north-east - heighington, county durham -what's it like?

[auntiebetty]

Looking at moving here. Have had good reports from locals but it comes up quite badly on upmystreet.co.uk. I am hoping upmy street is wrong! Does anyone know this area?

I taught in darlington a while and the kids (seconday) from heighington were all nice. i don't know it otherwise though as I don't live locally.

kis was it hummersknott school?

yes it was

fantastic I was looking at this school what was it like?

it is a v. good school, all round except the school meals were just cold sandwiches, etc when I was there.

they have a v. strong language college (I do mfl) currently offer russian and mandarin among the usual subjects. they took a school trip to st petersburg a few yrs ago.

can also strongly recommend Carmel which is Catholic and a Technology College.

from Heighington you'd be in the catchment for both.

not catholic but keen on hummersknott. has there ever been talk of changing the catchment areas away from heighington that you know of. Don't want to move there and then end up at a different school!
Did you feel the heighington kids missed out by not being local?

couldn't really tell if they missed out or not. I would think not as it is near enough to darlington for them to get back and forth at their age.

you don't have to be catholic to go to a catholic school. the northeast does not have the cutthroat application issues as down south. (don't know where you are) and don't know how you feel about catholic schools.

I currently teach in one and find the atmosphere and personal relationships between staff-pupil to be fantastic, in the one I teach. it is something that is cultivated and it helps immensely with behavioural issues.

I've been looking at heighington and mowden to live and I'm going to visit hummersknott in a couple of weeks.

mowden is good too. the primary in mowden has a good rep.

thanks storch and kis

anybody else know heighington?

I know Heighington, I live here and its fab. Came from here originally and spent years trying to move back. The property can be a little expensive but for a reason, the village is quiet and beautiful, the primary school second to none, all in all a great place to live

Sorry for the double post, but just remembered, if you're in any doubt about just how nice Heighington is, it was voted the UK's No 1 Perfect Village by the BBC in a country wide competition. Plus one of my children goes to Hummersknott now, so any q's about that I can help toooooo

I am was born and bred in Co.Durham .There is a huge influx of students ..'Southerners ' (as you insist on calling yourself.) at Durham Uni which I attended .Why not ask some of those( seriously.)
Perhaps they could give you an insight into the species referred to as 'Northerners'
Please take care not to generalise .
I live10 miles from Newton Ayclffe and Heighington and wouldn' t dream of living there.