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SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES 2019

HOW TO GET A BURSARY Funding options explained

SOCIAL MOBILITY Educational philanthropist, Sir Peter Lampl, shares his passion

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Our bursary scheme changes lives

We grant ÂŁ5 million a year in bursaries at our three leading independent schools in Croydon.

46% of our students receive financial support with school fees

Whitgift School

Old Palace School

Trinity School

Day and Boarding School for boys aged 10 to 18

Day School for girls aged 4 to 18, Co-educational Nursery (1+) and Pre-Prep

Day School for boys aged 10 to 18 and Co-educational Sixth Form

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“The Whitgift Foundation bursary gave me access to an incredible education that I never would have otherwise had access to. It’s an opportunity that is once in a lifetime and will shape your life forever.”

“Whitgift School has opened my eyes to the fact that if you’re willing to work hard, there is no limit to what I can achieve.”

Marcel, Whitgift School

Alexa, Old Palace School

“The Whitgift Foundation bursary support has helped me massively.

Without it, a lot of people like me would not be able to come to a school like Trinity where there are so many opportunities available to you.”

Gabriel, Trinity School

Find out more

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TOP SCHOLAR Ashford School’s star, Fred Austin A RADICAL IDEA Educational philanthropist, Sir Peter Lampl advocates Open Access SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES NEWS Who’s fishing for talent?

STRANGE WATERS How UCS, Hampstead overcame a mother’s fears A BURSARY CHANGED MY LIFE John Olatunji on Christ’s Hospital

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A GOOD PARTNERSHIP A unified education is guaranteed at Cumnor WHY WE SPONSOR PUPILS King’s Canterbury’s head reflects on tradition REACHING OUT Seeking state school talent, by Donal Brennan A BROADER ACCESS Sherborne’s bursar explains their ethos

THE ROAD TO A SCHOLARSHIP Philip Hoyland on how prep schools prepare scholars A CARING HAND Trinity School is strong on pastoral care

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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? Emma Love applies for funding WAYS AND MEANS Christopher Silvester asks where does the money come from?

FUNDING OUTSIDE THE BOX Victoria Lambert unearths some quirkier bursaries UNIVERSAL REWARDS Universities pay top dollar, says Sally Jones

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SIR PETER LAMPL

Sir Peter is one of the UK’s leading educational philanthropists. He founded the Sutton Trust in 1997 to improve social mobility in the UK and is chair of the Education Endowment Foundation funded by a government grant of £135 million to raise the achievement levels of children in challenged schools.

VICTORIA LAMBERT

Victoria Lambert is an award-winning freelance journalist, specialising in health, education and family issues.

Previously health editor of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, she is the co-author of Boundaries – How to Draw the Line in your Home, Heart and Head (HarperCollins).

CHRISTIAN HEINRICH

Christian Heinrich has been Headmaster at Cumnor House Sussex for the past 17 years and has taught in prep schools since 1984.

Before moving to Cumnor House Sussex he was Deputy Head at Summer Fields School, Oxford. He is an ISI inspector, has been on Council for IAPS and was Chairman of the BSA in 2012-13.

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ALASDAIR KENNEDY

Alasdair Kennedy is Headmaster of Trinity School, Croydon. Previously he was Head of Physics and Academic Deputy at Dulwich College, London. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, and studied Engineering at St John’s College, Cambridge.

He is married with three children aged 16, 14 and six and enjoys sport and music.

SALLY JONES

A prolific broadsheet journalist and morning TV presenter, Sally Jones was Britain’s first networked woman sports presenter covering the British Olympics.

A keen sportswoman and the world’s Real Tennis champion 1993-95, she played county sport for Warwickshire, won five Oxford Blues and half-Blues for tennis, squash, netball, cricket and modern pentathlon.

LUCY ROBINS

Lucy Robins has been Bursar of Sherborne School (boys) and Sherborne International for nine years with responsibility for all supporting infrastructure and services. Previously she was Bursar at Leweston and spent 15 years in commercial property and construction as a Chartered Surveyor. She is married with adult children and loves the performing arts and horseracing.

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SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES 2019 Scholarships and bursaries come in many shapes and sizes

s school fees are threatened with VAT as proposed by Jeremy Corbin, a move which may even be sanctioned by a conservative government, some boarding schools’ fees are lurching towards the terrifying figure of £50,000 per annum for the education of one child. Ironically, independent schools, previously known as public schools, a throwback to their founding remit to provide an education for poor boys, were always intended to educate bright children unable to access a good education. Hence their charitable status. Now, however, it is those very same children who are excluded from the excellent education provided by independent schools because of the rising cost of fees.

Cognisant of this fact, schools are working hard to draw from both ancient foundations and new sources of income from grateful alumni together with other significant fundraising efforts to bring bright children into their schools through bursaries and scholarships. They are actively reaching out to children in state schools, as St Anthony’s School for Girls describes here.

Social mobility is integral to the ethos of most of these schools, although in our leader column Sir Peter Lampl believes we should go further with an Open Access policy, which is supported by around 80 independent schools.

There are, however, many, many schools whose work

Ancient or new, foundations have to find the funds somehow

should be acknowledged and this is why we have launched a new magazine to promote and raise awareness of the scholarships and bursaries available and the work being done by independent schools to fill them.

Finding and applying for bursaries is relatively simple, as Emma Love explains, but does require a brave candour from parents. Where schools can run into difficulties is in communicating what they have on offer, especially to state schools unwilling to lose their star pupils. In addition, as Victoria Lambert discovers, it is more difficult to find out about some of the niche bursaries available, which means that, rather amazingly, every year some bursary places go unfilled. One of the problems faced by schools is that parents worry about whether their child will flourish in what is seen as the rarified world of the independent sector, so we asked pupils and parents about their experience and were pleased to find an overwhelmingly positive response.

The more we investigated the more we discovered, and so it is with great pleasure that we bring you our inaugural issue, which we hope will serve to act as a guide to parents about the bursaries and scholarships available and how to apply for them.

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FRED AUSTIN, ASHFORD SCHOOL, KENT

Fred Austin, 16, has an academic scholarship and an assisted place at Ashford School, a boarding and day co-educational junior and senior school in Kent. The type and number of scholarships available varies from year to year but a typical sixth form scholarship offers between a ten and 30 per cent fee remission. The maximum scholarship award made to an exceptionally gifted child is 50 per cent. A pupil can also be awarded a bursary by the Ashford School Foundation to a combined maximum value of 85 per cent of the day tuition fee, as every parent is required to make a contribution towards their child’s school fees of at least 15 per cent. Fred joined Ashford School in year seven when he was 12 moving from Trinity School, Croydon, one of three schools supported by The Whitgift Foundation, where he was also on an assisted place. Fred, whose mother is a manager in the NHS and whose father is an IT technician, was later awarded a scholarship in year 11. With ten GCSEs behind him Fred is taking Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Physics for A-level. He says, ‘I enjoy science and have always been interested in space. The scale is very different from the earth with so many more possibilities’.

NASA might have to wait though, as Fred is planning a career in medicine and hopes to become a surgeon studying at University College, London where his brother is currently a student. ‘I like the precision of the work and the fact that there is an end result, which can be achieved – if executed correctly – and then you can move on,’ says this inspiring student who helped found a political club, regularly wins the house debating contest, scoops key roles in the house drama, is doing Duke of Edinburgh, CCF and plays badminton.

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A RADICAL IDEA Educational philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl argues that Open Access would make private schools engines of social mobility

top 100 or more independent day schools. It would or two decades since founding the Sutton democratise selection at the schools, enabling children from Trust I’ve devoted pretty much every waking all backgrounds to benefit from their teachers and facilities. hour of my life to improving the educational Open Access adopts the same meritocratic principle opportunities of young people from low and embraced by Ivy League colleges in the United States: students moderate income backgrounds. The Trust put pay the level of fees according to their means. Once a student is the issue of Britain’s low social mobility on the political map. selected, parents would pay Our study by the London School a sliding scale of fees. The of Economics found that we have wealthiest pay full fees, middle one of the lowest levels of social earners pay partial fees and mobility in the developed world; the poorest pay nothing. not only this, social mobility had What’s more we know it fallen for recent generations. works. When we trialled this Not a day goes by without approach at the Belvedere someone asking me what more School in Liverpool, private schools could or should do the school’s intake was to level the playing field. They are transformed. Thirty per cent one of the country’s great success of pupils were on free places, stories. Over half of the leaders 40 per cent paid partial fees across a range of professions, and 30 per cent full fees. from politics to law to medicine, Academic achievement was were educated privately – even the highest on record, the though the schools make up school was a happy school just seven per cent of all schools. and the mix of fees and The problem is they are only subsidies meant the scheme accessible to those from well off could be delivered for less families who can afford their fees. than the average cost of a Our school system is nothing less state school place. than an education apartheid.

We also know that more I’ve heard countless proposals than 80 leading independent in my time. Politicians have day schools would back such argued that we should take a state-funded scheme, which away schools’ charitable status would benefit more than unless they do more to aid 40,000 able students, whose social mobility. We backed parents could not afford full the government scheme ‘Open Access is radical but far less fees. Open Access is radical funding partnerships between controversial than the government’s but far less controversial independent and state schools.

Schools, meanwhile, have current expansion of selective grammar than the Government’s current expansion of selective been quick to publicise the school places. That’s because it grammar school places. scholarships and bursaries would not increase selection, simply That’s because it would not they are able to offer to democratise it’ increase selection, simply non-privileged students. democratise it.

But to be frank all these I was lucky enough to purported solutions amount to benefit from the state funded little more than sticking plaster. places at private schools during the postwar boom years of Imagine instead a world in which we fundamentally changed social mobility. We need to turn the clock back if we are to help the make-up of leading independent days schools – where improve opportunities for today’s generations. Private schools merit rather than money determined who got a place. Well could be the engines of social mobility once again. that’s exactly what Open Access would mean for the country’s

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Awards up for grabs and star pupils soaring

FEMALE-ONLY FUNDING

Jimmy Higham was a former teacher at Wellington College

PASSING THE BATON

The Jimmy Higham Run at Wellington College, Berkshire, is a 10km race with both remembrance and patronage at its heart. Held in memory of a former teacher, Jimmy Higham, who tragically lost his battle with cancer aged just 26, it raises money – £7,000 in total this year – for a bursary fund that supports talented sports people at the school. In September 2018, 1,500 runners turned out in respect for a teacher whom most now only know by name yet continue to honour in spirit.

Employment Privilege Although improving diversity was a priority for almost all 138 companies polled by the Institute of Student Employers, a recent survey found that only 57 per cent of hired graduates had a state-school education – compared to 91 per cent across the population. When recruiting, 12 per cent of companies focused on Russell Group universities making this inequality even more intractable.

A LEARNED LEGACY

Robert Greenwood, alumnus of Solihull School, Birmingham who died in 2018 aged 83, bequeathed his entire estate to The Sihillian Fund, paying for two full, means-tested sixth form bursaries in perpetuity. His own free place enabled his enthusiastic membership of the naval cadet force.

