additional tiffins exam date
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+1J50 wrote:Hopefully in future the 14km catchment will be at least halved.
Anyone sending their child over 14km to a school on a daily basis should be prosecuted for child abuse.
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It isn't really a question of being "allowed" to use it as a free mock. Parents can let their children sit 11+ exams for as many schools as they want. In turn, Tiffins cannot turn people away who they suspect are not serious about listing the school on the application form.
That is true but surely less likely than in previous years when people could wait until March, receive a definite offer and then choose to fully commit to a move? The only information parents will have prior to submitting their application form (I assume) is whether their son has passed the exam. They will have no way of knowing where the in-catchment cut off will fall or whether their son has scored higher than this. If they planned to move anyway then perhaps it would make sense but I cannot imagine people moving in a few weeks time based on a hunch that their son might have done well enough to get a place if only they lived inside rather than outside the 14km limit.Well said, apart from that, people have time till they submit CAF to move into catchment, if they wish.
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..So that already sky high priced property price can break records!!!!J50 wrote:Hopefully in future the 14km catchment will be at least halved.
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I wonder why the prices are so high in Kensington. There is no grammar school.nssdesikan wrote:..So that already sky high priced property price can break records!!!!J50 wrote:Hopefully in future the 14km catchment will be at least halved.
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tiffinboys wrote:I wonder why the prices are so high in Kensington. There is no grammar school.nssdesikan wrote:..So that already sky high priced property price can break records!!!!J50 wrote:Hopefully in future the 14km catchment will be at least halved.
It's only because you are still within catchment for Tiffins in Kensington. Reduce the catchment to a sensible distance and watch property prices plummet in Kensington...
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Good idea.
Keeping an eye for a flat at No 1 Hyde Park.
Keeping an eye for a flat at No 1 Hyde Park.
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The TGS inner catchment area exists because there are areas surrounding Kingston (and well within 7km let alone 14km) which are not generally affluent at all - Ham, Tolworth and Berrylands for example...So that already sky high priced property price can break records!!!!
The highest level of poverty in the immediate area though is actually in Kingston itself, near the Cambridge Road Estate, where 45.2% of children live in poverty compared to a national average of 20.1%
Like most of London and Greater London, Kingston is a mix of relative affluence and quite high levels of deprivation.
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loopylou wrote: ... near the Cambridge Road Estate, where 45.2% of children live in poverty compared to a national average of 20.1%
So that's the Coombe Hill estate then???
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Obviously not - no. More the areas around the Cambridge Estate and Villiers Road.
According to Kingston Council’s Child Poverty Needs Assessment (2012), Kingston is an area of great extremes. The press report at the time used Coombe Hill as an example in fact "areas of affluence like millionaire’s estate Coombe Hill are neighboured by deprivation on the Kingsnympton."
Kingston has some of the richest and the very poorest people living literally cheek by jowl.
The official statistics from 2012 found that "The Royal Borough has some of the 2% richest people in the country, but also the 2% most deprived."
According to Kingston Council’s Child Poverty Needs Assessment (2012), Kingston is an area of great extremes. The press report at the time used Coombe Hill as an example in fact "areas of affluence like millionaire’s estate Coombe Hill are neighboured by deprivation on the Kingsnympton."
Kingston has some of the richest and the very poorest people living literally cheek by jowl.
The official statistics from 2012 found that "The Royal Borough has some of the 2% richest people in the country, but also the 2% most deprived."
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That's good. At least it now makes it absolutely apparent how stupid the relaxed criteria. The cost to the school should be a wake-up call to the governing body to apply a bit of common sense to the process in future.mentor ma wrote:I got email from tiffins school yesterday that my son would need to sit tiffins exam on 8th oct and not 7th oct due to high number of boys appearing for the exam.
Hopefully the OOC will be on the early date so any leakage of questions can benefit those with more realistic commutes to the school gates!
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