Wren academy primary Finchley

[Celebrationtin1989]

Hello! Trying to decide which primary to put down for DS. Does anyone have any recent experience of wren primary in North Finchley?

Anyone???

Very strict and rigid.no room to be yourself. It's a school about grades and nothing else. I wouldn't send my children there personally, I know people who do. It seems to crush the life and spirits out of some normally clever happy children,-but they get 10⁰a* at GCSE. You are signing up for primary to feed into the secondary with the focus on those results.

Thanks so much for your message. I had heard that about the secondary but haven’t heard any feedback about the primary. Are they that strict in primary phase too?

Belatedly reply as have only just seen this thread. I don’t recognise the views from @DreamingOfASilentNight. Also interested that they have such strident views despite not being a parent of a child there.
My children have attended/are attending Wren. It’s a great school in my experience. Clear boundaries (who doesn’t want that?) whilst also supportive of children’s needs. As far as I can tell, they are no more focused on results than other schools - and way less focused than the selective schools nearby.

As ever, it’s about the right school for the child. Go visit and listen to your gut feeling. But please don’t listen to the views of parents who don’t have children there - they are almost certainly reflecting an echo of comments that are (in my experience) untrue.

@Quietvoiceplease all my nieces and nephews attend the school as they live extremely close, it's the view I hear from them and their parents. My friends child also attends- it keeps her child in check but she admits it isn't the best school for him as a person and has avoided sending her subsequent children there as a result. My nieces and nephews are clever and well behaved responsible children,so don't have any difficulties with the school work but find the rigidness of things like "reflection" ( in other words detention) for forgetting a change of socks for PE for example, to be excessive, as do I. My nephew and several of his friends have openly voiced the extensive rules are " stupid" and they pride themselves on being able to make up multiple tales to get around them. I'm talking about several children of different ages from primary through to secondary for several families so it's clearly a widespread thing. I personally want my own children to be able to be honest and feel they live in a relatively fair and reasonable environment where they aren't having to live by so many extra and unnecessary rules they resort to lying and they learn because they want to, not because they are made to.