Drama at Portland Place School, Westminster

The family of Rachel Heyhoe Flint, who raised the profile of women’s cricket by being the first female cricketer to hit a six in a Test match, has launched a new scholarship funded partly by donations made after the cricket star died from cancer in 2017, and partly by the Malvernian Society. Grace Seedhouse, 13, from Birchfield School in Shropshire has won the inaugral award and will join Malvern College in September 2019, where Heyhoe Rachel Heyhoe Flint Flint’s son, Ben, captained the England women’s team from himself went to 1966 to ‘78 school in 1987.

NEW FACILITIES NEED NEW TALENT

Following significant investment in specialist facilities, Portland Place School is relaunching its scholarship programme, inviting applications from local, gifted pupils with the intention of enabling talented children to reach their full potential in sport, music, drama and art.

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RECORD SUCCESS

CALLING FOR CUTS

In 2018, Aysgarth School in north Yorkshire achieved its highest scholarship tally in 141 years with 22 year eight boys receiving awards to prestigious senior schools, including a King’s Scholarship to Eton College.

Teachers and technologists from leading independent and state schools have rallied together to form a new futuristic school concept in protest against sky-rocketing independent school fees. Coming to the capital in 2020, Scholar 6 will be a new 250-pupil sixth form charging £13,000 per year, making savings by developing their own online Learning Management System and using pre-existing local facilities.

LEADING TALENT RACING TO SUCCESS Ethan Brooks, 15, from Brentwood School in Essex has scooped top prize in UK motorsport beating 66 other aspiring drivers to secure the Ginetta Junior Scholarship 2019. The win secures him entry into the 2019 Ginetta Junior Championship broadcast live on ITV to 19 million people, as well as a G40 Junior racecar and an experienced team for the duration of the season.

MARTIAL ARTIST Zoya, 11, a Mary Ward All-Rounder scholar at St Mary’s Shaftesbury, Dorset, took gold at the martial arts world championship in Athens last year and was offered a place to represent England in 2019.

ELITE ENGINEERING Bishop’s Stortford College, Hertfordshire, pupil Vinay Menon has been awarded an Arkwright Engineering Scholarship in recognition of the outstanding potential he has shown as a future leader in Engineering.

Eton College currently charges more than £13,000 per term

OSCAR-WINNING OPPORTUNITIES

University College Cork, Ireland, have launched the Puttnam Scholarship Programme, which will give six students the opportunity to be mentored by Lord David Puttnam, producer of Chariots of Fire and many other awardwinning films. As well as a monetary bursary, they will benefit from regular coaching sessions with Lord Puttnam, culminating in the joint production of a short film at the end Lord David Puttnam of the academic year.

New Status Funds First 20 Students ACS Cobham International School celebrated ACS International Schools becoming a fully registered charity in September 2018.

They have already made a £2.2 million commitment to fund bursaries for 20 students over the next seven years.

CREATIVES GO FREE

All Hallows Preparatory School, Somerset, has launched a new creative scholarship for 2019, which will enable three talented pupils to board for free. Partly initiated by the outstanding success of its year eight pupils – 65 per cent of which gained awards to senior schools including four design scholarships – creativity is very much at the heart of the school’s educational ethos.

These scholarships signpost the value that All Hallows places on exploration, experimentation and curiosity, ensuring that children have the freedom to develop their own ideas by thinking critically and innovatively.

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A GOOD PARTNERSHIP Christian Heinrich, Headmaster at Cumnor House Sussex, explains how he set up an ambitious bursary programme in collaboration with senior schools

Once they join us, each Foundation Scholar is allocated a tutor have always held that the happy and unpressurised who is a member of Cumnor’s teaching community, while their nature of my country prep school education made family is given access to a mentor who meets with them frequently me a slightly kinder and more confident individual and will continue to offer support and advice during the whole than I might otherwise have been – and certainly of their ten-year bursary journey from eight to 18. more mindful of values likely to lead to mine own What sets this particular bursary programme apart from others and others’ equanimity later in life. It is humbling to consider the is its tenure. Successful Foundation Scholars are offered access to advantage over others that I was apparently gifted by my parents’ a free independent education for ten years, from the age of eight ability to pay. In the latter stages of my career, I began to reflect through to the end of their A-levels, or equivalent, at the age of 18. more on this and how we might help more children to have as I have forged a relationship with positive a childhood as possible.

13 senior independent schools, In 2015, Niall FitzGerald, enabling us to guarantee that the newly appointed chair of each Foundation Scholar will our governing body, embraced move seamlessly from their prep my concept of offering children school education at Cumnor from the Sussex community House Sussex to one of our access to free education in the independent senior school independent sector through partners as part of that school’s the launch of a Foundation own bursary scheme, including Bursary programme.

Ardingly College, Benenden We set up a Charitable School, Eastbourne College, Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Hurstpierpoint College, The called The Cumnor Foundation, King’s School, Lancing College, which is distinct from the main Mayfield, Radley College, school charity but with an overlap Roedean School, St Mary’s of governors and trustees. We then School Ascot, Sevenoaks School, started raising money through Tonbridge School and Worth personal appeal to former parents School. I am continuing of Cumnor children and by asking Christian Heinrich to negotiate with additional existing parents to donate their senior schools to extend this list. initial school deposit to The ‘I have forged a relationship with thirteen We now have five Foundation Cumnor Foundation. senior independent schools, enabling us to Scholars in place across years four The Foundation’s bursaries to six, with the first making their at Cumnor House Sussex are guarantee that each Foundation Scholar means-tested and are awarded to will move seamlessly from their prep school transition to senior school in September 2020. The mother children who attend state primary education at Cumnor House Sussex, to one of our first Foundation Scholar school and show outstanding of our independent senior school partners’ commented that, ‘Through potential in academia, art, the Foundation Scholarship, drama, music or sport.

Cumnor has offered my child In order to help us promote an astounding opportunity and awareness of the opportunity to as environment to unwrap and discover new gifts. Its ethos of children many people as possible, we reach out to our local primary schools, “daring to be different” and its ability as a school to embed wellbeing churches, libraries, supermarkets, sports centres and to Cubs, in every lesson through its unique curriculum, “iSpace Wellbeing”, Scouts, Brownies and Guides groups, and sports, art and drama has allowed my child to manoeuvre confidently through emerging clubs, asking them all to spread the word to the Sussex community. friendships and embrace the unique and newfound interests in The selection process itself involves the child’s parent or guardian completing a means-tested bursary form and a registration subjects that may generally be attributed to a particular gender’.

Our aim is to increase the number to four Foundation form. The child’s current school is asked to submit a full report Scholars per year group from year four, at which point we and then they are invited to attend an experience day at Cumnor to work and play alongside their contemporaries and, if appropriate, will have 20 Foundation Scholars integrated within our school community of three hundren and seventy-five pupils. to show their particular talent in art, DT, drama, music or sport.

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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE Emma Love explains how scholarships and bursaries work

n the face of it, the world of scholarships and bursaries can seem like a bit of a minefield. But it’s an important one to know how to navigate – and can make all the difference between parents being able to afford to send a child to an independent school or not.

Whereas scholarships are awarded on merit – for being brilliant at maths, art or sports, say, or an excellent academic all-rounder – and usually come with up to around a five to 20 per cent fee assistance, bursaries are means-tested places based on financial earnings. An outstanding pupil from a family on a low income may find themselves the recipient of both a scholarship and a bursary. Either way, the good news is that these are on the up.

Last year, the Independent Schools Council which represents more than 1,200 independent schools in the UK and overseas, found that its members increased the value of means-tested bursaries by 4.8 per cent, to the value of £362 million. All of which equates to 43,000 pupils receiving some form of means-tested assistance (43.7 per cent have more than half of their fees remitted) and 5,657 pupils paying no fees at all.

According to ISC chairman and former head of Harrow School, Barnaby Lenon, the reason for this increase is twofold. ‘In the past, schools gave lots of scholarships worth up to half of the fee but now they are usually worth minimal or even of no monetary value.

This is so they can allocate more to bursaries. Offering scholarships doesn’t necessarily increase the applicants whereas bursaries are targeting a group of parents whose children otherwise wouldn’t be able to go to a school,’ he explains. ‘Quite a large number of schools, such as Manchester Grammar and King Edward’s School in Birmingham, have a historic commitment to educating pupils from low income families and try to take as broad a range of pupils as possible. They don’t only want to be schools for the affluent and make a big effort to keep fundraising to find bursary money.’

One such trio of schools is Trinity, Old Palace of John Whitgift and Whitgift in south London, which are all supported by The Whitgift Foundation, a registered charity that offers one of the largest bursary schemes in the UK. ‘Whitgift has led the way in the awarding of bursaries for centuries,’ says Chris Ramsey, headmaster at Whitgift School, where 20 per cent of pupils currently receive a bursary.

‘The Whitgift Foundation is built on the vision of helping boys access a world-class education with financial assistance, and the

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diverse pupil body we have today reflects that. There are always far more boys seeking bursary help than we can manage to accommodate, which is why we are looking to raise more funds.’

‘Competition is fierce,’ continues Ramsey, ‘but we are not expecting bursary holders all to be at the top academically: we also look for potential and an eagerness to learn.’

At the same time, Whitgift offers scholarships for academic, engineering, musical, artistic, dramatic and sporting talent.

‘The maximum award is 50 per cent of fees though this is rare,’ says Ramsey. ‘Small percentages are much more common, since we prioritise means-tested awards in our budgeting.’ Another school that falls into this category is Christ’s Hospital, which offers more bursaries than any other independent boarding school in the UK: 73 per cent of pupils receive some level of support and 34 per cent pay less than ten per cent of the boarding fee (it also offers 15 scholarships per year).

While some schools, such as those in The Whitgift Foundation, publish a chart on their website to give parents an idea of whether they could qualify for a bursary (and what level of support they might expect), many others don’t, simply because they may not know their budgets from one year to the next or how the money will be split.

While this can make it tricky for parents to work out where to begin, there are several organisations that can help. Independent Education Consultants was set up seven years ago by former teacher and boarding

school housemistress, Catherine Stoker, to offer all kinds of education advice. ‘The most commonly asked question is, “am I likely to get a bursary?” says Stoker of her clients, 80 per cent of whom live abroad.

‘What we tend to do is spend around 15 minutes offering free advice on how to get started and the first thing we do is encourage them to call schools to find out their individual requirements. In my experience, schools are very open and supportive in talking to parents – it’s just giving them the confidence to pick up the phone.’

The Good Schools Guide has an in-depth consultancy arm, which, for a small fee (up to £360), points parents in the right direction with updated information annually amassed from the schools in the guide.

