Well, that's a relief

. The moving bit, I mean - although I'm not sure I'd be willing to up sticks and move to a completely new area for the sake of a school that neither I nor the child concerned had actually seen.
We have two D at SHSG - DD in year 9 and DS1 in year 13. The school is very good academically, even if I can feel folk muttering that it's not HBS or Tiffin Girls, but also quite laid back and even quite fun. This morning as a representative of the PA I attended the special assembly to celebrate its 101st birthday, complete with presents and cake

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On another thread, someone posted that Southend felt really out in the sticks, but lots of us rather like our - adopted, in my case, little bit of the sticks. And SHSG and SHSB have just been selected, not for the first time in either case to represent England in the 2015 World schools Athletics competition in China.
WHSG looks rather different, the main building being a 'new build' in the early 1930s, as opposed to the main part of SHSG dat-ing from a relocation from central Southend in 1957. I know girls who are very happy at WHSG, but it does have a reputation of being less 'light-handed', for want of a better word, than SHSG. It is only a mile or so from where we live, but DD really didn't like it - and this was with the benefit of some of the excellent 'outreach' work that WHSG does with the primary school that our DC attended. I'm sure others will be able to give you a more complete picture.
It is obviously after you need to complete your CAF, but SHSG Sixth Form open evening is on Wednesday 5th November 6-8pm and WHSG on Tuesday 18th 7-9pm; it may be worth asking whether you could come along. Or borrow a 16-year-old and let them have a 'legitimate' look round as well

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Apologies for oddly-hyphenated word in sentence re school buildings, but the original got 'asterisked'