At a school open evening tonight, Headmaster said

[EvilTwins]

Not to believe what you read about the school on Mumsnet

The school is named on MN? Avoid!

In which case I would be reading everything I could find and making my own judgement.

I would be ASing right away.

Wow! What does MN say??

The headmaster at ds's (all boys) school said something really sexist at his 'welcome to the school, new parents' speech. I was

Is the school called PGS by any chance?

ASing??

Well it can't be Queen Ethelburga's, they threaten to sue anyone who talks about them.

Dorothy Yep!

Advance Searching

Advance Searching the name of the school on MN

Strange because there's not a lot about the school on MN and I have ASed (advanced searched)

What was your impression otherwise?

I haven't seen much either. Were you there Dorothy, or were you just guessing?

I liked it but I wasn't blown away. The children were great but the staff seemed largely disinterested, which was disappointing. In one room we visited, the teacher was sitting at her desk marking whilst a couple of 6th formers talked to visitors. I thought that was a bit crap.

Is it an academy?

Possibly beginning with K?

Guessing because my two dd's were helping out at the open evening tonight and I know from previoys threads that you're in my area

The students we met were really fab - very articulate and confident. I liked the head, for the most part, but I did feel like the staff weren't really engaging with the visitors - kind of got the impression that they don't really feel they need to try - it's not like other schools where they're actively trying to attract new students. Maybe I'm biased - I'd spent the first half of the evening at open evening at the school where I teach, chatting to everyone who came through my classroom door. Not one teacher spoke to my DDs.

Rafa - no, it's the one Dorothy mentioned upthread.

Which other schools will you go and see?

How very unprofessional of him, and how stupid - presumably most people wouldn't have made Mumsnet their first port of call in school research.

Well now even people who don't use MN will be logging on to see what posters are saying about the school!

Dorothy - not bothering with the other grammars and neither they nor we want single sex. Our closest comp is a good one so we're going there on Thursday but that's probably it for now. DC are yr 5 so no rush on the other comps really.

What a silly thing for him to say. People will now immediately look! What was he thinking?

Just googled PGS, is this an independent school on the south coast?