‘We ask the parents a variety of questions and from this we judge whether the child could be a realistic candidate for a scholarship or bursary and whether we would be able to help. If we feel the child might gain some fee assistance, we then produce a report on what the school offers,’ explains Susan Hamlyn, director emerita of The Good Schools Guide. ‘For scholarships, the aim is to provide the number and type awarded; a scholarship’s reduction in fees, the assessment process and sample exam papers. This is not always possible for every school, but we provide as much information as we are able.’ Crucially the report also includes details of deadlines for registration and application, as well as entrance exam dates.

In return for a scholarship, pupils are always expected to participate

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‘Quite a large number of schools, such as Manchester Grammar and King Edward’s School in Birmingham, have a historic commitment to educating pupils from low income families and try to take as broad a range of pupils as possible. They don’t only want to be schools for the affluent and make a big effort to keep fundraising to find bursary money’ BARNABY LENON, CHAIRMAN OF THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS COUNCIL

fully in that particular subject throughout their school life. At Shrewsbury School in Shropshire, for instance, scholarships fall into various categories (academic, music, art, drama, design technology, sport and all-rounder) and are either given to pupils under the age of 14 who join in the third form or to those entering the sixth form. ‘We see scholarships not as the final point, but as the springboard,’ says Stuart Cowper, director of teaching and learning. ‘If pupils arrive with a scholarship, we have a responsibility to nurture, mentor and keep developing that particular specialism. In return, we expect the scholar to engage and give something back by contributing to the school and inspiring others.’

Sports scholars, for example, will be expected to run various house sports, represent Shrewsbury at fixtures and take part in the School’s Dedicated Athlete Programme, with twice-yearly reviews of

Cumnor House Sussex ensures a cohesive independent education

the scholar’s progress, fitness assessments, strength and conditioning planning and goal setting exercises.

The idea being that the programme maximises their potential, both while at school and afterwards.

Similarly, Lancing College expects scholars (scholarships are awarded at year nine and 12, either on the basis of an academic paper or in the case of arts scholarships, on an interview and portfolio), not only to build their own skills but take on a wider role and encourage others – whether that’s a music scholar coaxing shy violinists to audition for a school production or an academic scholar heading up a debate team.

Annual review days ensure these roles are being fulfilled.

While scholarships (and bursaries) are rarer within the prep system, schools do offer awards. The Thomas’s Schools Foundation provides bursaries for Thomas’s London Day School pupils in years seven and eight worth between ten and 90 per cent. Eaton House Belgravia recently announced four new scholarships available to pupils. Cumnor House Sussex set up a foundation for talented pupils and by persuading 13 ouststanding senior schools to honor the bursary until the pupil is 18, they guarantee a seamless independent school education all the way through.

In most schools, these awards – for all-round academic excellence, music, sports and maths – come with certain expectations. At Eaton House Belgravia scholarship boys will have additional roles. For example, the maths scholar, or Leibniz Prize winner, named after the mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, is expected to help champion other year three boys in a Leibniz Club taken by a mathematics teacher. ‘If children are scared of maths, it’s much easier to overcome when someone their own age is there to help,’ explains headmaster Huw May. When applying for senior school scholarships, Stoker advises parents to listen to their child’s prep school teachers. ‘We always point parents in the direction of their prep school head for advice on whether children are the right calibre for a scholarship,’ she says. ‘If children are applying for several schools, it’s an awful lot of exams so it’s important to make sure that they aren’t being put under unnecessary pressure. A prep school knows its children academically better than anybody.’ With both scholarships and bursaries then, it seems that organised, in-advance research to find out exactly what each school offers and if a child is suitable, really does pay off. n SCHOOLHOUSEMAGAZINE.CO.UK | 23

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A BROADER ACCESS Lucy Robins, Bursar at Sherborne School, Dorset explains the application process for scholarships and bursaries

and mean-tested bursaries. For many schools, a commitment aving been Bursar at Sherborne School, a senior to widening access through financial awards is in line with their boys full boarding school in Dorset for nearly ten School Charter. For schools with charitable status this is usually years, it has been a real privilege to witness firstan objective of the charity and is often heavily supplemented hand the transformative impact bursaries can through funding from donations and legacies. have. One of the most memorable examples Unsurprisingly competition is fierce; at Sherborne we get of this was a boy who joined in 2010 from the maintained sector around six applications for every bursary. This intensity is coupled on a full bursary. As is the Sherborne way, with the fact that bursarial this boy threw himself wholecriteria and timelines differ heartedly into school-life, grasping Lucy Robins from school to school. One every opportunity available to him. size does not fit all. The key, I felt tremendously proud when therefore, lies in research. he was awarded the accolade of The onus is very much on Head of School and took up his parents to cherry-pick their place at Oxford. schools of choice and conduct Bursaries do not define web-based research, request or ring-fence pupils, but they hardcopy literature or contact do bridge the gap and offer bursar’s and admissions’ offices opportunities to bright, curious directly to find out more. and talented individuals that Schools genuinely do want otherwise wouldn’t have been to attract the best and most able to gain access. This deserving candidates, so they particular young man was, should provide comprehensive and still is, a shining example and useful information to of this principle working very well. attract and reach these pupils.

In my role I am most frequently Timing is of course a critical asked, what is the difference factor. I would recommend that between a bursary and parents contact their shortlisted a scholarship? The terminology schools at least two years in itself can be unhelpful, confusing advance of their child’s proposed even, serving to alienate the very start date. Most schools require people that these awards aim pupils to be registered and have to attract. In a nut-shell successfully passed the entry a scholarship, as the name assessment before applying for suggests, is awarded on scholarly any form of financial assistance. merit and is a non-means-tested Leveraging your contacts modest award of a fixed value ‘When the match between pupil and within the sector also goes or, in some schools now, of no a long way; support from prep monetary value. A bursary is school is right, not pupil and bursary, heads can be hugely means-tested based on families’ it is then that the transformative impact school helpful in identifying and financial circumstances and of bursarial support can take flight’ securing a bursary. doesn’t necessarily require the The final piece of advice same level of academic excellence.

I would give to any families That said, the two aren’t mutually thinking about a financial exclusive – far from it. Several application, would be to carefully consider the match between their schools award all or a good proportion of bursarial support child and their shortlisted schools. Schools are looking for children in accordance with the order in which awards are made, who will contribute fully to the life of the school and both contribute with the top award holders being allocated funds first. to, and gain from, the academic opportunity. When the match The sector is acutely aware of the challenge of affordability between pupil and school is right, not pupil and bursary, it is then and the overwhelming majority of independent schools have that the transformative impact of bursarial support can take flight. responded in recent years by increasing the level of fee assistance

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A REWARDING ROLE

Philip Hoyland, Headmaster at Pinewood School, a co-ed boarding and day prep in Wiltshire, discusses the part played by prep schools in preparing pupils to take scholarships rom the moment a child arrives at Pinewood they are being quietly assessed, not only to identify areas of weakness or concern, but also to spot talented children who are performing above the expected standard. This may happen as young as year four and their progress is then carefully, but discretely monitored to consider them for entry into the year seven, dedicated academic scholarship set, in which 12 or so scholarship pupils are together for all subjects, working for the next five terms toward a senior school academic award. To be included, we need to feel a child is able to cope both academically and emotionally with the demands of the course, and this is discussed with parents.

It is an honour to be in the top set, but we prepare both child and parent for the journey ahead; both should view a scholarship at the end of that journey as a bonus. The calls on taking scholarships can be demanding. Some senior schools use CASE (the Common Academic Scholarship Examination) while others set their own papers. The requirements, preparation needed and timing for these individual papers is very much dependent on the senior school of choice and Pinewood works with individual children to ensure they are as prepared as far as possible for the examinations and interviews.

Children are put forward for scholarships to senior schools in a variety of fields: academic, sporting, and within Philip Hoyland the creative arts (music, drama and art). For some schools, candidates will take a dedicated all-rounder award while other schools just take performance in two or more disciplines and then consider those that have fallen just short in a single discipline in a general pool for an all-rounder scholarship.

We encourage those with sporting, artistic, dramatic and musical talents to develop their CVs in and out of school. For example, they might join local clubs or audition for a junior county development hockey squad or county netball team. ABRSM exams indicate musical ability (grade five and above is a minimum requirement), while working on a home-produced art portfolio and visiting galleries and museums shows a senior school art department that a child demonstrates initiative and real curiosity in the chosen field.

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assessments with hourly enrichment sessions. Sports results are sometimes the most headline and obvious – after league tables – indication and measure of the health of a school, hence senior school sports staff scouts are out in force watching ten and 11 year olds teams. Early pre-testing means these are fertile grounds for spotting the next Danny Cipriani or Heather Knight.

Artists, actors and musicians will similarly attend these extra enrichment sessions to help prepare technique, portfolios, audition renditions and musical pieces.

With two-thirds of year eight children attempting a scholarship (with a targeted 50 per cent success rate), we are ever conscious of those children who are not. They are encouraged to self-select an enrichment activity of interest, or to get involved in an exciting and stimulating alternative STEAM project or partake in a LEGO WeDo robotics coding programme.

Many senior schools have reduced the automatic fees remission for scholarship pupils, diverting those funds instead into a general bursary fund. Sometimes a child needs to have attempted a scholarship to gain access to the bursary pot so that an award therefore brings the ability to submit a means-test form which can then smooth the financial path ahead.

This system targets those most in need. Many scholarships are now thus honorary.

For talented children with us on a bursary, strong senior school links mean we can help to ensure continuity of education. Senior schools inevitably favour granting a bursary to a child who will bring something to the party; prove a superb ambassador for the school in a particular field and give a fillip to the promotional literature produced by the marketing team.

We strongly believe that ‘once a Pinewoodian, always a Pinewoodian’ and continue to look out for our pupils as they progress through school and beyond, taking great pride in sharing their successes with the wider school community.

If the trend towards awarding scholarships in year nine after the whole cohort has had a chance to prove itself does continue, Pinewood will adapt accordingly. That said, identifying talent and supporting it to flourish will always be key.

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A CARING HAND Alasdair Kennedy, Headmaster of Trinity School, explains how schools look after their pupils on bursaries

will be considered for an academic scholarship through our t Trinity we care about developing outstanding entrance exams, and can also apply for scholarships in one young people. Our students understand that or more of music, sport, drama, art and design technology. while they should pursue excellence when they Although all students will become more aware of the are here, the fact that they have been to a wellsocio-economic diversity of the school as they grow older, resourced, selective school does not entitle bursary holders are not identified to teachers or other students. them to any particular privilege. They have an opportunity, Establishing friendships with people from different backgrounds and a responsibility, to join in and make a difference in is something our students learn, any number of creative and almost without them realising compassionate ways.

Alasdair Kennedy it. As part of our pastoral Maintaining a sociocare, all our students receive economically diverse community carefully considered support is key to helping them realise this and advice at each stage of and we can facilitate it through their school career, tailored the generosity of The Whitgift to their particular needs and Foundation. Originating from circumstances. Through Form the legacy of Archbishop John Tutors, Heads of Year, our Head Whitgift, who founded a school of Lower and Middle schools, in Croydon in 1596, Trinity Head of Sixth Form and Deputy is one of three independent Head Pastoral, our students schools benefitting from one know they can talk to a member of the largest bursary schemes of staff if they are worried, that in the UK with £49.3 million in there are people around them bursaries granted over the past who care about them, and how ten years. Alongside Whitgift to seek help if they need it.

