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Advice please

In your experience, are the private schools really strict about paying the penalty of a term's worth of fees if you give them less than one terms notice of withdrawing? We're inexperienced reception parents and it didn't click that a term in advance of September was this week!

It depends on the school, but I'm pretty sure if it's a school policy they will adhere to it in afraid. Did you pay a deposit? We paid a hefty deposit which would be non refundable if we withdrew place. I guess they guard themselves against parents who might accept a place and then withdraw eg in favour of a state school place. Reading your email though, you still have a term to go so surely you'll be just in time to withdraw wont you?
Hi all thanks for the replies. Yes I will lose the deposit, which I can live with. What I'm really alarmed about is having to pay a term's fees because term started this Monday just gone, and the rules seem to say "notice before term starts". Oh dear.

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