hands-on approach, whether that means recreating a battle during a history lesson in the school’s outdoor classroom or demonstrating erosion during geography by throwing buckets of water against a wall. ‘It’s just about bringing everything alive and making it as interesting as possible,’ confirms Richards. What’s clear is that however creativity is interpreted, whether as a way of allowing younger pupils’ imaginations to run free or as a traditional taught art form, it is something to be encouraged – and specialist bursaries and scholarships are one effective way of doing just that. ■

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SCHOOL HOUSE PARTNERSHIP

KNIGHTSBRIDGE SCHOOL EXPANDS Knightsbridge school is getting bigger and better as it extends to offer a superlative education to pupils up to 16

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nightsbridge School opened its doors in 2006 as a co-educational prep school offering schooling for children aged three to 13 year olds. Since then it has proven itself as a nurturing and energetic school with popularity for places soaring.

‘We opened Knightsbridge School to address a shortage of pre-prep and prep places in central London,’ says Founder and Principal, Magoo Giles.‘But over the years we’ve had many conversations with parents who have expressed disappointment that their child couldn’t stay on at Knightsbridge School past thirteen years old.

‘We decided that it was time to address this issue, and so from September 2020, we will begin classes for year nine, with years 10 and 11 to follow in 2021 and 2022. Now students will be able to stay at Knightsbridge School from when they join until after they have taken their GCSEs at sixteen.

This step fulfills the ambition of the school to provide an all-through education which we are now able to achieve.’The extension will progress year on year organically, to ensure the Knightsbridge School culture throughout.

Knightsbridge School currently operates through the use of three buildings, with a fourth being added in South Kensington to allow for the Senior School to develop.

Shona Colaço, Head, is responsible for planning this exciting extension, a role for which she feels well equipped, having had

previous experience of the same task.

‘The excitement from students and parents has been matched by that of the staff across the school’ says Colaço. ‘Many of our teachers are qualified and experienced in teaching through to GCSE and are eager to develop the new curriculum. We have already set up a working party for teachers to look for the shape of the school’s provision moving forward and to identify key aspects of Knightsbridge School which need to be retained as the school grows.’

It’s not just the staff that will have an active role to play in shaping the senior school however. ‘In the second half of the summer term, students in years six and seven were invited to look at the current uniform and give feedback on what they liked about it, what they’d like to change, and what they see themselves wearing with pride at age 16’, explains Colaço.

In addition to focusing on the new curriculum, Knightsbridge School has also turned its attention to its extra-curricular which has always been strong with over 60 clubs every term. Knightsbridge School’s aim is to ensure that there is an equally exciting provision for the oldest students.

The school has appointed a new Deputy Head, Mrs Carla Kenny, who will be joining in September, coming from a maintained senior school teaching pupils aged eleven to 18.

Selection for the senior school does not include existing Knightsbridge school students who will not have to undergo further assessments to secure their place. Other prospective students will be asked to attend the school for a day to undergo a series of activities and interviews to help decide whether each child would be a good fit at the school.

‘It’s a very exciting time for us here at Knightsbridge’, says Giles. ‘And while we will ensure that pupils will continue to feel valued and cared for, we look forward to the coming years to see how we all, staff and students alike, can progress and develop together in this new chapter of Knightsbridge School’.

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Skydiving in New Zealand with Lattitude Global Volunteering

OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE Victoria Lambert discovers gap year bursaries for young adventurers hinking about building the best possible CV doesn’t end once a university place is secured and funded.

Future employers will look beyond degree results to what else a young person can offer, particularly how they have spent the time between school and university, and later, during their long vacations.

The classic world-tour gap year of full of moon parties in Thailand and a few weeks as a jack or jillaroo in Australia is no longer enough to satisfy future employers. Companies want to see evidence that job applicants have sought out character-building experiences, extra skills and real work experience that challenges them.

Hannah Morton-Hedges of Momentum Careers Advice explains: ‘The graduate job market is simply too competitive to grant success to students who are willing to sit back and become complacent.

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‘Getting a good job at the end of your degree is highly dependent on your ability to show sought-after transferable skills to employers, such as communication, organisation, teamwork and problem solving.’

Put simply, you can’t do this if you don’t have the experiences to draw from. And every experience, whether it is work, travel or further study, gives us the opportunity to build skills which are valued by future employers looking for maturity in their employees.

While a few may be able to turn to the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ to pay for their adventures, most will need to be savvier and look for schemes and trusts that offer funding. ‘Consider what you want to achieve,’ says Dr Michael Gray, Director of Studies at Harrow School, who advises students not to just plough into looking at bursaries in general but to stand back and ask instead, ‘What is the purpose of your year? Reflect on your aims before you go into granular detail.’

