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JOHN PAUL II RC SCHOOL wimbledon

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 22:38

Am thinking of applying for a job there, does anyone know what it is like.

It would have to fit like a glove for me to give up dd new school and the expense of living in London

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twinsetandpearls · 06/12/2007 02:09

yes there is a plan for it to merge which is still going ahead, it has not been made public how this will happen.

THanks for your honest advice.

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CoffeeCrazedMama · 05/12/2007 23:06

Twinset - it is in a funny bit of Putney near A3 slip road - more Southfields way. Among catholic parents in southwest London it has a less than salubrious challenging reputation - most of the successful RC primaries do not send children there - if they can get a place somewhere better they avoid JP2. I have heard (but this now may be old news, and I haven't read the links posted on this thread as my computer hates following links) that the school was going to be merged with Silesian in Battersea but not sure on what site, or if this plan is proceeding.

Lilymaid · 04/12/2007 11:40

I would imagine that most RC children in the area would choose to go on to Wimbledon College or the Ursuline High which are very well established (originally independent, then grammar, voluntary aided comprehensives since 1970)

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twinsetandpearls · 03/12/2007 00:10

I think it is changing but there is still a way to go. I ahve friends who still teach in London who may be able to give some inside information.

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RosaLuxMundi · 03/12/2007 00:06

We moved away from the area five years ago, but it did not have a good reputation then. May have changed since though.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:58

I am aware of house prices which is a great hurdle for us, we have about £50K of equity in our current place so would need a huge mortgage and think to be honest we could not afford to live in London which is quite shocking as we would have a combined income of 80K+ a year.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:46

the oftsed report is similar to the one my present school has without the effective leadership bit.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:43

NOR. January '07 465 - I don;t know what that means.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:43

cakes on Fridays sounds desperate, since we have really hit the shit at school we give out cakes on Friday.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:42

try again advert here

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:41

It is permanent here from tes jobs.tes.co.uk/job.aspx?jobId=448235

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:40

From what I have read about the school I am surprised they are recruiting, but then again my present school is bankrupt and with a very uncertain future and recruiting. Perhaps it is temporary, I did not see but will check the small print. It is for a head of department which I imagine has to exist so even if the school is threatened the post will need to be filled.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:38

I want to leave my school ( I think) and jobs in my subject with a comparable salary to what am on now are rare.

I know London well although have never lived in that area. I did want to return for many years but the property prices but me off as I think that we would be permanently skint on wages that are considered very good up here. DD also has a place in a private school up here for Sept and if we moved to London clearly she could not go to that school and would have to renter the state system. If there were a job up here I would take it but there are not any and I am not sure how long I could hack it out for at my present school while I hang around for a job that may not ever appear.

Dp thinks I should leave the state sector all together and find myself a job at a nice private school that would not be as demanding, preferably the school that dd will go to so I can get reduced fees, for the first time ever that is approching the realms of possibility.

I would rather stay in the state sector and don't mind a challenge but a challenge that is heading in the right direction, where I am now is on the skids and it is taking up too much of my life and threatening my health.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:14

rather useless website

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QuintessentialShadowOfYuleTide · 02/12/2007 23:10

I live in nearby Putney, my son goes to an RC primary not far away, and I checked that it is not a school my sons school feed into, and Wimbledon is not too far away, so that is not the reason.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 23:06

it is listed as Princes Way sw19

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noddyholder · 02/12/2007 23:03

I lived there too and have never heard of it either.

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twinsetandpearls · 02/12/2007 22:57

was in special measures in 2005

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