A guide to bursaries and scholarships and why they are essential in helping exceptional students reach their full potential, an explanation as to how scholarship assessments are conducted from Dorothy MacGinty, headmistress of Kilgraston, and a case study from successful student, Charlotte Jeffrey
Emma Hanbury, Alumnae and External Relations Officer at St Mary?s Cambridge, reveals why bursaries and scholarships are essential in helping exceptional students reach their potential, especially following the impact that the last year has had on education.
Founded in 1898, St Mary?s School, Cambridge is the only day and boarding school in Cambridgeshire for girls aged three to 18 years. St Mary?s offers an education built entirely for girls. In small classes, each girl is valued, supported, and inspired, as they experience an education tailored to meet their needs. It?s this tailoring to meet each individual child?s needs that makes an independent school education so expensive. All children respond well to small classes, inspiring and passionate teachers, a huge and diverse range of extracurricular opportunities and a great set of friends, with whom they can grow and develop.

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