I'm not aware of any such schools in this area- are there any?

We are at the beginning of the entire process so its a learning curve however our experience to date of dealing with private although excellent nurseries, ( but still private and therefore expensive and unaccountable) just makes me so glad that we have such an excellent state education system in this country. Could always be better in many ways but hey, it will be nice to be able to stop paying exorbitant nursery fees( exhorbitant in relation to household income!) and to have ' free' education from an accountable body .Long may it last, however with this government, and its free or not so free school policies, who knows what stunt they will pull next. I am aware of some schools being placed under pressure to ask parents for contributions to curricular school trips and other things which is outside the normal fundraising scope; they are not comfortable about it but feel its necessary to at least ask for some contribution and hope that some of the better off parents will cough up.