School and Old Palace of John Alongside bursaries Whitgift School, our commitment and scholarships, we is to provide an all-round can sometimes help with education to academically able other costs such as trips, children, regardless of their social transport and uniform. We background or financial means. subsidise school transport Currently 47 per cent of the where needed, our Parents’ 3,200 students across the three Whitgift schools are in receipt ‘Forty-seven per cent of the 3,200 students Association runs a termly ‘As Good as New’ sale for of a bursary or scholarship (or across the three Whitgift schools are on uniform, and we assist with both). At Trinity, over half our a bursary or scholarship. At Trinity, over paying for some trips. students receive some sort of Students receiving financial assistance, with 15 per half our students receive financial scholarships also get further cent of students on a bursary, assistance, with 15 per cent of students support. Our sports scholars half of which are worth 60 per on a bursary, half of which are worth join our High Performance cent or more of our annual fees.

60 per cent or more of our annual fees’ Programme and have a We are also raising money for dedicated mentor who tracks our own bursary fund, as there their development, helping are more students in our local them balance school area whose potential we could work and their co-curricular commitments. In music, help realise. Our ambition is to raise £350,000 scholars receive lessons in up to two instruments. per annum to fund a further 20 full-fee bursaries.

Most of our students, whether they hold bursaries, Bursaries are means-tested and parents apply directly scholarships or neither, go on to the world’s top universities, through the Foundation. Scholarships are also available to colleges and conservatoires, both in the UK and abroad, students who demonstrate the talent or potential to excel in a or go on to work at some of the world’s biggest organisations. particular discipline. These are not means-tested. All applicants

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SCHOOL HOUSE PARTNERSHIP

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avigating the diversity and complexity of independent school scholarship awards can prove to be very stressful — and unfortunately more often than not futile — without the support of an experienced professional.

Simply Learning Tuition, one of London’s most trusted private tutor agencies and education consultancies, can transform the ordeal into a rewarding experience that invigorates your child’s scholarship application — and their education on the whole — with confidence and passion.

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Self-motivation and enthusiasm are key and these can be fired by visits to the schools. This is why, as a starting point, education consultants at Simply Learning Tuition prioritise the facilitation of these through their school advice service. As a result, with the child’s chosen pathway becoming more tangible, finetuning their expertise becomes less demanding and more fulfilling.

Among many other pieces of abiding advice, it is an unspoken but inflexible rule that excellent academics are highly relevant for all scholarships, whether the schools mention it or not. Keep in mind that asking for guidance, and if it is required, starting with

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The best starting point is usually two to three years before the scholarship exams.

If a child’s prep school teacher has recommended to Simply Learning Tuition that one of their pupils apply for a scholarship, parents may not know how best to support their child at home.

This is why consultants will assess your child before beginning the application process to identify strengths and weaknesses.

Short periods of tuition can solve any deal breaking difficulties, such as an unrefined exam technique, that may otherwise have flown under the radar at school; this can make all the difference with even just a few weeks to go.

All boys and girls, including the most talented, will benefit from a level playing field when it comes to jumping the final hurdle.

Though Simply Learning Tuition don’t endorse scripting or even rehearsing interviews, by informally conversing with prospective scholars, tutors aim to simulate scenarios, pique curiosity and engage a child in challenging, in-depth discussions.

Fostering academic execellence and self-confidence, as well as intellectual energy in your child, to the extent that they themselves take up the role of quiz master over the dinner table, is the secret recipe for scholarly success.

Simply Learning Tuition provides expert advice and introduces private tutors for all academic subjects and levels: 020 7350 1981, simplylearningtuition.co.uk

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WHY WE SPONSOR PUPILS

Peter Roberts, Headmaster of The King’s School, Canterbury explains how the tradition of scholarships and bursaries has evolved at the oldest school in the country lack-gowned academic scholars, blue-gowned choristors and, more recently, award holders in music, drama, dance, design technology, art and sport, as well as bursaries, are an integral part of The King’s ethos. The late Lord Pilkington, one of King’s most distinguished headmasters, described a King’s education as being centred on the simultaneous pursuit of academic and co-curricular excellence. Today, the philosophy behind our continued quest for academic excellence is that talented pupils, regardless of background, are stretched but not stressed by enlightened and stimulating teaching.

Scholarships at King’s, reputed to be the oldest school in the UK, were established by King Henry VIII under the statutes of Canterbury Cathedral in 1541 following the dissolution of the monsteries and the establishment of the new King’s School. The statutes included ‘two Public Teachers of the boys in Grammar and fifty boys to be instructed in Grammar’.

The scholars were to be poor (pauperes et amicorum ope destituti). Early scholars received Peter Roberts, Headmaster allowances for cloth for his purple of The King’s School, Canterbury gown and four pounds a year for his food in kind – a generous sum at the time. The most recent Royal Charter, granted in 1992, formally approved the admission of girls as scholars too.

Now we have 256 boys and girls on scholarships and bursaries.

But we are always working hard to attract and fund more and to bring in an interesting field of scholarship candidates from a wide variety backgrounds. Prospective academic scholars are expected to demonstrate a sharp, enquiring mind supported by a love of learning together with the ability and desire to engage in independent research. Those pursuing music, drama, dance, design technology, art and sport awards should display not only excellent ability in their chosen field but also character and integrity and a genuine passion for the subject.

September is always an exciting time when anyone from any

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preparatory or primary school can pitch up and demonstrate their ability, with the aim and ambition to share their talents with a new year group. New blood, new talent and meritocratic competition are the essential components behind our processes of selection and achievement. Scholarships and bursaries provide opportunitites for pupils from all walks of life to access and experience a King’s education for whom without such financial assistance it would be impossible. In awareness of an exponentially growing need for funding, scholarships are now capped at ten per cent of the school fees, though bursaries have no such limit.

The number of pupils coming in to senior schools who have won such an award, but who still need extensive bursary support on the fee side, has greatly grown over the past 30 or so years; scholars at King’s are guaranteed all the financial assistance they require in addition to their scholarship award.

Meeting this demand is always a challenging but ultimately rewarding part of the wider process of making ancient schools diverse, accessible and in tune with current society. Alumni have proven a vital resource; their pride in their former school is reflected in their donations of time and money.

King’s, like many other schools, is always looking to expand its provision, and a recent innovation has been the Kent Bursary Scheme for local day pupils, which is funded by the generosity of an Old King’s Scholar who is committed to ensuring that the great academic and co-curricular opportunities which he enjoyed as a boy from a local Kent family should be available to as wide a group of families as possible. In this way the original ideal of The King’s School – the one where the renowned poet, Christopher Marlowe, a cobbler’s son in Canterbury, came to be educated free of charge – is being recreated in a modern and relevant way.

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WAYS AND MEANS

New foundations depend on their own fundraising efforts

Christopher Silvester finds out how schools fund those valuable scholarships and bursaries ith the Labour Party committed to charging VAT on private school fees if it gets into government – and even Conservative Chancellor Philip Hammond apparently contemplating the same before the 2018 budget until he was knocked back by Conservative MPs – the scholarships and bursaries offered by independent schools might become even more vital to parents struggling to finance their children’s education.

Charitable status allows independent schools to claim 80 per cent relief on business rates chargeable on the buildings they occupy and around 75 per cent of these schools have it, but the percentage is falling gradually; 32 schools joining the Independent Schools Council in 2017-18 did not. In return for these financial benefits, schools must demonstrate that they exist for the public benefit (although there is no statutory

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‘Christ’s Hospital continues to challenge disadvantage through transformative education, by providing free or substantially reduced fee places to over 650 students each year in a highly supportive boarding environment,’ says Headmaster, Simon Reid. This year, 201819, 118 pupils received a free place, 662 received some level of bursary support and 304 pay no fee or less than 10 per cent of the boarding fee.

Parents of only a quarter of the school’s pupils pay full fees. There are also scholarships for academic work, music, sport, art or drama.

As Christ’s Hospital approaches its 470th anniversary it aims to increase the number of bursaries it provides by raising a further £30 million, says Hugo Middlemas, Director of Development, ‘to ensure that the increase in bursaries can be realised and sustained in the future.’

Latymer Upper School and Latymer Prep, in London’s Hammersmith, have an endowment about one tenth of the size of Christ’s Hospital at £37 million. 175 pupils (13 per cent of school rolls) receive financial assistance, in addition to 26 who receive scholarships.

Latymer’s ethos is as strong today as it was almost 400 years ago when Edward Latymer left part of his wealth for the clothing and education of ‘eight poore boyes’ from Hammersmith.

The school’s Inspiring Minds campaign aims to raise £40 million by the time of Latymer’s 400th anniversary in 2024. Half will be for endowment (the capital will be preserved and the annual return spent on funding bursaries) and the other half will pay for current bursaries JULIE ROBINSON, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE ISC, JUNE 2018 (to fund a bursary for one pupil’s time at Latymer).

‘By 2024 we aim to have raised enough funds to be able to offer one in four of our pupils a means-tested bursary,’ says Sian Davis, Communications Manager of The Latymer Foundation.

The scope of the fundraising is wide-ranging.

There are individually sponsored bursaries.

The Annual Bursaries Appeal receives donations from such small-scale events as cake sales, charity runs and lectures. A Prep Bursary Fund hosts cinema nights, cake and plant sales. There are events organised by RAISE, a pupil-led bursary fundraising club; Latymer Parents’ Gild trips and activities, such as a Christmas Fair; and large-scale events for alumni and friends of the Foundation, such as the Spring Gala dinner and the Great Latymer Dinner Party.

Two other London schools with a significant philanthropic heritage are Dulwich College and Alleyn’s School, both of which belong to the same foundation, alongside James Allen’s Girls’ School, and derive income from the distribution of the Dulwich Estate and from the Dulwich College Bursary Fund. Edward Alleyn founded his College of God’s Gift (the gift of love) in 1619 for the education of 12 poor scholars and the Dulwich Estate was originally his manorial estate.

Over 30 per cent of boys at Dulwich College received some financial support. ‘The headmaster has announced our ambition for 50 per cent of school pupils to be in receipt of fee relief, Christ’s Hospital School, West Sussex with an increasing number receiving means-tested

definition of this) and one way of demonstrating this is to offer free or subsidised access for those unable to afford school fees.

According to the census published by the Independent School Council (ISC), almost 43,000 children in 1,326 schools benefit from means-tested assistance. ‘The total value of means-tested bursaries and scholarships provided by independent schools has increased by nearly £140 million since 2011 and currently stands at £400 million,’ says Julie Robinson, General Secretary of the ISC in June 2018. ‘Schools also offer fee assistance to the “squeezed middle” because having a broad social mix which reflects our society is incredibly important.’

