City of London school for girls

[anvish]

Hi,
My DD has been offered a place at city of London school for girls year 3 - 2019 Sep. I have few questions and if anyone can offer some insights into those then that would be great.

1. How easy it is to manage for both working parents?
2. What happened to the extension into the Car park for prep school ?
3. DD is currently going to a state school and not been exposed this buzzing city life. So how easy or hard can we expect it to be ?
4. I read some news about City withdrawing offers. Is it applicable for prep school too and is it advisable for us to take the chance and wait for other school results before making the decision.

CLSG is a great school in general, but how your specific child would adjust is impossible to predict.
Your commute and distance to work and all that will play a role.
But you won’t be the only working parents in the school - there are many who chose that school for the location/proximity of the parent jobs...

As to the exploding offers - at 11+ it is made very transparent in the offer letter - it states that when acceptances have reached the number of places offered - all other offers are placed into a waiting list...
If there isn’t such language at 7+, then you should be fine.

I have two girls at the school. I'd say three-quarters of the girls have two working parents. There is after-school provision until 6pm and it costs £5 per day. It's widely used. It's great if you work in the City as you can just pop by for concerts and assemblies.

The school is busy, there is a lot of activity, museum trips and so on. If she's got through the assessment, she won't struggle with the work; the first year is quite gentle. In fact, it's only in year 5 that it ramps up significantly.

PM me if you have any other questions...

Thanks for your replies

Hi,

We have accepted the offer for CLSG and DD will be starting in Sep19 in year 3. I have query on school's take on taking holiday during term time. We have a marriage in family for which we need to take a week off. Need to understand is that recommended and if any of you have experience / knowledge of how school administration reacts to such requests. Any guidance you can share will be helpful before we approach school on this.
Thanks.

Well, most (all?) private schools in London do not like people talking time off during term time...
HM from one of my kids schools would often send stern letters about people adding days to holidays or leaving early....

However, most schools can make exceptions. They are open to make one-off allowances when parents are transparent and upfront.
Depending on when the wedding is - I’d let your daughter settle, then write a letter to HM describing the situation - family wedding - (-broad? Educational opportunity too?) - long standing plans made before accepting the offer, in polite and apologetic tone... Saying you’ll be making sure she is on top of homework, etc.
They can’t forbid you from traveling, or punish you in any way.
The days missed would either be ‘authorised’ absence, or ‘non-authorised’.

As long as it’s just once in a year - it won’t do any harm.