INFORMATION FOR PARENTS OF NEW BOYS
MICHAELMAS 2013
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Checklist of cards and documents to return:
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Contact Details (white)
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Modern Languages and Greek Choices (light green)
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Music Lessons (dark yellow)
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Medical Form (yellow)
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NHS Card for dame (yellow)
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Direct Debit Mandate (lilac)
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Customer ID Verification (lilac)
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Payment by instalments (lilac)
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Barclaycard Prepaid Card Scheme (dark blue)
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Optional Insurances (dark green)
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Additional Fixtures Order Form (light blue)
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Biometric Data Consent Form (orange)
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Copy of information page of passport
(For all boys, irrespective of nationality)
Please return all the above documentation in the envelope provided to:
New Boys’ Documentation
School Office
Eton College
Windsor
SL4 6DD
Deadline for return is Wednesday 24 May 2013.
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INTRODUCTION:
From the Head Master
From the Lower Master
From the Director of Curriculum
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THE CURRICULUM:
The First Year (F)
The GCSE Years (E and D)
Specialisation in C and B
Choice and Examinations; The Tutor
The School Day
Music
Computers and Tablets
Mobile Phones
Games; Swimming Test
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THE HOUSE:
Fire and Safety Regulations
Bicycles and Motor Vehicles
School Dress
The Marking of Clothes
Dry Cleaning of Boys’ Suits
Eton Clothing List
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MEDICAL MATTERS:
From the School Doctor
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FINANCIAL MATTERS:
School Fees
Extras
Entrance Fee and Final Bills
Pre-paid Fees Scheme
Bursaries
Insurances
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MISCELLANEOUS:
The Eton Website
School Library
Fixtures Book
Change of Details
Old Etonian Association
Parent Contract
Eton Map
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FROM THE HEAD MASTER
This booklet summarises some information about Eton in what we hope will be a convenient form. Your son’s
house master and dame will, of course, be happy to answer specific questions and to clarify things about which
you may be uncertain. You may find the booklet ‘Eton College – An Introduction’ written for the benefit of your
son, an additional, useful insight into everyday life at Eton.
For reasons lost in the mists of time, the Eton year is divided into three terms, called ‘halves’: the Michaelmas
Half, the Lent Half and the Summer Half. Dates of the beginning and end of each half, together with details of
Long Leave (half-term) and of any Short Leaves, are published in the card of Eton dates which will be sent to
you at regular intervals.
There are two notable dates for families in the course of the year: St Andrew’s Day and The Fourth of June. We
hope that many parents will be present on these occasions. St Andrew’s Day is celebrated on 16 November
2013. The main attraction is the Wall Game, between 10.55am and noon, but there are some other sporting
contests and some exhibitions. Many house masters keep ‘open house’ during the morning. Boys are free to
go just before lunch for a Short Leave of 48 hours.
The Fourth of June is a rather grander occasion and all houses keep ‘open house’ in the latter part of the
morning. Most parents picnic in the grounds. The entertainments include a wide range of exhibitions, a
promenade concert, a performance of speeches in Upper School by Sixth Form Select, cricket matches against
the Old Etonians and the Procession of Boats off Fellows’ Eyot.
Open communication between home and the school is crucial. We will send reports on your son’s progress
after the end of each half, accompanied by a personal letter about your son written by his house master. We
will also invite you to Parents’ Meetings to meet your son’s subject masters in each of his first four years at the
school. Over and above these formal moments, you should feel comfortable contacting your son’s house
master at any time about any issues or concerns: an initial e-mail is usually the best route.
I will keep you informed about general developments at school in my regular newsletter to parents which you
will receive at the beginning and end of the Michaelmas Half, and at the ends of the Lent and Summer
Halves. You also have access to news and other information on the school website: www.etoncollege.com
Parents are, of course, very welcome to all chapel services and my wife and I are ‘at home’ to parents, their
sons, other family members and any other guests after morning Chapel on a number of Sundays during the
year, dates of which are given in my newsletters. These relaxed occasions are times simply to meet: an
opportunity, if you like, to put faces to names.
One final invitation: it has become customary for the Head Master to speak briefly to the parents or guardians
of new boys in College Chapel at 3.15pm on the opening day of the Michaelmas Half – on Wednesday 4
September 2013 – and I look forward to seeing you then.
A R M LITTLE
Head Master
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FROM THE LOWER MASTER
I am pleased to join with others in welcoming your son to Eton.
The centre of a boy’s life is his house, with parents normally dealing with their son’s house master, who will give
much of his time to advising and supporting his boys. While your son is in the Lower School (unless he is a
King’s Scholar), any matters of difficulty, including disciplinary problems or failure to make good progress, will
be referred to me. Parents may want to discuss such problems and you should not hesitate to make contact
with me.
There are a number of people available to give your son support and encouragement, and to provide an
academic, pastoral and disciplinary framework throughout his time in the school. Apart from his house master,
the dame will keep a particularly close eye on each new boy, and both house master and dame are readily
accessible. Each house also has a deputy house master and two assistant masters who regularly come into the
house. They will get to know your son very well indeed. The house master appoints a house captain who,
along with other senior boys, assists in the smooth running of the house. Boys will be helped to organise and
use their time effectively, with houses monitoring daily activities.
In addition to the Prospectus you will have access to the Parents’ Handbook outlining the formal procedures
and policies of Eton College. This handbook may be accessed via the internet by typing the following
address: www.etoncollege.com. Go to the heading ‘visitors’ then select’ documents for download’. This
document is password protected – to apply for a password please contact webclerk@etoncollege.org.uk stating
your son’s full name and his house. Alternatively, apply to the Lower Master’s Secretary for the latest printed
version in September.
Each boy has a tutor, who is concerned with the intellectual and personal development of the boys, and he will
meet them regularly each week for tutorials in groups of about six boys, often drawn from different
houses. The house master chooses the tutor of a junior boy, but a senior boy chooses, with the agreement of
his house master, his own tutor.
Reports are written for each boy at the end of every half. Masters prepare a report for each of the boys they
teach, and these are collated by the boy’s tutor and forwarded with a covering letter to the house master. The
house master writes a full report on each of his boys and forwards the whole package to parents during the first
few days of the holiday.
Parents and guests are always most welcome at Lower Chapel for the Sunday services. This normally takes
place at 10.30am, but occasionally there is an evening service (signified by a “B” in Fixtures) at 7.00pm.
I hope that you will not hesitate to introduce yourself to me at any time. My wife and I look forward to getting
to know your son during the course of his first two years and meeting as many of you as we can at various
school functions.
R M STEPHENSON
Lower Master
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FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM
I write as the master responsible for the curriculum.
At Eton we see the curriculum as something that embraces more or less everything that a boy does. That
doesn’t quite include what happens in a boarding-house, but it does include almost everything else. You may
ask why we want to see the curriculum that way. For many schools, the curriculum is just the academic part of
what a boy studies. But that really doesn’t do justice to what an education is. When all is said and done, a boy
is not coming to Eton simply to earn a set of qualifications. That is obviously an important part of what
happens in the school, and we take the attainment of the best set of qualifications that each of our boys is
capable of achieving very seriously, but it is certainly true that the most important things that you learn at
school are not really to be measured in terms of qualifications.
When your son leaves Eton – that may seem a long way away at present – he will have five years’ experience of
academic, sporting, dramatic, artistic, musical and, perhaps most importantly, personal growth to look back on,
the greater part of the latter having been centred on his house and the friendships he has made there. He will
almost certainly go on to university. That will add to those experiences. But what he does here, what he will do
there, and what he has already done at his previous school, are just parts of an ongoing process that will enable
him to become the person that he wants to be. His parents are the most important figures in this process, and
his school is no more than a contributory agent in the determination of the opportunities that will allow him to
optimise what he wants to do with his life. So, when he arrives, much of his energy will be given over to
learning to deal with new boys, new masters, the boarding-house where he lives, the complexities of the largest
school he will ever have been to, and the at-times-bewildering and always-exciting range of opportunities that
will confront, challenge and tempt him at almost every turn.
Life at Eton is rich, varied, exciting, challenging, sometimes even exhausting, but, above all, enormously
rewarding. It is difficult to imagine a school that could offer a boy more opportunities, and so the first thing a
boy must resolve to do is to make the most of them. If he chooses not to avail himself of them, that will be his
fault and our failure, and we all must and will make every effort to ensure that does not happen.
I wish your son well for the five years ahead of him.
G J D EVANS
Director of Curriculum
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THE CURRICULUM
THE FIRST YEAR (F)
For academic, social, and other purposes, Eton is divided into five blocks, F – B, in each of which a boy spends
one year. He joins F on arrival, chooses his GCSEs at the end of that year ready to start them in E, then takes
them in D. At the end of D he chooses the subjects he wishes to study in C and B. These lead to A levels and/or
the new qualification known as the Pre-U.
We regard a boy’s first year in the school as a year in which he lays solid academic foundations. English and
mathematics inevitably form the core of his curriculum, but science and language are among other important
components.
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Every boy studies English and mathematics.
Every boy studies the three principal branches of science – biology, chemistry, physics.
Every boy takes at least two modern languages chosen from French, German, Japanese, Chinese,
Russian and Spanish. He may only study one of Japanese, Chinese and Russian. Certain restrictions
apply to those who want to take up Chinese.
Every boy studies Latin for at least one year; many choose to study Greek as well. Some study Greek as
complete beginners. Boys who study Greek take half as much of the six MADPID subjects (music, art,
design, PE, ICT and drama) during their first year.
Divinity, history and geography are also studied for two periods (“schools” in Eton-speak) per week.