There is a wide variety of scholarships and bursaries available, depending on whether the school in question is an ancient foundation with a substantial endowment or whether it is a new foundation dependent on raising the necessary funds as it goes along.

With an endowment of around £350 million, Christ’s Hospital has the largest bursary charity. The endowment funds around 60 per cent of the school’s costs and is augmented by a comprehensive fundraising programme that seeks bequests from alumni, amounting to about £2 million per annum in the last two years.

‘The total value of means-tested bursaries and scholarships provided by independent schools has increased by nearly £140 million since 2011 and currently stands at £400 million’

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deep bursaries over time,’ says Jane Scott, Dulwich College’s Director of Communications. ‘Each year over £2.5 million is granted to support bursaries and around £1 million is awarded in scholarships.’

Alleyn’s School provides financial assistance to 35 per cent of pupils and it is the school’s ambition that 50 per cent of pupils will eventually receive scholarships or mean-tested bursaries.

In 2017-18, £3.1 million was awarded to bursaries, and in 2018-19 this will increase to £3.4 million, representing 188 means-tested bursaries, out of which 60 will cover 100 per cent of fees.

Out of 879 pupils at UCS Hampstead, 58 are on full or partial means-tested bursaries, and 34 are on music scholarships worth discounts of ten or 25 per cent and, in special cases, 50 per cent. The school’s current outlay on bursaries is £1,144,000, rising again next year.

Since UCS Hampstead has no endowment, it must find the money to pay for bursaries from other sources, explains Edward Robert, Assistant Head and Director of Partnerships and Public Relations. The school has a members-only sports club, UCS Active

Sixth form students at UCS, Hampstead

(founded in 2007 when the Sir Roger Bannister Sports Centre was opened), which makes use of the school’s sports facilities in the evenings and at weekends, when they are not being used by the pupils. Its 2,700 members live in the local community or have a close connection to the school.

During the holidays and at weekends, the school rents out some of its facilities for external events and functions. The Great Hall and the refectory have been used for wedding receptions and as film sets. Then there are donations from a sister charity (The Frognal Educational Charitable Trust) and from alumni. The UCS Development Office intends to sustain and increase bursary provision over time.

Lancing College, on the South Downs in Sussex, operates a mixed programme of scholarships and bursaries. Normal academic competitive scholarships are available at third and sixth form entry for music (with an additional organ scholarship in some years), drama, art and sport (including a specialist cricket award). There is no set number of awards, as the school prefers to maintain standards of excellence in each pool of applicants. ‘We might have 30 in any year group of 120 that have some sort of scholarship or award,’ says Diana Cree, Head of Admissions, Marketing and Development. Forty-two pupils are in receipt of a Ken Shearwood award for all-rounders, named after a beloved member of the common room from 1952 to 1996. Most scholarships offer a ten to 15 per cent discount on fees, but this can rise to 25 per cent. All of these awards are funded by the school itself.

Towards the end of 2017 Lancing launched a campaign for ‘foundationers’, pupils from the state sector who are of sufficient academic quality to thrive at the school. The current campaign has

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a target of £3 million, of which £2 million has already been raised, and this will fund ‘transformational bursaries’ for 25 pupils to take them all the way through the school (from 13 to 18) as well as providing additional monies for school uniforms and school trips. ‘We are trying to fill five a year,’ says Cree. ‘This year we filled three at the third form and two at the sixth.’ The campaign is funded by donations, large and small, and once the £3 million target has been achieved the school intends to roll it over and raise another three million.

‘Lancing has done transformational bursaries quietly for many years, but our Headmaster, Dominic Oliver, is absolutely determined that this is a central part of what the school should do; our way of having a really diverse population in the school, but also of transforming the lives of young people.’

Beyond general scholarships and bursaries, many schools offer specific awards in specialist areas. For example, St Edward’s Oxford, which was founded in 1863 and went co-educational 20 years ago, has announced two free places for children at local state schools to study for the International Baccalaureate. These free places are open to current year ten pupils who live close enough to St Edward’s to be a day pupil. Pupils who undertake the IB must study six subjects, consider the theory of knowledge, write a 4,000-word extended essay, and take part in creative, active and volunteering pursuits.

‘The IB is rarely available in the state sector,’ says Dr Deborah Outhwaite, a teacher at the University of Warwick who does research in the IB, ‘so these funded places at St Edward’s are a fantastic opportunity for current year ten pupils in local state schools who are keen to broaden their horizons and keep all options open.’

Dulwich College offers its Sir Joseph Bazalgette Scholarship – named after a former pupil who designed London’s sewerage system in the 19th century, to talented mathematicians or scientists.

In Dorset, Milton Abbey School, with a reputation for scooping up less academic or dyslexic boys and turning out a raft of entrepreneurs, is expanding its offering this year (especially in sport).

‘I think we’re going to be the only school offering specialist elite Golf and Road Cycling Scholarships, which we’re able to do with the on-site golf course and PGA Pro, plus a new indoor cycling centre we’ve

Latymer Upper has launched a new fundraising campaign

opened this year,’ says Head of Marketing Nick Cloke.

Down the road, the Catholic girls’ boarding and day school St Mary’s Shaftesbury, offers a variety of special discounts, scholarships, and bursaries. Children from military families and Catholic prep schools receive a ten per cent discount off fees. There’s a scholarship worth a 20 per cent discount for a girl from select Catholic non-fee paying primary schools, which can be supplemented by a meanstested bursary. Academic, drama, music, dance and sports scholarships, as well as the Mary Ward All-Rounder, can be applied for at the ages of nine, 11, 13, and 16.

‘Unique to St Mary’s, is the Dance scholarship,’ says Headmistress Maria Young. ‘Dance is offered in partnership with TLW Dance, a specialist dance school which attracts girls, some of whom are elite dancers, and some from abroad to benefit from a specialist elite dance training programme for a minimum of six hours per week.’

Bruern Abbey, a weekly boarding prep school in Oxfordshire that specialises in preparing boys with dyslexia for Common Entrance, faced a difficult situation when the father of a pupil who was halfway through school, died. Knowing that switching out would have been traumatic for the boy, the school found the money to pay his fees, but it impelled them to set up Amici Bruerni, a charity to provide means-tested assistance for boys who might otherwise be unable to St Mary’s Shaftesbury offers a variety of special discounts complete their schooling there.

Knightsbridge School, founded in 2006, comprises three schools: a nursery, junior school and senior school. It is only in its senior school (where pupils are aged between eight and 13) that they offer two 100 per cent means-tested bursaries through the Knightsbridge School Education Foundation, an arm’s-length charity founded in 2008. ‘Candidates need to have something they do well,’ says Headmaster Magoo Giles. ‘The bursaries cover two years of school fees plus uniform, and can include extracurricular activities.’

The Foundation is one of three charities to which the Parents’ Association makes donations. It benefits from an annual fundraising dinner and, when their children start at the school, parents are invited (though not compelled) to commit to giving a percentage of their deposit to The Foundation when their children leave.

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REACHING OUT Donal Brennan, interim head at St Anthony’s School for Girls, on the search for talented pupils to fill their bursary places

schools in our community through sports events, creative arts he independent schools of London provide partnerships and challenge days in mathematics, science and some of the best educational opportunities English. This strengthens the cross-curricula links between that are available to children. They are known the schools and our presence within the community, while for their high academic standards, real breadth celebrating our commitment to offering scholarships and of education provision and comfortable class bursaries to provide a positive outcome for all pupils, regardless sizes, allowing students to follow carefully and individually of wealth. I believe that school prospectuses, websites and all managed education plans, which truly identify students’ marketing literature convey academic strengths, guiding them the message that we seek gifted to develop the confidence and skills Interim head, Donal Brennan pupils whose circumstances may to embrace the challenges they face otherwise put an independent in an increasingly competitive education beyond their reach. education market.

Testimonials from headteachers Traditionally these schools have celebrating the success of their been restricted to those families scholarship pupils personalise who can afford to pay termly fees, the experience and help parents making these learning environments to overcome any prejudice or lack inaccessible to some who might of awareness about how positive benefit from an independent the experience has been for many education. With the increasing pupils. We, as headteachers, are costs of independent education vocal in reaching out to parents prohibiting more middle income saying, ‘We look forward to families from accessing these meeting your talented children’. learning establishments, many As an independent school, confident London schools have I believe that by offering worked to bring about an end scholarships and bursaries, we are to this. Extensive arrangements being instrumental in supporting are now in place in many top schools positive change in our society, to provide fee assistance for children giving talented children from who would not otherwise be able all backgrounds the opportunity to attend an independent school. to learn at schools ranked as Opportunities in the form centres of excellence in this of bursaries, scholarships and country. This does not create assisted places are now more readily elitist gated communities but role available, and the initiative allows models for our modern society. the independent schools to offer The future looks positive for places irrespective of financial ‘By hosting open days, information scholarship and bursary funding; means and instead, based on evenings and talks with the head the commitment is there, as the talent, effort and achievement. independent schools continue At St Anthony’s School for Girls, teachers of local state schools, we to increase the number a member of the Alpha Plus invite parents to have Q&A sessions of students on scholarship 18-strong schools group, which at our school. We forge links with programmes yearly. In time these embraces individuality and academic primary schools in our community’ schools will be in a position to say excellence, we ensure that parents that all students in their schools receive a strong message that we have gained entry to the schools want to identify untapped talent based on their achievements irrespective of parental means, rather than their family’s ability to fund the places. to nurture potential and to develop character.

We must ensure that this is the way forward: providing By hosting open days, information evenings and talks with funding and support for these centres of excellence where the head teachers of local state schools we invite parents to capable young people will thrive academically. have Q&A sessions at our school. We forge links with primary

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ABOVE & BELOW: The CCF biennial inspection day and art lessons at Reigate Grammar School, Surrey

Victoria Lambert advises parents looking for help with fees to think laterally and ask questions arents might have heard of them: those elusive quirky bursaries that are funded in unusual ways or target niche children such as those born in a north London borough or to a military family. While finding them might be more challenging, in the days of fee inflation and scholarship streamlining it is worth asking: ‘what alternative forms of funding are really available and could my child qualify?’

‘In most schools,’ says Shaun Fenton, Headmaster at Reigate Grammar School (RGS) and current chair of the The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, ‘there is more funding to support affordability than parents think, with schools offering a range of support from five to 100 per cent.’

At RGS, nearly a fifth of our children are on some form of fee remission. But most bursaries are simply means-tested.

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‘There is a huge amount of encouragement from government to increase access to independent schools, and to improve social mobility and diversity, so affordability will be the key point for most schools.’

‘However,’ he points out, ‘all schools have individual criteria which might make a difference with some schools looking to offer reductions in fees for siblings, children of staff or former pupils, highly academic children or those who are exceptionally talented at sport. Many bursaries are awarded to children who have achieved a scholarship (which in itself may offer only a five to ten per cent fee reduction).’

