City of London School for Girls Exam tomorrow
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City of London School for Girls Exam tomorrow
Hello, we are sitting this exam tomorrow. Anyone else sitting it who might like to meet up for a coffee please pm me, thanks.
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Exam tomorrow
We are looking forward to going. She appreciates every moment she gets to spend with like minded children. She has come to the very end of her tether with her classmates and would much rather go and sit an eleven plus entrance exam than fight to be able to concentrate among the chatter of the children on her table. She was streamed in English and Maths from Y2 to end of Y5 but now the sets have been unpicked so that the workers can try and help get the others up to Level 4 for May so I was told by her class teacher!
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Journey to City
Normally this would be the easiest of all the schools we have applied for to get to. One train to the end of the line and then a lovely walkway straight to the door. Today it was very hard but I think most journeys today were very hard. At least the exam was on and now its done, unlike QEB where parents have to wait another week/
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Journey to City today
I think the journey today would put a lot of people off. We had a saturday service and trains cancelled and people left on the platform at every stop becuse there was no more room. In year and years of using our line I have never seen overcrowding like it.
Perhaps it is a good thing that today's test was a 'worst case scenario'? DD1 has a two or three tube station journey to school depending on whether she changes lines. If all else (including buses) fails she can walk (albeit 3 miles). In theory it is a 20 minute journey (TFL) door to door, in reality, allowing for her desire to be in early with eveyone else it is 40 minutes on a good day. It is easy to under estimate these things and the impact they have on day to day life, having an 'awful' reminder at test time might influence a final decision in a way that makes our DCs' lives so much less stressful for years to come. As an aside, for the last 4 years the tubes have been down (and this rarely happens) on the first day of term. Karma?
But yes, for qeb, having a postponement, WHAT A PAIN!
But yes, for qeb, having a postponement, WHAT A PAIN!
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City of London School for Girls Results
So we finally got the email at 16.37pm today with an interview date. It is amazing, we don't have a single piece of paper from City, we applied online, paid online and had all our exam details on email. Anyone else get an interview? Anyone any idea how many they interview?