I am applying for my daughter to start school next September and live in Winchester.
I am putting Westgate as our first choice school and although we live close enough that we should get a place I am aware that not all catchment kids got in last year so I want to make sure I am 100% happy with my second and third choices.
We are also in the catchment for Western Primary school. I have heard both good and bad things about this school from people I know locally although none of them currently have a child in the school. I have looked at the admissions data and noticed that last year they took children from a massive area, way beyond the catchment, and from a bigger distance than the other good local schools. I know that The Westgate school sharing the catchment is a factor in this, but St Bede's also shares the catchment and still takes children from a much smaller area. Is there a reason people don't want to send their children to Western Primary?