STATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN WESTMINSTER

[OsmiumPhazer]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has opinions on their favoured schools in this borough please? I am looking ahead for my DS who is due to start reception in Sept 2015

Millbank! It's wonderful. We were lucky enough to get a place there, but now moving out of London. But do go and look around.

Westminster in London ? Many schools are faith schools, so this may impact your decision.
I have children in St Vincent's RC : great school, great staff and very good families overall. Hampden Gurney (CoE) is the best school around and a leading lOndon school - very very strict admissions criteria, and I have been told that this is a very demanding school, but on the flip side, it is on par with independent schools. Around us there is also St George Hanover (good, not great), St Mary's Bryanston (mixed feedback) - both are CoE, but less strict on their admissions criteria.
check out the area profile on www.londonschoolmaze.com
As said above, now is the time to make an appointment and visit all these schools.

agree with sotired although know children at St George's who are v happy so might rate that one slightly more highly.

But these are all C London - it really depends which bit of Westminster you are in. And where you are on faith schools. As sotired said, lots of them are so the in-demand schools get to be very, very strict on admissions because they get so many applications (you'd need at least two year's very regular, documented church attendance for some of them so if you do not already have that, you're already too late iyswim).

I agree with Quangle that there are some very happy children at St Georges, my point was that it is less sought after than Hampden Gurney, but of course this does not make it a bad school !

Regarding admissions HG is really strict but the other CoE schools have accepted children from non - CoE families.

Also worth noting that by Y3, there are places available in all these schools as families move out of the city center.