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That could start by identifying whether you want to travel, work and/or volunteer, or study an extra subject. Dr Gray says: ‘If it’s travel, think about an immersive cultural experience. Working can be good for someone who wants to foster and develop their character. Study might be ideal if you are concerned your CV doesn’t demonstrate your potential.’

Morton-Hedges adds: ‘If you are motivated by study and the need to constantly challenge yourself, then this can be a worthwhile use of time and can be used to show competencies such as taking initiative and self-development.’

The good news is that whatever the priorities, there are lots of places to apply for funding.

Adventurers are particularly well served. The Ferguson Trust awards can grant up to £300 to students embarking on a gap year. The Young Explorers’ Trust offers grant aid to individuals aged 19 and under, who are taking part in expeditions or other adventurous activities and The Captain Scott Society runs the Vivian Fuchs Youth Award for the 11 to 19 year age group, offering £500 towards an activity with particular interest in something ‘character building or unusual exploits’.

Meanwhile, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs offers awards to support independent purposeful travel in Asia by young people aged 21 to 28.

For those interested in Europe, Peter Kirk offers travel scholarships for those aged 18 to 26 wanting to spend between six weeks and three months in Europe, worth £2,000.

Not all travel has to be overseas to qualify for support.

The Adventure Fund suggests fun can be had just as easily ‘in Dorset as it can in Dushanbe’ and invites applicants for its grants to show they are innovative in their ideas.

The Andy Fanshaw Memorial Trust awards grants to disadvantaged young people to develop an existing interest and experience in adventurous outdoor activities in the UK. Alpkit offers small grants of between £50 to £500 to encourage people to get outdoors and have great experiences that they might not otherwise have.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Lattitude Global Volunteering connects students with placements across the world

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Challenge yourself on your year off with The Jack Petchy Foundation

Santander Bank offers funding for British students to study in Latin America

Combining travel with volunteering or working can be an excellent way to build your CV and again there is support available if you dig hard enough. Some commercial volunteering companies such as Lattitude Global Volunteering offer a few bursaries to young people who would struggle to join otherwise. Find a scheme that suits your plans and then approach the company direct to discuss finances. If you are interested in undertaking a ‘voluntourism’ trip, it’s really important to do your research thoroughly to ensure that the project you are working with is ethically sound, doesn’t take jobs away from the local community and does not sustain institutions that do harm, such as orphanages that take on children who already have families.

The Lions Club, Roundtable and Rotary Club all support community service ideas but this is not about keeping noses to grindstones after the pressure of A-levels; Morton-Hedges says it can be healthy for students to get off the treadmill for a while.

‘Whether this is a gap year before or after university,’ she says, ‘it allows important time for self-reflection and often means that students are ready to tackle their next pursuits feeling rejuvenated and refreshed. As we later step on to the career ladder we soon realise that future opportunities to take time out in this way become much more complicated.’

Certain careers do come with the expectation that students are actively seeking out work experiences during

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PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES AND HAMISH JOHNS

‘Eighty-five universities are allied to Santander Universities, providing scholarships and grants for British students to study in Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries’ Leonora Burtenshaw

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vacations. The British Medical and Dental Students Trust help with travel awards, as does the Florence Nightingale Foundation for nurses. Future midwives can look to the Iolanthe Midwifery Trust for a range of supportive schemes.

Both the British Veterinary Association and the Royal Society of Biology offer travel grants to suitable students, and the Royal Geographical Society has a range of awards and prizes.

If you are part way through a degree course and want to spend a summer overseas, many universities, including Southampton, Cambridge and University College London, have travel schemes which tutors can advise on.

Santander Bank has been particularly active in this area, donating to date more than €1.5bn to scholarships, mobility grants, support for entrepreneurship, special projects and non-academic awards. ‘Eighty-five universities are allied to Santander Universities,’ says its spokesperson Leonora Burtenshaw, ‘providing scholarships and grants for British students to study in Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries.’

It also supports students to undertake paid internships with SMEs ‘to provide critical business skills and level the playing field in a growingly competitive graduate job market.’

It’s worth considering combining your experiences, says Dr Gray for instance, by travelling and working, for example. ‘There

is a lot of value in having work experience; a paid job preferably, irrespective of the type of work. It doesn’t have to be connected to the career or profession you want to go into.

‘It’s about learning to interact with different people, arriving on time and being accountable to a boss. It’s useful prep for the world of university too,’ he adds.

Dr Gray’s perfect gap year would be a combination of work for the first half, and then developing new horizons and new experiences in the second, such as learning a new language.

