Richmond Borough Primary Applications

[Eleusis]

I know it's not 9:00 yet, but if you go to the website you can get your application results now. I just did, and I am so so so so glad we got in to the school of our choice. Ok, WE didn't get in, DD did.

Yippee!!!!!

For anyone who doesn't know, if you applied online, you can get the results here: www.yourlondon.gov.uk/eadmissions/

or

here

Well done, Eleusis!

We're at the stage of looking at secondarys for DS1 and deciding whether to go down the 'tutoring for Tiffin' route or paying for private.

Oh, you should talk to Foxie over on the West London meet-up thread. She's well versed in the Tiffin Tudor thing.

I too shall ponder that route but nor for a few more years. And realistically, we'll probably end up paying for private because there are just so many applications to Tiffin that realistically I have to wonder if my kids could really get in.

I just realised I typed "tudor".

Well, you know, Henry be featured on the test.

Someone told me the other day, that with the score she got in the exam, if her DD had been a boy she would have got into Tiffin

Just goes to prove girls are smarter than boys.

Well done!

Grrrr. DS didn't. We put down catholic primary as first choice, knowing that we would be at the far reaches of the likely "catchment" area but wanted to do so on principal, that being our closest catholic school, being regular church goers, active members of the parish, etc., etc... Of course we didn't get in. Have been offered pikey no-hope school instead.

Thankfully, we have a private place elsewhere that we will now definitely be taking (and, frankly, would have done anyway) but what if we didn't have this option?????

decaf - I'm in same position. can you tell me about yr private school please?

what age do you have to put names down for private schools round here?
DD is just 3... have i missed it?!

oops - sorry for spelling in last post! Great edgugashun, me!

xoxo - have CATed you - I think - have not tried it before. Happy to give you any details.

amidaiwish (love the name! guess I won't be seeing you there this morning?!). You are not too late for the private schools. For some, such as Newland House, you need to be down pretty much from birth to be offered a place from the outset BUT I know of families who only applied latterly to that particular school(i.e. when dcs were around 3) and were placed very low down on the waiting list but were offered places in good time before the LEA process got underway.

Places at Twickenham Prep, the Mall and Denmead are not as hard to come by. Again, the earlier the better but because of the number of people moving, changing mind etc. between waiting lists opening and actual offers, it should not be difficult to obtain a place if you really want one.

There are plenty of other good private schools in the area but Twick. Prep, Newland House and Denmead were our favourites (didn't want the Mall as have a ds and a dd). Also dabbled with the idea of Hampton Court House.

Hope that helps in some way. Short answer is: No, you are not too late!

well i have 2 DDs... what do you know about St Catherine's? Any others?
Is Newlands House a prep school for bussed in kids from Richmond/London (or is that just an opinion i have got.. from nowhere in particular!)

and no, unfortunately amida will remain a wish this morning

I didn't look at St Catherine's because I want my ds and dd to go to the same school. I don't know much about it either as I don't actually know any children who go there, so sorry, no info on that one! I pass it a lot as it's just down the road from where we live and the girls always appear to be very polite & well turned out, for what that's worth!

You may be right about Newlands, I don't know. The only families that I know with children there (3 families) are all from Twickenham/Strawberry Hill. If you're concerned about the London/Richmond thing (and I know exactly what you mean), Twickenham Prep. has a much cosier, local feel to it.

Just noticed the time - So much for my Amida visit this morning!

is Twickenham prep the one in Hampton?

now get on that treadmill... or just to the spa?

Yes it is.

Aww gimme a break! I'm going, I'm going!

Oh I'm jealous. I'd like to go to Amida.

When we moved here I made a deal with DH - the choice was we got to keep our cleaner and join a less salubrious gym, or Amida but no cleaner. I picked Amida. Trouble is that cleaning the house takes up so much of my time that Im always in too much of a hurry to sample the spa after my classes...

just leave the house as a tip. you stop noticing after a while.

do any of the private schools do testing as part of entry criteria at 3/4/5?

maybe my clever DD will get in that way (as she has a not so clever mummy who didn't think to put her name down!)

Susie40 . Have just made that exact same deal with my dh! I'm sure I'll have the same problem. Maybe we should make a poor houswives' workout DVD: aaand reach to the floor and scrub, two, three, four..... Ah bo@@@@*s to that - I prefer amida's suggestion!

amida - I never thought about that either so can't answer that I'm afraid. Prob. worth a phone call.

decafskinnylatte: 'Have been offered pikey no-hope school instead'
I'm dying to know which one you mean (abbrev. fine).

at the risk of offending all you pikeys...HFI

My apologies SaintM, if your eyebrow raise relates to my inexcusable political incorrectness. I am suffering a temporary surge in temper due to the failings of our local school admissions system.

thanks, relieved

"Pikey, no hope school" "Richmond upon Thames" Definition of an oxymoron?