Can anyone recognise this London school if I describe the uniform / crest / logo please?

[BuiltForComfort]

I would be very grateful if anyone does and can let me know. It's probably near SW or Central London, boys or co-ed. Has a senior school, I don't know about juniors.

Uniform is blue shirt, dark trousers (helpful). The main bit of details is that logo or crest is a sword pictured upside down, with some sort of yellow ribbon at the bottom that looks roughly like a W shape. I would recognise the logo if I saw it again!

[basildonbond]

sounds like Whitgift

I hope they've been behaving themselves ....

[BuiltForComfort]

Thanks - but not St Paul's have checked that one. In fact, I think it might be Whitgift. I will see if anyone on here can verify! They don't have a sword but the W shape seems right.

[BuiltForComfort]

x-posted! The crest does look right - do they have blue shirts with the crest on the pocket basildonbond?

[basildonbond]

yes the lower school has blue shirts with crest (so years 7-8)

[basildonbond]

it's not a sword - it's an archbishop's hat (I'm sure there's a proper word for that but can't think of it at the moment ..)

[BuiltForComfort]

that will be it then. thank you.

[DirtyBlonde]

Mitre?

[TheDoctrineOfAllan]

Mitre, Bb.

[basildonbond]

doh!

[Lfs2126]

Well.....?

[Talkinpeace]

best place to check is the John Lewis Uniform sales department
www.johnlewis.com/baby-child/uniform-by-school/c600002381

[Talkinpeace]

www.johnlewis.com/uniform-by-school/london-schools-s-z/c700007809

[SoupDragon]

Whitgift is in Croydon, SE London.

[FatalFlowerGarden]

So... what have they been up to?

[Lfs2126]

Why didn't you just ask one of the kids what school they go to? Anything you say/do now is just conjecture#just saying

[burberryqueen]

Archbishop Tenisons?

[burberryqueen]

no sorry forget that

[BuiltForComfort]

eh? Sorry didn't realise there was a load of speculation going on! I was on a bus, overheard two boys chatting, thought they seemed nice polite switched on kids and thought I'd be interested enough to put their school on my radar for when the time comes to think about it for ds. Should have asked them but got distracted by ds and they got off before I could go over. Shame people have to assume it must have been something bad, they seemed like lovely kids.

[basildonbond]

that's good to hear - it's just that my ds is at Whitgift and although I'm always being told by his friends' parents that he's lovely and polite it's sometimes hard to believe they've got the right child

[SonorousBip]

DS's mate's father is a psycotherapist, specialising in troubled families and so I assume he knows a thing or two about good and bad communications. He said about 2 years ago he was on a train and some schoolchildren got on and sat near him and he said they had they they most lovely interaction (it was 13/14 year old boys). He said they were funny, lively, respectful and courteous. He asked them what school they went to and phoned the head and told her how impressed he was.

[Saracen]

I'm not usually the paranoid type, but I'm sorry to say that my first reaction upon reading the question was that it seemed a bit stalkerish, potentially.

I could also immediately think of many innocent reasons why a person might want this information. Nevertheless, if I did have any info which might help a person establish which school has this particular uniform, I would be reluctant to share it with an unknown person on the internet.

I hope that doesn't come across as nasty, OP.

[FatalFlowerGarden]

Saracen, really?? That's paranoid even by MN standards!

Glad to hear it was something nice, OP. Ds starts there in Sept!

[BuiltForComfort]

//shock

If schools didn't want their pupils to be identified publicly they wouldn't ask them to wear uniform. And they wouldn't display their own crest on that uniform.