FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Students can nominate current friends from City Campus to stay with at Riverside. However, staff at both City Campus and Riverside provide many opportunities for students to grow and thrive in a new environment and encourage all students to widen their network as they progress through years 7 and 8.
Yes. siblings in lower years at City Campus are able to transfer to the Junior School at Riverside to continue their primary education, once a child from the same family takes up their guaranteed place in the Senior School.
At Riverside, students can learn Mandarin, Japanese, French and Spanish.
Absolutely! Staff at Riverside focus on every child in order to understand how best to help them access their desired sporting and/or musical activities in the Senior School.
The main difference between a GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) and an iGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) is with regard to how they are regulated. GCSE’s are directly regulated by a department of the British Government called Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation). This means that the UK government has a direct say on matters related to curriculum design and testing. iGCSEs do not come under the same regulatory restraints and are more suited to the international community.
Shrewsbury holds an impressive track record for exam results in Thailand. Nearly all Shrewsbury students choose to continue into Higher Education at prestigious universities and colleges around the world.
Riverside’s team of Higher Education advisors, including specialists in UK US and Thai universities, is committed to ensuring that Shrewsbury students are supported throughout their journey towards university study.