Fees and Charges

• Fees for the Academic Year 2011/12

Year 7 and above:                                          £3,390 per term

Years 5 & 6:                                                     £3,150 per term

Years 3 & 4:                                                     £2,775 per term

Reception, Years 1 & 2:                                £2,350 per term

Nursery:                                                            £1,950 per term

• The above fees include tuition, most stationery, textbooks and scientific materials and school lunches, routine educational trips and Pupils'Personal Accident Insurance Scheme.
• Optional extras are charged separately and include:
• A Fees Refund Scheme, operated by our insurers Marsh - for further details, please contact the Bursary.
• Individual music lessons - Invoiced directly by our peripatetic music teachers.
• Speech and Drama (Elocution) lessons: £16.50 per 30 minute session
• Educational support lessons: £17.00 per 30 minute session

Breakfast:

• Breakfast: £1.50 per day

After School Care Provisions:

Nursery to Year 2 pupils

• After School Activities               -   £3.75
• Collected before 4pm               -  No Charge
• Collected between 4pm & 5pm  -  £4.25
• Collected between 5pm & 6pm  -  £8.50 (pupils joining ASC following an activity, between 4.15pm and 4.30pm will be charegd £4  if collected within one hour of joining ASC).

Year 3 to 6 pupils

Activities 

• Year 3                                    -  £3.75
• Year 4-6                                 -  No charge (Unless Specialist Coach required, or externally run agency)
• Collected between 4pm & 5pm  -  £3.75
• Collected between 5pm & 6pm  -  £7.50 (pupils joining ASC after an activity at 5pm will be charged one hour)

Year 7 and above

After School Care  Provision                 - No charge

• Activities                                 - No charge (Unless Specialist Coach required, or externally run agency)

Other charges may apply from time to time, the School will advise parents of these in advance.

Extra Curricular lessons                           -  £17.00 per 30 mins

Learning Support                                       -  £17.50 per 30 mins

Musical Instrument Hire                          -  £40 per term

Registration Fee (non refundable)       -  £100.00

Deposit (payable on acceptance of place) -  £500.00 NB. £500 is refundable against the last school invoice prior to the pupil leaving.

Childcare Vouchers:

Employees who pay for registered childcare, may benefit from tax and national insurance savings, if their employer is registered with a childcare voucher scheme. The Cathedral School accepts childcare vouchers in payment of Nursery fees, Breakfast club, After School Activities and Care charges (up to the age of 16).  (After School Activities run by external agencies do not qualify).  If you wish to find out which childcare voucher schemes the school is registered with, please contact the Bursary on 029 20838505.

Precise details of the business relationship that exists between Parents and the School are set out in the Terms and Conditions document that parents receive when the offer of a place is made.

In addition it may be helpful to note the following points:

• The Governors normally give a term's notice of any increase in fees, although they reserve the right to amend fees at any time in exceptional circumstances.
• No remission of fees can be made by the School for any reason whatsoever. Parents are advised to insure against loss in case of absence: details may be obtained from the Bursar.

All fess are payable in advance and no later than the first day of the new School term.  Late payment will incur interest charges.

One full term's notice, in writing, to the Headmaster is required before the withdrawal of a pupil, failing which a term's fees will be charged in lieu of notice.