Durham School: County Durham, UK

Durham School is an English independent boarding school for pupils aged between 3 and 18 years. Founded by the Bishop of Durham, Thomas Langley, in 1414, it received royal foundation by King Henry VIII in 1541 following the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the Protestant Reformation. It is the city’s oldest institution of learning.

The School is located in Durham, North East England and was an all-boys institution until becoming fully coeducational in 1985. A member of The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, it enrolls 600 day and boarding students. Its preparatory institution, enrolls a further 160 pupils. Durham and Bow’s former pupils include politicians, clergy and British aristocracy. The school celebrated its 600th Anniversary in 2014

A/AS Level

This top UK boarding school offers a range of subjects at A/AS Level, this varies from year to year as the needs of the students and the School change. Most students choose four subjects at AS Level, dropping to three at A2 Level.

GCSE

This one the best  independent boarding schools offers a varied curriculum at GCSE where students study mathematics, English Language and Literature and science (either the individual physics, chemistry and biology or a double award science course). All students study a core modern foreign language of either French, German or Spanish. There are then a number of options that the students can choose from.

Key Stage 3 (Years 7 to 9)

This prestigious boarding school offers a range of subjects to students in Years 7 to 9 that lead into the GCSE programme starting, generally, in Year 10, with the exception of those in set 1 maths, who do their maths GCSE a year early. They start their course in year 9.