As the Tiffin results day looms, a second 2019 SW London grammars and indies thread

Oh those schools are in Sutton Borough, not Merton - apologies.

Yes the Sutton grammar intake stretches from Hounslow over to Crystal Palace down to Reigate and the other side of Croydon into Kent, just bonkers what commutes people will subject their dc to.

Girls less so than boys though because of the OOC scores needing to eb higher and because people will tolerate less batshit commutes for them.

You see a lot of St Philomena's girls at Balham changing train/tube though which tells you something.

Some people are also hoping for state schools such as Lady Margaret's, Sacred Heart etc so not just the grammar schools.

Tiffin Girls is in the borough of Kingston and Nonsuch High & Wallington Girls are in the borough of Sutton.

No Grammars in Merton. Wimbledon girls will be waiting on Tiffin and Nonsuch&Wallington (not so much as transport difficult).
From most friends in Wimbledon schools not many girls got 2nd round Tiffin and 2nd round WHS (ie. got one or the other), seems tests look for different skills.

Toomuch - Sorry I haven’t heard of the WL at G&L moving as yet. Four of the five girls at DD’s school who were offered have or will be taking it up; another one weighing it up against SPGS.
We went to a second tour this week (mainly for DH who hadn’t seen the school). The Bursar said they have the final offer-holders tour next Monday morning, so clearly some are taking it to the wire. I really hope it moves for you. What are your other options?

I would have thought WHS must lose more offer-holders to grammars than PHS, simply because there aren’t any girls grammars in Putney, Wandsworth, Fulham, Barnes, Sheen, etc. In the Merton Borough, isn’t there Wallingtons and also the Nonsuch School? (sorry if this is not the case, I don’t know the area too well). I think you have to live in Merton to apply to those grammars? But for PHS, people are only likely to be waiting on Tiffin, as far as state options go.

LEH head said they were being careful not to have extra class this year so I’m not surprised it’s moving now. A lot of offer holders will be waiting for grammars so it should move more over next few days. I do think the deadline for acceptance should be middle of next week (like KGS and Hampton). It makes things too tight!!

We have two friends who were unable to finish the exam paper (and I mean leaving several pages without answers) and were offered

I agree Bool. LEH are also making offers this week so Putney must be confident they won’t need to go to the list. They didn’t appear to offer to the most academic girls at our school and might be looking for other qualities or have a slightly different criteria.

Thing is though. WHS is now snapping up the top of their waitlist. Lots of people will accept somewhere else on Monday. So PHS must be pretty sure they won’t need to go deep into it....

Putney must have over offered. It’s seems LEH, Surbiton and Wimbledon have been conservative with their offers.

PHS said they wouldn’t look at their waitlist until Monday.....

I have heard this morning that Putney list is also moving but the school say they have not gone to waiting list yet.

What are people’s thoughts on calling the registers regularly? The people I know who have been offered places yesterday and today have not called the schools at all.

KGS is a decent school (the head is great) so wouldn't surprise me you can have cooling off period. It's a fab school, but think about your own situation! Again, can your DD get to LEH by public transport? She won't want mum to drive her there for 7 years!!

I remember last year at the offer holders meeting, the head of KGS saying there was was a day cooling off period on their contract?

Any of those on WHS waitlist - another friend has just had the call with an offer. Seems like WHS waitlist moving the quickest!

Anyone have any news of G&L waitlist moving yet?

jkhj - How much was the KGS deposit though - £2k or thereabouts? I doubt you would have that refunded tbh as once you accept its legally binding.
Having said that, 10 mins v 40 mins is a lot of time saved in travel. 5 hours a week!
How was she planning to get to KGS?

@jkhj did you pay KGS deposit?

Jk, can LEH tell you when you’re highly likely to get a call by? That could help with decision making

jkhj co Ed versus single sex? LEH easy for your DD to get to independently? KGS in Kingston which the girls there love!

Good luck to everyone waiting for the school results today and those waiting for waiting list movement.
Hope you all get what you want!

Hi all, we sent off our KGS papers last week. Husband called leh regarding waiting list and apparently my daughter if highly likely to get a call.

Oh what to do! Love KGS, leh is much closer only 10mins by car oppose to 40 mins to KGS. Don’t like the ‘pushy’ reputation leh has but it seems like an amazing school and local.... wish I could see it again!

WHS were expecting to go to waitlist this year. They only made 72 offers for 60 places which is really unusual (I think normally schools would offer double or sometimes triple). They were worried about the building work and not being able to squeeze in a bulge class. We found this out on the offers meeting.

We got a WHS waitlist place last year and had until the normal acceptance date to decide.
I think WL are moving today as lots of people who aren't waiting for state school offers are making their decisions today anyway. Certainly that's the case at our primary.