Twickenham Secondary

yes, I mentioned it in my last post

@RedFluffyPanda remember the OP will be applying to Year 8, not using the coordinated admissions scheme for a Year 7 place, so she can apply to, and join waiting lists for, as many schools as she likes. Therefore, there is no risk for her in applying for multiple boroughs.

(As an aside, for the year 7 coordinated scheme, it will always be the "home" borough that allocates a school if none of the preferences can be satisfied). If there is no home borough (e.g. an application from abroad) all bets are off.

The only thing is that it is very risky. I know two people who have done it. Applied to Richmond schools while living in Hounslow They have not received any of the 6 choices but each of them got a completely different school in Hounslow Borough. They both are very unhappy with the situation

That only works if you are really within the catchment/ past distance of the school in the other borough. And always it is important to include relatively safe local option.
They wanted to be clever and thought that if they select 6 oversubscribed good schools from the next door borough they will get one of them. But the priority always goes to those within catchment or closest distance

"Can someone apply in multiple municipalities at the same time? Let’s say one lives in Richmond and applies for schools in Richmond and Putney or in Richmond and Kingston etc?"

@Slubulino yes they can (btw in London they're called "boroughs" or "local authority areas", rather than municipalities).

If you read the policy, you'll see that there is a process for being added to the waiting list for a place, which takes time. Whenever a place comes up, all the applicants on the waiting list are invited to sit a test. Test results are ranked according to clause 11.5 in the admissions policy.

The place doesn't stay vacant until somebody phones up.

@Rainydayinlondon

When some kid miraculously ( rare case) leaves grammar school there is a waiting list of drooling parents whose kids almost got in. And they are happy to join at any time.

Similarly with good state secondary schools. Those who didn't get in jump in June into the in year admission waiting list and are happy to be transferred from the school the got to the great secondary state school.

The immediate places may ( or may not) be available only on less popular schools

But people leave the area etc. I still think it's worth asking if places are available. Nothing ventured ...

"If you write to the grammar schools they will be able to tell you if there are spaces for year 8 and whether there’s an entrance exam."

No, that's not the right advice. This is the process for in-year admission to Tiffin School (and there will be equivalent instructions for other grammar schools): https://www.tiffinschool.co.uk/admissions/in-year-admissions/

If you write to the grammar schools they will be able to tell you if there are spaces for year 8 and whether there’s an entrance exam. The grammar school will be free of charge.
The 13 plus schools will be private but he could get à scholarship which might mean money off the fees.

My niece and nephew
Go twinckenham and they are doing pretty well...

Nephew has adhd and he's not been in trouble atal and gets the support needed!

Niece is very shy but again is doing well..

Thank you. Definitely useful to look at the schools. For Turing and St Paul's results are similar there- people are happy. Which makes it an awully difficul choice 🙈😵‍💫😃

Ofsted Parent View has some stats on parental perception of bullying. It's the survey that parents are invited to complete as part of an Ofsted inspection, and some schools encourage parents to fill it in every school year (because the data refreshes each year): https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/parent-view-results

Can't comment on bullying, but have heard St. Paul's is very strict. Which can be both good and bad.

We are catholic family. We are not desperate to be in catholic school neither it bothers us. Do you know anything more about the schools? Is there a lot of bullying?

Yes, both good schools. Although St. Paul's also has the religious aspect as well. Good luck to you 🤞

Our first choice was Turing and second was St Paul's Catholic Sunbury. The offers were 2293m from Turing Nodal Point in Teddington. We live only 100 meters further. It is likely that we will get offer in April as a result of waiting list.
Both schools are great, have very similar results 🤦🏼‍♀️🤯🙄🙈. It will be tough choice!

Of all the schools I have knowledge of in Richmond I would say Twickenham is the last place I would want to send my child. I second the Swedish School if you can't get into a decent state school.

Which school did you get offered? Was it your second choice and Turing is 1st?

Many kids will still move as the waiting list moves.
But thank you very much for this link. I can see now that we will get Turing offer on the April 2 as we are only 100m away from yesterday's offer. I am not sure if I am happy about it or not because we got our second choice offer from a school with equally good results as Turing 🤦🏼‍♀️. We will struggle to decide what to do 🤯.

If he is bright, Have you considered the Kingston grammar schools?

Something else worth posting - for the first time in living memory, Twickenham School has a waiting list for 2024. See yesterday's offer day stats here: https://5f2fe3253cd1dfa0d089-bf8b2cdb6a1dc2999fecbc372702016c.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/uploads/ckeditor/attachments/15285/LBRNotestoparents_following_secondary_2024_allocation.pdf

This is good news for them. As mentioned above, being full in Year 7 is the best way to ensure a stable cohort. Their future results will inevitably improve because of this.

It does say all preferences were met, which means some of the offers were allocations rather than preference-based, but nevertheless it's a positive sign.

It's not an "arrangement". It's in the Esher College admissions policy.