And don’t underestimate the appeal to a future employer either of having achieved a gap year bursary in itself. The ability to find and land financial support shows tenacity, persuasion and good research skills.

For example, don’t just think about where you are going to but where you come from. Londoners aged between 17 and 24 can apply to The Lord Mayor’s 800th Anniversary Trust or The Jack Petchey Foundation. Grants made by The Joicey Trust are available for those living in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. The Sir Philip Reckitt Educational Trust supports young people in Yorkshire and Norfolk. The John Muir Trust offers grants ABOVE & BELOW: Employers like to see character building experiences for Scots interested in on applicants’ CVs conservation There is even gap year funding specifically for students at independent schools via the Bulkeley Evans HMC Scholarship Fund.

One last tip from Dr Gray: ‘Don’t follow the crowd,’ he says. ‘Look at programmes and countries which are less typical.

‘The value of experiences like these lie in stepping outside your comfort zone.’ ■

Develop life skills with the Bulkeley Evans HMC Scholarship Fund

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WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS When Filmon Teckle joined ACS Hillingdon, he couldn’t have predicted the success he would achieve

which means we developed a deeper understanding of other t was 2017 when I received my bursary from ACS cultures and languages – it’s a knowledge for life.

International Schools, and I was terrified of starting As I look forward to going to university, I’m struck by the a new school year in August while all my school progress I’ve made in just two years. I’ve always been interested friends from London were still on holiday. Now, in architecture for higher education, but the variety of the IB I only wish that I had known about the scholarships allowed me to consider doing multiple subjects at degree level. when I was younger. The pre-International Baccalaureate (IB) Once I’d thought about combining architecture with art, I began course and summer visit gave me a clear idea of what was expected to consider art and design options academically, but I didn’t know more seriously. ACS encourages how truly enjoyable it would be.

Filmon Teckle us to look at the connections I was certainly very interested between disciplines and I’m in the idea of coming to interested in the connection a completely new learning between science and art; looking environment and switching at the psychological interplay to the IB. Unlike the standard between physics and creativity. and somewhat limited sixthOur counsellors are a driving form curriculum I had assumed force; they are life coaches with I would follow, I was drawn to a broad knowledge which helps the opportunity of covering six you to realise the global range subjects (Physics, Psychology, of options to explore. My friends Art, English, Maths and Italian), at my old school don’t understand with additional assignments the concept as it’s not common centred on community, activity in British schools, but every and service, an extended essay school should have them. and theory of knowledge, which They give you courage.

I looked forward to every week.

My counsellor encouraged It’s an intense programme, but me to develop my interest it has given me the opportunity and opened my eyes to the to pick the subjects I need, plus opportunities of a continuing the subjects I love as well; there global education after school. is almost no limit to what you Originally, I did art for myself can do with the course. and didn’t think it would be Doing more in school than a big part of my life, but again, the basic subjects, working my counsellor helped me to outside the school, and being It’s an intense programme, but it has consider it as something that part of the wider community all given me the opportunity to pick up the I was allowed to pursue and spoke to me of a more rounded education and one that would subjects I need, plus the subjects I love to see that it was ok to change directions and interests. surely equip me more effectively as well; there is almost no limit to what plans, Before IB and ACS, my plan for undergraduate life. you can do with the course was to go to university in London, ACS is an ocean of cultures. but now I’ve accepted a scholarship It is very diverse, and I have met in The States, which is a totally people from all over the globe. unexpected turn in my life, and one that I love! I was hesitant about I’ve always been in love with the leaving London but my counsellor encouraged me to be open-minded. idea of travelling the world and feel as though I have Although I went to a London school before ACS, all my friends there a friend that I can meet wherever I might be. I’m not were doing the same thing, looking at similar pathways and careers; daunted by the thought of working and studying in I feel like I’ve had a door opened for me at ACS, showing me that there other countries now. At ACS, students are encouraged is so much more in the world. ■ to learn about each other as well as our chosen subjects,

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STAND-UP CITIZEN Harrison Burns, 18, spent last summer working for the National Citizen Service, a voluntary organisation for 15 to 17-year-olds

for me. As well as helping us develop leadership skills, we were hen the National Citizen Service (NCS) came stunned to see how easy it is to volunteer and quite how much to my school to give an assembly about what they of an impact a group of teenagers could have. In the news we see did, I really didn’t know what to expect but was a lot of people talking about large-scale world problems, but NCS intrigued by what I heard. NCS is a government helped me realise how important it is to engage with issues locally funded, non-profit organisation which offers in order to make a difference to your community. a voluntary, personal and social development programme for 50 At the end of the NCS programme, we all celebrated our to 17-year-olds. I was very excited by the range of opportunities experiences and everything we had achieved. By the end I had available and that it was something I could do locally. Colchester a newfound self-confidence as High School is independent, so I well as an amazing new group found it challenging to meet new Harrison Burns of friends whom I wouldn’t people in my local community, have met otherwise. especially as my school had no When I was applying to jobs defined ‘catchment area’ and most of and universities I was able to my school friends lived quite far away. talk about my NCS experience.

