SW London grammar and private year 7 entry 2024 - Continued

That is great !! Hoping for Dulwich College WL to move as well🤞🏻

Sorry to clarify at Emanuel places are being offered.

Any intel from offer holders’ days would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏻, I have a DD on three waitlists - PHS, FHSS, WHS. We will not get a chance to visit if DD gets an offer.

Did anyone attend the FHSS offer holders morning today? We are still on the WL and keeping 🤞but I’m curious to know if anything in particular was shared that’s good to know? Especially around offers made or places available etc. And was it busy?! 🥴

@Clairesm thank you!

I think the new sixth form building will be bigger - that’s where they plan to add more numbers!

He said they didn’t over offer so depending on who accepts they may or may not add one more class. The upside is that a fair amount of space is being created in the school for the incoming pupils to benefit from.

There’s a temporarily solution from Sept (v local ) and a permanent one (he wasn’t able to confirm this location yet but said still local) will be complete in 5 years.. both planning permissions granted so the announcement was hot off the press.
The increase in numbers of children they can hold will increase and the amount of building work (which they can offset against VAT) he said will reduce any fee increase impact to parents.

@Clairesm that's very interesting about the Sixth Form at KGS. Do you know where it will move to?

great to hear the positive feedback from those who attended KGS mornings so far. looking forward to ours next week

@ncsurrey22 does this mean that they might have 140-150 children in total instead of 120?

My DD is in a girls prep and has her place secured for the secondary however it's a bigger school than KGS. One of the reasons of moving my DD to KGS was the smaller size of the school and also the potential to participate/grow in more areas.

Also just got back from KGS offer holders morning, DD loved her taster lesson and we really liked the staff and children, feels like a very kind, friendly, inclusive place yet full of clever kids with a good sense of humour. We were going to accept KGS anyway but it’s still great to have such a nice experience before submitting the acceptance.

it sounds like they might add an extra class this year (depending on acceptances - not decided yet) which might lots of ppl on the waiting list.

Also went to the KGS offer morning. Very impressive indeed. Really loved the head and general feel of the school. Interesting news that they are relocating the sixth form to make more space in the current building. The Head said this should reduce the requirement for any significant uplift in fees due to potential VAT..

@allaboutmychildren we have just been to the offer holder morning @ KGS and we absolutely loved it !! It was very well organised with lots of useful infos , lovely children and staff, very impressed.we have not done a tour previously so was a first time for us.
our DS really enjoyed the taster lesson too. We even went (privately) to have a tour of the fields and boat house after and loved it too.
still on WL for Dulwich but if Dulwich don’t move and nothing we want for state school then it will be KGS for sure.

mmhophey I’ve actually just asked them for a clubs timetable so will let you know if I see gymnastics and girls’ football on it. Drama is huge at Emanuel, I believe.

Gosh is it really.

Mr Milne said at the offer holder day that they had made fewer offers than ever before - so guess as some people here predicted, they have been very cautious with their offers (after unexpected over acceptances/bulges in previous years) and the flip side of that is going to WL quite early.

Paradise most schools do an offer holder event but not all. Some do activities, some just a tour and chat to staff. If you get a place from the waiting list rather than first round, then you don’t always get a chance to look round as you’ll likely have missed the offer holder day and there can be a tight deadline to accept on places from WL.

Also lurking this year. Now looking into which schools to apply to. Regarding Emanuel, I got the impression from the open day that they aren't very good with sport for girls. My DD loves gymnastics and football and they don't offer that currently. Would anyone know if they offer any clubs for girls in those sports? (For fun) Also, how big is their drama provision? DD's second passion.

Wow that's early! Good luck all on WL!

Sounds like schools all making efforts with offer holder events! I'm a lurker this year and next year DS will be sitting. Love all the info on this thread - so helpful.

Do all schools do offer events, and are they all the same sort of thing? Not sure what to expect if we are lucky next year!

I would definitely want to look round again if I'd been offered, do DC's get to do activities or are they just tours and talks? Not sure if it would make decisions harder or easier, but at least chance for questions must be helpful!

Good luck to all making choices and on waitlist! Hope you keep this thread open to keep us all updated in September!

Have you been offered a place?

Emanuel waiting list is moving already!

hi there, yes we did yesterday . I have another friend also that is going next week , and i do nto think makes any difference since you have the offer so there is nothing to worry. I have to say when i went on the open date school looked so small with so many potential kids and parents around, but yesterday felt so nice and not small since there were there less kids. Lots of light also around

@Ian85 did you attend the KGS offer holders this week? we were sent invite for 27th Feb. not sure why it's so late

@minipie Alleyns is definitely the harder of the two to get into, and seen as the better school academically. Great choice to have though as both great schools

is anyone aware how the Latymer Upper waiting list is moving? do they ever go beyond their waiting list?

KGS also had an impressive offer holders date where they gave a red brochure with every kids name typed at the front of the broschure

@Iiffyas - don’t forget that Ibstock had to go beyond its waiting list last year to fill its yr 7 places, so maybe that’s why they’ve put so much effort into the offer holders day. Putney don’t need to and only took a small handful from their waiting list last year. That should tell you something.
They’re also quite different schools. PM me if you have any questions about Putney High as I have a DD there.

Tough one @minipie and you can’t go wrong with either. Have you looked at gcse options and sports? Anything to differentiate it? Sports onsite versus not?
Maybe do the coin toss test and see which result disappoints you if you see what I mean?