Antonia Forest fans

It occurs to me that the differences between Kingscote and Patrick's school is that it's clear that Patrick's place is one of those hothouse boys day schools (Manchester Grammar springs to mind) who are aiming to get a maximum number of boys through to Oxbridge (MGS used to get up to 60 a year through; don't know what the stats are now) or other competitive courses at competitive universities and everything is geared to that. So you take the minimum number of key O levels as early as possible, on the grounds that provided you get university matriculation requirements (one language, one science, english language and maths, I think it was at the time, with a minimum of 5 O level passes) and then maximise the time during which your pupils are doing 'A' level work, to ensure they get the top quality 'A' levels, and then really push them to 7th term Oxbridge (which, by your sneaky move of pushing them through O levels two terms early, is actually 9th term Oxbridge).