After talking to my parents I currently work part-time at I decided to just take the leap Colchester Zoo and during my and sign up. Summer holidays interview they asked me what are famously very long, so it I had done within my local seemed like a rewarding way community to make a difference; to spend my time off. had I not have completed the The actual programme was so NCS programme I don’t think much fun. I was really nervous before I would have been able to answer I got on the coach for the first week, that question and possibly but after meeting my group I became wouldn’t have been successful excited about what lay ahead. You in getting the job. spend the first week away from home For university, I wrote a doing activities to help bond with lot about NCS in my personal your team. It can be intimidating statement. I applied to study going on a residential trip with a Politics and International group of people you’ve just met, Relations, writing about so activities like rock climbing, how NCS encouraged me archery and canoeing really helped to be more politically my team to bond. engaged. I was thrilled The second week was all about An unconditional offer to a Russell to obtain an unconditional self-development and learning skills that are valuable for your CV. Group University is awarded to very few offer from my first choice of university, The University Again, we stayed away from home applicants, so I’m very grateful I of York. An unconditional and learnt practical skills such as had NCS to help bolster my offer from a Russell Group cooking, budgeting and how to give personal statement University is awarded to very a presentation. This week of the few applicants, so I was very programme really enabled me to grateful I had NCS to help feel more confident and independent bolster my personal statement. as I did things I hadn’t done before, I would recommend NCS to all 16 and 17-year-olds without like public speaking and presenting. any reservation. You’ll never regret spending a few weeks of your In the final week we were tasked with working together as a long summer developing as an individual, making an impact in team to make a mark on our local community based on an issue your local community and having fun while making some great we were passionate about. My group decided to work with a local friends in the process. n homeless charity. This part of the programme was a real highlight

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fee remission.

Awards: The Kensington

Townley Road, Dulwich,

Age at entry: 3+, 11+, 16+

Scholarship for All-

London SE22 8SU

Deadline: Senior and Sixth Form

Round Academic

Aske’s Boys’ School

T 020 8557 1500

Scholarships examinations

Excellence; the Leamington

Butterfly Lane, Elstree,

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early January each year.

Scholarship for Musical

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Excellence; the Leibniz Prize

Awards: Scholarships -

- Academic, Art (11+ only),

The Bank, Highgate, London

for Mathematics.

Limited number of academic

Music and Sport (11+ & 13+ only).

N6 5HF

Value: Scholarships - up

scholarships to pupils entering

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee

T 020 8340 2328

to £200 per term; the

the senior school in year seven

remission (and, in some cases,

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Academic, Music and

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for details.

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Abercorn School

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admissions to register for

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scholarship entry and

lunch and uniform.

Scholarships - awarded

38, Portland Place,

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January 2019) at the same

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Preparatory School

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City of London School

T 020 7924 6000

Deadline: 30 November in the

Age at entry: 11+

107 Queen Victoria Street,

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London EC4V 3AL

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Ashbourne College

bursaries; Scholarships - Academic,

Value: 20% fee remission.

T 020 8979 9273

17 Old Court Place,

Sport and Music.

Age at entry: 8+, 11+

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Value: Bursaries - 25-100% fee

Deadline: 20 December

Awards: Means-tested

T 020 7937 3858

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Awards: Means-tested

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Music, Academic and Sport.

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by November of the year prior

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fee remission; Sixth

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Deadline: (For 2020 entry)

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Value: Bursaries - up to 100%

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entry); 30 June 2020 (13+,

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King Street, London W6 9LR

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Awards: Means-tested

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and Drama.

Awards: Means-tested bursaries;

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Academic, Sport, Music, Art

Value: Means-tested bursaries

Honorary scholarships - Academic,

Hearnville Road, London SW12 8RS

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Scholarships - up to 40% fee

Value: Means-tested bursaries -

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Knightsbridge School

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Old Palace Road, Croydon

67 Pont Street, London

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James Allen’s Girls’ School

T 020 7590 9000

144 East Dulwich Grove,

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Awards: Means-tested bursaries;

Awards: Two children

MPW London, 90-92

Scholarships - The Whitgift

IBC

T 020 8693 1181

entering Year 7 each year.

