iwantthistoend wrote:
Daogroupie wrote:
It is for two reasons:
Firstly because of the Habs new business model where they do not teach the girls the 11 plus work required for them to be able to pass exams elsewhere.
They no longer need to sit the Habs 11 plus so they no longer require the preparation if they are going to stay at Habs.
So without the preparation the preps are staying put as even if they wanted do they have not done the work to secure places elsewhere, so only 2 or 3 are leaving this year, so more preps.
Secondly more have taken the spaces this year so they have created an extra class so six classes of 25 with a total of 150 new Y7s in September as opposed to the existing five classes of 28.
I think it is good news all round.
Habs becomes a bigger school and class sizes for the new Y7s go down from 28 to 25 and more revenue to create more opportunities. DG
I was not aware of this new business model. What might that mean for their results overall, I wonder. It also puts their 11+ exam into context now. It certainly wasn't as difficult as the others. 150 pupils seems an awful lot. Far more than you'd get almost anywhere else. I find it concerning, to be honest.
But the tutor group / teaching unit size appears to have gone down ? This is how your DD will spend the majority of her time - not even your local comp will have all 300 or however many in a year group there herded together for its subject teaching. Or is it that the additional numbers possibly meaning that your DD comes into contact with a few gels of a less stellar intellect is of concern?
Were you assured by the school at any stage that there was no intention of increasing the intake? Preferably in writing, if the breach is is of such concern? Tbh the difference between 140 and 150 seems pretty marginal to me.