Dorset - primary and secondary advice please anyone??

[dorsetbound]

Hi all,
we are moving to Dorset in January from Cheshire. we'll be living in the Canford Cliffs area.
My daughter is currently in year 6 and is very anxious about the move.
So we are now looking at schools... The Junior schools are all over subscribed apart from some faith schools and ideally I'd like her to go to a mixed secondary school.
Does anyone know what the Bournemouth Collegiate Prep School is like and also their senior school? I can't find any review about them. There is Buckholme Towers but she'd only be there for one term and then what as the grammar schools are not mixed. I'm looking at Castle Court but wonder where she'd go after 13? Their feeder schools look far away from CC.
Any advice from anyone would really help. Dorset is so gorgeous and I think we'll have a great quality of life. It's just quite daunting moving so far away from our current village and community that we've been in for years.
Many many thanks in advance
Emma

All I know is don't go to any of the local state secondary schools in Poole unless it's the Grammar school... They are really bad. You are lucky to be able to consider going private! If I had a child & lived in Poole then I would move unless I could afford private, which i can't.

I actually live in Bournemouth & went to a local comp which was bad as well at the time but much improved now.

2 of my friends went to Bournemouth Collegiate school & Talbot Heath, they really enjoyed their times at school.

Hope u enjoy living in Canford Cliffs though, the beach there is lovely.

Thanks for the advice. Yes we're really looking forward to living near the sea!