Queen’s Gate,

Scholarship (highest ranking

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Value: 100% fee remission.

London SW7 5AB; MPW

academic award); the Ayckbowm

scholarships-bursaries

Age at entry: 11+

Cambridge, 3-4

Scholarship (second highest

Awards: Means-tested

Deadline: End of Autumn term.

Brookside, Cambridge

ranking academic award);

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Music and Mathematics

17-18 Greenfield Crescent,

Scholarships; English

bursaries; Scholarships -

Academic, Art, Kew College

Birmingham B15 3AU

Awards; Reasoning Awards; Head’s

Value: Bursaries - up to

24-26 Cumberland Road,

T MPW London - 020 7835

Awards; Music Awards; Exhibitions.

100% fee remission;

Kew, Surrey TW9 3HQ

1355; MPW Cambridge -

Value: Bursaries - up to 99% fee

Scholarships -annum.

T 020 8940 2039

01223 350158;

remission; Scholarships - 10-50%

Music and Sport.

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MPW Birmingham -

fee remission.

13+ 16+

admissions/bursaries

01214 549637

Age at entry: 11+, 16+

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Awards: Means-tested

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2022 13+ entry) October 2019.

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Age at entry: Year 3, Year 4.

Value: 5-30% fee remission;

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Deadline: January/February

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Middle Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill

2020.

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Age at entry: 14+, 16+

London SW7 1ND

Lady Eleanor Holles School

Deadline: Rolling admissions;

T 020 7591 4620 W princesgardensprep.co.uk

Awards: Means-tested bursaries;

Hanworth Road, Hampton,

Scholarship examinations - 13 March

Scholarships - Academic, Sport,

Middlesex TW12 3HF

2020 and 24 April 2020 (London).

Awards: Academic scholarships

Music and Drama.

T 020 8979 1601

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Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+

Awards: Means-tested bursaries;

Deadline: Published on website.

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Value: Scholarships -

Scholarships - Academic, Music,

Sandy Lodge, Northwood,

20% fee remission.

Drama (16+ only), Art (16+ only),

Middlesex HA6 2HT

Age at entry: 3+, 4+, 7+, 8+

Sport (16+ only) and STEM

T 01923 820644

(scholarships available at 7+ and 8+ only).

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Kensington Park School

(16+ only).

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40-44 Bark Place, London

Value: Bursaries - up to 100%

Awards: Means-tested Bursaries;

Deadline: For 2020 entry,

W2 4AT

fee remission (including the same

Scholarships - Academic,

register by 13 December 2019

T 020 7616 4400

% off lunches, travel, trips,

All-rounder, Art, Drama, D&T,

for assessment in January 2020.

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uniform and iPads); Scholarships

Music and Sport.

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Value: Scholarships - 10-50%

Academic, Sport, Music,

Age at entry: 11+, 16+

fee remission; Bursaries - up to

Art and Drama.

Deadline: 17th October (16+);

100% fee remission.

35 Putney Hill, London

Value: Assessed on an

1st December (11+) for 2020 entry.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+

SW15 6BH

individual basis.

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Age at entry: 4+, 11+, 16+

scholarships

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5-50% fee remission.

Awards: Means-tested

Age at entry: 10+, 11+, 13+, 16+

bursaries provided

Deadline: (For 2020 entry)

through the GDST; 11+

November 2019 - check website for details.

Scholarships - Academic, Music and Sport; 16+

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University College School

Technology, Music and Sport.

Frognal, Hampstead, London

Value: Bursaries - up to 100%

NW3 6XH

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St Dunstan’s College

fee remission; Scholarships -

Stanstead Road,

10-25% fee remission.

London SE6 4TY

Age at entry: 11+ (boys), 13+

T 020 8516 7226

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Deadline: Please see website

Awards: Means-tested

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Programme (16+ only).

T 020 8688 9222

Value: Bursaries - up to 100%

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fee remission; Scholarships -

Awards: Means-tested

10-50% fee remission.

bursaries; Scholarships

Age at entry: 11+, 16+

- Academic (all

Deadline: (For 2020 entry)

applicants considered);

11+ Scholarships, November

Art; Design, Technology

2 New Change, London

Deadline: (For 2020 entry)

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November 2019 - check

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All Hallows Preparatory School Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Shepton Mallet BA4 4SF T 01749 881609 W allhallowsschool.oc.uk/ scholarships Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships Creative Scholarships and Head’s Awards.

Value: 5-50% fee remission.

Age at entry: Any age from 7+ to 11+ Deadline: Ongoing admission.