Physical Education is another key element in the curriculum. A boy in F is introduced to and
encouraged to develop individual skills, which in the next two years he learns to deploy in group
activities where tactics and leadership play a part.
A range of practical and creative disciplines – MADPID (music, art, design, PE, ICT and drama) – are also
studied two-at-a-time on a rolling programme for 3 schools per week for about seven weeks.
Boys may choose to study Arabic outside the main timetable, where Chinese is also offered to boys with
prior knowledge of the language.
We ask that you complete and return the enclosed green modern languages and Greek choices card by Friday
24 May 2013 at the latest.
THE GCSE YEARS (E and D)
Towards the end of his year in F a boy makes some important decisions about what he will study in E and D.
Each boy continues to study English and mathematics, and in addition he has to select eight other subjects, at
least two of which must be a science and a least one of which must be a modern language. A boy’s choice is of
course guided by his parents, his house master, and his tutor; but placing the principal responsibility for
selecting his academic portfolio on the boy helps him develop a sense of commitment to his studies, and this is
good preparation for the more specialised A-level years.
A brochure giving details of the subjects that will be available in E and D is sent to parents during the Lent Half
of F. Appropriate discussion and consultation can then take place before choices are made provisionally
towards the end of the Lent and finalised at the start of the Summer Half. The subjects which we anticipate
offering in E and D are:
English and mathematics (every boy continues these two subjects)
Biology, chemistry, physics (every boy studies at least two of these and most take three)
French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish (at most two of these)
Latin, Greek, classical civilisation (either Roman or Greek)
Divinity, geography, history
Art (painting, sculpture, ceramics), design & technology (resistant materials), music, drama
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SPECIALISATION in C and B
We intend boys to leave Eton as well-rounded, informed, mature young adults ready to make the most of their
university courses and well-prepared for the many challenges that they will encounter in later life.
At the time of writing these new subjects become available when a boy becomes a specialist in C: economics,
government and politics, history of art, ancient history, music technology, Italian, Portuguese, theatre studies.
For university purposes most boys will need to acquire three good A levels or Pre Us after two years as a
specialist. Some A-level courses are divided between AS at the end of C and A2 at the end of B; others are
structured around final examination at the end of B. All Pre-U courses are examined in B. All boys are expected
to pursue four subjects in C; a good many continue with four in B, but this is not a requirement.
The compulsory Eton course for C boys in religion, philosophy, and ethics (known as ‘Perspectives’), a wide
range of unexamined Options courses taken during C and B, tutorial sessions, morning services and assemblies,
evening society meetings, concerts and plays, the CCF, Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, Community Service,
and a wealth of music, all contribute to the wide-ranging education in which we believe.
CHOICE and EXAMINATIONS
All boys in F follow more or less the same broad curriculum; choices between subjects are made towards the
end of the first year. A new boy has only two decisions to make: whether to do Greek, and which two modern
languages to study.
The table below shows the pattern and mixture of internal examinations – Eton calls them ‘Trials’ – and
external examination – usually GCSEs – during a boy’s first three years in the school, together with the halves in
which boys start to consider their future academic plans.
Block
Michaelmas Half
F
Trials in December
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Parents and boys meet
masters to discuss the start
of the new GCSE courses.
Trials in December
Trials in December
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Lent Half
Parents and boys meet masters.
GCSE choices are provisionally
made for final decisions in the
Summer.
Boys consider whether to drop
one of their GCSE subjects in D
in consultation with parents,
house masters and tutors.
Parents and boys meet masters
for advice.
A-level/Pre-U choices are
provisionally made for final
decisions in the summer.
Summer Half
Trials in June
Decisions are made about
whether to drop a subject.
Trials in June
GCSEs and no Trials
THE TUTOR
Every boy in the school has a tutor in addition to his house master. A boy’s tutor assists the house master in
monitoring the boy’s academic progress and also serves as a second adult to whom the boy can turn for help
and advice. A tutor typically has a group of about six pupils from the same block, and sees each group at least
once a week. In these sessions he seeks to enlarge his pupils’ personal, cultural, intellectual, and social
horizons. In particular, tutors are responsible for delivering a significant part of the school’s programme of
Personal, Social & Health Education (PSHE). They also help their pupils develop study skills of various kinds.
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A boy’s weekly session with his tutor is one of the many activities that take place outside the teaching
timetable. We believe that such things as games, music, drama, hobbies and societies must be given a fair
chance to flourish, and we therefore have fewer teaching periods per week than has become customary
nowadays (currently 35 periods of 40 minutes each).
Boys with specific learning difficulties are identified by tests administered to all in F unless those difficulties
have already been identified in their previous school. Such boys may be given help by their tutor, and they can
also get extra help from qualified staff in the Learning Centre. Parents are usually charged for Learning Centre
support (unless the support falls within the school’s duty to make reasonable adjustments for a boy with a
disability) and are notified of the charges before they are incurred.
THE SCHOOL DAY
The following diagram shows the shape of the school week. There are either chapel services, assemblies (for
older boys) or tutorial sessions in the 08:35 – 08:50 slot every day including Saturday. Morning school is then
always three forty-minute schools separated by a ten-minute break, chambers from 11:20 until 11:45, then two
more forty-minute schools before lunch at 13:15. Boys then have games and some other activities in later years
until 15:40, a shower (we hope) and tea between then and afternoon school on whole schooldays or later
games on half schooldays. Afternoon school is two forty-minute lessons 16:30 – 17:10 and 17:20 – 18:00.
Tutorials and quiet hour start at 18:10 and last until 19:30, although tutorials are seldom that long. Supper and
house prayers then occur followed by society meetings from 20:45 until 22:00. A different afternoon timetable
operates in the summer half.
Chapel/Assembly
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0835 – 0850
Chapel
0835 – 0850
Chapel
0835 – 0850
Chapel
0835 – 0850
Tutors
0835 – 0850
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0835 – 0850
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1030 –
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Director of Curriculum
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MUSIC
OPPORTUNITIES
There are many opportunities for a musical boy at Eton. Well over half the boys in the school take individual
music lessons. The Symphony Orchestra and Concert Band are open to boys in E block or above of around
Grade VIII standard or higher. The Junior String Orchestra and Junior Concert Band are for boys of Grade IV
level or above. There are Senior and Junior Big Bands and a number of senior and junior jazz ensembles and
many wind, brass and chamber ensembles. The Corps Band of bagpipes and drums always plays on the Fourth
of June and takes part in the Tattoo. The College Chapel Choir is open to experienced singers with unbroken
voices and older boys with broken voices; Lower Chapel Choir is open to singers with broken voices in the Lower
School. The Concert Choir is open to all. Additionally, there is a performance of a major choral work with a
professional orchestra in the Lent Half in which all boys and staff can join the chorus with an invited girls’
school.
TICKETS
Ticket applications for the end-of-Half School Concerts and Lent Half Choral Concert should be made by
boys, on behalf of their families, on forms posted on their House Notice Boards. This notice will go up around
Long Leave. There may be occasions when there will be limits on the number of tickets per family.
TAKING UP A NEW INSTRUMENT
While many boys will wish to continue lessons in their current instrument, a change of school may be a good
opportunity to change instruments or take up a new one. In this case it is worth considering the larger
instruments (e.g. double bass, tuba, bassoon) that smaller boys don’t usually think of. Players of those
instruments tend to be in shorter supply so the boy is likely to have an opportunity to play in a band or
orchestra sooner. My advice is always to start lessons in the first half. There is rarely a need for boys to “settle
in first”.
Individual lessons are offered in a wide range of instruments. If a boy is really keen to learn a non-standard
instrument we will do our best to arrange a teacher. Accordion, steel drums, sitar and tabla are reminders of
such enthusiasm. Music Technology has become a popular subject at AS & A2 level, and it can also form a
substantial part of the GCSE music course for interested boys. Individual lessons are offered and all F block boys
will be given an introduction to music technology during their first year in the school.
INSTRUMENT HIRE
A very limited number of school instruments are available for hire at a small cost except for guitars. Guitars
need to be purchased; if after the first half a boy does not wish to continue with lessons the guitar will just be
charged at the hire rate and sold on less this hire fee to any other boys wishing to take up lessons. Please apply
on the Music Lesson Application Form.
INSURANCE
Please note that the School does not insure boys’ property. If your son has his own instrument, do make sure
that it is adequately insured against loss or damage. All personal property must be named.
TO START MUSIC LESSONS
Please fill in the enclosed form and submit it by 24 May 2013. It is recommended that you let your son know
what instruments you have applied for and keep a copy of the form for your records. If you subsequently wish
to cancel a set of lessons you have applied for you must do so BEFORE 15 August 2013 to avoid being charged
for a term’s tuition fees; this includes boys who are Music Scholars or Exhibitioners. Lessons can also be started
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in the Lent or Summer Halves by writing to the Music Schools Manager [email k.james@etoncollege.org.uk]. It
is hoped to give boys 30 music lessons in each instrument over the course of an academic year. It is common
practice for the Music Teachers to give boys more than ten lessons in the longer Michaelmas Half as it can be
difficult to get ten lessons in during the Lent and Summer Halves.
TO DISCONTINUE MUSIC LESSONS
The Music Schools Manager must be sent parental notice in writing (e-mail, fax or letter, although email is
preferable, by the end of the previous half (or, for new boys only, by 15 August 2013 for the Michaelmas Half)
or a half’s fees will be charged. (E-mail k.james@etoncollege.org.uk).
