Admissions and Fees

We want every parent to be sure that Frensham is the right place for their child to grow. By chatting with our Register and joining us for our virtual open morning or a one to one conversation with Rick, we hope you’ll start to get a strong understanding of what makes us different. It’s important to us that we choose our students based not just on exam results, but also on who we believe will thrive and benefit from everything the school has to offer and who, in turn, will fully contribute to the life of the school.

Most children join the school during the following year groups: Nursery, Reception, Years 3, 7, 9 and 12. If places are available, children can register to join other year groups but we fill quickly from Year 2 upwards so it is worth registering your interest for 2021 entry as soon as possible. Please be aware that there is a non-refundable registration fee for all prospective students of £100.

If you are interested in a place for September 2020 please still get in touch with Emma on [email protected] as, depending on the year group, we may be able to help.

Frensham Heights is proud to welcome students with Individual Needs, but with a small Learning Support team, we can only support a small number of children with mild learning and/or behavioural difficulties in each year.

If your child has Individual Needs we will need additional information about any known or suspected difficulties or diagnoses relating to your child’s health, wellbeing or learning abilities – such as a formal Educational Psychologist, Medical or Specialist Teacher’s report and an informal conversation with your child’s current school. This information will help us see if we could reasonably meet your child’s needs. Importantly, it will also help us see if your child could thrive and benefit from everything the school has to offer and be able to contribute in full to the life of the school.

Where we feel that we could support your child, we will invite them to begin our assessment process. If we don’t think we can sufficiently support them, we will let you know as soon as possible to let you consider more beneficial options.

To find out more about Learning Support at Frensham Heights, please follow this link.

Our assessment process is slightly different for each area of the school. We are currently assessing all those children looking for a place in September 2020 through online interactive and written assessments taking place at home. Please get in touch with us as we would be delighted to explain how this works.

From September we hope we will be able to re-introduce elements of our face to face assessment held here at school. You’ll find more details below of what this will likely involve although of course we will adapt our plans to ensure we keep everyone safe.

Offers are normally sent out within one-two weeks and you would normally receive one of four potential responses.

1. Guaranteed offer: successful candidates will be offered a guaranteed place to start the following September (or the start of Year 9 for pre-test candidates). Places must be accepted by the first Monday in March
2. Waiting list offer:these candidates we be offered a guaranteed place as soon as a place becomes available
3. Offer to retest (pre-test candidates only):if we feel your child has not quite reached the level required in the pretest, but we think they would really benefit from a Frensham education, we may invite them to come back for assessments in Year 8
4. Regret:if we unfortunately feel that Frensham is not quite the right fit for your child.

If you wish to accept an offer of a place at Frensham for your child, we would ask you to pay a deposit as follows:

Junior School: £300

Middle & Senior School: £500 (day) or £750 (boarders)

Parents of overseas boarders are asked to pay a full term’s boarding fees in advance to secure a place for your child.

Should you accept a deferred place at Frensham, we would request a deposit of £1000 per child for day places and £1500 per child for a boarding place.