Hi Harimom, my son is at Forest, music scholar so like the above poster's child very involved in music (which is fantastic at Forest)! I don't know which school is better academically, I believe last year Chigwell's A-level results were higher than Forest's, but the year before they were more or less the same, so it varies. Each year there is a good number of pupils from Forest getting offers from Oxbridge, just like Chigwell (don't know which one gets more). If your child is interested in drama then maybe it's good to know that drama is not part of the curriculum the first two years at Forest (unlike Chigwell) but there are of course lots of opportunities to do extracurricular drama and from year 9 pupils can choose it as one of their GCSE options. There are two games afternoons each week, Chigwell does one, as far as I know. Other differences in terms of curriculum: at Forest, pupils can now choose Mandarin from year 7, I don't think this is the case at Chigwell but of course it may be offered as an extracurricular activity there. Also, Forest pupils do a Higher Project Qualification as part of their GCSE's (counts as one of ten GCSE's), something that not many schools do. On top of their 3 A-levels they do an Extended Project Qualification too. Hope this helps!
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