It is expected that boys will continue with music lessons during examination halves. In exceptional
circumstances, however, lessons may be suspended with the permission of the Head of Section and Director of
Music. If parents wish to suspend their son’s music lessons in a particular instrument for a half and wish to
resume with the same teacher, they must agree to pay for that half’s lessons (since the teacher in question
cannot fill the place with another pupil). If they prefer not to pay, they should understand that the place may be
given to someone else, and their son placed as convenient with another teacher. Notice to suspend or stop
lessons must be given by the last day of the preceding half, or a term’s tuition fees will be charged in lieu of
notice.
CHARGING FOR MUSIC LESSONS FOR MUSIC SCHOLARS AND EXHIBITIONERS
Should a boy miss a lesson for unknown or unsatisfactory reasons his house master is informed. In cases
where lessons are paid for by the Foundation, if the house master and Director of Music decide this is the boy’s
fault, the missed lesson will be charged. This includes Music Scholars, Music Exhibitioners, Junior Scholars and
Sixth Form Scholars.
T J JOHNSON
Director of Music
COMPUTERS and TABLETS
All boys at Eton need to have a device with which they can read e-mails, access the internet and read and
create documents. Whilst many people have strong opinions on what technology is best, we offer here some
basic information. This is intended as an aid to any decision you take with regards to a purchase and not as a
recommendation for any particular product.
Eton has a strong computing provision; the entire campus is connected to a high speed network, with wireless
access in all rooms in boarding houses and a growing number of schoolroom areas. Our internet connection is
filtered to limit access to unsuitable material, and turned off after bedtime. Computing forms an integral part
of the curriculum for boys in F Block. School events are advertised via e-mail and a boy will use IT daily for work
and administration.
Our principal curricular interest is to ensure that every boy is computer literate and able to use technology to
enhance his learning across the school curriculum. Computing lessons take place during the first year and the
main objective is to equip boys with an initial grounding in 21st century skills relating to the effective use of
online tools and cloud services as well as the development of online research and organisational skills. The
course also covers social networking, privacy control, online copyright issues and provides an introduction to
programming.
A growing number of boys are choosing to take tablet computers into lessons for research and note-taking
purposes. The minimum requirement is a simple tablet computer which can be purchased for under £100.
Many boys however prefer a better-quality device, or wish to have a small tablet to carry around and a
separate laptop which usually stays in their room. If only a tablet is used, we strongly advise the purchase of a
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separate keyboard as typing work of any length on a touch screen rapidly becomes tedious. Space in most
boys’ rooms is quite limited, so a large desktop computer is usually not the best option. There is no need to
provide your son with a printer – documents can be printed in School Library and other locations around the
school.
Warranty arrangements for the repair of a computer that has mechanically failed can save time and money.
Unfortunately most standard warranty repair arrangements are "Collect and Return" and only last a year, which
means that if the machine does fail it will need to go away for repair instead of having an engineer come to
your son’s computer. You may wish to consider purchasing an enhanced warranty for your son’s machine,
especially if you live far from Eton and cannot easily replace it should a problem arise whilst he is at school. You
may also wish to consider accidental damage insurance, which covers everything that mechanical failure
warranties do not. Cracked screens, damage to the machine because it was dropped, or spills of water or sticky
drinks are not covered under standard warranties and can leave a machine "beyond economical repair".
The latest technology is always changing, but there are review groups online which can guide you through
which technology is best and which is better value even if it isn't the latest, fastest
gadget. www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews is one place you might start to see what is currently on the market.
There are no restrictions on which operating system should be installed on your son’s computer or tablet. Eton
College uses PCs running Microsoft Windows for most of its teaching and administration functions, but also has
suites of Apple Macintosh computers for teaching music technology, art and design.
Microsoft Office products are widely used and boys need to be able to read files created with Word (.doc
or .docx), Excel (.xls or .xlsx) and PowerPoint (.ppt or .pptx). They should also to be able save work in at least the
first of these formats. Microsoft Office Student Edition, which retails for approximately £100 from online outlets
such as Amazon, and free Open Source products such as Open Office, which can be downloaded from the
internet, will meet these requirements for laptop computers – the free products lack some of the sophisticated
tools of the Microsoft equivalents, but are more than adequate for school use. There are also online tools and
many apps for Apple and Android tablets which enable files in these common formats to be read and edited
easily.
We highly recommend the installation of an Anti-Virus product on any laptop computer. All operating systems
are vulnerable to software viruses and other malicious software. Microsoft offer a free Anti-Virus product for
Windows computers called Microsoft Security Essentials and there are a wide range of products available for
Apple computers; although less susceptible than PCs, these have been subject to worrying attacks in recent
years.
COMPUTER SUPPORT AT ETON
On arrival at Eton, the device you have provided for your son should be able to connect to our wireless internet
system (“WiFi Café”) without further formalities. Instructions will be provided on arrival to enable him to access
his school e-mail and download the Eton security certificate which will ease his access to some secure websites
through our firewall.
The IT Department will offer help and advice to boys who encounter problems connecting to the network and
any of the resources provided by the school and we are always happy to try to help with other IT issues as far as
we are able. The department is also able to assist with warranty calls by acting as a collection and return point
or a place for an engineer to visit, but your son will need to deliver his computer to the IT Department and we
need to be told what action is required prior to the courier/engineer arriving.
If you have any questions about these matters, please contact the IT Department at our email address:
ITAssist@etoncollege.org.uk, or our main telephone number 01753 671428.
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MOBILE PHONES
Mobile phones are permitted for all boys (School Rules Section F) and these must be registered with their
house masters. Please ensure additional insurance is taken out if needed. Our optional Pupils’ Personal Effects
Insurance does not cover lost or damaged mobile phones.
GAMES
Games generally play a very large and happy part in a boy’s life at school. All boys are offered competitive sport,
whether this be on our very strong fixture circuit or through house competitions designed to encourage
participation. Uniform kit is available from Eton Sport on Eton High Street.
The pattern of sports and games during the school year is as follows:
Michaelmas
Lent
Summer
Football
Field Game
Cricket
Rugby
Hockey
Tennis
Minor Sports
Minor Sports
Rowing
Athletics
Some minor sports
In the Michaelmas boys choose between football and rugby, but they can also play a variety of other sports. In
the Lent all new boys play the Field Game, although hockey and minor sports are also offered to F block. In the
Summer boys choose between rowing, cricket, athletics and tennis although some minor sports still take place
too.
In their first year, boys are given a chance to experience a number of minor sports and they can later specialise
in those they like and are good at. The list of minor sports includes: badminton, basketball, cross-country,
fencing, Eton fives, golf, gymnastics, martial arts, polo, rackets, rugby sevens, shooting, squash, swimming and
water-polo, canoeing, and climbing.
SWIMMING TEST
Every new boy, unless medically exempt, is expected to take a swimming test during his first few days in the
school. Pool time is put aside each week for boys who are unable to pass this test to have extra practice and
instruction. Boys can be re-tested at regular intervals. No boy is allowed to do water sports until he has
demonstrated his competence by passing the test. If your son is a weak swimmer he would be well advised to
practise the necessary skills during the holidays. He might like to know that the test is taken in games shirt,
shorts, long socks and gym shoes. He has to enter the water from the edge of the pool and submerge totally. He
must then swim 50 metres unhurriedly, using breast stroke, tread water convincingly for at least 30 seconds,
and finally swim 25 metres on his back (any stroke), all without taking a rest or touching the bottom or the side
of the pool. It is recommended that a clean but old pair of gym shoes is worn for the swimming test.
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THE HOUSE
Your son’s house master and dame will make arrangements to see you near the end of the Summer Half before
your son comes to Eton. Local rules and regulations will be explained at that time as will much of what
follows. This serves only to remind you of some of the important details which are of particular importance for
safety and the smooth running of the house.
FIRE AND SAFETY REGULATIONS
Bed or furniture throws and table cloths The school positively discourages the provision of these items since
they increase the fire loading placed on the boarding house, i.e. the more materials available to burn in the
house, the greater the risk of more rapid, intense and long-lasting fire. Items manufactured from man-made
fabrics are of particular concern since they usually burn quickly, generating thick black smoke and harmful
fumes. Any items which are brought to school must carry a permanently attached, government approved label
confirming resistance to cigarettes and matches.
Drapes No material of any description (fabrics, football shirts, bar towels, flags, etc.) may be draped or
attached from light fittings, across ceilings or walls, but such items may be securely fixed within the frames of
the pin boards provided, with the house master’s approval.
Electrical adaptors The use of multi-way plug-in adaptors and reeled extension leads is absolutely forbidden;
however, appropriately fused, proprietary bar extension leads may be used. The plug serving each bar
extension lead must be inserted directly into a wall socket and not connected from one extension lead to
another. Electrical cables must be carefully routed to minimise risks of damage/abrasion and to eliminate trip
hazards. They must never be routed under carpets or rugs.
Electrical appliances Must be fitted with a fuse no larger than 5 amps and maintained in a safe condition
throughout their school life. Step down transformers, commonly used in connection with computer peripherals
and as mobile phone chargers can generate considerable amounts of heat. Consequently they must be
positioned so as to allow air to circulate around them – they should never be covered with clothing, bedding or
cushions. The same also applies to plug in air fresheners which additionally require the approval of house
masters. Appliances in boys’ rooms must always be switched off when rooms are left unoccupied. Once a
year, the school arranges for all boy-owned electrical appliances to be inspected and tested by a specialist
electrical contractor.
Forbidden items Appliances with a heating element are forbidden in boys’ rooms, this includes: electric fires,
electric fan heaters and convector heaters, irons, hair dryers and similar appliances, kettles, single cup water
boilers, tea/coffee makers, toasters, toasted sandwich makers and other cooking devices. Larger domestic
appliances such as refrigerators and microwave ovens are also forbidden.
Kitchen safety Boys in D block and below must only use house kitchen facilities whilst they are under the
supervision of an adult.