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Age at entry: 11+ Deadline: 10 January 2020.

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Value: Bursaries - up to 99% fee remission; Scholarships -

Bromsgrove School Worcester Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B61 7DU T 01527 579679 W bromsgrove-school.co.uk/ admissions Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships - Academic, Music, Art/Textiles (13+, 16+ only), Drama (13+, 16+ only) and Sport (13+, 16+ only).

Value: Scholarships - There is much competition for Scholarship places at Bromsgrove but they offer only a small amount of financial help - the reward is through recognition of the Scholars’ contribution to their area of excellence within the school; All Scholarships can be supplemented by means-tested bursaries - up to 100% fee remission.

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Badminton School Westbury Road, Westburyon-Trym, Bristol BS9 3BA T 0117 905 5200 W badmintonschool.co.uk/ admissions/scholarshipsawards-bursaries Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships - Junior School, AllRounder, Academic, Music, Art, Sports and STEM; South West Regional Award; Sixth Form Day Girl Award; Old Badmintonian Award.

Value: Bursaries - up to 50% fee remission; Scholarships - 5-10% fee remission; South West Regional Award - up to 30% fee remission; Sixth Form Day Girl Award - 25% fee remission.

Age at entry: 9+, 10+, 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: Please visit our website for further information.

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Scholarships - sport, music etc Value: 10–100% fee remission Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: 29 November 2019

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ACS International Egham London Road, Egham, Surrey TW20 0HS T 01784 430800 W acs-schools.com/bursaries Awards: Means-tested bursaries – ACS bursaries are offered to students who will most benefit from an ACS education, but whose family circumstances mean that their parents cannot meet the full school fees.

Scholarships - sport, music etc Value: 10–100% fee remission Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: 29 November 2019

Age at entry: 8 - 13 years.

Deadline: Novemeber 2019 (For 2020 entry).

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Aysgarth School Newton-le-Willows, Bedale, North Yorkshire DL8 1TF T 01677 451021 W aysgarthschool.com Awards: Scholarships or meanstested bursaries.

Value: 10-100% fee remission.

Berkhamsted School Overton House, 131 High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire HP4 2DZ T 01442 358001 W berkhamsted.com Awards: Scholarships - Academic, Drama, Music, Art, Sport, Peter Gibbs Science and Incent.

Value: Usually 10% with additional means-tested funding up to 100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 9+, 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: Please contact us or visit our website, berhamsted.com/ admissions/

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Canford School Wimborne, Dorset BH21 3AD T 01202 847207 W canford.com/ admissions/fees

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Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships – Academic, Art, Design Technology, Drama, Music and Sport Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships 10-50% fee remission.

Age at entry: 13+, 14+, 16+ Deadline: Ideally by the end of Year 5 (13+); early October prior to year of entry (Sixth Form).

Specific dates available online.

W dragonschool.org Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Forces / FCO discount for boarders Age at entry: Reception - year seven Deadline: Published on website

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Age at entry: 8+ Deadline: Please contact the school.

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Christ’s Hospital Horsham, West Sussex RH13 0JL T 01403 246555 W christs-hospital.org.uk Awards: More bursarial support than any other independent school; Scholarships - Academic Excellence, Music, Art, Drama and Sport.

Value: Means-tested bursaries - up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships - 5-20% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) 20 September 2019.

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Dover College Effingham Crescent, Dover, Kent CT17 9RH T 01304 205969 W dovercollege.org.uk Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships Academic, Music, Drama, Art, Design Technology, Sport & All-Rounder Value: 10-40% fee remission Age at entry: 11+, 13+ and 16+ Deadline: Assessment Day 7 December 2019

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Gresham’s School Cromer Road, Holt, Norfolk NR25 6EA T 01263 714500 W greshams.com Awards: Scholarships - Academic, Art, Drama, Music and Sport.

Value: Up to 20% fee remission.

Additional means-tested bursaries available to scholars.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: Year 9 – 15 November 2019; Year 12 – 11 October 2019.

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Hurtwood House Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NU T 01483 279000 W hurtwoodhouse.com Awards: Scholarships - Performing Arts and Maths/Science.

Value: Performing Arts - 10-50% fee remission; Maths/Science £500-£2000 per term.

Age at entry: 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) November 2019

King Edward’s School, Bath North Road, Bath BA2 6HU T 01225 464313 W kesbath.com Awards: Means-tested bursaries available at year 7 and year 12 entry; Academic scholarships and special talent awards in art, drama, music and sport available at year 7 entry.

There are a limited number of discretionary headmaster’s awards available at year 12 entry.

Value: Year 7 entrance bursaries range from 10 - 100% of school fees.

