About the columnBy NewSchoolRun
About Notes from the School Gates
School stories, admissions adventures, and the things parents talk about on the way home.
What this is
Notes from the School Gates is the story column of NewSchoolRun. NewSchoolRun's guides answer the practical questions of moving a family abroad: fees, admissions, curricula, timelines. The stories sit beside them and take the longer view, with the conversations parents have on the way home from school and what the decisions felt like from inside.
How it connects to the guides
Every story names the schools and the practical guide it relates to. Those pages show the story in return, so a parent reading a school profile can find the story behind it, and a reader of a story can find the facts.
How we keep it honest
The stories follow our editorial standards: facts about schools rest on sources we can cite, the people and scenes in a story may be invented around a documented situation, and schools cannot pay to change what is written about them. A story is written to be read, but it is not a place where the standards relax.
Something wrong?
If a fact is out of date or a school is described unfairly, tell us through our corrections page. Material corrections update the story and anything repeating the claim.