Musical equipment Electric guitars, portable amplifiers and other electrically powered portable musical
instruments must be used with a residual current device (RCD), preferably of the type that replaces the
appliance plug.
Posters and pictures Must be securely fixed within the wooden frames of the notice boards using drawing
pins. Items must not be suspended off picture rails or notice board frames.
Room lighting Bulbs must be of a standard type and those fitted to ceiling lights must not exceed 100
watts. Bedside and desk lamps must have substantial bases and suitably rated shades. Additional lights
including homemade and novelty appliances such as lava lamps, require the approval of the house
master. Halogen type desk lamps must be used with extreme caution since their bulbs operate at very high
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temperatures and significantly increase risk of fire, particularly if left unattended in close proximity to
combustible materials (bed linen, clothing or books).
Upholstered furniture and cushions Must comply with government furniture and furnishing fire safety
regulations. Items which meet the required standards will carry a permanently attached, government
approved, label (usually red or green in colour), confirming resistance to cigarettes and matches. Furniture
must be free from fabric rips, tears or other damage which exposes inner filling materials.
Furniture must also be suitably sized to fit comfortably into a boy’s room, allowing sufficient space for cleaning
of the surrounding floor area and giving unhindered access to fire escape routes.
BICYLES and MOTOR VEHICLES
Boys may only bring bicycles to Eton with their house master’s prior permission and are then subject to the
regulations laid down in Section F of School Rules.
The rules regarding transport are laid down in Section F of School Rules. In general terms the house master
should be made aware of travel arrangements well in advance. It is particularly important to note that during
the half no boy may travel in any car driven by another boy.
Parents need to be aware that it is their responsibility to ensure that they have adequate insurance when
transporting pupils other than their own sons to and from school events and that the house master is aware of
the arrangements made.
EXTRA FOOD
The diet provided in the house and at Bekynton is more than adequate for your son. Inevitably boys of this age
have ‘hollow legs’ and will eat vast quantities of extra food. The hoarding of large amounts of ‘tuck’ is not
encouraged in the house. There are many outlets for such sustenance both in the High Street and at the
school’s own tuck shop, Rowlands. It would be appreciated if parents would encourage boys to use these
facilities if extra food is necessary.
SCHOOL DRESS
The Eton clothing list appears overleaf. There are four tailors on Eton High Street who sell Eton school dress,
excluding sports kit. They are: Billings & Edmonds - 132 High Street, New & Lingwood - 118 High Street, Tom
Brown - 1 High Street and Welsh & Jefferies & Wetherill Bros - 13 High Street.
They all have websites which include contact telephone numbers and information about stock and prices.
The tailors, who are independent of Eton, are free to set their own prices. You may choose to purchase your
son’s school dress at whichever shop (or indeed shops) you prefer.
Eton’s sport kit is sold at only one shop, Eton Sport at 127 High Street. This shop is run independently, not by
the school; the prices charged are reviewed by us annually to ensure that they are reasonable.
If you have any questions about any aspect of the Eton College clothing list, please contact the dame.
THE MARKING OF CLOTHES
All articles of clothing must be marked immediately they are bought. Each year a large amount of unmarked
clothing is recovered from around the school and playing fields and is unclaimed. In the laundry there has been
a considerable problem with clothes which are either unmarked or which have been marked in odd places not
easily found. It is essential for all clothes to be marked not only so that those lost or mislaid can be returned
but also to ensure that garments sent to the laundry find their way back to the sender. It would greatly assist
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the sorting in the laundry if all garments were marked with name and laundry number (provided by the dame)
tapes in the following places:
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Marking in centre just below collar band: shirts of all sorts, T shirts, pyjama jackets, track suit tops, vests.
Marking in centre of back of the waist band: pants, boxers, pyjama trousers, jeans, trousers of all sorts,
shorts.
Marking in one corner: towels, face flannels
Also: bow ties and collars in the centre, scarves at the end, gloves just inside the opening, socks vertically
from inside the top.
Please ensure that all clothing/footwear brought to the school is appropriately named.
DRY CLEANING OF BOY’S SUITS
This is undertaken on a fortnightly basis by the tailors who collect from, and deliver to, houses. A standard
charge for this service is levied each half as an extra on the School Account.
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ETON COLLEGE CLOTHING LIST
SCHOOL DRESS
2 tail suits (tailcoat, waistcoat, trousers)
2 pairs black walking shoes, polished leather
round toes, laced, traditional design
7 white school shirts, cotton or cotton mix,
detached collar
7 white school collars
6 front and back collar studs
12 white disposable ties
1 black v-necked pullover, short fitting
sleeveless to fit under waistcoat (machine
washable)
1 black overcoat long enough to cover tails
(optional)
1 pair gloves (optional)
1 navy/black scarf (optional)
1 umbrella (optional)
GAMES
UNDERWEAR
12 pairs black/grey socks
8 pairs underpants
6 handkerchiefs
Equipment
1 Eton College kit bag
1 pair football/rugby boots
1 pair indoor trainers (white)
1 pair outdoor trainers
1 pair shin pads
1 gum shield [shock doctor v2 max]
Rugby head and shoulder protection
Squash goggles
Sorbothane heel pad
FORMAL CHANGE (formal Non-School Dress)
2 pairs smart trousers – grey flannel/chino
1 blue blazer
1 pullover
2 smart shirts collar attached
1 tie
1 suit (optional)
OTHER PERSONAL ITEMS
2 pairs pyjamas or similar
1 dressing gown
1 pair slippers
4 bath towels
1 toothbrush, nailbrush and nail scissors
1 hairbrush and comb
1 clothes brush
2 pairs cuff links
Shoe cleaning kit
6 coat hangers (2 with bar)
LOCAL CHANGE (for use around the house & Eton)
2 pairs jeans or similar, T shirts
1 pullover
1 pair casual shoes – trainers or docksiders
Michaelmas & Lent
1 Eton College rain/tracksuit jacket
1 tracksuit bottom
2 reversible games shirts
2 outdoor games shorts
2 indoor games shorts
2 sports polo shirts
3 pairs outdoor games socks
3 x 1 pack indoor games socks
1 swim shorts
Summer Half
2 Eton cricket shirts
1 pair Eton cricket trousers
Cricket protection
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MEDICAL MATTERS
FROM THE SCHOOL DOCTOR
We hope that your son will enjoy good health at Eton and not need our services too often! All boys are
medically examined during their first half and so your son will have the opportunity of meeting the medical
team early on. A copy of the medical report will be sent to you in due course.
A yellow Medical Record card is enclosed and it is requested that it be fully completed and returned as soon as
possible. Please be sure to include any significant allergies that your son has and to mark off the “consents”
before signing it. We would also ask you to fill in and return the yellow NHS card. Both cards need to be
returned by 24 May 2013.
All boys register as NHS patients with one or other of the School Doctors. Your dame will help you to complete
the registration form (GMS1) when you see her during the Summer Half. If you know your son’s NHS number
please bring this information with you.
Please inform the house master or dame if your son’s doctor has recommended any treatment or prescribed
any medicine to be continued during the half to avoid any danger of something incompatible being prescribed
for him at Eton. If necessary, the home doctor should be asked to write directly to the School Doctor. In future,
please be sure to fully complete the Holiday Health Form (sent electronically from School Office) prior to your
son’s return to school with full details of any treatment prescribed during the holiday period (including any
immunisation given) and details of foreign travel. It will not always be possible to continue medicines
prescribed elsewhere. They must be medicines that are licensed for use in the UK and used within the terms of
that licence. If in doubt it is vital that you communicate with the School Doctors before your son returns to
school.
It is very important that all medicinal drugs provided on a doctor’s prescription be given into the care of the
dame who will administer them. Unless specifically authorised by the School Doctor, boys may not administer
drugs to themselves at Eton even if they have been doing so during the holidays and never under the age of 16
years.
We strongly recommend that you consider providing for your son protective items for sports – particularly an
eye guard for squash (obtainable from Eton Sport) and a cricket helmet to protect teeth and facial bones. A
gum shield (obtainable from dentists) is required before a boy may play rugby, football or hockey.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of your son’s health with his Eton doctor, please telephone the number given
below.
Dr JONATHAN HOLLIDAY
The Eton Sanatorium
(Tel: 01753 671415)
The school’s Medical Policy can be found in the Parents’ Handbook.
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FINANCIAL MATTERS
All of us in the Finance Department welcome your son and wish him a successful school career at Eton. As we
are the ones who send out the bills, we are unlikely to be the parents’ favourite part of the school but we hope
that we shall serve you well over the next few years. Please feel free to contact me, Rachel Harris, Fees and
Bursaries Accountant (Tel: 01753 801518; Email: r.harris@etoncollege.org.uk) if, at any point, you think that we
are not doing so.
The Financial Matters section of this booklet provides information about school fees and extras, bursaries and
insurance.
SCHOOL FEES
The fees for the year 2013/14 are £11,090 per term (or ‘half’ as terms are known at Eton). School fees cover
the costs of tuition, board and lodging, laundry, personal accident insurance and some games activities and the
majority of educational materials. The school fees are reviewed each year by the Provost and Fellows and are
calculated with reference to the overall annual costs of the school.
At the beginning of each major holiday, a boy’s School Account is sent to the parents or other person
responsible for all fees and charges incurred while the boy is in the school. The School Account includes the
school fees for the following Half, together with extras for the preceding half.
