Buying school clothes for Hyndland Secondary

[Nyx]

Hi there, DD will be starting in Hyndland Secondary after the summer; I'm wondering where parents tend to buy everyday school clothes for their Hyndland kids. DD would have me believe everyone will be kitted out in tshirts and hoodies from JD sports etc. I'm thinking more H&M! Any advice?

Don't really know about Hyndland specifically (is Hyndland the school that doesn't have a uniform?) but if it helps, ds (now 17.5) has insisted on buying all his casual clothes from H&M (although we do check out TK Maxx before going to H&M). That included his black (and navy blue ) hoodies for school (he refused to wear a blazer).

Thanks prettybird, yes, Hyndland is the school without a uniform. And that's pretty much exactly what we did - TKMaxx then H&M! Great minds...

My Dd goes there, her clothes are a mix of Primark for jeans, then band/tv/film t shirts and hoodies with DMs, or Converse, most kids seem to wear similar.

I used to pass this school every day and saw many pupils heading to school. Almost without fail they dressed scruffily almost like tramps - very unedifying. This was in contrast to children going to other schools - state and private - who wore uniforms and looked ready to learn

.....and yet, it still manages to get good exam results

Thanks Brillohair. And, um, 'thanks' Senior for your lovely observation. Although as Prettybird had pointed out, Hyndland kids are getting pretty good results. Perhaps they are 'ready to learn' even if you don't think they look it

If you are happy with pretty good results then fine - I wanted excellent results tor my son. Different parents have different ambitions for their children

Sounds like the parents of students at Hyndland School might be nicer than some of the parents at the other schools.

Lumisade Indeed.

If I lived on the North side, I'd have been delighted for ds to go to Hyndland (I know people who moved to get into its catchment). As it is, I've been extremely happy with the excellent results of Shawlands Academy - which has a friendly rivalry with Hyndland and their excellent results often alternate with Hyndland as to which is better.

The most important thing is that they turn out well rounded and non judgemental individuals and that is something that they both appear to do, whether or not they wear uniform.

Unfortunately I couldn't afford the excellent results so had to make do with Hyndland

NYX My Dd tells me that there really is no competition over clothing, perhaps in the first week or two of S1 as its a novelty but as soon as they start and see the rest of the school not caring at all they won't either, if she's really worried or set on something perhaps get a special one off new school outfit, I guarantee it'll only happen once.

Dd only joined in S5 and its been so welcoming and inclusive, Dd is the only pupil from where we live and commutes in and she loves it, moving her was the best thing I ever did.

Thanks Brillo, it sounds just as I wanted it to sound so thanks for sharing that info about how your DD has got on at Hyndland.

Clothes and footwear all bought now - and just as recommended above, mostly from h&m, few things from TKMaxx and a couple of sale items. And of course, Primark!

I didn't know that about the friendly rivalry Prettybird, nothing wrong with a bit of competition!

I think it might be mostly on the part of the headteachers Nyx - but iirc, I think there is also a rugby rivalry (Shawlands is also a School of Rugby and has won all the games against Glasgow state schools in recent years - so there is a understandable desire to knock them off their pedestal )

That's impressive! Especially with rugby being so popular these days.

Senior, where did you send your child to get better results that Hyndland? AFAIAW Hyndland gets among the best results in Glasgow, if you omit private and 'fake private'

@Celticlassie whats fake private??

Schools where the catchments are so expensive to live in that they may as well be private. Jordanhill

Ha, I knew straight away it was Jordanhill!

FWIW when I looked at the league tables when choosing a new school for Dd, in the state sector, only one ranked above it (discounting Jordanhill as no way would she have got in and tbh, we don't have the background), and only The Gaelic School ranked ahead, and that was a no go too, given we don't speak a word of it.
I'd have definitely looked at Shawlands but public transport issues made it impossible unfortunately.

Is 'fake private ' not a tad harsh
Most people just want to do the best they possibly can for their DC

Celtic - Quite a few years before my son was even thought of we moved to Newton Mearns into a new build. The show house was in Shettleston - it was £2k cheaper than the one we bought in NM - so not an expensive house in 1988 - and moved for schools as knew Glasgow scholls were generally rubbish

Ime (not Glasgow), high academic results and "good school" are not the same thing at all. At best they are interconnected circles.

I agree Wax

I went to a "good" school (Bearsden Academy) and got "good" results (6 Highers in S5, all As - Maths, Physics, Chemistry, English, French, Latin) but I would still argue that it wasn't as good a school as the school ds went to (one of those "rubbish" Glasgow schools) .

Bearsden Academy only cared about the clever kids (like me ), whereas Shawlands Academy worked to get the best out of all its kids, whether they are academic (like ds) or not - and to ensure that they are rounded individuals, with other interests beyond just academic (in ds' case, his sport) and with an understanding of its varied and multi-cultural demographic.

As a result it gets excellent results (with kids regularly going on to do medicine, law, vet science, PPE, PIR, some going to Oxbridge), well above its expected demographic. But it also works hard to positive destinations for all its young people.

Their young people also (and very importantly) don't have a high drop-out rate when they go to Uni.

I'd assumed when I had ds that I'd move back to East Dunbartonshire (where I was brought up and my parents still lived) or East Ren. I then did my homework and realised that I was not only in the catchment of an excellent primary, but that we didn't even need to move for secondary Just as well as we love our home and before we found it, we'd spent two years looking fruitlessly in East Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire, before finding it on the first night of looking on the Southside

From what I understand, Hyndland has a very similar ethos (and results) to Shawlands

I wonder what it is that makes the "Glasgow scholls [were] generally rubbish". I wonder if it's because it's a big city with (in common with most big cities) multiple areas of severe deprivation and the resulting social problems. While we simultaneously have interested, engaged parents moving their children's education out of the city schools, meaning that the schools in general don't do so well.

I don't have direct experience of Bearsden academy but I think you might find it has changed a bit in the last 20/30 years or so ,at least that's the impression I get and it seems a bit unfair to judge it on what it was like before
The results are excellent ,that cannot be denied
I know it's not all about results but that is a measurable target whereas some of the other desirable criteria are not and depend on what individual experiences are
I do know that plenty of well adjusted and well rounded kids come out of BA
Totally accept that Glasgow Schools have issues with the demograph etc but also understand why so many people decide to move to the suburbs for education ,taking the safe option

I agree user - but the point I was making is that you can't judge "good" schools by exam results on its own.

I know Bearsden Academy went through at least one bad inspection (after my time there), iirc for similar reasons that I was describing, but I believed it addressed them (and got a new headteacher?)