‘It would be hard to replicate these experiences’: Inside the Scottish boarding school boom Increasing numbers of Londoners are eyeing up schools north of the border, but what makes it such an attractive proposition for parents? 23 May 2021 • 6:00am Simon Flemington moved his three teenage children from state schools in Kensington to the £40,000-a-year Gordonstoun Credit: Chris Watt With its Tudor-Gothic turrets and 300 acres of rambling glens and straths, Glenalmond College in Perthshire makes Hogwarts look homely. It even has a warden in charge, rather than a headmaster. Yet 13-year-old twins Jasmine and Amelie Forbes from Richmond in London can’t wait to become Scottish public school girls in September. “The uniform is the only thing they’re worried about,” explains their father, Graeme, who works in finance in the capital.