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

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FlumePlume · 13/02/2019 20:14

A new thread to avoid the doomsday scenario of running out of posts as envelopes are opened on Friday, waiting lists move (or don’t) and e-mails are opened on 1 March.

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1ndig0 · 01/03/2019 23:12

ancient - yes it’s noon on Tuesday. What a nightmare that you have to accept IPS on the Monday - I wonder if IPS have done that on purpose as I think most schools’ deadlines are on the Tue.

I don’t think the WL at G&L has moved at all yet and as I think I said earlier, there is still one more offer holder visit on Monday morning. If it’s anything like the one we went to there were about eight families at it, so not swathes of undecideds tbh. I wonder if the registrars might be working over the weekend as they are in other schools? It could be worth ringing them and asking? Orfinding out if IPS have a “cooling off period” in the contract?
Are you happy with IPS in any case?

Btw - congrats to everyone who got Tiffin and Nonsuch offers. Is that it now - all results in?

ancientgeordiegirl · 01/03/2019 21:11

@JugglingMadly thanks - bloody typical as that’s 24 hours after I have to accept IPS! Has you heard of schools ever giving wiggle room on their acceptance timings?

JugglingMadly · 01/03/2019 20:45

@ancientgeordiegirl I think G&L is Tuesday at noon.

littlemisslucky2 · 01/03/2019 20:22

We didn’t get TGS and our state offer is much further down our preference list. Although we won’t tske TGS I would be interested to know her score. Do we have to request or will they send it?

Bool · 01/03/2019 20:19

They will tell you in advance if the offers may explode. We called KGS this year to double check and they assured us was open until March 6

Geogra · 01/03/2019 20:09

That’s worrying jk. Did they forewarn you? I hope no other schools are retracting offers

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MRSMYM · 01/03/2019 19:57

WHS Is it state or private ??
Better than tiffin girls ???

Sorry for being naive just trying to understand Confused

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Bool · 01/03/2019 19:55

@Lexi20 how do you know PHS waitlist is moving. They told me yesterday and teacher today that they wouldn’t even look at waitlist until Monday. Thanks :-)

jkhj · 01/03/2019 19:55

Yes we payed deposit for KGS as we were concerned about exploding offers and rightly so as our Radnor house scholarship offer was retracted before their deadline.

ancientgeordiegirl · 01/03/2019 19:54

clock not click....

ancientgeordiegirl · 01/03/2019 19:53

Hi @1ndig0 and @CanadaUk you are the only 2 posters I’ve managed to click who have got DDs with an offer from G & L. Can you tell me when the acceptance deadline is for G & L? Trying to work out when the WL might move (it hasn’t yet....). Congratulations on your impressive results obviously bright cookies who prepared well and worked hard!

Geogra · 01/03/2019 19:46

Wimbledon High School

MRSMYM · 01/03/2019 19:41

WHS is ????

Jimjam68 · 01/03/2019 19:28

DD did like Nonsuch but I just can’t countenance two trains and a walk either side.

MeMeMeYou · 01/03/2019 19:19

We did not get Tiffin either but also got Nonsuch. Have accepted but will see if we get a wait list place from tiffin. I’m pretty keen on nonsuch though so even if we did I’m not sure if we’d take it. Although Dd wanted tiffin she seemed over the moon with nonsuch and v excited to imagine life there.

Glad the wait is over!

Geogra · 01/03/2019 19:16

Congratulations Jimjam. Are you not taking Nonsuch? Their grounds look incredible

Jimjam68 · 01/03/2019 19:04

We did not get Tiffin but got Nonsuch, and of course have already accepted WHS. In a way I’m glad she didn’t get it so I don’t have to forever wonder if we did the right thing, DD was momentarily disappointed, but she has quickly got over it.

Geogra · 01/03/2019 18:48

We have Tiffin too but will see if the waiting lists for independents move on Monday.

Geogra · 01/03/2019 18:47

Canada, thanks. That’s an impressive amount of time spent from Y4. We did 1-2 hours a week at that age but certainly covered 2 hrs a day over the Christmas holidays before the exams.

Did your DC so much sport/extra curricular during the week? Where/how did you fit it in? We struggle with other DC and having after school/week end sports 4 days a week.

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FlumePlume · 01/03/2019 18:46

CanadaUK That’s interesting - we did a lot less, but almost the opposite content because dd finds English easy. So we had to focus on speeding up her maths, teaching her the stuff school hadn’t, and on NVR. I think it probably added up to an hour or two a week in Y5 (almost entirely on maths), then NVR in the summer holidays (timings were very random, depended on what we were doing), ramping up in the two weeks before Tiffin exams and stage 1s at the start of Y6 to about 45 minutes on weekdays, with a couple of hours at the weekends. And a little bit of SPGS past paper prep in the New Year (just enough time to do the past papers on their website and talk through them).

Sweet Congrats on the Tiffin offer! We got one, too, but have made the decision already to go with SPGS.

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Greenleave · 01/03/2019 18:44

We have rejected Tiffin straight away.

CanadaUK · 01/03/2019 18:37

Geogra

In Year 4, she did around 4 hours a week, but less during periods when she had project work to do for school and not so much during vacations and not much at all between Yr 4 and Yr 5 (the Summer). Her school homework was very little.

In Year 5, she did the same, but with more work during the Summer holidays between Year 5 and Year 6. She did quite a bit of VR and NVR and in the two weeks before Tiffin Round 1, she did lots of maths and MCQ English under timed conditions. For Tiffin Round 2, we focused on English because 60% of the marks are for that paper and her Maths was in excellent shape.

Over Christmas of Year 6, she worked 2 to 2.5 hours a day and spent the mornings skiing. I made sure she could do all the sample questions for LU and SPGS. For WHS, I knew she would be fine after her strong score on the Wandsworth test. For PHS, I assumed the prior prep for Tiffin and additional prep for SPGS and LU would help. For the Consortium, she did around 1 hour of prep on CEM style questions. She was already pretty good at those so we didn't do more of that. SPGS did not work out, but it helped with the rest.

It's important to be aware of your child's natural inclinations. Our DD picks up Maths very quickly and scores well on VR and NVR. She does not like comprehensions that much and her handwriting could do with
some improvement. I was not able to change her inherent tastes and aptitudes, but I was able to help her get to a reasonable level with Comprehension.

Sweetnhappy1 · 01/03/2019 17:53

Geogra yes I logged in to the eadmissions site just after 5. Good luck!