Good primary state school / Chislehurst / Bromley / Greenwich

[Mama224]

Does anyone know a good primary school within these areas they would recommend ?

Thanks :)

This is a big part of SE London Mama224 (have you posted before asking about private/state schools in Chislehurst in the past few months? Are you coming to live in London from abroad and have one dd? I just seem to remember a similar request thread that several of us answered some months ago, but can't find it now...)
Anyway, in LB Greenwich, the top performing state schools at present are:

Christ Church on Shooters Hill - Church of England School
St Mary's, Eltham - Catholic School
Wyborne, New Eltham - non-religious state primary
Brooklands, Blackheath - non-religious state primary

You have to live close to these, especially CC and Brooklands, to be sure of getting a place, and you have to be a practising Christian at CC and a practising Catholic at St Mary's.

Can't really recommend anywhere specific in Chislehurst/Bromley but Chislehurst is a lovely place to live, Bromley in general fares well in league tables, so I'd say most of the state schools in that part of Bromley are likely to be good prospects.
But the way the UK state system works is you have to have an address near the school, and be able to prove it is your current residence, in order to apply.

i went to raglan primary which was good in its time. still seems to be v poular and always getting awards and stuff

HTH

I am going to move to Chislehurst permantly. Thank you for the list - I will look closely into them.

should have prob put that raglan is in bromley

Sigh. Oh to live in Bickley again. Schools in that whole area are so much better than our out in the sticks primaries. I wish we'd never moved away.

I live in Bickley. DD goes to Raglan pre-school but we're not entirely sure she'll get into the Primary although we're only 8mins walk away because it's so over-subscribed.
Scotts Park (Orchard Road, closer to Bromley) is very good. I went to Southborough which is truly in Bickley (dd likely to go there or the new Bickley Primary) which is good but not rated so highly as Raglan. Bickley Primary is one form entry and popular.
On balance, all the primary schools in the area are rated pretty highly which is one of the advantages of Bromley education - bad schools are pretty rare. Would avoid Princes Plain school, ut not sure why - just hear bad things.
Chislehurst - apparently St. Nicholas is very good (CofE - friend taught there). And then for secondary, Coopers and BullersWood get quite good press).

Where did you move to, SwedishMum?
We've actually recently bought my childhood home from my mother so I'm back where I started. MOved out of the Scotts Park catchment which is annoying, particularly if Raglan super-subscribed in April 2007 when dd should be going. DS second on list for pre-school/nursery in September 2008 and we put his name down when he was 2 months old

Dd who is now 12 spent her first term at Bickley Primary when it first opened - there were only about 13 children in the whole school!
We moved down to SE Kent - admittedly I like dd2's school, but so many village schools are mixed year groups in each class which I'm really not keen on.

You must have been very near where I lived before then - used to live just off Widmore Road. Wonder if I bumped into you in the park near Tylney Road. Distinctly recall chatting to a Swedish mum but think that she had younger children. It's a small world on the internet.