Nottingham Primary Schools - Nottingham people

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Can anyone recommend the best primary schools in Nottingham please?

Not looking for out of Nottingham.

Thank you.

Are you moving to the area?
There ate lots of great village schools if you’re open to living a little out of the centre. To name a few-

Bunny
Tollerton
Kinoulton
Lambley

The West Bridgford schools are well regarded but bigger with tighter catchments

Potentially Beeston or Wollaton.

Do you mean Nottingham City schools or Nottinghamshire County schools?

A mate of DS's is from Bunny and he does not recommend it, fwiw.

Beeston is lovely but is in Nottinghamshire not Nottingham city. Are you looking there or in the city itself OP?

We are looking to move to either Beeston or Wollaton.

Are you familiar with the areas and the primary school here @clary? ☺️

Friends of mine have DC at Beeston schools - Alderman Pounder and Eskdale - and are happy with them. But I am sure others are good too.

For secondary I know a few DC who have gone or go to Alderman White and again, all seem happy with them. Beeston is a nice area with a lovely town centre - great library, nice shops and a real community spirit. It's also on the tram into Nottingham which is a bonus.

Do you know anything about Wollaton at all?

Sorry nothing very helpful. Former colleague lived there and moved away bc she wasn't keen on the primary her DC would end up at. But there may well be others that are nicer. You need to check out catchments.

Thank you for your help.

Fernwood school in Wollaton is very good.

A friend has just messaged me about this one. Do you have any personal experience with it? She's says it's a good school but very large?

It is very large, both my children went there (both adults now so may help to find families with kids there at the moment). It's highly sought after and you need to be in the catchment area. I liked it because children stay on same campus from early learning right through juniors and comp so kept same friendship groups. Middleton primary also has a good reputation but not sure which their feeder schools are for Comp.

Your spoiled for choice on great schools in Nottinghamshire, lots of wonderful dedicated teaching staff- Wollaston and Beeston are large towns rather than villages, but have. Great schools. If your looking for village life East leake, Gotham, Normanton , Costock, Sutton Bonnington and dare I say it after the comment on Bunny , Bunny too . They are all schools with a family ethos , and know all their children, meeting individual needs - with a supportive LEA . Have a shop around both housing and schools. South Nottinghamshire has a lot to offer

haha re Bunny - dS's mate is not keen bc it is a tiny tiny village so he is not a fan and his local secondary was far from great fwiw. It deffo wouldn't be my choice tbh.

Ok , shame as all those schools mentioned are great . As I said earlier just have a look and see what feels right for your family , it may differ from your friends

sorry @Mopscharlotte I'm not the op!

The op did say they were just looking at Wollaton and Beeston tho. I was just clarifying my view on Bunny

Apologies just getting my head around mums net and not great with the lingo , of cause your entitled to your opinion- however stand by mine think all the schools mentioned / areas are really enriching . I’m not saying people don’t have individual bad experiences , and that’s your privacy and opinion .But by a rule of thumb most parents and more importantly children thrive and enjoy the cultural capital they are afforded in these schools

Neither Beeston nor Wollaton are towns. They are suburbs of Nottingham.

As areas wollaton would probably be regarded as a bit better than beeston. They’re very close to one another.

I'm currently looking at Fernwood & Middleton.

If you are looking for an in-year transfer, forget Fernwood - it's full to bursting!

You need to bear in mind that people move to bridgford and wollaton specifically for the schools.

houses therefore have a significant premium and there’s still no guarantee you’ll get in.

In Beeston Round Hlll is lovely, and feeds into Alderman White which has an increasingly good reputation. The Lanes is also popular. If you're more interested in Wollaton, Middleton and Fernwood also have good reputations but as you say Fernwood is massive. I've probably heard better things about Middleton. Wollaton is also a very sprawling suburb due to the (lovely) park so the different parts you could live in may have quite a different feel - some are a long way from anything, some a bit more convenient. Beeston is much better if you want facilities, shoos, cafés etc, and is on the tram into town and the main railway line to London, whereas Wollaton has a larger stock nicer houses with bigger gardens. Both suburbs have a fair number of University staff/postgrads living there so also have reasonably multi-cultural schools. There will also be some movement in and out of them (although not enough to be disruptive) so I'd think you would be in with a good chance of in year transfer. It's not like West Bridgford where the schools are hideously oversubscribed.