grimsdyke school - anyone know of it?

[vannah]

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of this school in hatch end? It is supposedly a very good school, came high up in league tables at one point - but after speaking to a parent today (we are thinking of buying a property in the area) found out that most of the children are tutored...which leaves me wondering why the results are good.

thankyou

I went there a very long time ago, and no one was tutored then! It's a very pleasant middle-class area with lots of nice houses. Perhaps there is a lot of tutoring in Year 5 and 6 to get into private secondary schools - lots of well-known private secondary schools in the area including Haberdashers Boys and Girls, North London Collegiate, St. Helen's Northwood, Merchant Taylors...

many thanks singersgirl...

Hijack alert!

Hi singers girl! I remember in a previous thread you said you grew up near me - Did you go to HEHS? What year did you start there I am intrigued I started in 87

You're a lot younger than I am ! I went from Grismdyke to North London Collegiate in 1977! Quite a few of my schoolfriends went to HEHS, though my stepsisters went to NH in Pinner, but they would have left before you got there, because I am so old...

Don't know much about the school, but dp is from hatch end (he went to Merchant Tyalors)
It is a really lovely area, very middle class, lots of money so probably tutor by defualt (sp sorry. I obviously didn't go to private school! ) iyswim?
If we could afford to go back we would.

Vannah - I agree with ragdoll! Hatch End is Very nice, plenty of money for tutors (there was back in my day and I doubt that has changed) Pinner is similar but bigger, with synagogue and Sikh University. I grew up in the much less esteemed but still nice Headstone lane area/north harrow

Hatch End High in my day was top or second in the borough, according to my mum it is now practically bottom! Plenty of local private schools though.

Singers you are only 10 years older that isnt tooooo many years!

My dad went to grimsdyke in the 50s, then Headstone - Nower Hill as it is now!

Good train links from Hatch End station by train to Euston - or change at Harrow and Wealdstone for underground to london

HTH Feel free to ask anymore questions!

Are your parents still in the area, Yurtgirl? Mine are still in H End so we go there a lot!

Yep! We are going on Thursday

Great for a visit and handy for visits to central London but I am glad we dont live there all the time!

Yep! We are going on Thursday

Great for a visit and handy for visits to central London but I am glad we dont live there all the time!