School Coach Service Coach Service Pupilcoach Ltd is a joint trading company wholly owned by Hampton School and LEH. It exists to provide a service to parents requiring help in getting their children to and from school. The service is run on a day-to-day basis by the Coach Co-ordinator. Coaches are hired from reputable firms which have a good record of excellent service to the schools. The service, including overheads, is paid for by those parents using the service. The business plan aims to break even over the course of the financial year and to receive no subsidy from either school. Charges are collected termly via the school billing system. It is the objective of the service to provide a place for every pupil for whom a booking form has been received, and who resides within the catchment area. Wherever possible, this will be on the route requested by the parent. Where this is not possible, the pupil is placed on a waiting list and allocated a seat on the preferred route as soon as a place becomes available. The pick-up and drop off points are notified by the Joint Coach Office to all parents who use the service. Coach drivers are only permitted to stop at these points and are expressly forbidden from deviating from this schedule. In the morning, pupils are dropped off on the school side of Hanworth Road within easy walking distance of their respective pedestrian entrances. In the afternoon, both schools supervise the process of loading coaches within their own grounds. The termly charge normally covers the whole of the academic year, however, we do reserve the right to make changes in-year and pass on increased costs above that allowed for in the business plan. The termly coach fees for 2023/24 will be based on the number of school days in the term. Accordingly, the fees will be: Autumn Term £704 Spring Term £600 Summer Term £658 This represents an average termly fee of £654. The charge for the next academic year is notified to parents by no later than May half term.
Late Coach Service We are acutely aware of how busy parents are these days and that it can cause inconvenience if students miss their usual coach pick-up because they are participating in extra-curricular activities. LEH runs the Late Coach Service with five routes which leave school at 6pm. The five routes cover Richmond / Sheen / Putney, Kew and Chiswick, Kingston / Coombe Lane / Wimbledon, Thames Ditton / Esher / Cobham and Virginia Water / Windsor. We ask that parents sign up at the beginning of each term to book their daughter’s weekly seats in advance. These will be charged for the term at a cost of £4.70 per journey. You can still use the service as a one-off during the subsequent term, without booking in advance, and will be charged £10 for these journeys. Your daughter simply needs to sign the registration sheet as she gets on the coach at 6pm. The charge will be added to your next fee bill. The majority of after-school activities, including sport squad practices, music and drama rehearsals, finish by 5.50pm at the latest to enable pupils to be ready for a prompt 6pm departure. The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is staffed each night until 6pm which means that students can also choose to remain in school to complete homework before catching the late Pupilcoach service. Please note that sports fixtures and rowing training at the Boat House will continue to run as usual and therefore cannot be guaranteed to finish on time for the 6pm coach service.
“Pupils arrive from every direction – Ealing to Esher, Windsor to Wimbledon, Chiswick to Chertsey (we could go on) – with 50 per cent of pupils arriving on coaches that cater for a multitude of routes.” Good Schools Guide
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