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mdalip
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QE Travel Guidance

Post by mdalip »

Hello All,

I need some advice in regards to travel to QE boys from slough Berks. I have seen the school bus option but i cannot see anything from slough.

Please if anyone has any ideas/tips in this matter.

thanks
scary mum
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Post by scary mum »

My tip would be not to do it, or to move. It is a awful.journey to subject a child to for 7 years. Most adults wouldn't do that commute, let alone a child.
ETA: Google maps shows Slough station to the school as 34 miles, currently taking 1 hour 5 minutes. The school will not make allowances for a child being stuck in traffic.
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mdalip wrote:Hello All,

I need some advice in regards to travel to QE boys from slough Berks. I have seen the school bus option but i cannot see anything from slough.

Please if anyone has any ideas/tips in this matter.

thanks
Please don't take this amiss, but why would you inflict that journey on your child? Please say that you are only considering it as a fall-back, in case it takes more than six months from national allocation day for you to move over to Barnet... :?:
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Post by Tinkers »

Are you waiting for a Slough consortium result too?

If you really want QE (or for some reason out DS must have had a bad day for the Slough test) then you really do need to move house.

Otherwise if you are waiting for a Slough result and it’s good news, then that will be a better option.

There’s really no point making a child travel excessively for what might be seen as a slightly better School. Any perceived advantage will be outweighed by tiring journey and your DS won’t be able to do any after school activities. Less travel time means they can spend more time doing homework, other activities and socialising.

You’ll also need to factor in how you’ll manage any parents evenings, evening events, information evenings, (maybe even the odd detention), picking them up if ill etc.
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Post by loobylou »

Seriously? Slough to Barnet?
That's more than 30 miles round the M25. Day in day out. Twice a day. Five days a week. Thirty nine weeks a year. For five or seven years.
I really really hope you're not serious.
That cannot work.
Train to Marylebone, tube to Euston, tube to High Barnet, walk to school. .. no that definitely wouldn't work either!
mdalip
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Post by mdalip »

Thanks All for your replies

yes, i completely agree with you that daily travel is not feasible , i just wanted to check if i have missed any thing in regards to the transportation

we are planning to move to Barnet and are just looking at the options and of course waiting for the CEM results as well
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Post by piggys »

OP how does your ds feel about commuting from Slough to North London twice daily with heavy bags?

:shock:
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Post by ajpshergill »

Mdalip what was your DS’s score in QE?
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Post by Daogroupie »

You seem surprised there is no school bus from Berkshire to Barnet.

If you want your ds to go to QE you must move.

There is not another option that you have not thought of.

Every year QE holds exams for the places that come up in Y7 through exhausted boys dropping out from the school as they cannot cope with the travel.

Your ds cannot attend QE from Slough.

Does he have a score in the 230s and above?

Is there some reason you would not choose your local schools? DG
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