Age at entry: 11+, 16+ Deadline: See website for details.

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Lancing College Lancing, West Sussex BN15 0RW T 01273 465 805 W lancingcollege.co.uk Awards: Scholarships - Academic, Art, Drama, Music, Ken Shearwood

Mayfield School The Old Palace, Mayfield, East Sussex TN20 6PH T 01435 874642 W mayfieldgirls.org Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships - Academic, Creative Art, Drama, Music, Sport, Equestrian, Dance, Jubilee (11+)/ Mayfield (13+), Science (16+). Please see website for more infomation and application requirements.

Value: Means-tested bursaries up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships 5%-25% fee remission/ complimentary tuition.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) October 2019.

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Value: Up to 25% fee remission.

Age at entry: 16+ Deadline: For 2019 entry - 10 January 2019 (All scholarships except Academic); for 2020 Entry -November 2019 (Academic), January 2020 (All other scholarships).

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Award (All-Rounder; 13+ only), Organ (16+ only), Peter Robinson Cricket and Sport.

Value: Typically 5-25% fee remission.

Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) October-November 2019.

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Value: Scholarships - 10% fee remission; Additional means-tested bursaries available to scholars.

Age at entry: 6+ Deadline: Ongoing admission.

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Malvern St James Girls’ School 15 Avenue Road, Great Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 3BA T 01684 584624 W malvernstjames.co.uk Awards: Means-tested Bursaries; Scholarships – Academic, Art, Drama, Music, Riding, Sports, Technology, Flexi-Boarding, Sixth Form.

Value: Means-tested Bursaries – up to 40% fee remission; Senior School Scholarships – up to 0% fee remission; Sixth Form Scholarships – means-tested up to 40%.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) Sixth Form – October 2019; Senior School – November 2019

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Milton Abbey School Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 0BZ T 01258 881804 W miltonabbey.co.uk Awards: Sport Scholarships Elite Golf, Elite Road Cyling, Games Player for traditional team sports, Dorset Sport (13+ for local day pupils); Other Scholarships - All-Round, Academic, Art, Drama, Music, Design Technology and the Dorset Scholarship (13+ for local day pupils).

Value: Scholarships - 10-20% fee remission; Additional means-tested bursaries available to scholars.

Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: Sports Scholarships assessment January-February 2019; Other Scholarships - rolling assessment.

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New Hall School The Avenue, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 3HS T 01245 236098 W newhallschool.co.uk Awards: Means-tested bursaries; scholarships and awards are available for entry to Year 7, Year 9 and Sixth Form. Academic, Open (All Rounder), Diocesan, Catholic Independent Schools, Music, Sport, Tennis, Swimming and Special Talent (Year 7 entry). Academic, Open (All Rounder), Open (Catholic Award), Music, Tennis, Sport and Special Talent (Year 9 external joiners). Academic, GCSE Achievement, Sixth Form STEM, Sixth Form Classics, Open (All Rounder), Open (Catholic) scholarships available, as well as Boarding, Co-Curricular, Subject and Outstanding Performer awards (Sixth Form).

Value: Means-tested bursaries, up to 100%; most scholarships will have a monetary value attached to them, with named scholarships being awarded as a percentage of fees to the highest performers in the assessments.

Age at entry: 1, 3+, 4+, 7-10+, 11+, 13+, 16+.

Deadline: (For 2020 entry) October 2019 (Year 7), January 2020 (Year 9).

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Orwell Park School Nacton, Ipswich IP10 0ER T 01473 653224 W orwellpark.co.uk/ admissions/ scholarships Awards: Scholarships Academic, Sport, Music, Art and Design Technology.

Value: Up to 25% fee remission.

Age at entry: 9+, 11+ Deadline: Please contact the school.

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Queen Anne’s School Henley Road, Caversham, Berkshire RG4 6DX T 01189 187300 W qas.org.uk/admissions/ scholarshipsbursaries Awards: Scholarships - Allround, Academic, Art, Drama, Music and Sport Value: Up to 30% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: October 2019 (16+); November 2019 (11+, 13+).

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Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate Thorpe Underwood Estate, York YO26 9SS T 01423 333300 W qe.org Awards: Scholarships Academic, Sport, Drama,

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Value: 5-100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 3 months19 years Deadline: Ongoing admission.

Value: Scholarships - 5-10%; Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission.

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Reed’s School Sandy Lane, Cobham, Surrey KT11 2ES T 01932 869001 W reeds.surrey.sch.uk Awards: Foundation Bursaries (based on certain criteria); Scholarships Academic, Art, Design & Technology, Drama, Music and Sport.

