They don't normally have to poo first, its only a concern because of the spinal for caeserean. Nope, don't have to do that either. My wee man's not had a bath yet, just a wipe down.
well - that's the end of my life - my lad has just been accepted into MTS - who needs money anyway!?!
£70,833 in total!! Shhhh... Don't tell RHC ..... but did your lad sit the Blue Coat exam? No fees there - It's free!
You get a 10% reduction in fees for a second child and 20% reduction for each subsequent one - you thinking of moving up here and having your boys privately educated??
Scholarships now are different to your Mum's day RHS, when scholarship meant you didn't have to pay. These days the MT scholarships are only up to £200 per year. The equivalent of your Mum's scholarship is now called an assisted place. They are means tested and the school have an agency [?] who do home visits to check you out!
No I didn't. My parents could just about afford a pair of shoes a year for us even with a 'scholarship' it wouldn't have been possible.
No offence intended to anyone on here, but I could never send my boys to a private school and I don't mean because of the financial side of things.
I understand what you're saying. We wanted the very best education possible for our boys. The eldest was interviewed for Blue Coat [which was comprehensive until the government stepped in] and happens to be our local secondary school as well as the best in the city, but also applied to MT because we saw that as the best alternative. You have to pay a deposit to keep a place open there [the results for MT come out before the other schools]. Our lad passed the entrance exam and we paid the deposit but he also got into the BC which we accepted. We wrote to MT to tell them to find out the deposit is non returnable. It's since gone up to £300. So we would have been sending him to a private school for the best education if he hadn't got in to the other one. I really don't know how we would have managed the fees. You've got all this to come Gerrez, if you have a good secondary school that your primary school feeds into you're laughing, if you don't - and we didn't which is why we tried those two schools - you will find out about the competition for the best places.
Just to add although the Blue Coat is our local secondary it wasn't the school allocated to us because we're Catholic, so it is a Catholic secondary allocated to you. Our other son also sat for Blue Coat and got in.
