anyone with a child starting at Latymer in Edmonton in September living in East London?

[blouseenthusiast]

Am trying to find someone for DS to meet up with and perhaps travel to school with in early days. No one from his primary is going and have failed so far to find anyone in our neighbourhood!

Could you ask Latymer? They might be willing to forward your request to others who may live nearby. Good luck.

That's probably a better idea than trying to find someone on MN, thanks, Swed.

I would be surprised if the school would give anyones name out but could do if someone else had made a similar request.
Try also www.elevenplusexams.co.uk, there is a hertfordshire thread that you can post this question to.

My DS1 is currently Year 7 at Latymer, there is a large group of them that travel up on the train from Liverpool St to Edmonton Green, getting on from Bethnal Green onwards through Hackney and Stoke Newington. Is this the way your DS will go? There are also a lot that travel from Walthamstow.

In any event, you will be invited to a parents' evening next term and they take the names of anyone wanting to be put in touch with others coming from the same area and send you their details (before the end of term or early in the holidays I can't remember exactly). We did this although we didn't actually end up making contact. When he started, DS1 didn't know anyone else going to Latymer, he is the only Year7 to get on at our nearest stop, but within a few days all the Year 7s making that journey were great friends.

There is also a Latymer thread or two on the eleven plus website as recommended by tropical fish, look under regions and then Hertfordshire including LB Barnet, it doesn't mention Enfield but it is there. There were definitely a few people posting from East London, I am sure there will be someone doing the same journey even if they aren't getting on at the same point.

Thank you, cluttered and tropical fish, that's very useful to know. Hadn't thought of him going from Liverpool Street - was going to go overground from Cambridge Heath, but will explore whether the Liverpool Street route would be better,

Hi blouse, I didn't mean getting the train from Liverpool St as I would think that would be much more expensive and time consuming, I meant catching the train originating at Liverpool St at your closest station. All the Year 7s are currently catching the same train to travel together, it goes through our nearest station (Hackney Downs) at 7.45 so even if DS gets to the station earlier he waits for that train. I think the higher years are cutting it a bit finer and catching later trains, with the 7.45 train he arrives at school about 8.20, registration is 8.40. DS says there are a few coming from Cambridge Heath although a much larger group join at Stokie and there are also a lot who get on at Seven Sisters after taking the Underground from Islington etc.

You will be amazed at how independent your DS will become, one afternoon before the October half term DS rang me at work to say the trains were down and he and a friend were going to catch a bus they had seen passing the station which listed Stoke Newington as a destination and could I look online and then ring him back and tell him where to change. Another time he arrived home a bit late and said the trains had only been stopping at Seven Sisters and Liverpool St so he had gone to Liverpool St and caught a bus back from there, he had never done that before even accompanied. Before starting at Latymer he had never travelled by himself on the public transport, we did one dry run during the holidays and I went as far as Edmonton Green on the train with him the first day and that was it!

Cluttered, that's really good to hear. DS is a bit dreamy to put it mildly and has never taken public transport by self. was thinking of doing a number of dry runs during the holiday (and was insanely considering getting someone to discreetly tail him the first time he went by self, but maybe will revisit that plan). Hopefully will link him up with others coming from the East so he can meet them on train and have company.