Calling on secondary SW London mumnetters

[aliburger]

I'm a FT wkr & a non school gater and have a (v bright and dyslexic) DD in year 5 in SW lon. The head's recent secondary school talk was pants and now I realise I have no idea what Im supposed to do to help DD into the right secondary (for her...) is there any straight forward guide or 10 step bullet points out there anywhere..? please.

[trish391971]

I have boys who go to Wallington County Grammar, however there is a list of Mixed Good Schools like Graveney in Tooting, Dunraven in Streatham, Kingsdale in Dulwich & Harris Academy in Crystal Palace. Really it depends on where exactly you live, if you are catholic there is St Philomena's in Carshalton or Coloma Convent in Croydon and if she is bright enough to do the 11 plus try Wallington Girls in Wallington.

[majurormi]

Are you looking private or state? If she is very dyslexic, you could try the Moat School in Fulham. Lady Margaret, if not religious there is a catchment acceptance, again Fulham. If she is extremely bright, I would look at St. Paul's or Godolphin and Latymer if you wanted to go private, but not sure extent of dyslexia because she would need to be top. Tiffin is a great grammar in Kingston but very competitive. There are a ton of private schools for girls, I am less versed in the state sector. Where exactly are you?

[Blu]

I believe one of the Streatham schools (Dunraven), or Kingsdale has a specialist dyslexia support, there were threads last year by a poster called something like WorryWart - search thread titles with Dunraven and Kingsdale in them and see what you can find. They would have been for between March and Sept last year.

[H0neysuckle]

St Benedicts in ealing has special dyslexic unit.

[timmytoes]

Chestnut Grove in Balham is always very popular wrt sen and dyslexia - apparently they have a dyslexia cafe ??!