‘If you know which schools you are interested in already, it is always worth asking the bursar for advice. But,’ he adds, ‘even with the more unusual bursaries, parents must be genuinely unable to afford full fees to receive help.’

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is of scholarship standard, we are very keen to hear from you,’ she says.

There are further awards for children of serving members of the British armed forces (the HJ Flower and H Gower Award) and hardship funding (the Derek Kelsey and Richard Lister-Buttle Awards) for sons of Old Harrovians in need of bursarial support.

Scholarships are not just available at year nine entry. At Eton, two scholarships are available for talented artists entering the sixth form.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Music Scholarship offers a sixth form place to a talented musician (grade eight or above) who has been in the maintained system with 100 per cent fee remission. The Michael Meredith Drama Bursary offers a sixth form place to a young actor, director, writer or technician – with a third of the fees paid and further assistance available if necessary. If it is the parent who treads the boards, the Actors’ Children’s Trust will help with small grants for uniform or travel.

Location is an important consideration for many families and schools often seek to offer bursaries to local children. Benenden School has a bursary programme called the 11+ Fourths Award programme for girls in year six attending a state primary school within a 7.5-mile radius of the school. Rugby School offers Foundation Awards to day boy and day girl applicants for entry at 13+ and 16+ who live within a radius of ten miles of the Rugby Clock Tower – excluding the city of Coventry.

St Edward’s School in Oxford has just announced, in conjunction with The Oxford Times, that it is offering two free day places on the International Baccalaureate programme to children at local state schools now in year ten. Charterhouse offers the Fletcher Scholarship to candidates from state schools in the local Surrey area while the Charterhouse in Southwark offers a biennial scholarship to a candidate from Southwark. Both are supported by a means-tested bursary of up to 100 per cent of the school fee.

Many bursaries target pupils whose parents Ischia Gooda, music scholar at Rugby School and BBC Chorister of the Year are from specific professions. Heathfield offers ten per cent discounts for diplomats’ daughters and Clifton College offers a 20 per cent discount for children of parents in the armed forces and clergymen’s daughters. Malvern College is proud of its strong links with the Armed Forces offering what it calls ‘generous rankranged fee remissions to all serving personnel’.

The military has always been a popular source of funding. Scottish children of serving Royal Navy or Royal Marines personnel can get a bursary at Gordonstoun especially if they live in Perthshire or Moray. Another scholarship targets pupils from mid-Wales and the Channel Islands and sea fishing families, preferably from the former county of Banff.

For some however, location is of little importance as finances are paramount. Those seeking help can consult the Educational Trusts’ Forum (ETF) which collates all the most up-todate information about bursaries and how or where to apply. The funds here are aimed primarily at children who are underprivileged – whether that is purely financial or because family circumstance (including divorce or bereavement) have made life particularly hard for a child.

can be found in the oldest-established public schools which have picked up generous benefactors through the years ‘All of our bursaries at Harrow School are means-tested but they may have specific criteria instigated by the donors,’ explains their Communication Officer, Jenny Simmons.

They may even be as old as the school itself. Harrow’s founder, John Lyon, was given a royal charter to open a free grammar school for boys in 1572, on the condition that he also endowed a trust to maintain the road between Harrow and Central London.

In 1578, John Lyon provided that endowment in the form of a 48-acre farm in an area now known as Maida Vale.

‘The income from that estate is now used for charitable purposes,’ says Simmons. ‘Administrated by John Lyon’s Charity, one of the largest grant-giving charities in the UK, it supports educational projects for children and young people in the nine London boroughs that the road passes through – including funding places for able boys from the eligible area requiring significant financial support to spend two years at a prep school and afterwards to have a place here at Harrow.’

John Lyon’s Charity also makes 28 full-fee awards available annually to John Lyon School, an independent day school for boys which is part of the same foundation as Harrow.

A fund set up by modern donor and old boy Peter Beckwith OBE offers two further “prep-school-then-Harrow” places for boys each year. Simmons emphasises that applicants are expected to be strong academically, with clear Oxbridge prospects and significant potential in extra-curricular activities.

Another Harrow bursary, The Sherwood Award, is available for children who hail from the East Midlands. ‘If you live in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire or Leicestershire, and have a son who

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The Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation for example offers support to children who have lost one or both parent and whose home circumstances are seriously prejudicial to the child’s normal development. The Reedham Children’s Trust and Buttle UK focus on the neediest and only support boarding places.

‘These places teach us of the value of bursaries,’ explains Colin Morrison, chair of Boarding School Partnerships. ‘Admission to a boarding school is the first time some children have felt accepted or like they have won anything,’ he says. ‘They know how lucky they are. Research shows they are almost twice as likely to be star performers as their peers.’

Parents’ career choices may be the deciding factor, as in certain industries financial support is provided from professional bodies like

the Fashion and Textile Children’s trust which supports the children of those working in fashion. The Royal Medical Foundation assists GMC-registered doctors and their families and the BMTA helps families in the British motor trade, while LVS Ascot which was founded by the Licensed Trade charity in 1803, offers a 20 per cent discount for children whose parents have worked in the licensed drinks trade, fulltime (or the equivalent of), for five years or more.

The Royal Pinner Educational Trust supports the children of commercial travellers, travelling sales (commercial) and technical representatives and manufacturers’ agents, where the family which can be based anywhere has suffered adversity. And the Mitchell City of London Charity and Educational Foundation provides grants for children attending a City School or if either parent has lived or worked

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within the City of London, the square mile, for at least five years.

Other organisations are aimed at families suddenly thrown into hardship where children might otherwise lose their place at a school especially around exams. The weekly boarding school Bruern Abbey recently founded Amici Bruerni to ensure that a boy could continue his education even when a family fell on hard times.

But not all organisations embrace the parents. Some trusts will only deal directly with schools. The Ouseley Trust (which supports fees of choristers) communicates with institutions on an administrative level not the parents, but don’t be afraid to bring them up if you talk to a bursar at a cathedral school.

‘Niche organisations do provide bursaries,’ says David Goodhew, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School. ‘But the lion’s share of funding comes from schools so talk to us.’ He points out that even if you don’t qualify for a bursary, fee assistance offering a discount of five to ten per cent is not means-tested and is awarded through traditional academic, musical or sporting scholarships. Every little bit helps.

‘What matters overall,’ says Goodhew, ‘is that independent schools such as Latymer work hard to open their doors and improve access – however they do it – because the resulting mix is beneficial to society as a whole. Most schools – and parents - don’t want students to live in privileged bubbles,’ he explains, ‘growing up with a distorted view of the real world. It’s in everyone’s interest for schools to have pupils from all walks of life.’ n ABOVE: Art at Charterhouse School, Surrey BELOW: Latymer Upper School, west London

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When Jovana Pepic was offered a 100 per cent bursary and music scholarship to study at University College School, Hampstead, her mother, Nada, was cautious Academically, Jovana’s chosen subjects when she started at hen Jovana told us she wanted to leave her UCS were Latin, physics, chemistry, maths and a further maths all girls state school and go to an independent AS-level. When she arrived she didn’t know what she wanted to school for her A-levels, I was concerned do after sixth form, but while there she decided that she wanted and initially tried to discourage her. She had to study chemistry at Oxford. I don’t think it was by accident. excellent GCSE results so I didn’t see the need She had lovely things to say about many teachers, but chemistry for changing schools. I was worried about the expense and thought was something that she enjoyed learning about and all of her that even if she got a bursary there might be some hidden costs. chemistry teachers, without exception, were just brilliant. I think Also University College School is primarily a ‘boys’ school’ – girls it helped that she went to a chemistry club and attended the are only accepted for the sixth form – so I was worried that Quantum Theory Course. she might not feel accepted There were other trips and or that she might be distracted clubs but I think she enjoyed from her learning. and benefited from these most.

I had no idea how bursaries Jovana has always worked and thought it would wanted to go to Oxford be very complicated but we went and the dedication and along with her wishes and went help given by the headmaster, to an open evening where we Mr Beard, to prepare her found out a little bit about the for the interview process was school. I picked up the prospectus outstanding. I am sure that this where everything was explained is not the case in many schools – the information is also online. and I really believe that it made Jovana was a music scholar in a huge difference. Mr Beard her previous school where she spent weeks working with had many obligations but not any her. When she had her entitlements. The school did not interviews, Jovana felt offer their scholars any free music confident in her knowledge lessons or contribute anything as a result of the support towards music exams. It was a she had received. great financial burden as Jovana If I was advising another really wanted to pursue her love of Jovana Pepic parent, I would say that there music; she was even considering is no better place for their it as a career choice. At the UCS open event I talked to Mr Dawe ‘Jovana has always wanted to go to Oxford child to be. UCS is an exceptional school with (Head of Music) about the music and the dedication and help given by the amazing, dedicated teaching scholarship program and their headmaster, Mr Beard, to prepare her for staff. None of my concerns auditions, as Jovana was interested transpired. I think it benefited in applying. He was very helpful the interview process was outstanding’ Jovana to be in a ‘boys’ and encouraging. school’ where there was While at UCS, as a music scholar a lot of competitiveness.

Jovana was offered free lessons on This was a positive a chosen instrument. She already thing as it encouraged her to prove that she was as good, had her grade eight flute and wanted to use the opportunity or even better, than them. to gain the diploma. She worked hard, supported and guided UCS is nurturing, stimulating, caring and friendly. Everything

by Ms Hankin, an outstanding flute teacher. Even the cost is taken care of from the moment you walk through the door on the of the exam was taken care of. It simply would not have been very first day, to the moment you finish. It has excellent facilities and possible for Jovana to get her diploma because of the cost involved, there are people to guide you, teach you and help you in all aspects if it wasn’t for UCS music department’s help. The school helped of your student life. It is a safe place where everyone is valued and us through the process and Jovana received 100 per cent fee given many opportunities to excel in their learning. Jovana reduction through a combined means-tested bursary and has never been happier than when she was at UCS. music scholarship. There were no hidden costs at all.

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SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES 2019 | UNIVERSITIES Imogen Allison, a sports scholar at the University of Bath

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UNIVERSAL FUNDING Sally Jones has some tips on scholarships and bursaries for university students

reat Britain hockey international Lily Owsley MBE beats the defender to the ball with a breathtaking turn of speed, then sprints clear to crash the ball into the back of the net. The virtuoso goal ensures victory for the University of Birmingham in a crucial British Universities Premiership tie and underlines Owsley’s dazzling talent. At 23, the Old Reptonian, the youngest member of Britain’s Olympic gold medal-winning squad in 2016, is the recipient of a generous sports scholarship to read Sports Sciences at Birmingham University, juggling her academic commitments with a stellar hockey career. She was even allowed to stretch her three year degree across five to peak for the Rio Olympics and World Cup. Owsley is among thousands of outstanding athletes, musicians, creatives and scientists benefiting from the multiple scholarships and bursaries offered by British Universities and worth well over £400 million each year. In a highly competitive marketplace for the best students, universities are increasingly choosing to define themselves by their sporting, artistic and academic offering and throwing big money at attracting top-class talent. Most in-demand are students capable of garnering coveted BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) points, by steering their university sides to prestigious national titles in everything from Women’s Rugby to Modern Pentathlon.

