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Have just seen another link saying that the number of children sitting the 11+ is much larger this year. Due to the credit crunch more private school kids and OOC kids are sitting the test than ever before. Just wondered if this is true in Bucks this year. Does anyone have access to the cohort figures for this year 11+ group in Bucks? Need something else to worry about.......
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... emand.html
This is the article - just wondered the effect of this on Bucks.
This is the article - just wondered the effect of this on Bucks.
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Hi Bucks Mum1
DON'T PANIC! (As a famous book once advised )
The article you refer to is mainly hanging it's hat on the increase in the number of children sitting the Kent test this year. Various people have posted the reasons for that on the thread now.
The cohort is very stable at present in Bucks. As G55 says, the figures are not available online at present, but I have looked at them often enough to know that there isn't a blip. The next blip is all those Millennium babies.
The only number that could change this year is those opting out of testing - that is usually around 1,000 from a Bucks cohort of 8,000. Some of those are children destined for private schools, some will be moving away (service personnel in particular, from RAF Halton) and some will be settling directly for an Upper School.
Even if every one of them opted back in, there would still be very little additional pressure in the system. There were 810 out-of-county children who passed the Bucks test last year, so they will be the first to drop off the list.
Sally-Anne
DON'T PANIC! (As a famous book once advised )
The article you refer to is mainly hanging it's hat on the increase in the number of children sitting the Kent test this year. Various people have posted the reasons for that on the thread now.
The cohort is very stable at present in Bucks. As G55 says, the figures are not available online at present, but I have looked at them often enough to know that there isn't a blip. The next blip is all those Millennium babies.
The only number that could change this year is those opting out of testing - that is usually around 1,000 from a Bucks cohort of 8,000. Some of those are children destined for private schools, some will be moving away (service personnel in particular, from RAF Halton) and some will be settling directly for an Upper School.
Even if every one of them opted back in, there would still be very little additional pressure in the system. There were 810 out-of-county children who passed the Bucks test last year, so they will be the first to drop off the list.
Sally-Anne
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