Year 4 Boarding (age 8)

On average we admit between 30-40 boarding children, who join the day children who move up from Lynams at this stage.

Visiting the School

You are very welcome to visit the school at any stage of the process. Please ring the Registrar's Assistant (Jan Lawrie) to make an appointment (Tel: 01865 315405).

Registration

• All applications for admission should be made to the Registrar at the Bardwell Road address. A pupil may be registered at any time after birth. All ages are calculated as at 1st September. Children born after the 15th September are put into the following year, so they go through as the oldest in their year, rather than the youngest.
• The registration form should be returned accompanied by a cheque for £100, being the Registration Fee, made payable to the Dragon School Trust Ltd. (The registration fee is to cover the cost of administering the registration procedure, including administration of the waiting lists. This payment is not returnable unless the school finds itself unable to confirm a definite place as a result of the assessment).
• The School will then respond either by telling parents that the child has been placed on the main list for the year in question, or by telling parents that the child has been placed on the waiting list, in which case is important that parents have a second choice school.

Open Day

The school will be in touch about eighteen months before the proposed date of entry to invite all those on the Year 4 lists to an Open Day.

Assessment

An assessment morning is held in the autumn prior to the year of entry for those with the definite places. This consists of some Maths and English in the style more of a lesson than an examination. It is not competitive and is designed merely to check that the children are able to cope with the general standard of work. A confidential report is required at this stage from the previous school.

Parents of the very few who do not reach the required standard will be informed accordingly and advice given as to whether a pupil may improve with extra coaching, in which case the School may agree to re-assess the child at a later date. Where the school feels that the child would struggle despite extra tuition and declines to offer a place, the registration fee is returned.

Pupils are promoted from the waiting lists to the main list when withdrawals occur or when pupils fail to meet the assessment standards.

Deposits and Contracts

On successful completion of the assessment, parents are invited to secure the places by paying a deposit by a stated date. Those who do not do this lose their places, and these are then offered to those on the waiting list. Please note:

• The deposit will be returned by a credit on the account at the end of the pupil's final term.
• If a child is withdrawn after the deposit has been paid and the contract signed, the school reserves the right to charge the first term's fees unless a term's notice has been given.

General

Although every effort will be made to notify parents, please note that the School reserves the right to change the Admissions procedure without notice at any time.

The School reserves the right when compiling these lists to give preference in its absolute discretion to the children of staff, Old Dragons, siblings and any others it sees fit, where places are available.

Parents are also advised that they should keep any current school informed of any intended move to the Dragon and must observe their regulations regarding the giving of due notice. We cannot accept anyone from another independent school who has failed to meet their commitments to the previous school in full prior to joining us.

The information on this site is not part of any agreement between parents and the School. Although correct at the time of construction, certain statements may go out of date from time to time. Parents wishing to place specific reliance upon any statement in the web pages should seek written confirmation before accepting an offer of a place.