Habs school for Girls

[youlookalotlikeme]

Hi,

Does anyone have a view on this school - positive or negative?

Considering for my DD (yes, yes, PFB before anyone asks). Have tried asking in Education, but not getting any replies.

TIA

Xenia, just out of interest, why did your two DDs (or two of your DDs, not sure if you have more than 2) go to different schools e.g. NLCS and Habs? My two DDs are at an academically selective school that people could (and do) make the same sorts of comments about. I am pretty sure it is the right school for both of them, and that they will both transfer to the senior school, but how did you/your family decide it was the right thing to do to have two sisters at different schools? Are Habs and NLCS quite different? I always thought they were pretty similar, but realise now I don't know an awful lot about them.

xenia you probably didn't notice , but trust me there is a cull in every year. And of course people may have given other reasons in public.

There is a cull at 11 and again after GCSE. But ditto for STAHS. An dindeed most state schools cull before A level.

Herats, I am laughing now but it was a bit silly. Child 2 didn't get in at 4 to Habs but got into NLCS. They are almost identical in so many ways, A level results, types of schools, hobbies, everything. They both had a go at the other's school at 11 and didn't get in then either. In fact they haven't minded at all and both schools had a coach from the same place to the schools every day but it would have been simpler had they gone to the same school. The girls say it meant neither was in the shadow of the other. The NLCS pupils were a bit more North London based, Hampstead and some of the Habs friends were more country, out in Herts but other than that not really much in it at all. Both were lovely schools. NLCS gets slightly better exam results but not enough to really make too much difference. NLCS does the IB and A levels - you choose. Habs I think does A levels.

Cull suggests a huge lot of people are removed like badgers infected with TB. If someone got in because of tutoring and has turned out to be as thick as a plank and is unhappy or if they hvae decided to do no work and nothing is working then I would imagine their parents would not want them there, nor the school nor the child but I genuinely did not see much of that at all, just basically the whole cohort at 18 going off to good universities and now doing pretty well int heir 20s. They choose well. The girls are bright so you don't really need to cull. If you choose badly or let in all comers as there are not enough girls per place then yes you might want to cull later I suppose.

If a school can?t get the best out of a hand selected child it doesn?t say much for the teaching standards. I have also heard that there are a good number of children that are not allowed to take the GCSEs they want instead the school insist they do the ones they deem better.

well I went to NLCS and there was supposed to be a 'cull' at 11 but nobody was asked to leave, had us all going for a while tho'.

The people that know and went to or our child went to the schools are saying this talk of culls is rubbish so they are the ones to listen to. I don't remember culling at NLCS either. My daughter did mention seeing someone who had been in her class this week at a gym who I think had left but I can't remember why now. May be she had been having problems but it is pretty rare. The schools commit to the pupils and most of the pupils do very well.

Most chidlren cannot get into these schools which is not surprisnig as they are like the old grammar school IQ level of 120+ and average IQ is 100 and plenty are under that.

There are the right schools for all kinds of children but for a fairly bright girl most do get a lot out of Habs and NLCS. Obviously in all schools you get some children not happy of course. They would have to be robots emerging from a cult if they uniformly said school was brilliant.

Wordfactory how do you know so much about so-called culls at Hab?. I do know that only one girl in my dd's class left at 11. She had more or less the same set of classmates from 5 to 18. In that respect my experience of Habs is the same as Xenia's.

I did see a couple of mothers from NLCS on a TV show "Jewish mother of the year" one Mother made her DD wear her uniform for the entire duration of the show. The Mother (Emma) stood on a table and screeched at the top of her voice for the children at the party to shut up and then proceed to throw, that?s right THROW the going home gifts at the children.

who was the other one who's daughter went there? I thought the rest of them were pretty religious and Emma was the more liberal one. Was it someone that went out at the beginning. What are the fees 25 grand? and she had three daughters!!

I do not see what one batty attention seeking mother has to do with it really.....there are obviously a lot of Jewish girls at both of those schools, given the demographic and the ethos of the schools...what are you trying to say?

and I am quite sure the fees are not '25 grand'

Oh has this thread degenerated into a 'lets all have a go at NLCS' bunfight?

Lighthouse the fees certainly are not £25 grand. This is a highly selective DAY school.

I hate the inverted snobbery displayed in dinkybinky and lighthousekeepers last posts.

Thanks Xenia. The day I found out DD2 got into the school was one of the happiest of my life to be honest. I am not sure I could have quite coped with two school diaries, two sets of Harvest Festivals, Christmas Fairs, etc etc and they are only still in prep school

The one who had a bad lisp not sure of her name.

Xenia you keep mentioning that most children cant get in to Habs or NLCS and you are correct, but there are a lot of parents who want a more nurturing and rounded education for their children. My DD has an IQ of 145 she is exceptionally bright as are my 3 boys but Habs is not the right school for us as a family, so please don?t assume that we are getting a lesser education just because our school is not 30th in the FT league tables.

snobbery? you must be blinking joking. I dont care where anyone sends their child to school!! Jewish Mother of the year was my guilty pleasure and, that is all.

We sent our dd to Habs because we thought it was a lovely school and it suited our dd perfectly. She has had a shining academic career and would have done just as well in any school, private or state, because she is naturally very bright, has always worked very hard and is hghly motivated to do well. Like most Habs girls she is also very modest about her achievements as she was surrounded by peers who were just as bright as herself.

I hate the inverted snobbery displayed in dinkybinky and lighthousekeepers last posts.

Snobbery??? I mentioned one of the Mothers from NLCS was on the TV, how is that being a snob?

Dinky you are being disingenuous.

"If a school can?t get the best out of a hand selected child it doesn?t say much for the teaching standards."

You can take a horse to water, but not make it drink.

If a child chooses not to work then no amount of good teaching, cohersion, money is going to make that child achieve. If a child wont put in the work then frankly there is little point in them being in such an enviromnent. I doult that the children are "thick" and prehaps the problem is laziness.

There are a small number of children in the roughest of state schools who achieve as well as those in the best private schools. Personally I feel relieved that grit and determination makes a greater difference in life than private education.

However that is another thread.

dinky we must keep our love of trash tv on the telly threads

It was rather trashy wasnt it

full of trashy Jewesses just like NLCS dinky? I see.

Why are you getting defensive?.. you?re not Emma are you?

why do you think?
and no I am not emma whoever she is.

I actually meant their behaviour was trashy as was the show but NOT the religion, you said that!