Out of catchment area...and Couty!
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Hi Frenchmaster
11+ tuition usually starts in the January of Year 5 - some tutors do start earlier, and the best tutors do get booked up a long way ahead.
Be extremely careful about the alternative schools on offer for Chesham. The Upper Schools available are the Misbourne, the Amersham School and Chesham Park. The first two are quite popular, and although Chesham children do get in, there is no guarantee, because only Chesham Park is the catchment school. (Chesham Park always has plenty of spaces, and I will leave it at that ...)
Some people opt for middle and then senior schools in Herts - Tring School is popular, and Ashlyns was briefly in vogue, but has had it's troubles lately. Otherwise there is Clement Danes at Chorleywood, but that is becoming increasingly difficult to get in to unless you live in Herts.
Unless you do your research carefully, you could find that a house move and non-qualification for the 11+ takes you out of the frying pan and into the fire.
This link may be useful: http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/11-plu ... rofile.php
Sally-Anne
11+ tuition usually starts in the January of Year 5 - some tutors do start earlier, and the best tutors do get booked up a long way ahead.
Be extremely careful about the alternative schools on offer for Chesham. The Upper Schools available are the Misbourne, the Amersham School and Chesham Park. The first two are quite popular, and although Chesham children do get in, there is no guarantee, because only Chesham Park is the catchment school. (Chesham Park always has plenty of spaces, and I will leave it at that ...)
Some people opt for middle and then senior schools in Herts - Tring School is popular, and Ashlyns was briefly in vogue, but has had it's troubles lately. Otherwise there is Clement Danes at Chorleywood, but that is becoming increasingly difficult to get in to unless you live in Herts.
Unless you do your research carefully, you could find that a house move and non-qualification for the 11+ takes you out of the frying pan and into the fire.
This link may be useful: http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/11-plu ... rofile.php
Sally-Anne
I would second everything Sally Anne said.
Another option is to move to Amersham, where the backup/non-grammar options (Amersham or possibly Chalfont Community College) are much better than in Chesham. Of course that makes things harder in the short run if they're continuing primary in Hemel.
No easy answers, I'm afraid.
Another option is to move to Amersham, where the backup/non-grammar options (Amersham or possibly Chalfont Community College) are much better than in Chesham. Of course that makes things harder in the short run if they're continuing primary in Hemel.
No easy answers, I'm afraid.
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