At the University of Bath, the first English university to introduce sports scholarships in the mid-70s, former England junior international Imogen Allison, 20, a quicksilver Wing Defence, manages multiple demands on her time. A member of the elite Team Bath Superleague squad and the university side, currently topping the BUCS standings, Allison also handles a demanding academic programme, studying for a Masters in Sports and Exercise Science. When she applied to Bath, she was awarded a prestigious scholarship given by former Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King.

‘I was over the moon when I won it,’ she said. ‘It’s

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worth £4,000 a year and means I don’t have to worry about being able to buy the high-quality food I need to get through games and recover well afterwards.

It covers my travel to training and competitions.

Coaching, strength and conditioning are included while physio is supplied free through Team Bath.’

‘It takes huge discipline to fit in around 15 hours of playing and training a week, enjoy a social life and study properly too. I have three calendars to keep track of my schedule! This is an amazing place to train and learn from wonderful players like [GB internationals] Eboni Beckford-Chambers and Serena Guthrie. In 2017 I received a further £500 via a Talented Athlete Scholarship. This is a Sport England scheme for around 400 student athletes from different sports who are nominated by their national governing bodies. Essentially all this support enables us to perform as well as possible without struggling to live.’

Despite the prestige of the Boat Race, Oxford and Cambridge in general do not see sport as a recruiting tool for students, instead focussing on widening access to the most able academics from all backgrounds.

Apart from sport specialist universities such as Bath and Loughborough, the acknowledged number one for most mainstream sports, the old-established, traditional universities like Durham, Nottingham and Birmingham offer the most generous sports scholarships across the board. Durham, which excels in rowing, basketball, cricket, tennis and women’s football, regularly finishes second behind Loughborough in the BUCS tables. It offers around 40 sports scholarships a year ranging from £500 to £5,000 but with extra benefits.

‘We give a rounded package,’ explained Durham’s Director of Experience Quentin Sloper, ‘and our scholars get free physio, coaching and conditioning.

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university and for students looking for the best academic and athletic experience, Durham’s the place to go.’

Durham along with Bristol is among the favourite universities for the lucky few who achieve an Army or Navy scholarship. Up to 150 Army Undergraduate bursaries (AUBS) are awarded each year, each worth around £6000, while the enhanced version offered only to the top-performing applicants, possessing high academic standards and officer potential, can total £24,000 paid in four instalments. Durham also awards its own Military scholarships of up to £20,000 to support an individual injured, wounded, or sick through their military service. But all these are dwarfed by the £75,000 available in a Professionally Qualified Officer Bursary for those nearing the end of a medical or dental degree who are prepared to commit to four years’ service after graduation.

Detailed research into applicants’ preferred universities and the awards they offer is crucial. Some have extremely specific criteria: Welsh universities like Bangor give bursaries to students studying courses wholly or partly in Welsh and those from low-income households.

Although the University of Bath does not offer art, drama or music degrees, its Santander scholarships, designed to develop the whole person, recognise the artistic talents of students who may be reading science subjects. Take chemical engineer Claire Guest,

an award-winning Beat Poet and former Birmingham Young Poet Laureate. A Santander award has helped to fund equipment and travel opportunities to promote her art to a wider audience – and she performed a moving video monologue for new students explaining what made her choose Bath.

City University, famous for its media and technical courses awards bursaries of up to £3,500 to students who have been in care or undertaken caring duties. Its Lord Mayor of London scholarships for academic excellence, demonstrated by three A grades at A-level, are worth £2,000 with a further sum if one of these was in Computer Science or Mathematics. Recognising that journalism is currently dominated by the white middle-classes, it provides very generous bursaries enabling under-represented groups to enrol on its renowned postgraduate media courses.

With increasing emphasis on widening participation the biggest bursaries and grants for books, travel and accommodation at universities across Britain are concentrated on those from poor and deprived backgrounds. To hit the big-time, it pays to be a poor student going to an elite institution like Oxbridge, Bristol or Durham: fewer poor students go to these richer top-class institutions than to newer universities so the lucky few admitted receive a larger share of the available money. Cambridge University, for example, offers a bursary of up to £3,500 a year plus other benefits for those on

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In a highly competitive marketplace for the best students, universities are increasingly choosing to define themselves by their sporting, artistic and academic offering and throwing big money at attracting top-class talent household incomes below £42,620. Youngsters from areas of low participation in higher education are eligible for Bristol University alumni scholarships worth £2,000.

Oxford’s Moritz-Heyman Scholarship Programme, launched in 2012, now targets around 225 students each year with household incomes of £16,000 or less. Scholars receive almost £7,000 a year towards living costs and fees reduction. Equally important in boosting confidence and future achievement, the programme also funds opportunities to participate in volunteering activities and high level internships.

For some, a part-time Open University course mostly studied at home can prove outstanding value. Helen Whiteley, 63, from Shropshire recently completed

a treasured OU degree in Business Studies and Philosophy after eight years of studying and, because of her straitened financial circumstances, her studies, worth over £15,000, cost just £500.

‘OU support empowered me to get control when my finances were out of my control,’ she explained.

‘It wasn’t a doddle. It took a lot of effort but gave me a fair chance to prove myself. That’s what kept me going in very tough times. I was made redundant in March but I’ve now secured a part-time job that pays more than I’d have made before my degree working full-time. I’d say to anyone keen to study but suffering financial problems, go for it. The OU and other universities offer really generous bursaries – and that support has transformed my life.’ n

FACT BOX Background to scholarships and bursaries: The Complete University Guide includes scholarship and bursary grids for all the UK universities; thecomplete universityguide. co.uk/universitytuition-fees/otherfinancial-support/ university-bursariesand-scholarships Each university’s website contains details of the different awards on offer. In collegiate universities like Oxbridge, individual colleges offer assorted prizes and scholarships, though these are often token amounts and valued mainly for their prestige.

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From Southwark to J P Morgan, John Olatunji, 25, pays tribute to Christ’s Hospital, a co-educational boarding school in West Sussex, known for fostering social mobility through bursaries year. I was in awe of the masters and mistresses in their full grew up in Southwark in south London, which like many inner-city areas has its socio-economic challenges academic gowns. I thought to myself – this is another world.

I was fortunate to join a boarding house of such loving and caring and pressures. In order to avoid the local influences, individuals, some of whom are my very best friends today. They made my parents decided to send me to an all boys’ me feel very welcome and treated me like family, as if I had been there comprehensive school in central London which, takes pupils from all over London. Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed my time there since second form (year seven). While academic achievement was my priority, I sought to embrace all (and I have since returned aspects of school life from playing as a school governor), the academic John Olatunji rugby to joining the chapel choir. and co-curricular provision post-16 This enabled me to make friends was not adequate at the time. quickly and assimilate myself During a day trip to Cambridge into school life. A proud moment my local vicar suggested that I came when I was appointed by the apply to Christ’s Hospital (CH), Head Master as a School Monitor a co-educational boarding (prefect), which requires strong school in west Sussex known for its support from teachers, househigh commitment to fostering social parents and fellow pupils. I was mobility through bursaries. I was humbled that many felt that I was aware of CH having watched Rock right for the role given I had only School, a 2005 reality show starring joined at sixth form.

Gene Simmons from Kiss who in The next step was university. one series turned CH’s year nine CH provided an excellent into a fully-fledged rock band. Also, preparation for university life, I had known a couple of individuals hence I was able to balance extrawho had moved there from my curricular activities with my degree primary school. To be honest, I studies with relative ease. While expected strong competition and at university I entered the world was not confident about getting of student politics and I was through the application process. elected a Black and Minority On the day of my interview, one Ethnic Students Union Officer. of my family members sadly passed I used my platform to fight against away, although I was not aware racism and elitism which is sadly of it at the time. Such was their still prevalent in Britain’s leading determination not to let anything ‘My first day was like no other. I was universities. Following university, distract me, my parents did not sixteen and it was my first time boarding I joined a leading US investment inform me of the news until I had bank, J P Morgan, Chase & Co returned home. A few weeks later and being away from home, so I was on a rotational graduate I received my CH offer – naturally apprehensive... I thought scheme and I am currently a light during a difficult period. to myself this is another world’ working within the global My family, friends and teachers transaction banking division. were absolutely delighted for me, Upon reflection, I only truly but the sense of achievement did realised the privileged position not really hit me until I started. that I was in and the opportunities afforded me after I had left. CH My first day was like no other. I was 16 and it was my first time truly fosters a meritocratic environment, which has enabled individuals boarding and being away from home, so I was naturally apprehensive. from different backgrounds to flourish in the pursuit of excellence.

I recall pathetically attempting to get to grips with elements of the Tudor uniform and giving up (in the end I had to ask a junior to assist). I will always be grateful to the school for giving me, a son of Nigerian immigrants from south London, a truly world-class education.

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Alleyn’s School Townley Road, Dulwich, London SE22 8SU T 020 8557 1500 W alleyns.org.uk/admissions/ bursaries-and-scholarships Awards: Means-tested

academic bursaries; Scholarships - Academic, Art (11+ only), Music and Sport (11+ & 13+ only).

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission (and, in some cases, coach travel, uniform and school meals); Scholarships - up to £4,000 per year.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadlines: Please check website for details.

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Abercorn School 38, Portland Place, London W1B 1LS T 020 7100 4335 W abercornschool.com Awards: Scholarships - Year 7 scholarships for boys and girls.

Value: Up to 100% fee

remission, upon

assessment of parental income.

Age at entry: 11+ Deadline: None, though places are subject to availability and pupil assessment.

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Ashbourne College 17 Old Court Place, London W8 4PL T 020 7937 3858 W ashbournecollege.co.uk/ private-sixth-form-college-london/ a-level-scholarships-london Awards: Scholarships - Art, Performing Arts (Music & Drama), Medical Sciences and Academic Excellence.

Value: Scholarships - 10-95% fee remission.

Age at entry: Year 10 - Year 13 Deadline: Ongoing admissions.

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Babington House School Grange Drive, Chislehurst, Kent TN14 7LA T 020 84675537 W babingtonhouse.com Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Senior Scholarships – Academic, All-Rounder, Art, Drama, Music and Sport; Sixth Form Scholarships -

Mathematics and English.

Value: Senior Scholarship - up to 30% fee remission;

Exhibitions - up to 10%

fee remission; Sixth

Form Scholarships - up to 100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 3+, 11+, 16+ Deadline: Senior and Sixth Form Scholarships examinations early January each year.

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Channing School The Bank, Highgate, London N6 5HF T 020 8340 2328 W channing.co.uk/admissions Awards: Means-tested bursaries - please contact the school for further information; Scholarships - Academic, Music and

Art (16+ only).

