Meadowhead School Sheffield

I know a few people that are happy with Forge Valley school (Stannington area of Sheffield). Their teens seem happy there. One of them is on the wait list for All Saints but has been on it a while.

I went to Meadowhead left in the 2000s. It must have deteriorated rapidly. I don't recognise any of the issues being discussed.

I taught at one of those schools. There was movement in y8.

Peiple get divorced, go abroad, we used to have a few visiting university lecturers who’d go back to China and take their kids with them. I’m not sure that happens as much now though.

I think it’s appalling you can’t get a place. Go to appeal straight away.

Op people often home educate until a space in a decent school comes up.

If you want to pm me about any of this, please do, also others who work in the schools mentioned. However, I think you've summed up the situation quite well.

Yep, Russ Sharrock years. 1979 in this case.

@IdaGlossop

I remember that production. Cant remember what year l was in though.

Was it in the Sharrock years?

Any idea why? Management?

Mediwhead had a huge exodus of staff a few years ago, Loads came to us. It was not a happy school.

It was, then shifted to join the boys when comprehensives came in, I think.

I’m in my 30s and have friends who went to Meadowhead in the 2000s. Absolutely fine.
I now work for one of the schools that’s been mentioned a few times on this thread and there is no way in hell I would send my DC to Meadowhead. I’m talking about now. Not 10 years ago.

It has not got better A level results better than those listed on here.
Some of us work in these schools so have to analyse the data every year.
The best A level results are Tapton, Silverdale, High Storrs and Notre Dame.

There's quite a lot of outdated opinion on this thread. Meadowhead is rated "good" by Ofsted, has achieved A-level results better than all the schools listed as being more desirable and sends students to study at Oxbridge/medical school etc every year. It's enormous and has a very diverse catchment area which means there are difficult students but you can find these anywhere (except Mercia!). Teachers at the school send their own children there and students have an enormous range of opportunities. Don't write it off based on people's opinions from ten years ago!

Year 8 is critically over subscribed across the city as is current Y7. However, there is usually movement in the new Year 7 cohort in September and appeals are currently underway for this year group.
As your DC will be out of school due to the move, you may well get a place via the Fair Access process. This is where a panel places students in over subscribed schools. It's unlikely a school would fight this - although Mercia might🤣

Newfield has significantly improved in recent years- i would happily send my DC there. And it's never been called Newfield Green- this is an area in Sheffield near Gleadless Valley.

We have many friends and a close relative who went to Meadowhead and all been fine. It's a big comp near a large council estate but also a quite affluent intake from Greenhill/Bradway etc.
You may well get into Fanshawe if you are in catchment - they are an LA Derbyshire school so I am unsure about the appeals process in that LA.
Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.

Certainly fun. One of the very best kisses of my life took place behind the stage curtains at lower school in the interval of the school play, me still in my 'Oh what a lovely war' costume. One of my A level teachers (a woman so not ex-boys grammar) was quite agitated that I was friendly with this year 5 boy when she saw us chatting in the corridor at upper school as he was one of the disrupters banished to Melbourne Annex while I was a sixth former bound for university. Another younger male friend (no kiss with this one BTW!) was told 'You'll never amount to anything, (surname), because you're black.' Brutal. He's a financial adviser. So much for comprehensivisation.

Ha ha. I was there then too.

It was crazy. Either incredibly studious or incredibly wild.

I started off incredibly studious….. and then … well drifted over to the dark side for a while😁it was fun though!

Yes, it is.

It was Abbydale Girls before that!

Oh I didn’t know that, thank you! Is the old Abbeydale Grange site where the new houses are?

It's not a direct replacement for Abbeydale Grange but was built as a free school on a nearby site (Bannerdale) that belonged to the LEA in response to increased pupil numbers in the south west of the city.

Abbeydale Grange.

It is odd and was odd when I was a pupil there in the 1970s. I see pupils outside the upper school when I pass and am struck by how untidy and unruly they always look. DD has friends who left a few years ago, both for Oxford, and the mix of disruptive and academic feels very similar to my experience as a pupil.