Payment Terms and Direct Debits
The School Account must be paid by direct debit unless we have agreed to accept payment by direct bank
transfer (normally for international payments only). Please complete and return the enclosed Direct Debit
Instruction (DDI) for each boy for whom payment by direct debit will be made. If you wish to pay in instalments,
please also complete and return the enclosed Instalments Form. The lilac forms must be returned by
Wednesday 24 May 2013. Any subsequent amendment to direct debit instructions must be notified in writing
to Anne Jackson, School Fees Administrator (Tel: 01753 671207; E-mail: a.jackson@etoncollege.org.uk) at least
two weeks before the payment is due, to allow enough time to process the paperwork.
If you choose to pay in instalments, you will be charged an administration charge of £65 per half and the
instalments will be collected on the first day of the half, and one month and two months later. For example:
Michaelmas Half 2013: on Wednesday 4 September, Friday 4 October, and Monday 4 November. Where an
instalment falls due at a weekend or bank holiday, the collection will be made on the following banking day.
Payment by Third Parties
If all or part of your son’s School Account is to be paid direct to the school by a third-party, please inform Anne
Jackson, the School Fees Administrator (Tel: 01753 671207; Email: a.jackson@etoncollege.org.uk) of the
arrangement and the extent of the contribution so that the amount to be collected by direct debit from you can
be reduced accordingly and appropriate payment arrangements put in place with the third party. The third
party will be asked to enter a written agreement with the school for the payment of fees.
Late Payment
Interest is charged at 8% above bank base rate on late payments. A boy whose School Account has not been
paid in full by the start of the half (or in the case of payment by instalments, where any instalment has not been
paid by the due date for payment) may be excluded from the school until it is paid.
We look on late payment of the School Account very poorly. We realise that unforeseen financial difficulties
sometimes arise. If they do, please get in touch with me at the earliest possible opportunity. Silence makes
it more difficult to help than it might otherwise have been and diminishes sympathy very quickly.
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Notice of Leaving
If you decide to withdraw your son other than at the normal leaving date, you agree to give a full half’s notice
to the boy’s house master. Failing such notice, you are liable to pay the Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee
which is 80% of the termly fee (£8,872).
EXTRAS
The School Account for each half will also include extras incurred in the preceding half and so these are billed in
arrears. Charges in advance are raised for school trips, Pupils’ Personal Efffects Insurance and Payment
Instalment charges.
The following table sets out typical examples of extras. These details are not necessarily exhaustive but are
intended to provide a best indication of typical charges that apply in F block. They may be subject to change
depending on the nature of the activity. The total amount of Extras varies enormously between boys depending
on the activities they choose to get involved in; a range of £500 to £1,000 per half is not untypical, especially if
a boy is particularly musical. All charges shown below are per Half unless noted otherwise.
House charges
 Breakages and repairs
Damages by boys to school property
 Cycle inspection and repair
Annual charge
 Dame’s motor mileage
For attendance at a boy’s medical appointments
Charge set by Buildings Department
At cost
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Dry cleaning
Undertaken on a fortnightly basis by the tailors
 House outings
Eg pizza nights in house, theatre/cinema trip
 House subscriptions
Used by houses to cover a variety of costs such as the
staging of a house play, purchasing recreational equipment
for common rooms or coach travel for a house outing
 Taxis
Transportation to airport, etc.
Educational charges
 Drawing School charges
Art materials, computer graphics, photographic prints, paint
board, brushes, gouache etc
 Learning Centre charges
All lessons are 40 minutes on a one-to-one or group tuition
basis
 Music lessons
Based on lesson times from 30 minutes per week. Each half
is considered to be 10 weeks long
 Music sundries
Sheet music, reeds, instrumental repairs, exam
accompaniment etc.
 Pound book charges
Fines for the non-return of text books by deadlines notified
by masters to boys
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Standard rates (per trip)
£8.25 to Windsor/Wexham
£15 to Heatherwood
£30 to Reading
Charge per tailor of £30 to £40 per
half
Total cost divided by number of boys
participating
£36
At cost
£20
Charges per lesson
One-to-one: £42
Small groups: £21
£250 for 30 minutes per week
£375 for 45 minutes per week
£500 for 60 minutes per week
At cost
Cost of replacement book
Co-curricular charges
 CCF
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Fencing
Football, rugby, field games, hockey, athletics, cricket
Golf
Martial Arts (including yoga)
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Rackets
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Rowing
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Sailing
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£220 per annum membership plus hire
of uniform. Trips are charged on same
basis as school trips (see below)
£160 per half
No charge for these major sports
£57 per annum
Up to maximum of £15 per lesson
depending on number of participants
£40 per half plus £87 for racket and
£15 for restringing
£100 in both Michaelmas and Lent
Halves. £120 in Summer Half
£110 for beginners or intermediate
course. Maximum charges for all
sailing activities in the year £200
Private lesson £30 per hour
Tennis
Specialist coaching. If boys are selected for elite squad
coaching additional charges will be notified by the Games
Department
St Nicholas’ Society £35 per annum.
 Societies
There are approximately 30 societies in the School each with Other societies charge for social
events
their varied programmes. Boys sign up for membership
Actual cost divided by the number of
 Tutorial group outings
boys attending
Usually 1 or 2 outings per Half
Insurance charges (automatic cover)
No additional charge
 Pupils’ Personal Accident cover
All boys are automatically covered
Insurance charges (optional cover)- leaflets with full terms and conditions are enclosed
£66.54
 School fee refund scheme
Policy provides proportionate refunds of school fees (only)
where a boy is absent through illness or accident for a
minimum of 8 continuous days or more
£67.50
 BUPA medical insurance scheme
Policy provides prompt access to private medical treatment
£15.00
 Pupils’ personal effects insurance
Provides cover up to £5,000 for your son’s personal effects
Miscellaneous charges
£65
 Instalment administration charges
For payment of the School Account in 3 instalments per Half
by direct debit only
8% per annum above base rate of the
 Interest charge on late payment
school’s bank, so currently 8.5% per
Charged on late payment of all school fees
annum
Charged annually in the Michaelmas
 Fixtures
One copy supplied free to each boy. Additional parent copies Half for 1 copy per half.
available on request. Please note that postage charges will £15.90 for UK delivery
£20.85 for European delivery
be reviewed in September 2013.
£26.25 for Rest of the World delivery
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Miscellaneous charges (continued)
 Magazines – Eton published
Eg Chronicle, Mayflower, Arts Review – published each half
but charged annually. Boys to sign up for order
 Newspapers or magazines
Delivered to boarding houses by Eton Stationers
 OEA subscription
Automatic life membership of the Old Etonian Association
(see details included in Miscellaneous Section)
 Photographs
Sports teams, house of CCF. Boys to sign up for each order
Variable between £5 to £25 per
annum
Cost of publication plus delivery
charge of 40p per day per item
£50 per half
At cost as notified on order form
School Trips
The school offers many educational and co-curricular trips each Half. School trips are notified to boys by the
relevant master in charge and are also publicised on house noticeboards. The cost of each trip depends on the
content and destination. School trips are generally billed in the half preceding the half or holiday in which the
trip takes place.
Boys’ Incidental Expenses whilst at School
All boys should have the means during term time to pay for items, such as sports clothing, replacement uniform
or stationery, purchased from tradesmen in Eton High Street. Parents are encouraged to provide their sons with
a cash or debit card for this purpose.
Alternatively, parents may wish to avail themselves of the arrangement the school has with Barclaycard
whereby boys are issued with a prepaid card, authorised for use only at eight outlets on Eton High Street (the
four tailors, the chemist, Eton Stationers, Murrays (barber’s) and Eton Sport). If you opt-in to this arrangement
your son will be issued with a prepaid card and a charge of £500 or £250 (as decided by you) will be made on
your first bill, which will be loaded as the float. Each half thereafter you will be billed for the value of the
transactions made by your son to return the prepaid card to its original float level at the start of each half.
There is a £20 set-up cost for activating the prepaid card. A separate factsheet about the prepaid card (colour
dark blue) is enclosed. You can opt-in to the scheme by completing and returning the Barclaycard Prepaid Card
Scheme form by Wednesday 24 May 2013.
Queries
As you can imagine, the Finance Department processes tens of thousands of extras every half. We would
maintain that our record for accuracy is good but we would not claim that mistakes are never made – either at
source or by the department. If you have any queries, please contact Anne Jackson, School Fees Administrator
(Tel: 01753 671207; Email: a.jackson@etoncollege.org.uk).
If you raise a query about an extra and it has not been resolved by the first day of the half, the payment will
be collected as billed; any refund due will be deducted from the next bill or refunded if substantial.
ENTRANCE FEE AND FINAL BILLS
The Entrance Fee paid on acceptance of a boy’s place has two elements: an administration fee and a deposit on
account of future fees and charges. The deposit (ie £1,050) will be set-off against any final fees and extras
outstanding when the boy leaves the school. Any net credit due when the boy leaves the school will be
refunded.
Final bills for boys not returning to school for whatever reason may not be paid by instalment, and are due in
full when invoiced.
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PRE-PAID FEES SCHEME
The school offers a pre-paid fees scheme (compliant with current HMRC requirements for such schemes) which
may be of interest to parents or other family members who have a capital sum available for Eton school fees.
If you wish to receive further information about this scheme, please contact Rachel Harris, Fees and Bursaries
Accountant (Tel: 01753 801518; Email: r.harris@etoncollege.org.uk).
BURSARIES
Bursaries are available each year to a number of boys who would otherwise be unable, without financial
assistance, either to come to Eton or, if financial circumstances change, to complete their education at Eton.
The number of bursaries is limited by funds available and the award of a bursary to one boy does not
necessarily guarantee any award to a sibling.
