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tiffinboys
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Re: top Tips please to assess 6th forms
How about Tiffin Girls, if you live towards Kingston. Direct bus from Ealing Broadway, if you are near that area.
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silverysea
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Thanks for the further tips chaps. I don't think we can consider Tiffin Girls, lovely as it sounds, my younger one is in HBS and I work near there. I like Ealing though, dd1 was born in Harrow.
Woodhouse College, ooh that looks so grown up, daunting to me, but maybe it would suit her? Think we'd better visit that one! Are there other good sixth form colleges in North London or south herts? I'm not familiar with that concept.
We haven't ruled out moving to a Latymer-suitable postcode, it's attractive in several ways, if we are going to move anyway may as well tick as many boxes as we can.
She seems open minded about all girls or co-ed, come from going co-ed all along I guess. Seems to see boys as mildly amusing and eminently dispensible buffoons so far! She's made loads of lovely new female friends since the classes were finally mixed up a bit this year (saying goodbye to some nasties), so I think she realised she's not a total loser when it comes to creating a new social life, and like an influential primary teacher once said to me, she's a good friend to have!
Woodhouse College, ooh that looks so grown up, daunting to me, but maybe it would suit her? Think we'd better visit that one! Are there other good sixth form colleges in North London or south herts? I'm not familiar with that concept.
We haven't ruled out moving to a Latymer-suitable postcode, it's attractive in several ways, if we are going to move anyway may as well tick as many boxes as we can.
She seems open minded about all girls or co-ed, come from going co-ed all along I guess. Seems to see boys as mildly amusing and eminently dispensible buffoons so far! She's made loads of lovely new female friends since the classes were finally mixed up a bit this year (saying goodbye to some nasties), so I think she realised she's not a total loser when it comes to creating a new social life, and like an influential primary teacher once said to me, she's a good friend to have!
Re: top Tips please to assess 6th forms
I think you need to be quite independent and social for Woodhouse and it would not have suited my ds. However he has friends who go and others we know rate it highly. The results are good and they do a lot of enrichment activities. Compton school used to get priority for places but they are opening their own sixth for in September and so there will be more spaces for others. There is no catchment area but preference goes to students who are more local.
Not sure where you live but if in North London, there is Ashmole, Alexandra Park School, Fortismere who all seem to get similar results.
We visited quite a few in the autumn term of y11 just to get a feel and also look at their syllabuses to see what suited. My ds does history and there were some syllabuses he would have hated to do ie French history.
Not sure where you live but if in North London, there is Ashmole, Alexandra Park School, Fortismere who all seem to get similar results.
We visited quite a few in the autumn term of y11 just to get a feel and also look at their syllabuses to see what suited. My ds does history and there were some syllabuses he would have hated to do ie French history.
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silverysea
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Re: top Tips please to assess 6th forms
Showed dd1 the website for Woodhouse and she said that was the best idea I'd ever had (Thanks for the steer!).
We used to live on the bus route that would be practically door-to-door, moved because Local secondary went downhill and had neighbours from hades.
I've briefly looked at Purcell, which might work - they do all the academic subjects she's into and I could sell it as a specialist school rather than an Indy. Crazy idea? but I think she would get better results with close attention from the teachers in a tiny class, and would actually do the enrichment since music is all she really participates in at school. But then I read up about the cloud it has been under, seems a shame. Daft idea probably anyway.
We used to live on the bus route that would be practically door-to-door, moved because Local secondary went downhill and had neighbours from hades.
I've briefly looked at Purcell, which might work - they do all the academic subjects she's into and I could sell it as a specialist school rather than an Indy. Crazy idea? but I think she would get better results with close attention from the teachers in a tiny class, and would actually do the enrichment since music is all she really participates in at school. But then I read up about the cloud it has been under, seems a shame. Daft idea probably anyway.
