Fees
Tuition Fees for the current academic year will be in four categories depending on the age of the student:
- BPS (Pre-Prep and Reception)
- BPS (Years 1-6)
- Senior School (Years 7 & 8)
- Senior School (Year 9 to Sixth Form)
- Part-time Pre-Prep pupils are charged per term for each half-day session.
For information on current fees and entrance procedures please telephone Mrs D Roberts 0151 651 3009
Fees include, in addition to the cost of tuition and a wide range of extra-curricular activities, almost all text books and materials, exercise books, examination fees (except re-sits), fieldwork, travel to sporting fixtures and travel and personal accident insurance. Whole year visits, including residential visits (eg as part of our outdoor education programme) are also included in the fees.
Each term’s fees may be paid in four monthly instalments. This means that fees for the year may be paid over the twelve month period July – June.
Lunches
Charges for lunch will be made on a termly basis
Lunches will be compulsory for all pupils other than those in the Senior School Sixth Form.
Conditions of Admission
To download a copy of our conditions of admission click here.
Bursaries
This note has been prepared to give a brief over-view of the subject for parents. For further information, please contact the Bursar.
In an ideal world, the School would wish that the payment of fees would not be an obstacle to any able child, who would benefit from being at the School, from taking up a place. In practice, we are able to move significantly towards this position through the Bursary scheme, which is financed by the Birkenhead School Foundation Trust. This charity, established in 1998, uses its investment income and money from individual and corporate benefactors. The Foundation Trust is currently supporting some sixty pupils in the School.
Parents of any child who has been offered a place may apply for a Bursary if they feel that they cannot afford to pay full fees. Bursaries can be of any size, from a small proportion of the fee to 100% of the fee for parents who cannot afford to make any contribution. Inevitably, there are, each year, more applications for Bursaries than can be supported by the Foundation Trust, and decisions are made on the basis of academic potential and family circumstances.
Once a Bursary is given, this is generally held to the end of the stage in which it has been awarded - subject to parents’ financial circumstances remaining unchanged, their timely payment of fees and to satisfactory academic performance and conduct on the part of the pupil - but may be renewed for the subsequent stage. For example, a Bursary awarded to a pupil in Year 3 would remain in place to the end of Year 6; a Bursary awarded in Year 7 would remain in place to the end of Year 11.
Bursaries are considered in February/March each year and generally run from the start of the following academic year. Those wishing to apply should contact the Bursar before the end of January. The deadline for Bursary applications following the Entrance Examination at 11+ is two weeks after the publication of results.
Hardship
For pupils already at the School, at any stage of their education, Bursaries may be awarded in the case of unforeseen hardship. These are also considered in February/March but in exceptional circumstances the Trustees are willing to give consideration at other times.
Scholarships
This note has been prepared to give a brief over-view of the subject for parents. For further information, please contact the Bursar.
A number of scholarships are awarded, based principally on academic ability, but occasionally as a result of exceptional sporting or musical potential. These are generally few in number and give a fixed reduction in fee, independent of parents’ financial circumstances.
