Armed Forces

Welcome from Steven Jandrell - Head Teacher ~ I realise that living as a member of a Force's family is a pretty strange experience and not normally fully understood by those who do not have to do it. Civilians not involved with the Forces find it difficult to imagine a job where you can be moved at little or no notice, invalidated out on quite minor medical grounds or sent into a war zone with little or no means of contacting your family. Forces partners have to keep the family and home together for extended periods of time while their partner is on unaccompanied postings. Having your children in a school where the Head fully appreciates Forces life can help tremendously. We have many Forces families, so your children will not feel isolated.

Forces cut backs? ~ Well we have made our own cut back and this time YOU benefit! We have made some changes which mean you end up paying less !! Yes some good news. With our Charitable Foundation's backing, we are able to guarantee for the coming Academic Year, starting in September 2011, that whatever our boarding fees become and whatever the CEA becomes, your parental contribution per term, per child will be no more than £795 per child, per term.

If you also use the MOD's ChildCare Voucher Scheme your termly contribution could fall to under £500 per term. Our aim will be to increase the £795 maximum personal contribution per child, per term, in following years, in line with the % Forces pay increases. This very low personal contribution now means we rank as one of the most competitively priced boarding schools in the UK for Forces children!

Where's the catch? ~ There isn't one!

We have over 200 Forces children currently boarding with us. We want that number to increase, not decrease. So we reckon if the "cake" might get smaller we need to get a slightly larger slice. How do you do that? You make it so that we now offer the best value of ANY Independent UK Boarding School. No one else comes close! Register soon and receive a £100 FREE Uniform Voucher to spend in our School Shop! If you register your child with us and do not get CEA entitlement we will refund the charge in full.