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good english boarding schools for 14 years old?

hi!
i am looking for a good boarding school for girls (mix is alright), as long as it is a good school (in the sense that it is 'all-rounded') /safe for my 14 year old sister whom my mother wants to send to UK to study.

any recommendations?

it would be good if it is near london area but it is alright even if it is in the country side.

thanks,

Reply 1

~Jinxes~

8

hey
There are loads and loads of boarding schools - what kind of things would your sister be looking for?
Sporty?
In the city or in the countryside?
Lots of different activites or very academic?
Big or Small?
Mixed or Single Sex?
What kind of price per year are you wanting/able to pay?

Then I can suggest you some lol!!

Reply 2

Zinc11

1

check out:

http://www.boardingschools.co.uk/
http://www.boarding.org.uk/

i know some in southwest england that are really good in terms of academics so you thats the area you're looking for you can pm me or something.

Reply 3

Tyler Durden

17

If she wants a decent school academically then you can't really beat Sevenoaks. That's where I'd have wanted to go had I had the full options at the age of 11! But I can't complain, my school was good too (but all boys).

Hogwarts...

High Wycombe Abbey is suppost to be good. One of my friends went there.

Reply 6

~Jinxes~

8

But it depends what she's into...Wycombe Abbey is v.v.v.v.v.v.v academic. Some of the cleverest people I know have switched from Wycombe to my school becasue they thought it was to pressured and a bit prison-like. But then again, if the person has a very academic focus, it would be a great place to get top grades.

Reply 7

usa1981

15

unbreakablej

hi!
i am looking for a good boarding school for girls (mix is alright), as long as it is a good school (in the sense that it is 'all-rounded') /safe for my 14 year old sister whom my mother wants to send to UK to study.

any recommendations?

it would be good if it is near london area but it is alright even if it is in the country side.

thanks,

Is she in 9th or 10th grade? When I turned 14 (right before Christmas vacation 1st semster) I was in 8th grade and turned 15 in 9th grade.

Reply 8

Purple

18

My parents kept threatening to send me to a boarding school ^o)

Reply 9

*River

15

There are loads of good boarding schools. You need to think about what the priorities are in choosing a school. Ignore the league tables; a lot of boarding schools have international students that are in the wrong year for their age, so they aren't represented properly in the tables.

Price is a big factor for a lot of people. Do you want a religious school? Does she want to take the IB (in which case Sevenoaks is the way to go) or A Levels? What subjects would she want to take for GCSEs? Does she want to go to a school with strong extra curiccular activities? A school with a large international contingent?

See if you can buy a copy of the Good School's Guide or see if you can get any recomendations from friends in your own country.

Finally, good luck!

Reply 10

no1mohsin

13

What about Shrewsbury. Heard that's good.

Reply 11

~Jinxes~

8

actually probs the best place to look (which is freeee!) is the tatler schools guide. Go to www.tatler.co.uk

Reply 12

acyy26

how bout cheltenham ladies' college? it's in west midlands i think and it's a proper girls school if that's what you're looking for... :biggrin:

Reply 13

silence

16

haileybury - http://www.haileybury.herts.sch.uk/

Reply 14

Charlieholden

K ive spent my whole life at public/boarding school. Very useful, make good connections, good education and learn discipline and good behaviour.

a list of good schools

GIRLS: Cheltenham Ladies College
Wycombe Abbey
Heathfield St Mary's
Down House
Woldingham
Bennenden
St Mary's Ascot
St Mary's Calne

BOYS: Radley
Eton
Harrow
Shrewsbury

MIXED :s-smilie:

towe School
Kings Canterbury
Cheltenham College
Rugby
St Edwards, Oxford
Repton
Canford

LONDON: Queensgate
Moore House

If i were you, i'd choose Woldingham for a girls school, Stowe for mixed (where i went)

Reply 15

dkps_2000

One more to add to the list of good mixed school (ex all boys) is Ampleforth!

Reply 16

andy_cole2

14

sevenoaks as much as i hate that school for being amazingly better than mine at the IB and being private etc etc it is immense and im sure most people would like to be part of a school where 10% of the 45 pointers for IB went last year :p:

lol

Reply 17

*River

15

How about Roedean? It's all girls, and in Brighton which is about an hour by train from London. Huge international community as well (not just Chinese as the newspapers like to make out).

Reply 18

dementedbunny

11

i went to wycombe abbey and i'm not academic at all.

didn't do any work, handed everything in a week late.

but i did good. 3 a's lol. so you don't have to be academically minded.

Reply 19

henryt

17

Charlieholden

K ive spent my whole life at public/boarding school. Very useful, make good connections, good education and learn discipline and good behaviour.

a list of good schools...

Where's Westminster :eek:

???

If you wanted to wait, you could send your sister to Westminster in the 6th form :biggrin:

good english boarding schools for 14 years old?

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