Just wondered if anyone had any up-to-date experience of Heath House?
We live in Westcombe Park and have recently been around Heath House, Pointers and Blackheath Prep for our DS (who has just turned one - we were expecting intense London school competition so wanted to get in early :#/).
We weren't impressed by Blackheath Prep as it has an entrance exam at three (!) but the kids in reception didn't seem to have learned any more than I did at a rural state primary. The facilities were good, but it seemed huge, cold and impersonal.
We loved Pointers. It felt quirky, warm and friendly, and we liked the headmaster (who is apparently a marmite figure), but I know it's not especially good at getting kids into academically selective senior schools.
Heath House has near-zero outside space and was really overcrowded, but they had kids reading by age four - despite being academically non-selective. Nearly 50% of their kids get into academically selective senior schools.
Our temptation is to register our little one for Heath House, but we're not sure if he will be unhappy due to the cramped conditions and academic pressure at age three. There didn't seem to be many obvious opportunities for running about and letting off steam, but we went in the morning and I think they do freeform activities in the afternoon.
Wondered if anyone has been around any of these schools and can comment? DH and I are really academic, but seriously rubbish at sport, etc. We were bullied a lot at school. Our DS is too young to have much of a personality, but is very smiley, determined, energetic and noticeably more extrovert than us.