Parents have a new best friend, www.schoolstrader.com, which is a small advertisements website for all those connected to independent schools -- staff, friends, parents, family, and pupils -- which offers all sorts of trading deals.
They include a holiday home or a hamster, a pony or a parrot, banjo or goldfish, not to mention games kits, uniforms and textbooks.
The website is free and covers more than 1,000 schools all over the country, including Benenden, Loretto, Cheltenham Ladies College and Haileybury. As parents find out about the website, its visits and hits seem to double by the month.
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It's a perfect storm for the revival of eclecticism, and we're in the middle of itIn design, periods of purism are often followed by a dramatic new mood. Now, the scene is set for an exciting revival of eclecticism.
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How good is your Claudia Winkleman trivia? Find out in The Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 13, 2025What secrets lurk beneath that fringe?
