Ratcliffe College Fees
Ratcliffe College Fees
School Year 2009 - 2010
| Registration Fee |
U.K |
£75 (Non-refundable) |
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Overseas |
£100 (Non-refundable) |
| Deposit |
| (Refundable on leaving school) |
UK |
£250 |
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Overseas |
£500 |
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| Boarding Fees |
Per Term (£) |
Per Annum (£) |
| Full Boarding |
6,455 |
19,365 |
| Weekly Boarding (Years 6 to 8) |
5,205 |
15,615 |
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| Day Fees |
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| Seniors (Years 9 to 13) |
4,281 |
12,843 |
| Seniors (Years 6 to 8) |
3,407 |
10,221 |
| Juniors (Year 5) |
3,068 |
9,204 |
| Juniors (Years 3 to 4) |
2,740 |
8,220 |
| Juniors (Years 1 to 2) |
2,607 |
7,821 |
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| Nursery Fees |
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| Swans (Age 4+) |
2,607 |
7,821 |
| Cygnets (Age 3+) |
2,291 |
6,873 |
All fees include mid-day meal and afternoon tea.
Discounts
Siblings – Ratcliffe encourages families. A discount of 10% is offered for the second child and 20% for the third and subsequent children.
HM Forces – Serving members receive a discount of 10%.
Optional Extras
Occasional Boarding – The overnight rate is set at £36 for the first 10 days in any term and £52 for any subsequent days. Please contact the Administration Office for further details.
Individual Tuition Charges –
Music tuition - £185 per term (ten 30 minute sessions) for individual tuition for each instrument.
Hire of instrument - £25 per term.
Where additional teaching of learning skills is required and agreed with parents, this will be charged at £34 per lesson.
Where additional teaching of English as a Foreign Language is required and agreed with parents, this will be charged at £355 per term ( with a minimum of 10 one hour sessions).
Please note that a full term’s notice is required in writing to discontinue any optional extras.
Additional Notes
Enrolment in Cygnet Nursery on a part time basis.
8.00 a.m. until 3.30 p.m. £48.30
8.00 a.m. until 1.00 p.m. – including lunch £27.10
8.00 a.m. until 12.00 noon – excluding lunch £25.50
12 noon until 3.30 p.m. – including lunch £22.80
1.00 p.m. until 3.30 p.m. – excluding lunch £21.20
After school care (3.30 p.m. until 6.00 p.m.) £5.30 per hour
It is not unusual for children’s attendance to vary significantly as they settle in during the first few months in the Nursery, often increasing during the year from five or six sessions to full time. This has necessitated frequent adjustments to bills. After the initial termly bill has been issued, subsequent changes are charged for on the next term’s invoice. In these circumstances a monthly Direct Debit is not appropriate, and we will only normally agree to monthly Direct Debits for Cygnets when they are attending full time. Please note that refunds cannot be made for absences through sickness or otherwise, but only for agreed changes in regular attendance.
Once your child becomes full time, subsequent terms will be billed in advance as normal and you will pay by monthly Direct Debit.
Holiday Club - This is charged at a rate of £35 per day.
Insurance.
Pupils are automatically enrolled in the following insurance schemes, unless we receive written instructions to the contrary before the end of the first week of term.
i) The School Fees Refund Scheme – loss of fees through sickness to the pupil.
1.5% of fees.
ii) The Pupils Personal Accident Insurance Scheme
Maximum benefit £1,000,000 £4.95 per term.
- The School does not accept liability for the loss (by theft or negligence), or damage to, pupils’ personal property, or property on loan to them. We strongly recommend you check that your home and contents policy provides cover.
School fees are inclusive of mid-day meal and afternoon tea. However the following items will, in addition, automatically be included on the bill:
- Public Examination Fees – these are charged as an extra item, normally in the term in which the examinations are taken
- Sixth Form Social Club Fee – a charge of £50 per annum for Sixth Form students.
- Parents’ Association Fee – a charge of £7 per family per annum for membership of the Parents’ Association.
Other incidental charges are itemised on the termly bill.
Payment may be made in three ways:
(New entrants to the School are required to pay fees using one of the
Direct Debit schemes)
- Monthly Direct Debit – Payments are made in 12 equal instalments, starting in June and finishing in the following May. Incidental charges will continue to be collected by termly invoice, settled by cheque, bank transfer or credit card.*
- Termly Direct Debit – The full amount of the termly invoice, including any incidental charges, will be taken on the first day of each term.
- Termly Cheque - A termly invoice including incidental charges will be raised in advance of the beginning of term and may be settled by cheque, bank transfer or credit card.* All fees and monies due from parents and guardians of pupils are required on or before the first day of the relevant term. Failure to do so, unless other arrangements to pay have been agreed, will result in the strict application of an interest charge of 2% per month on the outstanding balance calculated on a daily basis. Interest will be applied with effect from the end of the first week of the relevant term. This will be rigorously applied and strictly enforced.
- The Governors reserve the right to request the withdrawal of a pupil if the bills are not paid on time.
* An additional fee of 3% is charged for credit card payments.
- Notice of Leaving the School.
- A full term’s notice in writing (or a term’s fees in lieu) must be given by parents or guardians before a pupil is withdrawn. This notice should be received by the Headmaster on or before the first day of term. This includes pupils not returning after the Swans and not returning after Year 6 as well as pupils in Year 11 who are sitting for GCSE’s, who are presumed to be going on to “A” levels at Ratcliffe unless notice is received.
- Governors traditionally review fees once a year and will endeavour to give at least one term’s notice of a rise in fees; however, they reserve the right to increase fees at other times if necessary.
National Westminster Bank plc, Loughborough
Account name Ratcliffe College
Sort Code 60-14-10
Account Number 52707865
If paying fees direct to our bank account, please put the pupil’s account number in the reference field on the paying-in slip.
David Robson
Director of Finance
April 2009
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