DS starts primary school next year and I'm beginning to think about where I'd like him to go.
We are in the catchment area of Parkview (in Summerston) but actually live quite far away from the school, in the extreme southern tip of the catchment area.
The journey to Parkview from our house is inconvenient and also dangerous, going along a main road and through a tunnel with very narrow pavement.
We are closer to Kelvindale, plus it is the "naice school."
We are also quite interested in the Gaelic School.
I'm currently leaning towards registering for Parkview but also putting in placing requests for Kelvindale, the Gaelic school, or possibly both.
I was wondering if anyone on here has any experience with any of the above schools. Obviously I will visit them and talk to the teachers, but I would also be interested in what Mumsnetters have to say
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unlimiteddilutingjuice · 15/08/2016 12:14
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"The thing about Glasgow schools is that they are all bursting to the seams, especially in infants."
Yes, I know. I wouldn't even be in this position (catchment school bloody miles away along a busy road) if the primary school on my estate had not been closed down a few years back.
Loads of schools were closed at the same time- it was total educational vandalism.
Still far better than London, say, but even so... 
The insult to add to injury is that they then plunked said estate in the catchment for Parkview in response to pressure form the parents at (much closer) Kelvindale. If you look at the catchment map we're an extra southerly blob, stuck onto the bottom, seemingly at random.
Its a really unnecessary class division and I'm tempted to put in a placing request for Kelvindale on that basis alone, because seriously Fuck em. (I will word the placing request differently obviously 
)
"However, you won't know until you try."
Exactly- I'll give it a go
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Apart from Weegiemum , I had another friend whose children were at the Gaelic school and I remember her commenting about all the Gaelic classes she had to attend (I think iirc, her dh spoke Gaelic but she was still expected to go)
It's been quite a while since I've seen her though.
Glendale (the original, non-Gaelic medium school) is a fantastic school but there's no way you'd get in if you're not in catchment (think this year they struggled even with siblings).
There are effectively two Glendales.
The local primary school (English speaking although with a very high proportion of EAL pupils ), which ds went to, which serves a defined catchment in Pollokshields (bounded approximately iirc by St Andrews Drive, Darnley St, Nithsdale Road, St Johns Road and Maxwell Road: gets a bit mixed up with strange dogs legs in the catchment boundary with Pollokshields Primary 
). That was the school I was referring to when I said it had problems accepting sibling requests this year.
Then there's the Gaelic Medium Primary which shares the campus with the "original" primary and has a different head teacher (I know the "English speaking" headteacher/school, but the Gaelic school and its headteacher is a totally new entity). It must have the amorphous "big blob" catchment you're talking about - although as Weegiemum says, it shouldn't really be a distance catchment per se as it still requires a placing request. I think to be fair on the council and I'm not often , they were clumsily trying to demonstrate that if you're in the North of the city and you get accepted, you'll go to the one in Berkeley Street/Finnieston, whereas if you're in the South of the city and you get accepted, you'll go to the Glendale/Pollokshields one. It also makes a difference to whether the council will pay for transport.
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It was indeed Glendale. Iirc, the Parent Council did point out the new flats and social housing that had just been built across the road (the other side of which is the railway, then industrial waste land, then the motorway then more industrial estates 
) so no other primaries (unless you count Scotland Street Primary ) for them to go to, were likely to increase catchment demand for the school......
.....they were told by the Council that when if that happened, the Council would then just change the catchment on the other side
....the fact that Pollokshields Primary, which is the one on the other side, is now approaching (has reached?) capacity is a wee bit of a problem....
So you end up with a major cascade effect with children ending up having to cross busy roads as opposed to go to their "local" school.
My DF predicted this when they started closing schools in the late 90s
When GCC declared they were closing Shakespeare primary and NK secondary in particular he said to them "you'll be building family homes on the NK site then?"
Not at all was their reply
Of course we are 16 years later, the houses are up (and all around Firhill too) with maryhill bursting at the seams for places
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