Choice to make - what would you do?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:11 pm
Hi.
I'm new here and I wondered if I could get some of your opinions on a choice we need to make as we have not been through the Grammar school process before. My husband and I have two boys and live very close to Bournemouth School for Boys, one of the local grammar schools here.
We have a few options open to us as we do not have ties in this area. We can either stay and have the boys take the entrance test to BSB, however if they fail, they have to go to a secondary which is in special measures. Or, we can move to Hampshire and choose the catchment in which we live, I was considering Thornden in Chandler's Ford which has good results but isn't selective.
If you had the choice of these options, please could you tell me which you would choose and why? My boys are bright, but not knowledgeable and very laid back. My eldest currently attends one of the less sucessful primary schools in the area so we would definitely need to provide him with tuition. I would appreciate any thoughts you might have on my situation. Would you put your children through it if you didn't have to? Do the benefits of attending a grammar school outweigh the stress of winning a place?
Many thanks.
I'm new here and I wondered if I could get some of your opinions on a choice we need to make as we have not been through the Grammar school process before. My husband and I have two boys and live very close to Bournemouth School for Boys, one of the local grammar schools here.
We have a few options open to us as we do not have ties in this area. We can either stay and have the boys take the entrance test to BSB, however if they fail, they have to go to a secondary which is in special measures. Or, we can move to Hampshire and choose the catchment in which we live, I was considering Thornden in Chandler's Ford which has good results but isn't selective.
If you had the choice of these options, please could you tell me which you would choose and why? My boys are bright, but not knowledgeable and very laid back. My eldest currently attends one of the less sucessful primary schools in the area so we would definitely need to provide him with tuition. I would appreciate any thoughts you might have on my situation. Would you put your children through it if you didn't have to? Do the benefits of attending a grammar school outweigh the stress of winning a place?
Many thanks.