Which Surrey Secondaries have the happiest children?

[fairyhopeful]

We're doing the 11+ in Surrey but wondering from those more experienced, which secondaries out there have the happiest children? Which schools are striking the right balance between academics and mental health?!

[montenuit]

err i live in Kingston.
My address is definitely Surrey... what do you suggest it should be then?

6 Cabbage Gardens
Kingston
London
KT6 2AP

and no that is not my real address, obvs... ??

And those living over the bridge in Hampton should they be also using London rather than Middlesex?

Try telling that to the post office !

and none of this is remotely helpful to the OP who seems to have left, not that i blame her.

[Titsywoo]

Surrey is a pretty big place! What sort of area are you talking about?

[Titsywoo]

Kingston isn't actually in Surrey. I used to live in Croydon and put Surrey as my county but it isn't - it did used to be (albeit not when I lived there!) so there is confusion. Probably same with Kingston.

[Thegirlinthefireplace]

Montenuit for postal purposes all you need is 26 cabbage gardens, KT (rest of postcode).

Kingston is Greater London, in that it's a London's borough, it's is not in any way Surrey. If you like putting Surrey in your address, go nuts, but it is a London borough.

[Malaco]

The postal county of Surrey extended into Greater London until 1996.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom

[Lineofbeauty]

OP is yoru child preparing for selection tests for independent schools or selective state schools in neighbouring boroughs/ counties?

Happiest children? Very hard to quantify.

[fairyhopeful]

Oblomov18, which girls' secondaries are you referring to, that have issues with anxiety and self-harming? Perhaps they all do on some level... but would you say this is a significant problem at the private schools... GHS, Tormead, or St Cats, for example?

[OneStepMoreFun]

fairy my DSs know lots of girls from GHS, Tormead and St Catz. All the ones they know seem happy. GHS is breathtakingly academic though - putting far more pressure on the girls than the equivalent boys' school. So I'd only send a child there if she is highly academic and a natural high achieving self-starter. Tormead is more laid back.I know the Tormead girls best and they are very cheerful and chilled, but do well in exams.