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

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City of London School 107 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 3AL T 020 360 6300 W cityoflondonschool.org.uk/ apply/bursary Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Scholarships - Academic, Sport and Music.

Value: Bursaries - 25-100% fee remission; Scholarships - £250.

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

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Dulwich College Dulwich Common, London SE21 7LD T 020 8693 3601 W dulwich.org.uk Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Scholarships - Art, Music, Academic and Sport.

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships - 10-33% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadlines: (For 2020 entry) 15 November 2019.

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Eaton House Belgravia

Preparatory School 3-5 Eaton Gate, London SW1W 9BA T 020 7924 6000 W eatonhouseschools.com Awards: The Kensington

Scholarship for All-

Round Academic

Excellence; the Leamington Scholarship for Musical Excellence; the Wootton Scholarship for Sporting Excellence; the Leibniz Prize for Mathematics.

Value: Scholarships - up to £200 per term; the Leibniz Prize - £500 honorarium; additional means-tested bursaries available to scholars.

Age at entry: 8+, 11+ Deadline: 20 December 2018 (8+) - please contact admissions to register for scholarship

entry and Prep entry examination (17 January 2019) at the same time.

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Preparatory School 5 Clapham Common Northside, London SW4 9RU T 020 7924 6000 W eatonhouseschools.com Awards: Scholarships - 2 Academic and 1 All-Rounder (8+); 1 Academic and 1 All-Rounder (11+).

Value: 20% fee remission.

Age at entry: 8+, 11+ Deadline: 20 December 2018 (8+) - please contact admissions to register for scholarship

entry and Prep entry examination (17 January 2019) at the same time.

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Hampton School Hanworth Road, Hampton, Middlesex TW12 3HD T 020 8979 9273 W hamptonschool.org.uk Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Fitzwygram

Scholarships;

Scholarships -

Academic, Art,

Chess, Choral,

Music, Performing

Arts and Sport.

Value: Bursaries - up to

100% fee remission;

Fitzwygram Scholarships - 100% fee remission;

Scholarships - up to 25%

fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) 1 November 2019.

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Harrow School 5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP T 020 8872 8000 W harrowschool.org.uk/

Scholarships-and-Bursaries Awards: Means-tested

bursaries for 13+, 16+ and 11+ (the latter including two years at a prep school);

Scholarships - Academic, Music, Art, Drama and Sport at 13+ and 16+.

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

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: Please visit

harrowschool.org.uk/Key- Dates.

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James Allen’s Girls’ School 144 East Dulwich Grove, London SE22 8TE T 020 8693 1181 W jags.org.uk/admissions/ scholarships-bursaries Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Scholarships -

Academic, Art, Music and Sport.

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships - from £1000 to £4000 per annum.

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

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Kensington Park School 40-44 Bark Place, London W2 4AT T 020 7616 4400 W kps.co.uk Awards: Scholarships - Academic, Sport, Music, Art and Drama.

Value: Assessed on an individual basis.

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

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Knightsbridge School 67 Pont Street, London SW1X 0BD T 020 7590 9000 W ksfoundation.org Awards: Two children entering

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Year 7 each year.

Value: 100% fee remission.

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Kew College 24 - 26 Cumberland Road, Kew, Surrey TW9 3HQ T 020 8940 2039 W kewcollege.com/

admissions/bursaries Awards: Means-tested

bursaries.

Value: 10 – 100% fee remission.

Age at entry: Year 3, Year 4.

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Lady Eleanor Holles School Hanworth Road, Hampton, Middlesex TW12 3HF T 020 8979 1601 W lehs.org.uk Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships - Academic, Music, Drama (16+ only), Art (16+ only), Sport (16+ only) and STEM (16+ only).

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission (including the same % off lunches, travel, trips, uniform and iPads); Scholarships - 10% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 16+ Deadline: (Each year) 10th October (16+); 1st December (11+).

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Latymer Upper School King Street, London W6 9LR T 020 8629 2024 W latymer-upper.org/

admissions Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Scholarships

(11+) - Music; Scholarships (16+) - Academic, Music, Sport, Art and Drama.

Value: Means-tested bursaries - 25-100% fee remission; Music Scholarships - up to 40% fee remission with extra music awards available; Art and Sport Scholarships - up to 10% fee remission or £1,000; Drama scholarships - up to 40% fee remission Age at entry: 11+, 16+ Deadline: Registration for 2020 entry from April 2019 until October 2019 (TBC)

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Mander Portman Woodward MPW London, 90-92

Queen’s Gate,

London SW7 5AB; MPW

Cambridge, 3-4

Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE; MPW Birmingham,

17-18 Greenfield Crescent, Birmingham B15 3AU T MPW London - 020 7835 1355; MPW Cambridge -

01223 350158;

MPW Birmingham - 01214 549637 W mpw.ac.uk Awards: Academic, Sport, Music and Drama.

Value: 5-30% fee remission; one fully funded Woodward Scholarship to an English

Literature Scholar (London).

Age at entry: 14+, 16+

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Merchant Taylors’ School Sandy Lodge, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2HT T 01923 820644 W mtsn.org.uk/admissions Awards: Means-tested Bursaries; Scholarships - Academic, All-rounder, Art, Drama, D&T, Music and Sport.

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

Age at entry: 11+, 13+ Deadline: 30 September 2019 (11+); 28 February 2019 (13+, 2020 entry); 30 June 2019 (13+, 2022 entry).

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Newton Prep 149 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BX T 020 7720 4091 W newtonprepschool.co.uk Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Honorary scholarships - Aademic, Drama, Music, Art and Sport.

Value: Means-tested bursaries - up to 100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 3-13 years old Deadline: September of the year before entry.

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Old Palace of John Whitgift School Old Palace Road, Croydon CR0 1AX T 020 8688 2027 W oldpalace.croydon.sch.uk Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships - The Whitgift Scholarship (highest ranking academic award); the Ayckbowm Scholarship (second highest ranking academic award); Music and Mathematics

Scholarships; English

Awards; Reasoning Awards; Head’s Awards; Music Awards; Exhibitions.

Value: Bursaries - up to 99% fee remission; Scholarships - 10-50% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) November 2019 - check website for details.

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Putney High School GDST 35 Putney Hill, London SW15 6BH T 020 8788 4886 W putneyhigh.gdst.net Awards: Means-tested bursaries provided through the GDST; Scholarships - Academic, Music and Sport (11+ & 16+ only).

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships - up to 50% fee remission.

Age at entry: 4+, 11+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) November 2019.

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St Dunstan’s College Stanstead Road, London SE6 4TY T 020 8516 7226 W stdunstans.org.uk Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships - Academic, Music, Drama, Art, Sport (all

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Programme (16+ only).

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

Age at entry: 11+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) 11+ Scholarships, November 2019; 11+ Bursaries,

December 2019;

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St Paul’s Cathedral School 2 New Change, London EC4M 9AD T 020 7248 5156 W spcslondon.com/

Scholarships Awards: Scholarships -

Academic, Music, Sport

and Art. Value: Scholarships - 10% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+ Deadline: 11 January 2019.

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Trinity School Shirley Park, Croydon CR9 7AT T 020 8656 9541 W trinity-school.org Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Scholarships -

Academic, Music, Sport,

Art, Drama and Design Technology.

Value: Bursaries - up to 99% fee remission; Scholarships - 5-50% fee remission.

Age at entry: 10+, 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) November 2019 - check

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University College School Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH T 020 7435 2215 W ucs.org.uk/bursaries-and- scholarships Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Scholarships -

Music.

Value: Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission; Scholarships - 10-25% fee remission.

Age at entry: 11+ (boys), 13+ (boys), 16+ (boys and girls).

Deadline: Please see website for details.

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Whitgift School Haling Park, South Croydon CR2 6YT T 020 8688 9222 W whitgift.co.uk/Admissions Awards: Means-tested

bursaries; Scholarships - Academic (all

applicants considered);

Art; Design, Technology

& Engineering; Drama; Music (including choristers)

and Sport.

Value: Bursaries - up to 99% fee remission; Scholarships - 5-50% fee remission.

Age at entry: 10+, 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: (For 2020 entry) November 2019 - check

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ACS International Hillingdon 108 Vine Lane, Hillingdon, Middlesex, UB10 0BE T 01895 818402 W acs-schools.com/bursaries Awards: Means-tested bursaries Value: 20–100% fee remission Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: 13 December 2018

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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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Badminton School Westbury Road, Westbury-on- Trym, Bristol BS9 3BA T 0117 905 5200 W badmintonschool.co.uk/ admissions/schoalrships-awards- bursaries Awards: Means-tested bursaries; Scholarships - Junior School, All- Rounder, 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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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.

Age at entry: 11+, 13+, 16+ Deadline: First Friday in January prior to entry.

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Berkhamsted School Overton House, 131 High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire HP4 2DZ

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Sport, Boys 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.

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Cheam School Headley, Newbury, Berkshire RG19 8LD T 01635 267822 W www.cheamschool.com Awards: Guaranteed and discretionary bursaries Value: Up to 100% fee remission.

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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d’Overbroeck’s 333 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7PL T 01865 688600 W doverbroecks.com/scholarships Awards: Scholarships - General Academic, Art, Drama, Music, Sport, Journalist/Blogger and Photographer/Filmmaker.

Value: Up to 25% fee remission.

Age at enty: 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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Gordonstoun Elgin, Moray IV30 5RF T 01343 837 837 W gordonstoun.org.uk Awards: Scholarships - Academic, All-Round, Art, Music, Sport, Design Technology, Computing and Drama.

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

Age at entry: 6+ Deadline: Ongoing admission.

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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.

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Value: Typically 5-25% fee remission.

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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.

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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.

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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 - All-round, 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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Academic, Sport, Drama, Music; Sibling and

Forces discounts.

Value: 5-100% fee remission.

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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+).

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Value: 5-40% fee remission.

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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: 20 November 2019 (11+, 13+), 12 December 2019 (16+).

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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+).

Value: Scholarships - 5-20%; Bursaries - up to 100% fee remission.

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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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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 - up to 5% fee remission;

Bursaries - successful

Academic, Girls’ STEM, Music, Sport and

All-Rounder (13+ only);

Scholarship and Exhibition candidates are eligible to apply for up to 100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: Various from

October-February annually; see website.

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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 first-

study instrumentalists)

and Sport.

Value: 5–40% fee remission .

Age at entry: 11+, 13+ Deadline: 16 November 2018 (11+), 1 February 2019 (13+).

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The King’s School, Canterbury The Precincts, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2ES T 01227 595501 W kings-school.co.uk/

scholarships Awards: Means-tested

Bursaries; Scholarships -

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

Academic, Music, Art, Drama, Design, Technology and

Engineering and Cowdrey (Sport).

Value: Up to 100% fee remission.

Age at entry: 13+, 16+ Deadline: 1 December 2018 (Music, Art, Drama, Design, Technology and Engineering and Cowdrey); 1 March 2019 (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 - Academic, Sport, Music, Drama and Art. Value: Please contact the school.

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

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