Anyone know school fees for Wesley College, Vic (st kilda rd campus)

[nothing2lose]

Id love to send DD there (I went, my mum, my aunt, my DDs paternal GM) but it's too far away for us. Great school though.

[Yael]

I went to Wesley St Kilda Rd... IMO the Elsternwick campus and move over at year 11 is nicer - a lot smaller & more supportive environment but with the same access to facilities (they bus them over to the St Kilda Rd campus for a lot of stuff)

Also the thing to consider is that although there are a lot of parents are not rich and work hard to send their kids there, a lot of kids come from wealthy homes, and there is to some degree the need to give them the same stuff so they don't feel left out (the right clothes for casual clothes day etc)

n2l - when did you finish? Maybe we know each other

[nothing2lose]

I'm old Yael 1989

Eta: just realised you might have thought I meant Wesley! I went to St Michael's.

[Trillian]

Oh wow! DH and I were talking about the $8,500 it will cost to send DS1 to boarding school next year being a drain on finances, but that is HUGE!

[FabFiona]

Oh wow! DH and I were talking about the $8,500 it will cost to send DS1 to boarding school next year being a drain on finances, but that is HUGE!

Yup. However it is a very good school. We both earn decent wages, not rich but not poor either. It's still a while away but we could make this work.

Something that LimeSlice said on here ages ago really resonated with me, about this being the single most important thing that I will give my children. That made me think differently about our options. Not necessarily more expensive but about quality and education values in line with DH and I.

St Michaels is actually slightly more expensive. - https://www.stmichaels.vic.edu.au/we...D2DA795AF540B8

[nothing2lose]

But you can't argue with the quality product they are churning out Fiona

[Trillian]

Fiona, I totally agree, that's why we're sending DS to boarding school and not the local high school. It will be a stretch for sure but then we also qualify for the Isolated children's payment from centrelink which is just under $7,500 per year. We did look at sending him to Kinross Wolaroi, which is DH's old school, but we simply cannot afford that! It's a similar amount to the one you're looking at.

[FabFiona]

But you can't argue with the quality product they are churning out Fiona

If my boys develop your sophisticated turn of phrase and eloquent manner than it will have been worth every cent.