Entry is normally via Common Entrance or as an Academic Award holder, although separate provision is made for candidates not being prepared specifically for Common Entrance.
Places
Those parents wishing to apply for a place should contact the Head of School Administration in the first instance.
Academic, Music, Art and Eric Abbott Awards
In addition to Academic Awards, the School offers Music and Art Awards and Eric Abbott Awards. Over the last three years a total of 80 awards in these four categories has been made .
Value of Awards
The maximum amount offered on merit is one-quarter fees, but all awards may be augmented in cases of proven financial need.
Selection Procedure
Academic Awards
Cranleigh uses the Independent Schools Examination Board Common Academic Scholarship papers in making its Fourth Form Academic Awards. The papers are in English, Mathematics, Science, French, Geography, History, and Religious Studies. Latin is optional but desirable. There is a series of interviews, and the School may wish to look at the portfolio of outstanding artists, and also listen to performances given by musical candidates.
Music Awards
The Music Awards examination consists of an audition and interviews. Candidates should be of good Grade 5/6 standard on at least one instrument.
Music Awards are made after auditions which should include the performance of two contrasting works on a candidate's first instrument. Where a second instrument is offered, one piece is required for performance. Singing is welcomed and encouraged. Candidates are required to perform (on their first instrument only) scales, arpeggios and sight reading. Aural tests appropriate to their standard will be given and candidates’ general musicianship and interests assessed.
Music Scholars, if they are not also successful in the Academic Awards Examination, will be required to take the Common Entrance Examination, or otherwise demonstrate an acceptable academic standard.
Music Scholars are required to take a full and active part in the School’s musical activities, both choral and instrumental.
The Director of Music is always delighted to meet and advise prospective candidates.
Art Awards
Candidates will be required to submit a portfolio of at least ten finished pieces which should display their drawing skills to full advantage and also include at least two finished works in colour. Possible themes might include: Natural Forms, Figure Study, Self Portrait or Landscape, and should demonstrate the ability to develop and enrich a theme from direct observation. Work books should be included, as should three-dimensional work if it has been undertaken, but work of a CDT nature is not eligible.
Candidates will be invited to spend a day at the Art School, where they will work in two and three dimensions and be interviewed about their portfolios and their artistic interests.
Candidates for an Art Awards are also expected to sit either the Academic Awards or the Common Entrance examinations.
It is expected that Art Scholars will study the subject in the Sixth Form.
Eric Abbott Awards
Eric Abbott Awards are made to candidates of good academic ability with at least one other established area of outstanding excellence. Eric Abbott candidates are interviewed and their skills are assessed; successful candidates still take all Common Entrance papers in the Summer.
Dates
The examinations or assessments for entry in 2008 will take place as follows:
Academic Awards:
Tuesday 6th May - Thursday 8th May 2008
Closing date for entries: Monday 17th March 2008
Eric Abbott Awards:
Friday 9th May 2008
Closing date for entries: Monday 17th March 2008
Art Awards
Thursday 8th May 2008. Portfolios should normally be submitted a week in advance.
Closing date for entries: Monday 17th March 2008
Music Awards
Monday 28th January or Tuesday 29th January 2008
Closing date for entries: Friday 11th January 2008
Papers for all awards will be written at Cranleigh. Candidates for Academic Awards will be accommodated at School. Interviews will take place during the days of the examinations.
The names of award winners will be communicated to Preparatory School Heads by telephone as soon as possible. Parents are asked to confirm their acceptance of an award by return of post.
Common Entrance
Monday 2nd June - Thursday 5th June 2008
Entry forms are available from the Head of School Administration.
Telephone 01483 276377
E-mail mrp@cranleigh.org
General
It is expected that all awards will be held for the full period of a pupil’s career at Cranleigh, but they are conditional on high standards of attendance, diligence and behaviour on the pupil’s part and on parents treating the School and its staff reasonably.
All awards made will be fees-linked: the award will be subject to the same percentage increase as the fees throughout the whole of a pupil’s school career. The awards will apply to boarding fees or day fees as appropriate.
It is expected that boys and girls will be over 12 and under 14 years of age on 1st September 2008