Brighton College
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:20 pm
Hello all,
First time poster. We currently live in South London but are seriously contemplating a move to Brighton and are very interested in Brighton College for ds who is now year 5.
We're booked in for the open day but I had a few questions and was hoping someone could help. I get the impression that BC is very academic, as academic as Kings College School but a bit more quirky and arty, which would suit ds perfectly. My question is, is it as difficult to get into? Does anyone have an idea of how many children apply for the 50 places (I think that's how many I read) and in terms of entrance do you have an idea of how tough the exam is and the kind of percentages needed? As far as I know there are no past papers available for BC, but I'm keen to get ds some practice in advance. We don't have a tutor but will probably tutor in Maths towards the end of year 5 and practice some verbal reasoning papers.
Ds is currently at a state school and in his last school report he was doing really well in English - top of his year and won a national writing competition his teacher entered him for so I'm fairly relaxed about English, he's doing pretty well in Maths too, at the end of Year 4 he was 'exceeding expectations' and I was told he was an old NC level 4A. I'm not sure if that's good enough so just trying to get an idea of whether we're being realistic. He's dyspraxic so terrible at sport but considered scholarship material in Art, which is why his class teacher suggested applying to Alleyn's and Dulwich. Currently, we're looking at applying for Kingston Grammar, Dulwich College and Alleyn's here in London but Brighton sounds amazing and we're ready to move out, I'm just aware that the London schools we are looking at are not quite as academic as BC.
Thanks in advance!!
First time poster. We currently live in South London but are seriously contemplating a move to Brighton and are very interested in Brighton College for ds who is now year 5.
We're booked in for the open day but I had a few questions and was hoping someone could help. I get the impression that BC is very academic, as academic as Kings College School but a bit more quirky and arty, which would suit ds perfectly. My question is, is it as difficult to get into? Does anyone have an idea of how many children apply for the 50 places (I think that's how many I read) and in terms of entrance do you have an idea of how tough the exam is and the kind of percentages needed? As far as I know there are no past papers available for BC, but I'm keen to get ds some practice in advance. We don't have a tutor but will probably tutor in Maths towards the end of year 5 and practice some verbal reasoning papers.
Ds is currently at a state school and in his last school report he was doing really well in English - top of his year and won a national writing competition his teacher entered him for so I'm fairly relaxed about English, he's doing pretty well in Maths too, at the end of Year 4 he was 'exceeding expectations' and I was told he was an old NC level 4A. I'm not sure if that's good enough so just trying to get an idea of whether we're being realistic. He's dyspraxic so terrible at sport but considered scholarship material in Art, which is why his class teacher suggested applying to Alleyn's and Dulwich. Currently, we're looking at applying for Kingston Grammar, Dulwich College and Alleyn's here in London but Brighton sounds amazing and we're ready to move out, I'm just aware that the London schools we are looking at are not quite as academic as BC.
Thanks in advance!!