If you were lucky enough to have the choice of Alleyn's Junior school or JAPS

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for your 4 yo dd, which would you choose?
It's a lovely position to be in, but we need to decide by next Friday, and can see pros and cons to both.

I'd get some money off the fees at Alleyn's, and it is next to where I work. But I know girls tend to do better in single sex, and Alleyn's doesn't always push the really able particularly hard.

Japs has a lovely grassy garden and fluffy bunnies for the tinies

but then a move of site after a couple of years, and, I think, more tests at 7+ to get into the middle school bit. It also has a reputation for being very academic or a bit hothousing and producing neurotic, anorexic types (say lots of kids I've talked to). I don't know what to think.

PS hasty name change to protect the innocent.

I only have experience of JAPPS but can't recommend it highly enough. We've had to work hard to send our DD here but it's been worth every penny. The excellent teachers, French immersion and incredible dramatic productions are but a small part of it. They teach kids to be kind to one another, and let's face it, the world needs more kindness.