As soon as financial difficulty is foreseen or experienced the possibility of a bursary or other payment
arrangement should be discussed with Rachel Harris, Fees and Bursaries Accountant (Tel: 01753 801518; Email:
r.harris@etoncollege.org.uk), who will advise on the method and timing of an application. To leave a School
Account unpaid without discussion is the worst possible course of action. Bursaries cannot be granted if a
school fees payment is outstanding. Bursary applications are treated confidentially and boys will not be aware
of being the beneficiary of a bursary unless their parents choose to tell them.
Once awarded, bursaries are not automatically increased in line with the school fees but are re-assessed
annually. Bursaries are conditional upon a boy’s continued satisfactory performance and conduct while at Eton
and may be withdrawn at any point.
INSURANCES
Leaflets on each of the insurance schemes provided by the school either automatically or on an optional basis
are enclosed and can also be found on our website (http://www.etoncollege.com /Financial.aspx). If you wish
to take advantage of any of these schemes, please return the Insurance Options Card (dark green) by
Wednesday 24 May 2013.
If you have any specific queries in respect of insurances or need to make a claim under any of the policies
please contact Carolyn Cox, Bursaries Administrator (Tel 01753 671236; Email: c.cox@etoncollege.org.uk)
RACHEL HARRIS
Fees and Bursaries Accountant
(Tel: 01753 801518; Email: r.harris@etoncollege.org.uk)
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MISCELLANEOUS
THE ETON WEBSITE
The school’s website address is www.etoncollege.com and it contains lots of useful information. The Parents’
Handbook is also available to view or download from the website (More>Documents for Download); the
password to access this document is ‘cloisters’.
SCHOOL LIBRARY
School Library is open to all Etonians and has an excellent collection, including books, CDs, e-resources and
popular magazines. Open seven days a week, the library is a welcoming space and is well used by boys for their
academic studies and recreational pursuits. Boys are positively encouraged to recommend resources that they
wish to read. A suite of computers, printer and scanner are available, and are often used as a teaching
resource. Wi-Fi is available throughout. The Library runs events and activities throughout the year, such as
board game evenings, collaboratively with boys. The library promotes its collection and current events through
the creative use of displays and current technology. Follow us on Facebook to see what’s happening:
www.facebook.com/EtonCollegeSchoolLibrary. On request from the boys, tea, coffee and hot chocolate are
now available.
FIXTURES BOOK
The Eton College Fixtures book is published immediately prior to the start of each half. It contains a wealth of
useful information, including an alphabetical list of all boys, a list of masters and their addresses, and a diary of
events for the half. All boys are provided with a copy at the start of each half.
If you would like a copy for yourself, please complete the enclosed blue card and return it by 24 May 2013.
Alternatively, it may be ordered from Eton Stationers Ltd, 137 High Street, Eton, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 6AR.
Parental copies of Fixtures will charged to your son’s account annually in the Michaelmas Half.
CHANGE OF DETAILS
In order to make sure that our records are kept up to date as efficiently as possible, we have an email address,
changeofdetails@etoncollege.org.uk, to which you can send any changes in contact information, for example
addresses, e-mails or telephone numbers. If you have such a change, sending an email to this address will
ensure that all relevant records are updated. If a change refers to one specific aspect of your communication
with the school, for example a change of billing address only, please specify clearly which records should be
amended and which should remain unchanged. If you currently receive Fixtures and would like this sending to
a new address, please let us know and we will inform Eton Stationers.
OLD ETONIAN ASSOCIATION (OEA)
The Old Etonian Association (OEA) levies a subscription fee of £50 per half for every boy in the school. By the
end of his time at Eton, each boy will have paid £750 and will automatically become a life member of the
OEA. The fee is regularly reviewed and is in line with that of comparable institutions. The primary purpose of
the OEA is to keep old boys in touch with activities and events at the school as well as provide the means to
maintain fellowship with their contemporaries. To this end, the OEA publishes the annual OEA Review
magazine and two editions of Eton: News & Events each year. A programme of drinks and dinner parties,
hosted by the OEA without any further charge, is in place to ensure that friendships among the leaving year
group are regularly maintained. In addition to this there is a host of affiliated organisations covering interests
from Cricket and Rowing to IT and Serving Military Officers. On leaving the school each boy is presented with a
tie, bow tie and socks in the OEA colours, as well as the most recent edition of the OEA List of Members. They
will also be given access to OEA Online, a secure website for members, and information about the Association’s
travel grant scheme.
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Membership of the OEA is voluntary. If you do not wish your son to avail himself of the benefits of OEA
membership, please advise Anne Jackson, School Fees Administrator (Tel: 01753 671207; E-mail:
a.jackson@etoncollege.org.uk) so that records can be updated in the first instance. Membership of the OEA will
only be activated once all school fees and extras have been paid in full on leaving Eton College.
Enquiries of a non-financial nature should be addressed to Jackie Tarrant-Barton, Clerk to the OEA (Tel: 01753
671183; E-mail: oea@etoncollege.org.uk).
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PARENT CONTRACT
ETON COLLEGE
Terms and Conditions
The purpose of these terms and conditions is to set out, for the benefit both of parents and of the School, what we are agreeing to and what our mutual
obligations are in a very important period of development of the boy entrusted to Eton’s care.
In a document like this, legal jargon can soon take over and at times it can seem to be more about what can go wrong than right. Just occasionally things
do go wrong, but this is very much the exception rather than the rule; if they do, we think it best to have sorted out in advance what the contractual
position is, not just to protect the School and look after other boys’ and parents’ interests, but also so that both sides know clearly how they stand.
1.
The Contract
1.1
The Acceptance Form, the Notice of Fees, the Behaviour
Policy (which includes our School Rules and Appeal
Procedure), the Complaints Policy and these terms and
conditions constitute the terms of a contract between you
and Eton College (registered charity number 1139086). It is
not intended that the terms of the contract shall be
enforceable by your son or by any other third party.
1.2
Some words and phrases have particular meanings for the
purpose of the contract and have to be defined. The
definitions are set out in Clause 15.
2.
Acceptance & Entrance Fee
2.1
An offer of a conditional place for your son at the school is
accepted by your submitting the duly completed Acceptance
Form and paying the Entrance Fee current at the date of
acceptance of the place.
2.2
The Entrance Fee has two elements: an administration fee
covering the costs of processing your son’s admission
following your acceptance of the conditional offer and a
deposit on account of future fees and charges. The deposit
shall form part of the general funds of the school and shall be
credited (without interest) against the School Account issued
when your son leaves the school. Any credit balance shall be
refunded by cheque following the end of your son’s final half.
2.3
The Entrance Fee is not refundable if your son does not take
up his conditional place unless we fill the vacancy created by
your son’s withdrawal, in which case we shall refund a sum
equivalent to the Entrance Fee less the administration fee
referred to in Clause 2.2 above.
2.4
make a decision as to whether your son may progress to C
Block after the results of GCSE (or equivalent) examinations
are known and may make his entry to the sixth form
conditional upon the results of such examinations.
If you wish to withdraw your son after accepting a
conditional place and paying the Entrance Fee, you shall give
us written notice to that effect. If we receive such notice
before the first day of the half preceding the half in which
your son was due to start (“the Notice Date”), no further
fees shall be payable and the Entrance Fee shall be treated
in accordance with Clause 2.3 above. If such notice is
received on or after the Notice Date or if no notice of
withdrawal is received in respect of a boy who does not
enter the School, the Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee
shall be payable and shall become due and owing to the
school as a debt. You acknowledge and agree that only the
deposit element of the Entrance Fee shall be credited
(without interest) to payment of the Withdrawal Without Due
Notice Fee and we shall invoice you for the balance of the
Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee.
3.
Our Obligations
3.1
Provided that your son has satisfied the academic
requirements to take up his conditional place and subject to
these terms and conditions, we undertake to accept your son
as a pupil from the time of his joining the school until the end
of his secondary schooling. We are not obliged to accept
your son into C Block if we are not satisfied that progress to
that level at Eton would be appropriate in light of your son’s
academic attainments and other relevant circumstances.
Our expectation is that boys progressing to C Block will have
achieved A grades in at least six GCSE examinations. We will
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3.2
We undertake to exercise reasonable skill and care in respect
of your son’s education and welfare while he is a pupil of the
School. This obligation will be on Eton during each Half or
when he is participating in activities out of term-time
organised by the school. We cannot take responsibility for
his welfare while he is off the school premises unless he is
taking part in a school activity or is otherwise under the
supervision of a member of school staff. We shall adhere to
and comply with the National Minimum Standards for
Boarding Schools applicable from time to time published
under the Children Act 1989 (as amended or superseded) and
shall adopt appropriate School Policies.
3.3
The Prospectus describes the broad principles on which the
school is run and is believed correct at time of printing. From
time to time changes may be made to aspects of the school,
including the curriculum, or the manner of providing
education for your son (including by providing education
remotely, for example while your son is at home if the school
is required to close temporarily) and we reserve the right to
do so. For this reason, you are asked to notify the school if
there is anything of particular concern to you contained in the
Prospectus, as it may be that recent changes are not reflected
in the current version. We will give parents a full half’s
notice of any changes at the school, including changes in the
curriculum, which we regard as significant.
3.4
We shall monitor your son’s progress at the school and advise
you if we have any concern about your son. Early in each
major holiday you will receive subject reports together with
letters from the house master and tutor, reviewing the whole
pattern of your son’s progress.
Parents will have an
opportunity of meeting teachers each year (except the last),
and are encouraged to meet tutors by arrangement.
3.5
We have a well-established Learning Centre that supports
boys with learning difficulties. If your son has been diagnosed
with specific learning difficulties before he joins the school,
you must provide us with details. We are unable to undertake
to diagnose dyslexia or other specific conditions. That said,
we do screen boys in F Block (the first year) generally for
learning difficulties with a view to helping them do full justice
to their abilities. Any such assistance is normally charged for
above the basic school fees and you will be notified of any
such additional charges before they are incurred.
