transfer to a Bucks grammar school
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transfer to a Bucks grammar school
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Last edited by scary mum on Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Thanks. The school concerned have no places now but will have some in September due to setting for GCSEs. The fact that they will have started some courses is one of the arguments I am using with DC to presuade them it will be easier to stay put. However there is only so long you can watch your child be miserable! Sooner or later we will have to make a decision
Re: transfer to a Bucks grammar school
Just in case this is useful or gives anyone hope, DC didn't get the 11 plus 3 years ago (well outside the appeal zone) - just wasn't their type of test. Since going to senior school they have been billed as very bright (to be fair a bit of a late developer). They took the BGS tests for entry into year 10 (see above) with no practice or knowledge of what was coming and passed. This isn't meant as a boast, but a comment that surely a system like that has to be fairer for everyone? As soon as they schools are allowed to set their own tests they become fairer - why can't the 11 plus be something more like CATs?
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Re: transfer to a Bucks grammar school
It is a problem - the tests vary and hence suit different people. North Yorkshire use VR and NVR - whereas many of the local private schools use english and maths - kids may pass one and not the other....