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Overseas Students

We are a richly diverse community.  Nathaniel Woodard, a Victorian minister of the Church of England, founded his schools in the 19th century in order to provide a very good education, based on strong moral values, to those of the Christian faith, of all faiths and none.  Consequently, we welcome a wide range of children from different backgrounds who benefit from learning about each other's cultures.  In the boarding house, about half of the girls are from the U.K. while the others are from overseas; they mix together at all meals and for their extra-curricular activities.  For those for whom English is an additional language, saturating themselves in the language, during recreational times, as well as in dedicated English and mainstream lessons, is hugely important so the fun activities girls enjoy together in the boarding house not only add to their happiness but also to their education.

• The Head of Individual Learning is the Learning Support Co-ordinator for the School.
• The School arranges the support given to those children with learning and language difficulties.
• The School delivers additional lessons to pupils to help their progress in English.
• Experienced teachers are qualified to teach English as an additional language.
• The School will continually assess your son or daughter's performance, reviewing progress each term.
• The School will set targets for improvement and work closely with your son or daughter's teachers to ensure the highest possible level of support is maintained.  Your son or daughter must work with the School to develop a relationship within which progress is quickly made.
• Support for your son or daughter is planned and co-ordinated, including additional lessons and in class support from subject teachers.
• The Head of Individual Learning works with subject teachers, supporting individual children or small groups of children.

• Mathematical ability and
• Performance in English.

These tests allow problems to be identified.

• If it is felt that a student is not performing in English at a level similar to her ability in other subjects, then he or she will need to attend additional lessons in English.
• We will then assess students formally each year.
• We will check student’s progress at the end of each term.

• He or she will have gained valuable experience of British culture
• High quality qualifications at every level
• And a good standard of English.

• Many pupils, for whom English is not their first language, find the GCSE English Language examination too difficult and fail to pass.
• We recommend your son or daughter sits the 'International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) in English as a Second Language' examination in Year 11.
• This can be taken alongside the normal GCSE paper if needed.
• Students will then gain an English qualification that will secure entry into most Universities.  This qualification is recognised worldwide and is offered by the University of Cambridge International Examinations.

1. Overseas resident parents and pupils must make themselves familiar with the policy issued by the School as a condition of taking up a place at the School.
2. Additionally, overseas parents must understand and comply with the School's standard terms and conditions of educating a child at the School.
3. The School will ask overseas Agents, where appointed, to explain the standard terms & conditions to parents before offering a place at the School.
4. The purpose of this protocol is to explain and highlight School terms that currently might not be clear to a minority of overseas parents.

1. The complete standard terms and conditions of educating a child at the School are to be found in the School prospectus.  This protocol does not replace this source document and where there is a conflict the standard terms & conditions printed in the prospectus prevail.  Conditions can be found also on the back of the fees schedule (posted to all parents annually), on the application form and in the Offer of a Place Letter.
2. It is not intended (and neither is it practical) to list all the School's conditions, rules and regulations in this protocol. Currently, the main sources of confusion with a minority of parents are:

• A full term's notice must be given in writing to the Headmaster before a child is withdrawn from the School or a term's fees must be paid in lieu of this notice.
• A half term's notice, to take effect at the end of a term, must be given to the Headmaster to discontinue an optional extra subject such as music lessons and speech & drama lessons.
• Pupils will be assessed on their competence with the English language and additional lessons arranged (at extra cost to the parents) where it is determined that the child's standard of English is below that needed to reach their potential. The School's decision in this respect will be final and binding on the parent.

1. Annually, under the direction of the Head of Individual Learning, the English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher will assess all overseas pupils on their competence in the English language and ability to benefit from education provided by the School.
2. Thereafter, a course of extra English lessons will be arranged for each pupil as either individual lessons or group lessons as considered appropriate by the Head of Individual Learning.
3. To enable parents to budget for these lessons and to keep the unit cost as low as possible, a package of 30 lessons will be arranged over the year nominally 10 lessons per term but in practice it is probable that more lessons will be programmed in the longer autumn term than in the shorter spring or summer terms.  Notwithstanding this, parents will only be charged for a maximum of 30 lessons a year regardless of any additional lessons arranged.
4. The cost of the lessons will be evenly spread over 3 terms as follows:

• Individual lessons - £240 per term.
• Group lessons - £120 per term.

5. The Head of Individual Learning’s decision on which pupils are required to take the extra English lessons will be final.
6. Parents will be notified of the charge at the beginning of the autumn term or first term at the School.  Please assume that you will incur this charge if your child is new to the School and until the assessment indicates that these lessons are not needed.  The Head of Individual Learning will arrange for parents to be notified at the end of the summer term if the lessons are not required in the following autumn term.

1. The School undertakes to seek the agreement (written, email, or fax) of parents or guardians before allowing pupils to take up a chargeable extra lesson.  For boarders, the Boarding House Parents will manage these lines of communications.  Guardians will be contacted for day pupils.

1. All parents MUST make themselves familiar with the School's standard terms & conditions and the School will emphasise this to overseas agents.
2. The Boarding House Parents will seek the permission of parents before allowing a pupil to take up a chargeable extra activity such as music lessons.
3. The most obvious benefit of a UK education is that the child should leave the School speaking English well.  Additionally, overseas pupils must speak and write English to a good standard to reach their potential in public examinations.  To this end, the School will assess pupil's competence annually and, where necessary, require that the pupil attends extra English lessons.  To reduce the cost of these lessons, they will be charged at standard rates for individual and group lessons (£240 and £120 per term, respectively).