3.6
Religious observance at the school shall be conducted in
accordance with the School Policies.
3.7
Medical care is provided by dames, by qualified nurses in the
school’s sanatorium, and by the school doctors. If your son
requires urgent medical attention while under the school’s
care, we will try to obtain your prior consent, when required,
for treatment including anaesthetic, blood transfusion (unless
you have previously notified us that you object), or operation
recommended by a doctor. If we are unable to contact you,
we shall be authorised to make the decision on your behalf.
3.8
In accordance with the law, we will not subject your son to
corporal punishment. Nor will we subject him to physical
contact unless this is deemed appropriate such as for the
maintenance of good order, to avert immediate danger or
otherwise for your son’s safety or the safety of others.
Unless you tell us otherwise, you consent to your son
participating, under proper supervision, in contact sports and
in other normal sports and activities which may entail some
risk of physical injury.
3.9
We shall recognise any intellectual property rights vested in
your son.
4.
Your Obligations
4.1
To enable us to fulfil our obligations, we need your cooperation. In particular, you shall: fulfil your own obligations
under these terms and conditions; encourage your son in his
studies and give appropriate support at home; keep the
School informed of matters affecting your son; support your
son’s adherence to the School Rules; maintain a courteous,
constructive and considerate relationship with school staff;
help the school to ensure (so far as is reasonable and in
appropriate or necessary circumstances) that your son can
benefit from the school’s provision of education to him in
accordance with this agreement, including where the school
wishes to provide such education remotely; and attend
meetings and otherwise keep in touch with the school where
your son’s interests so require.
4.2
If you are not resident in the United Kingdom, you undertake
to appoint a person resident in the United Kingdom to act as
your son’s guardian.
4.3
You undertake that your son will attend the school during
each half, and that you will not take him out except as
provided for in the School Rules. If your son has to be
absent, you will give the reason to his house master and seek
prior consent.
4.4
You agree to provide to the school a completed medical
questionnaire about your son on his joining the school and to
inform us about any health or medical condition, disability,
allergy or infection that he has or subsequently develops,
whether long-term or short-term. You must inform us at the
earliest possible stage of any disability for which we may be
asked to make reasonable adjustments either prior to your
son’s arrival or while he is at the school. If the school requires
it, due to a health risk presented to your son by others or to
others by your son or because of a virus, pandemic or
epidemic, you agree to keep him at home and not to permit
him to return to the school until such time as the health risk
has been averted. In such circumstances we shall endeavour
to continue providing education to your son while he is
excluded, including, for example, by sending him work
assignments electronically or by post.
4.5
You undertake to discuss with the school any situations
where special arrangements may be needed in relation to
your son.
4.6
If you have any cause for concern about a matter of safety,
care or discipline, or about the progress of your son, you will
inform the school without delay. Complaints should be made
in accordance with our Complaints Procedure.
5.
School Fees
5.1
All the costs incurred in the usual course of boarding and
education of your son, including the cost of standard
educational materials, shall be met by the school fees. Art
and design materials are not included within the school fees.
The school fees accrue separately for each half and must be
paid in sterling in advance either on the first day of each half
or in three equal instalments per half on the dates set out in
the School Account, at your option. Payment must be made
by direct debit, and where you have opted to pay in
instalments an administration charge will be levied.
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5.2
Extras: Some co-curricular activities, for example private
music lessons, trips and visits, art and design materials, will
be charged as extras, as will house subscriptions, the balance
for your son’s pre-paid Barclaycard (if any), public
examination charges, Learning Centre charges and other
charges incurred by your son during the half. Examples of
such other charges include: CCF and Boat Club subscriptions,
sports tuition, charges for individual nursing.
Extras
comprising co-curricular activities for the half (and other
extras charges incurred during the preceding half) will be
invoiced with the school fees in the School Account.
5.3
We will send the School Account by email (or, if requested, in
hard copy) at the beginning of the holiday preceding the half
to which the School Account relates. It will be sent to the
signatories to the Acceptance Form (or to such other person
we have agreed shall pay the School Account under Clause
5.8 below). The School Account must be paid by direct debit
unless we have agreed to accept payment by direct bank
transfer (normally for international payments only). The
School Account will be collected by direct debit in full on the
first day of the half or, if you have opted to pay the School
Account in three equal instalments per half, the instalments
will be collected by direct debit on the due date for payment
of each instalment set out in the School Account.
5.4
If your son is awarded a scholarship or bursary, your liability
will be for the amount of school fees due after deducting the
value of the award. Means-tested awards are reviewed
annually. An award may be withdrawn if, in the opinion of
the Head Master, your son’s conduct or performance no
longer merits the continuation of the award. Withdrawal of
a scholarship or bursary will never operate such as to increase
the fees due for a half already commenced.
Where it
appears possible that an award may be withdrawn for
academic or conduct reasons, you will be notified in advance.
If a boy is removed from the school by his parents within a
month following the withdrawal of a scholarship or bursary,
no Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee will be payable.
5.5
Fees will not normally be reduced as a result of an individual
boy’s absence due to illness or otherwise. If your son takes
study leave at home before or during public examinations, or
stays at home following those examinations, or is otherwise
permitted to leave before the end of the half, no reduction of
school fees will be made in respect of such periods spent at
home.
5.6
The school fees are set by reference to the overall annual
costs of the school and are reviewed from time to time
(usually annually with effect from the beginning of the new
academic year in September). The school fees may be
increased by such amount as the school considers reasonable.
A full half’s notice of an increase in fees will be provided.
5.7
We reserve the right to refuse to allow your son to attend the
school (including for the purpose of sitting any examination)
or to withhold references while any part of the School
Account remains unpaid after the due date or there is
persistent default in relation to payment. We make an
interest charge on late payments of eight per cent per annum
above the then current base rate of the school’s bank.
Unless otherwise notified to you in writing, this interest shall
accrue on a daily basis from the due date until the date of
actual payment of the overdue amount. You must pay the
school the interest together with the overdue amount. You
consent to our informing any other educational
establishment to which you propose to send your son of any
outstanding fees.
5.8
Each person who has signed the Acceptance Form is liable for
the whole of the School Account. They remain liable unless
the school has expressly agreed in writing with the persons
who have signed the Acceptance Form to look exclusively to
one of them or another person (eg a relative, employer or
trust) for payment of the School Account or any part of it. In
5.9
such cases, the school will enter a written fees agreement
with the third party. Where two parents have signed the
Acceptance Form, one of them may withdraw from the
contract by submitting a term’s notice provided they have
obtained the prior written consent both of the school and of
the other signatory.
8.3
Should the Head Master exercise his right under 8.1 or 8.2
above, there is no entitlement to any refund or remission of
fees or extras (whether paid or payable). In such
circumstances a Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee will not
be payable and any unused capital sums paid in advance
under any Pre-Paid Fees Agreement will be refunded.
Without limiting the effect of Clauses 5.1 to 5.8 above, where
you (or a third party) and the school have entered into a PrePaid Fees Agreement such that a capital payment has been
made in respect of all or part of the fees due under this
Agreement, the school shall administer such capital sum to
meet the School Account, provided that you shall meet the
difference between the amount per term applied by the
school under the Pre-Paid Fees Agreement and the total fees
and extras dues in respect of your son for each Half. We shall
provide a School Account under Clause 5.3 in respect of the
balance owing to us, which will be collected by direct debit in
full on the first day of the half or by instalment, as chosen by
you under clause 5.1.
8.4
The Behaviour Policy includes examples of offences likely to
be punishable by rustication or expulsion. These examples
are not exhaustive, and in particular the Head Master may
decide that rustication or expulsion for a lesser offence is
justified where there has been previous misbehaviour. All
aspects of a boy’s record at the school may be taken into
account.
8.5
The Head Master will act in accordance with the Behaviour
Policy when making decisions under this Clause 8. The Appeal
Procedures govern the review of serious disciplinary matters.
9.
Confidentiality, images and data processing
9.1
You consent to our supplying information and a reference in
respect of your son to any educational institution to which
your son applies.
References supplied by us will be
confidential. We respect their importance and shall take
care that any information or opinion given about your son will
be accurate and fair. However, we cannot be liable for any
loss that you or your son may allege to suffer resulting from
reasonably given opinions, or correct statements of fact, in
references or reports provided by us.
9.2
You consent to us processing personal data about you and
about your son while he is a prospective pupil, a pupil and
after he has left for the purposes set out in the school’s data
protection policy, which include: (i) the provision of his
education; (ii) the provision of educational support and
ancillary services; (iii) managing relationships between the
school and current pupils; (iv) providing references; (v)
promoting the school to prospective pupils including through
the school’s prospectus and website; (vi) promoting the
school to prospective donors; and (vii) communicating with
the body of former pupils through the Old Etonian
Association.
9.3
We will process personal data about you and your son in
accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the
School’s data protection policy.
9.4
We would seek your specific permission before allowing your
son to feature particularly prominently in documentaries,
films or articles for which Eton sometimes gives permission,
but you agree to images of him appearing in an anonymous
and general way in such documentaries, films or articles or in
films or photographs used for the school’s promotional
material (including our website).
10.
Insurance
6.
Notice requirements for Withdrawal
6.1
If you decide to withdraw your son other than at the normal
leaving date, you agree either to give a full half’s notice to
that effect, or to pay the Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee.
Where the Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee becomes
payable, it shall become due and owing to the school as a
debt on the first day of the half which would have been the
final Half had due notice been given.
6.2
If you are asked or advised by the school to withdraw your
son, or if your son is required to leave under the provisions of
Clauses 3.1, the Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee will not
be payable.