Value: Foundation Bursaries – vary depending on need; Scholarships – vary at Headmaster’s discretion.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) October 2019 (16+); November 2019 (11+). (For 2022 entry) November 2019 (13+).

Royal Hospital School Holbrook, Ipswich, Suffolk IP9 2RX T 01473 326136 W royalhospitalschool.org Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Special bursaries for naval families; discounts for families eligible for MOD (CEA); Scholarships Academic, Art, Design, Music, Sport, Sailing and Drama.

Value: Bursaries - 50-100% fee remission; Scholarships 10-20% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) 6 December 2019.

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70 Roedean School Roedean Way, Brighton BN2 5RQ T 01273 667500 W roedean.co.uk Awards: Scholarships – Academic, Art, Dance, Drama, Music and Sport.

Value: 5-40% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) November 2019.

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Rossall School Broadway, Fleetwood, Lancashire FY7 8JW T 01253 774201 W rossall.org.uk/admissions/ scholarships Awards: Bursaries Foundation Bursary Award (16+); Scholarships – Academic, Sport, Art and Design, Music and Drama; Additional Trapnell and Jackson awards for boarders.

Value: General scholarships up to 20% fee remission; Trapnell, Jackson and Foundation Awards 80-100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: 8 November 2019 (16+), 29 November 2019 (11+, 13+).

Awards: Scholarships Academic, Music, Art, Drama, Engineering and Cowdrey (Sport).

Value: Up to 100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: 1 December 2019 (Music, Art, Drama, Design, Technology and Engineering and Cowdrey); 1 March 2020 (Academic 13+).

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Warminster School Church Street, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 8PJ T 01985 210100 W warminsterschool.org.uk/ admissions/scholarships Awards: Scholarships =Drama and Art. Value: Please contact the school.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) November 2019.

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St Peter’s School York YO30 6Ab T 01904 527400 Wstpetersyork.org.uk /helpwithfees Awards: Help With Fees Bursaries and Music Scholarships Value: 10–100% fee remission .

Age at entry: 11+, 13+ & 16+ Deadline: 31 December 2019.

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St Mary’s Calne Calne, Wiltshire SN11 0DF T 01249 857341 W stmaryscalne.org/ admissions/scholarships Awards: Scholarships - Academic, Bodinnar All-Rounder, Art, Choral (for first-study singers), Drama, Music (for firststudy instrumentalists) and Sport.

Value: Academic awards 5–40% fee remission; Non-Academic awards - please contact the school for details Age at entry: 11+, 13+ & Sixth-Form Deadline: Please contact Admissions.

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Shrewsbury School The Schools, Shrewsbury SY3 7BA T 01743 280552 W shrewsbury.org.uk Awards: Means-tested Bursaries; Scholarships – Academic, Music, Drama, Art, Design Technology, Sport and All-Rounder.

Value: 10-100% fee remission Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: Published on website.

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Rugby School Lawrence Sheriff St, Rugby CV22 5EH T 01788 556216 W rugbyschool.co.uk Awards: Means-tested Bursaries; The Arnold Foundation; Scholarships – Academic, Music, Sport, Drama, Art, D&T, Computing Value: Bursaries up to 100% of fees; Arnold Foundation (boarding only) 110% of fees; Scholarships 10% fee remission, but special awards also available Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2021 entry) May 2020.

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Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: Various from October-February annually; see website.

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Royal Grammar School, Guildford High Street, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3BB T 01483 880600 W rgs-guildford.co.uk Awards: Bursaries 11+ and 13+; Scholarships - Academic (11+ and 13+), Art (13+), Music (11+ and 13+) and Sport (13+).

St Edward’s, Oxford Oxford, OX2 7NN T 01865 319200 W stedwardsoxford.org Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships at 13+ - Academic, Girls’ STEM, Music, Sport, Art, Drama, Dance, All-Rounder and Design Technology; Scholarships at 16+ - Academic, Music, Sport, Art, Drama and Dance.

Value: Scholarships - up to 10% fee remission; Exhibitions -

The King’s School, Canterbury The Precincts, Canterbur Kent CT1 2ES T 01227 595501 W kings-school.co.uk/ scholarships Awards: Means-tested Bursaries; Scholarships Academic, Art, Dance, Design Technology, Drama, Music and Sport.

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships 5-10% fee remission.

Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadlines: 13 December 2018 (13+ Drama, Dance, Art and Design Technology); 11 January 2019 (13+ Music and Sport); 1 March 2019 (13+ Academic); 4 November 2019 (16+ Academic, Music and Sport).

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Tonbridge School High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1JP T 01732 304297 W tonbridge-school.co.uk

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