Alleyn's Oakfield or Thomas's Clapham??

[Ichangedmynameobviously]

My DS now happy settled in Reception at Thomas's Clapham had an offer from Alleyn's Oakfield for an assured place into Alleyn's senior at Y7 . Oakfield is a recently acquired prep school by Alleyn's (Dulwich) ,a sister school as it states to Alleyn's Junior. He is happy at Thomas's and we concider it a fantastic school with excellent facilities. Alleyn's Oakfield will undergone a huge refurbishment the next couple of years and realistically it might need some time to completely match Alleyn's junior academic standards. It seems that Thomas's is a more stable option right now but ithe all through offer is hard to ignore, he might not be that lucky at 11+. We live in Peckham so commuting would be the roughly the same. Opinions?

Alleyns Oakfield just failed their ISI inspection, https://www.oakfield.dulwich.sch.uk/userfiles/edtoakfieldmvc/Alleyns%20Oakfield%202025%20ISI%20Inspection%20Report.pdf I would def stay put!!!

Interesting. The Inspection (November 25)picks on leadership and management, the standarts were not met apparently. As early as December the Head..lost her head. She "stepped down"... I think Alleyn's has the best of intentions to give it a good go and make it a true sibling school but there still are loads of challenges to tackle. We will get caught up in the transition period...