6.3
You agree to give notice of discontinuing music lessons by the
last day of the previous half, or to pay for a full half’s tuition
in lieu.
6.4
Many arrangements are made on a per half basis, so it is not
possible for you to reduce the amount of fees due for certain
activities charged as extras (Boat Club subscription, for
example) as a result of your son ceasing to participate in
them part way through a half.
7.
School Rules
7.1
It is a condition of remaining at the school that your son
complies with the School Rules as amended from time to
time.
7.2
The Sschool may undertake drugs testing of boys in
accordance with its Drugs Policy as amended from time to
time.
7.3
The school reserves the right, subject to applicable data
protection legislation, to monitor your son’s email
communications and internet use for the purpose of ensuring
compliance with the School’s Acceptable Use Policy.
8.
Disciplinary Procedures
8.1
The Head Master may in his discretion remove temporarily
(“rusticate”) or, in serious or persistent cases, expel your son
from the school if he considers that his progress or conduct,
including conduct outside school, is unsatisfactory and, in the
reasonable opinion of the Head Master, the removal is in the
school’s best interests or those of your son or other boys.
8.2
Your son is automatically included in a personal accident
insurance scheme at no extra cost. You need to make your
own insurance arrangements if you require cover for your
son’s person or property while at school or cover for fees in
the event of your son’s absence through illness. You must
notify us if you wish to be included in the school’s fees refund
scheme, which refunds fees in the event of illness or closure
of the school for health related reasons.
11.
Cancellation
11.1 We will be entitled to cancel this agreement forthwith, by
notice in writing, without prejudice to our other remedies
and without any obligation to return to you any entrance or
School fees paid, if you are in material breach of any of your
obligations under this or any similar agreement with the
school, and have not remedied the breach (if it can be) within
14 days of a notice from the school requiring it to be
remedied, including for the avoidance of doubt persistent
non-payment or material default under these terms and
The Head Master may in his discretion rusticate or in serious
or persistent cases expel your son if the behaviour of a
signatory to the acceptance form is, in the Head Master’s
reasonable opinion, unacceptable and has or is likely to have
an adverse effect on the progress of your son or of other boys
at the school, or on the well-being of school staff, or if in the
Head Master’s reasonable opinion it brings or is likely to bring
the School into disrepute.
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conditions.
For the purposes of illustration only,
circumstances that the school is likely to regard as a material
breach include failure to pay any school fees or extras on time
on more than two occasions, or you (as opposed to your son)
acting in such a way as to give the Head Master cause to
expel your son under Clause 8.2 of this agreement, or any
other circumstance where your son is expelled from the
school in accordance with the terms of this agreement
(including the School Rules), or failure or refusal to complete
and submit to the school a medical questionnaire in respect
of your son.
13.
13.1 We will be entitled, unless you tell us otherwise in writing, to
treat a communication from any person who has signed the
Acceptance Form as having been given on behalf of both
signatories. Equally, unless other arrangements are agreed
with us, we shall be entitled to treat any communication from
the school to either signatory as having been made to both
signatories. You will tell the School if the address of either of
the signatories to the Acceptance Form changes.
13.2 All notices required to be given under these terms and
conditions (such as withdrawing a boy) must be given in
writing and should be addressed to the Head Master at the
school’s address. If sent by first class post, notice shall be
deemed to be given on the second day after posting as
evidenced (if necessary) by a Post Office ‘proof of posting’.
11.2 Either party may cancel this agreement forthwith by notice in
writing without prejudice to its other remedies if the other (in
your case) is unable to pay its debts or is declared bankrupt or
(in the school’s case) becomes insolvent or goes into
liquidation or receivership or administrative receivership or is
wound up for any reason.
14.
11.3 For the avoidance of doubt this agreement will end at the end
of your son’s schooling (including where this is ended early
under the provisions of Clauses 3.1 or 3.5).
12.
Communication
Variation
We reserve the right to change or add to these terms and
conditions from time to time for legal, safety or other
substantive reasons or in order to assist the proper
administration of the school. We will give you a full Half’s
notice of any such modifications.
Temporary closure of the School
12.1 In the event of a force majeure arising which prevents or
delays the school's performance of any of its obligations
under this agreement, the school will tell you the nature and
extent of the circumstances giving rise to the force majeure.
Provided that the school has acted reasonably and prudently
to prevent and minimise the effect of the force majeure, the
school will have no other liability in respect of the
performance of such of its obligations as are prevented by the
force majeure while it continues. The school shall use its best
endeavours during the continuance of the force majeure to
provide educational services.
15. Definitions and Interpretation
In these terms and conditions:
“Acceptance Form” means the form provided by the school
for parents to complete when accepting a place for their son
at the school;
“Appeal Procedure” is the school’s procedure for the review
of the treatment of serious disciplinary matters and related
decisions, as amended from time to time. The procedure is
included within the Behaviour Policy;
“Behaviour Policy” comprises the School Rules, the discipline
and exclusions procedure and Appeal Procedure, as amended
from time to time. A copy of the policy is available from the
school at any time upon request;
12.2 Subject to Clause 12.1, if the force majeure lasts for a
continuous period greater than four months, we shall notify
you of the steps we shall take to meet our obligations and
you shall then be entitled to cancel the agreement on written
notice and without giving a full half’s notice or paying a
Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee.
“C Block” is the first year of the sixth form (Year 12);
“Complaints Procedure” is the school’s complaints procedure
for handling complaints from parents and other disciplinary
matters, as amended from time to time. A copy of the
procedure is available from the school at any time upon
request ;
12.3 Subject to Clause 5.5, if your son is not able (or is likely not to
be able) to attend the School because of severe ill-health or
physical impairment caused by a force majeure, you will give
the school notice in writing of such circumstances and the
following provisions will apply:
“Entrance Fee” means the sum set out in Clause 2;
12.3.1 consulting and cooperating with the school, you will
try to mitigate the effect of the force majeure in
order to continue to perform the obligations under
this agreement in any reasonably practical way in the
circumstances (such that your son can still
participate in and benefit from the provision of
education by the school, including for example
participating
remotely);
and
resume
the
performance of the obligations as soon as reasonably
possible;
“Extras” are charges on the School Account in addition to the
School fees;
"force majeure" means any cause beyond the school’s or
your control, such as: strikes, other industrial disputes; act of
God; war; civil commotion; compliance with any law or
governmental order, rule, regulation, advice or direction
(including that of a local authority); accident; fire; flood;
storm; pandemic or epidemic of any disease; terrorist attack;
chemical or biological contamination;
12.3.2 if, after trying under Clause 12.3.1, your son is not
able to participate in and benefit from any level of
provision of education by the school, then you will
not be liable for non-performance of your obligations
(including the obligation to pay fees, pro-rated
accordingly) during the continuance of the force
majeure; and
“a full Half’s notice” means notice given not later than the
first day of the half preceding the half to which the notice
relates. (eg: to give a half’s notice to take effect at the
beginning of the Michaelmas Half would mean notifying the
school by the first day of the Summer Half);
“Guardian” means an individual or professional agency
appointed by a parent (who is not resident in the United
Kingdom) to take responsibility for the guardianship of a boy
during any holiday period (including weekends when the
School is closed) or in an emergency;
12.3.3 if the force majeure lasts for more than six months
you will discuss with the school a solution by which
this agreement may be performed and, following
such discussions, you will be entitled to cancel the
agreement on written notice and without giving a
term’s notice or paying a term’s fees in lieu.
“Half” means a term of the school as notified to parents from
time to time. There are three halves in each academic year:
the Michaelmas Half, the Lent Half and the Summer Half;
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“Head Master” means the person appointed by the Provost
and Fellows to be responsible for the day-to-day
management of Eton College, including anyone to whom such
duties have been duly delegated, such as the Lower Master
who has particular delegated responsibility for the Lower
School (the first two years);
“we” or “the School” means Eton College (registered charity
number 1139086), or its duly authorised representative, as
the context requires;
“Withdrawal Without Due Notice Fee” is the fee to be paid if
a pupil is withdrawn from the school with less than a full
Half’s notice and is a sum equivalent to 80% of the basic
School fees (reduced to take account of any applicable
scholarship or bursary) for the half in which a boy would have
attended, had he not been withdrawn without due notice;
“Notice of Fees” means the notice of school fees issued by
the School from time to time (and published on its website);
“Pre-Paid Fees Agreement” the supplemental terms and
conditions which apply to the School’s pre-paid fees scheme;
“you” or “the parents” means each person who has signed
the Acceptance Form as parent or person with parental
responsibility for a child or a person who with the school’s
written consent replaces a person who has signed the
Acceptance Form;
“School Account” means the invoice for school fees and
Extras issued under Clause 5.3;
“School fees” means the fees for each half as notified to
parents from time to time;
Use of the words “include” or “including” shall mean, and be
construed, such that the examples that are given are not
intended to be exclusive or limiting examples of the matter in
question;
References to Clauses are to clauses in these terms and
conditions;
Headings are for ease of understanding only.
“School Rules” means the rules of the School which are set
out in the Behaviour Policy and which are notified to each boy
and his parents prior to entry, as amended from time to time.
Parents will be given notice of substantive amendments;
“School Policies” means the policies and procedures of the
school (the main provisions of which are set out in the
parents’ handbook published on our website) as those may
be amended from time to time for legal, safety or other
substantive or regulatory reasons or in order to assist the
proper administration of the school;
16.
Jurisdiction and Governing Law
The contract between us is governed by English Law. We
each agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
English Courts.
“son” means a boy of whatever age admitted by the school to
be educated and includes any pupil aged 18 or over;
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“terms and conditions” means these terms and conditions as
amended from time to time;
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