Would appreciate any help really. I'm not a Brit and feeling a bit baffled by our school choices. My DC is 3 and currently at a Montessori Preschool. We live in Muswell Hill but may be in one of the dreaded "blackout" zones for a primary school place. We are on the list for a place for Norfolk House but not entirely sure how I feel about that school. We took a tour of Highgate and liked it quite a bit but it would mean our DC sitting the 7+. So our choices are to leave him in his Montessori until he's 4 then hope for a state school place and then have him sit the 7+ for Highgate or leave him in his Montessori for the entire preschool period until he is 6 but then what? From what I understand he would never have a chance at a state school place because our local state school is way over subscribed (Rhodes Avenue). So we could send him to the Montessori elementary school in Hampstead but that would mean a trip over the Heath and it seems to strange to send him to another school for only a year anyway if our intent is to sit him for the 7+. But who knows if he's even academic. He's 3! Anyone else have any experience. Am I missing a possible path?
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AliceAnneB · 23/02/2015 15:56
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