Value added scores for independent schools

[papalazaru]

Is there a way to find these scores? I'm looking at different schools for my daughter who is currently in Year 5. When comparing the schools using GCSE results obviously you can rank them but if a school is highly selective with its intake then it follows that their results will reflect this. However, a school with a good value added will be making the most of their less able children.
Some schools I've looked at do publicise their value added but others don't. How can I find it out? Will I specifically have to ask?
Thanks.

No master chief for us Ive never seen it or football I've never watched a game in my life. Anything else, politics is current favourite, capitalism versus everything else, why any sane individual would vote UKIP, surely in a general election no one will vote for Nigel Farrage, will Boris depose Cameron, Scottish independence, art (our big passion), my husband amusing work experiences with his hopeless staff, movies a family passion, music, relatives, books, food, the weather local gossip in Smalltownsville usual stuff really.

Out of interest HG, when your DS comes home on Exeat does he bore you to tears with the minutiae of his friends' activities
(memories of sister doing same when she was home from boarding school)
just to add to the diverse nature of 'div'

We tend not to talk politics because of my work - and when I go to Buck House for tea later this year better not tell Brenda DHs real views

No he doesn't he barely mentions them, he wants to know what we've been doing, talks about his chosen sport, he actually often talks about Div he has an awesome and well known Div don at the moment whose having a huge influence on him.

Maybe it's a girl than, as opposed to a boarding thang...DD can bore the knackers off anyone with her endless offerings.

Breakfast usually goes ike this:

DD: Does anyone want to know about my dream?
Everyone: No!!!!!

That briefly made me think of one of Xenia's remarks: She was, as ever, extolling the unassailable superiority of her DC and their highly selective, elite and expensive education/s, and she mentioned that an obvious and glaring benefit was that her DD, at uni (we must assume Russell Group ) complained to her mother that at a Tutor group meeting, she was the only one talking, 90% of the time, the only one offering her views at length, the only one 'engaging with the Tutor, discoursing broadly and widely'. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the canteen afterwards listening to exactly how impressed Xenia-Jr.'s classmates were at her -ahem- brilliance...!

No working all the hours god sends here.. I get in 10 mins after Ds.

Current topics of conversation in our household: philosophy and philosophy lite (lots of thunking), what we're all reading, Arthur Dent isms, campaigns to save the beavers, a bit of Big Nang and lots of Discworld...the joys.of an Asperger's dc!

Whoops... Big bang, obviously!

Love that: does anybody want to hear about my dream? !!!

[Thinks longingly about living in a household without somebody revising for a level philosophy in it......realizes sadly that very soon she will......]

Ha! I bet she has the bug, though, now!

Ds and I were walking round a stately home recently discussing Diogenes (yes, I know, what a stereotype...) and I corrected him on a point of fact...only to be corrected myself by a well-meaning but earwigging other visitor

Martorana: is dd going down the academic or theatre road, after all? (I remember earlier threads with her dilemma.)

What a memory! Academic, she's decided- she's going to Edinburgh-well, she will if she gets the grades-with the hope of lots of drama once she's there.

Sounds perfect! Good luck to her for August.

talkin I have carnivorous plants which I adore growing, mine are a bit slow to get started this year.
My real passion is of course gardening (having finally realised that horses are actually crap). I dream of giving up work and taking up gardening, one day maybe. No one else in my family is remotely, interested occasionally I get all excited and bore on about some plant I'm carefully cultivating but everyone else eyes glaze over.

Ooh, does she know about the Bedlam theatre (home of the brilliant Edinburgh uni student theatre group), Martorana? My dp and his theatrically inclined mates spent their university years practically living there.

Thank you, amber- when she rolls home I will tell her!

She should be all right, comma- she has a very low offer. Just so long as that doesn't make her take her foot off the gas.......

HG-the men in the family have vetoed any horse-talk at the table, so dd and I have also banned football talk.

My families eyes really glazed over when I used to talk about the horses, which I probably did ad infinitum in their defence, but fortunately they've all gone now, no horses for nearly 10 years now, I rarely miss them. Luckily none of us like football.

DS has prepared a super complex plan for buys and sells over the Summer. It takes into account all manner of maths that I might be impressed with if I weren't so bored. And I like footie!

Luckily DH and I are both plant nuts
and the kids have always known that botanic gardens are dog free places they can run around.