Independent schools in surrey

[neeti1]

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me please as I am kind of getting frustrated visiting schools and not arriving at any conclusions for my 3 year old son. We want to put my DS in an independent schools, we live in Ewell/Epsom and have looked at many schools including Shrewsbury Lodge, Claremont in Esher. I kind of liked St. Christopher school in Epsom but wanted to know if any of you have any experiences with the school. My son who just turned 3 does go to a day nursery and has been going for last 2 years but his interests are so different from other kids, his imagination power is entirely to other kids so when it comes to reasoning and answering his questions or even commenting, the nursery teachers kind of avoid it and then he feels stuck and ends up being upset and frustrated. He does quite a lot of rhyming and poetry and the nursery teachers feel he is not interested in what they want him to do and it offends them. e.g one of the teachers asked him '' Can we make a move please'' and he replied ''No No can we make a star please'' . On another occasion his teacher asked him 6 months ago '' Do you have a stomach-ache as he was holding his tummy'' so he replied ''No, I have a cupcake'' I hope you understand that what I am trying to say is he thinks very differently and he never has a straight forward answer but that's his natural self but the teachers feel he is mocking at them, gosh!!! so you can imagine its a struggle to have a normal conversation with him and the teachers so I want that kind of school which will not discourage or feel bad for anything he asks which is so genuine to him and let his creativity flow in terms of rhyming and poetry. I really dont want him to get stuck at any stage in his life so I need a school where he could be nurtured and where his imagination or whatever you call it a strength for him rather put him down. Any comments would be really appreciated as you can see I am struggling a lot

By the way its the same with his maths also

My son went to St Christophers about 10 years ago.
Nice school, very nurturing environment. Not brilliant academically - going on to City of London Freemans seems to be their 'prize' destination.
But DS 1 enjoyed it there. The parents are a nice enough bunch too.

I am not sure about the examples of 'imagination' you cite. He seems to just answer oddly. Perhaps the teachers are just puzzled rather than trying to thwart his imagination.

Did you talk to the teachers at st christophers?

why did you withdraw your post Dozer?

Thanks Pagwatch, I did try to speak to the head teacher and by far she is the loveliest head teacher i have met so far and tahnks for your input. Greatly appreciated!. I dont want something great academically but I am keen on nurturing and thwarting his imagination.

How is his hearing? The second example sounds like my ds when his glue ear is playing up. Particularly if by poetry you mean that he answers as though you said a rhyming word (eg "is that a boat?" "No it's not a goat.") If his hearing is poor he may be compensating well enough for you not to realised. I only realised last year how good ds's lip reading was.

The first one (assuming you meant "moon" instead of "move") sounds like a fairly standard answer for a child. But it doesn't mean that if they are decorating moons (or whatever) they should imediately change it because he asks to do something different.

And what on earth do you mean by "nurturing and thwarting" his imagination?