As they say, all that glitter is not gold .
As they say, all that glitter is not gold .
I will advise parents to do a bit of research, contact other parents before applying for a position or even attending an open day at Haileybury.
During our interaction, we found the lack of leadership and communication as big problems with the school.
My daughter applied for sixth form place in November 2017, after asking for the school report and numerous communications, with the admissions assistant, came a period of pin-drop silence, as we heard nothing from the school in spite of our repeated email contacts. The process started again when my daughter got her GCSEs results and scored grades for their intake criteria, a visit was arranged for us to come and visit Haileybury and meet up with their Master C. The day went haphazardly as the information given about the school was rather sketchy and for us it was more a sales pitch and interviewer s personal and family s achievements rather than knowledge sharing. After our visit we were promised the communication, which never happened once again. At this point my daughter decided to take sixth form options at another school, because of school s amateurish approach and dilemma with their communication, she found Haileybury no better than any state run school. Upon my enquiry with the school a letter was drafted haphazardly, with wrong spellings of my daughter's name and was handed to me saying that interview never went well, the given reason was too vague therefore I asked for a full feedback, which never went down very well, as the feedback was drafted on a piece of post-it notes. Very disappointed with the level of professionalism and will refrain to apply again at Haileybury.