Step by Step

If you've had visit to QM are ready to apply, here are the key steps:

Registration

All applications to the school begin with a Registration Form, which you can download below. Upon receipt of this Registration Form, together with a non-refundable registration fee of £100 and a copy of your daughter’s passport and recent school report, our Admissions Team will be in touch with you to confirm the start of your daughter’s application to join Queen Margaret’s in her chosen academic year.

Click here to Download the Registration Form.

Click here to Download the Confidential Information Form.

Taster Day

All registered UK applicants are invited to take part in a Taster Day for the complete QM experience. Girls will be paired with a student in their year group and have the opportunity to take part in lessons, lunchtime clubs and after-school activities. If you are looking at Sixth Form in particular, A Level subject choices are also taken into account when designing the outline of the day. Girls can also stay overnight as part of their Taster visit if they wish to sample boarding at QM too.

For more information, please contact the Admissions Team: admissions@queenmargarets.com.

Assessment & Interview

Once registered, you will be invited to join us for our next Assessment and Scholarship Days. These days are traditionally an opportunity for girls to meet their future fellow classmates and get a taster of the School day, with the assessments, group tasks and interviews with a member of the Senior Leadership Team forming a crucial part of the application process.

No specific preparation for the entrance assessments is needed; all candidates start on an equal footing, with identical opportunities to display their potential. If you are interested in applying for a Scholarship, we will ask for a reference from the Head of your daughter’s current school; more information can be found on our Scholarships page.

The offer of a place at 16+ is conditional upon applicants achieving a minimum of five GCSEs at Grade 5 or above, including at least Grade 6 in the subjects proposed for study at A Level. Applicants must pass GCSE/iGCSE English and Mathematics at Grade 5 or better or hold a similar qualification. Occasionally, in line with our commitment to supporting each girl personally, individual circumstances might mean that the school will consider a different grade profile.

Offer of a Place

Offers for the following academic year are made within the weeks following our Assessment Days and communicated via letter from our Admissions Team. All decisions pertaining to offers and scholarships are made at the Head’s discretion.

Your offer letter will be accompanied by an Acceptance Form and a copy of our Terms and Conditions; to accept the offer, all parties with parental responsibility for the applicant must sign and return the completed form with the deposit of £500 to the Admissions Team before the date specified in the offer letter.

On occasion, we are able to consider a late application after the Assessment Day, and separate arrangements for this can be made. Please contact the Admissions Team to discuss your application: admissions@queenmargarets.com

For more information on the assessment process and the selection criteria, including an outline of the assessments and our process for late applications (after January of the preceding academic year), our Admissions Policy can be downloaded here.