Advise Please

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Dear Parents,

We are looking for a private school for our 4 year old as we are not happy with the current school; Please see list below and let me know if you have any advise based on your personal experience; Thank you :)

1. St Johns Beaumont (We really liked this school)
2. LVS Ascot (I dont think this is a good fit for us)
3. St Georges Weybridge (Didnt feel this was a good fit)
4. Hallgrove (Need to visit)
5. Upton House (Need to visit)
6. Cranemore (Need to visit)

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Our children went to Stonyhurst, St John’s Beaumont feeds into this school,

The SJB kids were all really nice.

How long does it take you to get to each one?

I did get a really good energy for the SJB kids.

All are about 20-25 mins from my house. Upton house is about 30mins.

We can make it work. We just want a healthy environment for our 4 year old as we’ve had a really negative experience in his current setting where kids were punching and kicking and saying things about the colour of his skin etc.

Oh dear - very sorry to hear
was it state or private?

Private unfortunately

When pastoral care is the main reason you are moving, the question that actually tells you something on a visit is this: ask them to describe what happens when a child reports being hurt or left out by another child. Not what the policy says. What actually happens, how quickly, who gets told, what changes afterwards. Every school will have a nice answer ready about their anti bullying policy. Far fewer will be able to give you a specific, confident answer to that question. The ones that can are usually the ones that actually deal with it properly.

Upton is enormously strong on the pastoral care and is a really lovely and nurturing school. I’d certainly recommend having a look round.

I have a friend whose son left St John's Beaumont last year having been there for quite a few years. She was definitely of the opinion it had gone downhill in the time they were there - although he still seemed happy enough to me and did well.

Hi, my son is currently at SJB in nursery. My eldest also went there.

Happy to chat