Bursaries and Scholarships

Walthamstow Hall’s Bursary Scheme provides financial help with school fees based on a family’s financial circumstances. The scheme includes our Founder’s Bursary, which pays nearly 100% of a pupil’s school fees throughout their time at the school.

Scholarships and other financial awards, worth up to 50% of fees, are also available to those students who demonstrate exceptional potential academically or in Music, Drama or Sport.

Bursaries

The Bursary Fund is designed to ensure that girls are not prevented from benefiting from, or continuing with, an education at Walthamstow Hall because of their family’s financial circumstances.
 
In addition, the school offers a limited number of Founders’ Bursaries, which cover nearly 100% of tuition fees and are awarded at either 11+ or 13+ to girls whose family, financial and personal circumstances are such that without this Bursary an independent education could not be considered.
 
Bursaries are awarded by the Governors and the names of girls in receipt of them remain confidential.  The school’s academic entrance requirements must be fulfilled.
 
Generous allowances are made where parents have more than one daughter at the school.

Scholarships, Exhibitions and Other Awards

Exhibitions and Scholarships, worth up to a 50% fee remission, are awarded at 11+, 13+ and 16+. At 11+ Scholarships are awarded for academic or musical excellence. At 13+ as well as Academic and Music Scholarships, additional Scholarships, Exhibitions and Awards for Art, Drama and Sport are also available. At 16+ Academic Scholarships and Art Awards are offered.

Once awarded, a Scholarship, Exhibition or Award is held throughout the remainder of a girl’s time at Walthamstow Hall, subject to her making satisfactory progress.

It is possible to hold a combination of Academic, Musical, Dramatic, Artistic or Sporting Scholarships, Exhibitions and Awards up to a maximum of a 50% fee remission.

Candidates for all Scholarships, Exhibitions and Awards must satisfy the school’s academic entrance requirements. Internal and external candidates may apply.

Academic Scholarships, Exhibitions and Awards

Open Foundation Scholarships at 11, worth up to half fees, are awarded at age 11 to girls who show the greatest academic potential. Due to a substantial increase in the number of candidates at eleven-plus in recent years we have decided to revise our scholarship process. As has always been the case, in future all candidates will be interviewed by the Headmistress and take entrance papers in the Autumn Term preceding the September entry date. The results will then, as usual, be sent to parents before the end of the Autumn Term. In order to differentiate more thoroughly between potential scholarship candidates, those very able girls, who demonstrate exceptional academic potential in the November entrance assessments will then be invited to take scholarship papers in Maths and English in January. These papers will be devised to identify natural academic potential rather than being reliant upon any special teaching or coaching the candidates may have received. Some candidates will then be recalled for scholarship interviews later in January and the results of the scholarship round will be posted to parents very soon afterwards.

Timeline for 11+ admission and scholarship process for entry in September 2012

Open Foundation Scholarships at 13, worth up to half fees, are awarded at age 13 to girls who show the greatest academic potential in the school’s own examination.

The 13+ Entrance and Scholarship Examination for September 2012 entry will be held on 14th January 2012.

Open Sixth Form Scholarships, worth up to half fees, are awarded to the girls who show the greatest academic potential and perform well in the Sixth Form Scholarship Examination held during the Autumn Term each year.

The 16+ Scholarship Examination for September 2012 entry will be held on 12th November 2011.

The Erasmus Scholarship for Humanities and Languages is awarded to a girl who intends to study Humanities and/or Languages in the Sixth Form and who shows the greatest academic potential in the Sixth Form Scholarship Examination.

The Darwin Scholarship for Sciences is awarded to a girl who intends to study Sciences in the Sixth Form and who shows the greatest academic potential in the Sixth Form Scholarship Examination.

The Tanner Scholarship for Mathematics is awarded to a girl who intends to study Mathematics in the Sixth Form and who shows the greatest academic potential in the Sixth Form Scholarship Examination.

The Friends and Parents Award, is a one-off, single payment of £500. It is given to the Walthamstow Hall Junior School girl proceeding to the Senior School who gains the highest marks in the Eleven-plus Scholarship Examination, provided she has not been awarded a Scholarship.

Music

Music Exhibitions and Scholarships at 11, worth up to half fees, are awarded annually at age 11 on the basis of performance in audition.
Music Exhibitions and Scholarships at 13, worth up to half fees, are also awarded annually at age 13, again on the basis of performance in audition.

Music Auditions for 11+ entry in September 2012 will be held on the 10th and 11th January 2012.

Music Auditions for 13+ entry in September 2012 will be held on the 13th January 2012.

Art

Art Exhibitions and Scholarships at 13, candidates are required to submit a portfolio of work and sit a two-hour practical examination.

An Art Award Examination for 13 + entry in September 2012 entry will take place on 13th January 2012.

The Lantern Award for Art, endowed by the Old Girls’ Association and worth £350 per annum for two years, is awarded to a suitably qualified entrant to the Sixth Form. Candidates will submit a portfolio of work.

Drama

Drama Exhibitions and Scholarships at 13, candidates must demonstrate their potential through audition and improvisation.

Drama Auditions for 13+ entry in September 2012 will be held on 13th January 2012.

Sport

Sports Exhibitions and Scholarships at 13, are worth up to 25% of fees and are awarded annually at age 13 on the basis of a sports assessment, an interview and reports from their sports Coaches.

Sport Award Trials for 13+ entry in September 2012 will be held on 12th January 2012.