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This is the pushy parent Tiffin tutor thread.

469 replies

uwila · 22/01/2007 13:28

Okay, so wh ohas used a Tiffin tutor? Did it get your kid(s) into Tiffin? How old were they when they strted tutoring?

Okay, so my DD is only 3 1/2 but I like to plan ahead/. I've heard you can sign up for tutors that increase your chances of getting into Tiffin (boys and girls schools).

Any experience/opinions welcome.

Thanks.

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KittyCorncrake · 20/10/2009 08:15

just looked on 192.com, and both B & M are listed - you could also ask in the hairdressers on Tudor Drive.

newmaldenmum1 · 20/10/2009 12:39

Hello Cybil Ceremony - I live in New Malden with my children at state Primary school in the borough - does that count as Kingston ?
Many thanks

newmaldenmum1 · 20/10/2009 14:32

Hello again
Thanks have contacted Mrs W who is full for year 5 children - back to plan B!!

MsDav · 22/10/2009 16:23

am happy to pass on the details of our tutor Newmaldenmum if you PM me

naz2 · 14/11/2009 23:12

Hi we are local to New Malden/Wimbledon and would really appreciate anyone who can recommend a good Tiffin Girls tutor.

If by the smallest of chance anyone is willing to pass on the details of the two Mrs W's even better, but would I even be able to afford them and can they really make such a huge difference to any child ? Surely they are just myth and legend ?

PersevereMum · 25/11/2009 14:22

Hi, I am looking for tuition for my daughter, yr 5. Would appreciate your passing details of Ws or any other successful tutor/ing.
Has anyone heard of the Oxbridge centre in New Malden? Any good?

AtheneNoctua · 25/11/2009 14:27

Out of curiosity, why will you only give out the names and numbers to people who live in Kingston?

deaddei · 25/11/2009 19:13

Probably called humour Athene
Or perhaps Cybil wants to encourage Kingston children to go, rather than the rest of the bloody South (good on you Cybill!)

CybilLiberty · 25/11/2009 19:22

Yes I do believe it should be a Kingston Only school. Most folk here do!

deaddei · 25/11/2009 21:20

Oh wouldn't that be wonderful- we can dream!

MsDav · 26/11/2009 13:44

Tiffin's refusal to entertain any form of catchment area has now forced many of the other Grammar schools to do the same. Sutton Boys has also done away with catchment now, is it simply down to league table placings that they do this? When you have children coming from Ascot and beyond every day surely the schools must see that it has gone too far?

MrsGuyofGisbourne · 26/11/2009 15:16

Totally crazy. I have a friend in Kingston, with parents in Devon near Colyton Grammar. So the boy is trying both the Tiffin. and also Colyton Grammar, giveing g'parents address, will live with g'parents in term itime if he gets in there, and does not get into Tiffin....
Wonder if there a Devon boy doing the same thing in reverse???

MsDav · 26/11/2009 17:08

That's a bit naughty isn't it, never mind the poor son going away to live in Devon (No offense to Devon) I don't think that seems fair on many levels.The non selectives are improving, Grey Court in particular has done very well recently and is definitely on the up.

deaddei · 26/11/2009 19:18

It is, to be brutally honest, a load of bollocks.

AtheneNoctua · 27/11/2009 09:18

Maybe they should bring back more grammar schools since they seem to be so popular. I think catchments are discriminatory, personally. If you can afford to live in our posh town, then your children should be kept down by a lesser education.

I think all schools should do away with catchment areas. Good schools for rich kids and bad schools for poor kids is hardly my idea of equal opportunity.

AtheneNoctua · 27/11/2009 09:19

CORRECTION:

If you can't afford to live in our posh town, then your children should be kept down by a lesser education.

MsDav · 09/12/2009 16:22

So, how did everyone's DCs find the test yesterday?

kizzie · 09/12/2009 17:25

difficult

CybilLiberty · 09/12/2009 17:26

Athene, LOTS of our town is not posh.

deaddei · 09/12/2009 20:03

MsDav- thank goodness it's all over! Dh took ds and came back shellshocked after seeing all the people! Dc said "it was ok" which could mean anything. Do not care- glad to put all practice papers out in the recyclying today.

domesticextremist · 09/12/2009 20:06

So does this mean that all the Kingston people [Cybil?] wont be trying for Sutton/Wallington/Wilsons/Nonsuch then?

The catchment areas have gone because of the Greenwich ruling grr.

CybilLiberty · 10/12/2009 07:32

dom dd DID do the Nonsuch exam (many moons ago) but their intake rules are different and local girls DO get priority so dd would have had to be GENUS to get in there, and she isn't!.

MsDav · 10/12/2009 08:49

Domesticextremist, DS tried for Sutton too ;)

He thought the VR paper not too bad but the VR was "pretty evil" but still thought he'd done OK. God knows but even he will have to wait until March

deaddei · 10/12/2009 13:40

Did anyone's dcs have to go back to their primary schools for the afternoon? I heard one headteacher went and put the fear of god into one yr 6 class the day before, about truancy and unauthorised absence....

kizzie · 10/12/2009 15:57

all children who did the exam from ds school went back in the afternoon. it was made very clear that head expected to see them (state primary)

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