Hayes Primary, The Ravensbourne or Prince Plain?

[alledm]

Hello,

we live in a bit of a grey spot regarding primary schools and we are trying to understand what to do. We recently moved to Bromley Common. We are very close to Chatterton Village and to Raglan Primary School, but we are probably 50/100 mt out of the catchment area.

Looking at findaschool.info we are in the catchment area of both:

a) Hayes Primary School
b) The Ravensbourne School
c) Princes Plain Primary School

As I said we have heard very positive comments on Raglan and we were wondering if anyone can share their opinion on these other schools or other suggestions for us. Our daughter is 2 years and 6 months old.

Regards
Alessandro

Sorry just realized The Ravensbourne School is a secondary school.

So choice is between
a) Hayes Primary School
b) Princes Plain Primary School

Find a school isn't always accurate. Check the distances on the Bromley booklet they produce about primary school admissions. If you are applying in usual round will make things easier, if as 'in-year' then it very much depends on whether there is a place and waiting list chances.

Where you are you could also apply to La Fontaine Academy (French-English free school) if you were interested in that as an option. At the moment, it shares a site with Princes Plain I believe but will be moving to a permanent site at some point so you would obviously have to factor that into your thinking. It is another option though.

Raglan is supposed to be excellent so if you are only just out of the offer area, it would still be worth considering it just in case there is a low birth year or something. I second getting the booklet - this year's one is on the Bromley.gov.uk site and gives the last three years' offer distances.

@PettsWoodParadise good point I realized we are closer to the school than I thought but still there is a risk not to get in.

@FrozenAteMyDaughter That's an option we are considering but my daughter already speaks 3 languages (English Italian and German) and although we would love her to pick up French, we feel it is too much of a stretch right now and we would not be able to help her in her studies.

My four year old has just started at Hayes and so far we are pleased with it. I have heard lots of good things about it from the parents of older children.

Makes sense alledm. Are you Catholic? If so, you could add St James in Petts Wood or St Joseph's in Bromley to your list - both popular schools, though small, at least in the case of St Joseph's. However, both might be too far for you to travel perhaps.