Dear Growleybear, That is good to know, I had heard otherwise from parents - and as my children are still so small, we are not yet in a rush to investigate further as we thought that scholarships were only offered in secondary school. I had read that independent schools had been forced to reduce the size of their burseries over the last few years in order to offer more of them, and I was under the impression that they were awarded on merit and not according to need. We will not require financial support of any kind (clearly), but I imagine that a scholarship will look fabulous on my munchkins UCAS forms when they are applying to medical school.