My daughters school went bust today.

Kez100

Roedean sounds the most consistent choice for her education.

Just need a rethink once she has finished her GCSE's as if Roedean offer that age education you may find, if she enjoys next year, you feel obliged to pay for higher education there as well at their real world rates.

Sounds like the business decision is separate as if you can get out of Brighton you would still be better off doing so and saving the loss but staying there in rented accommodation until her GCSEs are complete. Once she moves onto Higher education she could perhaps lodge in the week herself (is that allowed now?) I know when I went to to college (age 16-18) some children from quite a distance would lodge in the week, going home at weekends.

listerofsmeg_2

I drive past Roedean sometimes and it looks amazing! I'd send her there, especially since she wants to go, and her friends will be there. The last thing you need in the GCSE year is too much upheaval. And like someone else said, it'll be hard to get her into a good school in London, mid year.

Spendless

Forgot to ask -if you could do with moving back to London for your business is your daughter boarding for a year an option? Would Roedean keep to the old schools fees for boarding even if your daughter was previously a day-girl?

SouthCoast

Consensus appears to be for Roedean.

Go for it.

Generali

SouthCoast wrote: »

Consensus appears to be for Roedean.

Go for it.

I suspect the consensus around the fc123 breakfast table is more important than the consensus here!!!

silvercar

Don't worry about the uniform/snobbery thing. I live in Rugby where one of the expensive schools is and believe me the students there are some of the scruffiest and most untidy ones around. I always look at shoes and some of them wear them with holes in and I don't think they know what polish is.

Apparently its a throw back to the previous generation.

20 years ago the kids in school that were dressed scruffily with worn out clothes are now the parents making sure their own kids are exceptionally clean and polished. Whereas the parents whose own parents drove them mad about their appearance in school hava a devil-may-care attitude to the state of their own children leaving the house in the morning.

nickmason

silvercar wrote: »

Apparently its a throw back to the previous generation.

20 years ago the kids in school that were dressed scruffily with worn out clothes are now the parents making sure their own kids are exceptionally clean and polished. Whereas the parents whose own parents drove them mad about their appearance in school hava a devil-may-care attitude to the state of their own children leaving the house in the morning.

Don't have kids yet, but my parents drove me mad with shoe-polish duties (in shoes too small for me, but hey) and sadly I know have a devil-may-care attitude to the state of me leaving the house in the morning....:o
I really can't see me being precious about my kids being "tip-top, with ribbons in their hair."

pianeet

mini_cooper wrote: »

Roedean it must be, for if your daughter is not happy, then it will bring the whole family down.

Don't worry about the uniform/snobbery thing. I live in Rugby where one of the expensive schools is and believe me the students there are some of the scruffiest and most untidy ones around. I always look at shoes and some of them wear them with holes in and I don't think they know what polish is.

My child goes to the local grammar school and always looks smarter than the Rugby lot.

Children need to be happy and being amongst her friends will mean she should settle in well.

i dont know if you have a boy or a girl but if its a boy lawrence sherrif gets a huge bursary from rugby school to subsidise it every year,as for the state of the kids i could not agree more i nag my son every day about how scruffy he looks and you would not believe the price of the blazers

Spendless

fc123 wrote: »

We'd already decided on state sixth form as some great ones in this area. Or she may do further Ed in arts, as she is not super academic.

Would this mean you'd need to stop in Brighton for 3 years?

arunadasi

Why look a gift horse in the mouth????
OTOH Roedean is a strange place. I drive past the school four times a week on my way into Brighton to work and back and I do admire the building and the location -- it looks absolutely spiffing! But I have never once seen a single pupil. Never. Not once. Never girls playing lacrosse or whatever it is they play there. It could be an abandoned building for all the life around it! UNlike other private schools in the area.

Nevertheless if I were in your position I know what I'd do, as long as she wanted it too.