So sorry this is long, but I'm desperate!! DD1 is currently in Y2 in a small London private school (has been since she was 2.5) and loves her school(DD2 is in pre-school). But now like so many other families we have less income than a couple of years ago and our landlord is selling our home. Before we knew we had to move we got places for the girls in a New Model School(lovely, cheaper private) near where we are now. However, now after exhausting house hunting we are looking to move to South Woodford and realised that the state schools there are better than where we are now (please don't get offended about anything, DP and I are just so bad at this school thing as we were not educated in the UK)
We obviously would have the option of commuting the girls from South Woodford to the new, little private school here, but that would mean 8 miles one way(4 times a day for me) and I thought maybe DDs would do well in a state school which would be 0.2 miles from home! But because all the good state schools in South Woodford are oversubscribed for the Y3 in next September we will have to make an in year transfer for DD1 n-o-w. So here comes our biggest, urgent dilemma: DD1 is academically quite advanced (because she has been in a school that demands a lot from the children and us mums as well, 1h of homework a day...) and loves reading, writing and languages(she has three home languages and is learning two additional compulsory ones at school). When looking at the specific school's performance how can we know what -if any-effort the state school puts in academically advanced children? Reading Ofstead reports doesn't help, outstanding schools are often -and rightly so- schools that have managed to help children from disadvantage backgrounds to reach national average or just above. I would be so happy for any insight or advice, thank you!!
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From private to state school, urgent, please help ladies!!!
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finnmum · 08/02/2012 11:19
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