St John's Primary School - help needed...

[Louise980]

Hi,

I am hoping to get some feedback from anyone about this primary school.

I am thinking of moving house and when I check on the catchment it seems that the house I would buy falls into the St John's catchment although 2 doors up is Little Ealing Primary and another 10 doors up is Fielding.
I am now a bit concerned as no one seems very positive about St John's so I have two questions really.

1. Does anyone know anything (firsthand) about this primary school - is it really so much worse than all the others in the area
2. What is the chance that I would get my DD into a different primary school (one of the two above) given I am literally seconds out of the preferred catchment (according to the Ealing catchment finder)? My DD is not even 1!!

Any help much appreciated....

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Hi Bez6,
I'm looking at buying in this area and would be interested in getting feedback on St John's primary school in Ealing?
Thanks

Hello mums,
I am looking into schools for my 4 years DS from September 2014. I am in the catchment area both for Montpelier Primary School and ST Gregory Catholic school. I a a practising Catholic and I would be glad to send my son to ST gregory. Nevertheless, I am concern about the vibe in St Gregory: is it too conservative? I am Italian and I attended Catholic schools myself. My experience has not been always positive. Does anyone have any first-hand experience of either schools (in regards to general vibe/children behaviour/way of teaching/ anything that can illuminate me)?. I would be very grateful if you could help me! Especially because I am very new to the area.
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I don't have first hand experience, but have not heard very positive things about St Johns. Without wishing to sound snooty or racist, a large part of the catchment for the school is from the estates along Alexandria road, and many of these children do not start school with English as a first language which can make it difficult to teach at the beginning of primary.

I'm sure if things have changed since I looked at it then someone will come along and correct me...

Hello,
I visited St John's In Nov 13. I was very impressed by Ms Borlase, the head teacher, who has been there a number of years, discipline is very good as is the standard of teaching. The school does have a higher proportion of children with free school meals (compared to neighbouring schools), however this means that it has a healthy budget and can pay to get and keep good staff. There are a number of ex Fielding teachers working there. The published stats results are brought down only because it houses an excellent Speech and Language Therapy Unit and also because it has a higher % of children that join part way through the primary school tenure , often who don't speak English. However this DOES NOT detract from results of those pupils that start at St John's in reception and leave in Year 6. These results are above average. The Head Teacher showed us these. The pupils spoke very highly of the school (the tour included a Q&A with year 6 pupils- very impressive!). Generally the school appeared to be well managed and most importantly the pupils seemed happy and proud of their school. Another excellent advantage is the fact that a new school is about to be built (next to the current school), opening in Sept 2016, so the pupils with undoubtedly benefit from a brand new, hopefully well designed and state of the art school. Place applied and fingers crossed my son will get his place.

This thread is so old that the info won't be helpful to the OP but just in case anyone else is reading....

Little Ealing is oversubscribed within catchment, has been since my kids started there 9 years ago! So if you don't live practically on the doorstep it is hard to get a place. I believe Fielding is going the same way, although I could be wrong.

So don't put too much faith in catchments, always call the school and check!

St John's going from strength to strength. Strongly advise visiting if you are thinking about it. Lovely welcoming school, nice atmosphere. All systems go for the new build opening Sept 16.