Secondary schools in East Hampshire

[Greek2013]

We are moving from overseas and looking at the following schools- Woolmer Hills,Bohunt, The Petersfield school. Does anyone have any information personally on any of them. We have read all of their websites already.

Woolmer hill is quite a small school, the area it serves is a nice area! I know a few children who go there and all seem to be getting on well despite joining at non standard times.

Bohunt is great, I know staff and pupils and they all love the place.

I know one of the schools from a more general standpoint - dcs are Yr 11 & undergrad - so not looking for this age range and quite likely to be a bit out of date, dcs junior school preferred Bohunt at the time. Nearest neighbours, in Haslemere, chose Bohunt or Churchers. All 3 schools are 11-16 so Sixth Form is usually at Alton College or Godalming College.

Know several children at Bohunt - ranging from poorly to highly motivated, wide range of abilities. All speak well of the school - tutorgroups help to deal with 250 per year intake for nervous yr 7s, wide range of subjects and can try different languages, good support at GCSE and AS level opportunities for most able. Has traditionally been very popular with children coming from Petersfield and Haslemere (sites of Petersfield School and Woolmer Hill respectively) as well as Liphook and surrounding villages.

East Hampshire and SW Surrey have a lot of independent schools as well (all but 1 or 2 are through to Sixth Form) so every morning sees a lot of children leaving the area for schools in the Guildford area, or to Portsmouth, or Churchers in Petersfield, the Royal in Haslemere -there's a lot of choice locally.

Hope you get some more up to date replies. What age/year entry are you looking for? As ever visiting a school will give you the best picture.

Bohunt has the interesting situation that so many parents move out of London to that area that it is significantly larger than the combined size of its feeders!

Petersfield school does less well than some of the Hampshire ones - but we are VERY spoilt.

Please note that all Hampshire Secondaries are Comps : no selection at all
therefore
anything over 66% 5 a-c is statistically above average,
as is anything over 33% ebacc
you cannot compare comps with selectives on headline results
but the Hampshire Comps do excellent things with a whole range of kids.

My boys would go into year 7 and year 9 in September.

Greek
your best bet is to pick a town and contact the local secondary and find out whether they have places for both.
All the schools in that part of the county are pretty decent so once you find a school then rent a house and then buy later.

Hi Greek

I just wondered whether you had made a decision re these schools? I am thinking of moving to Haslemere next May/June time and these are my two choices, my son is currently in Y5.

Many thanks