Applications for 2027 and beyond
Open Days
In the first instance, families are encouraged to attend one of our Sixth Form Open Days. These include talks about the admissions process (including the Sixth Form Assessment Weekend) and a tour of the site and a boarding or day house. There are also opportunities to speak to the Headmaster, Housemasters/Housemistresses, current pupils and representatives from each of our academic Faculties. Places can be booked online via our Open Days and Booking Form page.
Individual Family Visits
If you would like to arrange an individual family visit, please email the Admissions Office at [email protected]. This will usually include a tour of the School, a meeting with the Sixth Form Admissions Tutor and a visit to one of our houses. If you would like to see the Headmaster during your visit, please do let us know.
Registration
Following your visit, and if you have not already done so, you will be invited to register your son or daughter by filling in a Registration Form and returning it to us with the Registration Fee of £180 (£150 + £30 VAT).
Sixth Form Assessments
We will write to you in the August 13 months ahead of entry to confirm that your child intends to take our entrance exams and to enclose our application form.
On the application form, candidates will nominate three subjects for assessment. Ideally, these should be the subjects that they intend to take for A Level. However, we recognise that some applicants will not yet have firm plans for their A Levels and we suggest that they offer three of their strongest GCSE subjects. [Candidates for whom English is not their first language will additionally be required to offer English as an Additional Language as a fourth paper.]
Exam papers will be set in accordance with GCSE specifications, albeit in the knowledge that candidates will not yet have finished their GCSE courses. Papers will be one hour in length. Our Specimen Papers section contains past papers.
Candidates will also undertake an interview with a senior member of staff. This will be informed by the Personal Statement that is part of the Application Form and in which candidates can tell us more about their interests and achievements. We will also ask for permission to write to the applicant’s current headteacher for a reference.
The Entrance Examinations will be held at the beginning of November the year before entry. International candidates will be able to take the written papers either at an Examination Centre in their home country or at the offices of Academic Asia and UK Boarding Schools. We would anticipate that international candidates will take the exams at the beginning of November.
We will be offering approximately 8 academic scholarships and 12 other specialist scholarships that include Art, Drama, Music and Sport. Academic scholarships will be awarded as a result of exceptional performance in the entrance examination. The other specialist scholarships will be assessed at the same time as the November entrance examinations, through practical assessment and interview.
The key parts of the Application Pack are the Registration Form (for candidates who have not yet registered as prospective students at Shrewsbury), Academic Application form and the Personal Statement. Also included are our Specialist Scholarship forms.
In addition, we offer two sporting scholarships: The Margaret Cassidy Sports Scholarship is for an outstanding sportsman (worth up to 100% of fees, subject to means testing); and the Alex Wilson Scholarship is awarded every year to a local sportsperson of exceptional talent (worth up to 100% of day fees, subject to means testing).
Offers of a Place
We will aim to have made our decisions by 1st December, and will then offer successful candidates a place in our Sixth Form, conditional on them achieving at least three GCSEs at Grade 6 and three GCSEs at Grade 5.
You will be sent an offer letter including an Acceptance of a Conditional Place form which needs to be completed and returned with the relevant deposit. For families living in the UK, the deposit is 10% of a term’s fee; for families whose normal residence is outside the UK, there is an additional deposit which is 90% of the current fee for one term.
Applications from mainland China
All applicants from mainland China should contact our official representative: UK Boarding Schools Admissions Service
Tel: +86 (0)2152660095
Address: Floor 28, Zhongshan Wanbo International Centre, 666 West Huaihai Road, Shanghai, 200000, China
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ukboardingschools.org.uk
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UKBS英国私校入学中心
电话：+86 (0)2152660095（上海办公室）
地址：上海市长宁区淮海西路666号中山万博国际中心28层，邮编200000
网址： www.ukboardingschools.org.uk
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