Education Guide 2008

Welcome to the 2008 edition of Pure Education, a guide to schools and education in the South-west, in association with Cornwall Life, Devon Life and Somerset Life.

Education takes many forms, and where to educate your child can be one of the most difficult choices a parent has to make. The years that your child spends at school are vitally important, and finding an establishment that will suit your child’s particular strengths (and weaknesses) will set the pattern for their whole future life.

We hope that this guide will help make the decision-making that little bit easier. In the following pages you can find essential details about a range of schools in the South-west. We also suggest ways of making the most of those all-important open days,consider what sort of curriculum helps to develop the fully rounded child, give a few tips on the financial minefield associated with independent education and how to tiptoe through it, and offer some advice to help calm exam nerves. We also talk to three South-west families with very different aspirations for their children and why they chose particular schools. We hope you find this guide useful.

With thanks to The Good Schools Guide for information provided.