Private school but 5s,6,7,8S gcse results ?

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Hi all

I feel proud of my dd for achieving all passes but part of me feels disappointed with the school as I paid so much money and expected her to get 7-9s. Am I being silly? I feel like the classic photo of the girls getting all 9s should have been my dd. At least their investment paid off .

Op an 8 is an A* not a B. A 6 is a B.

sheshootssheimplores

You are exactly right she is like that .

Now I'm confused. Isn't level 4/5 Sats about the highest you can get? I'm sure level 5 was the highest? So why are some posters saying that would mean very low grades at gcse?

why do you think parents place their children there

Lots of reasons.

Wrap around child care.
Sports facilities.
Drama opportunities.
Smaller class sizes.
Private school fairy dust to turn average children into academic swans.............
Snobbery

So what were your reasons OP?

Where I live the State schools are excellent. Our kids are bright and do very well.
Some of the secondaries offer good support for the less bright and some say they do!
There is no snobbery attached to private school in general here because most who send their children to private schools do so because they want them to mix with a certain group of people which makes them appear ridiculous to the rest of us.

It depends - are we talking SPGS or St. Dunceton’s School for Naice Gels?

There is no snobbery attached to private school in general here because most who send their children to private schools do so because they want them to mix with a certain group of people which makes them appear ridiculous to the rest of us

Welll......

As I said I sent her there as we were having issues at home, so smaller class sizes, discipline, work ethic, strict behaviour and uniform policy - no make up etc was very important . Was not expecting magic wand to make her get 9s but yes was expecting all bs or 6s and above. My mistake but as I said posters have changed my mindset that’s why i use this forum and appreciate everyone’s comments negative or positive - so thank you.

Dd is moving on to a state sixth form as they don’t offer BTEC which we have decided be more for her. It’s still all girls and accept all religions at sixth form . One of the best in the country apparently - catholic.

There is no snobbery attached to private school in general here because most who send their children to private schools do so because they want them to mix with a certain group of people which makes them appear ridiculous to the rest of us.

If people did this at the schools my children went to they'd have been very disappointed because there were children there from all different 'groups'. People who think all children who go to private schools are the same and all from one 'group of people' appear ridiculous to the rest of us.

Ha!
The majority of people who pay ridiculous fees to educate their children do it to better themselves.
They look sad to us 'smug middle classes' whose children do better than theirs.

My dds school is a mixture of people it’s in a deprived area a lot of us are single parents and many born abroad and struggling to pay fees and from working class backgrounds . Yes there are a few who are upper class but never have I felt lower than them neither did my dd.

Oooobetty,
Children from poor families/social housing go to your children's private school then?

Oh btw I’m not upper class at all I had two bursaries helping me, I was very lucky but I did pay a % .

Yes poor families do go !

They look sad to us 'smug middle classes' whose children do better than theirs

I'd happily pay fees to avoid parents like this, yes.

You would not be accepted as part of our set Ligresa anyway 😝

Almost certainly not. Thank goodness.

DD just sat GCSEs. She attended what is barely seen as a second tier Indy school in SW london. She doesn't have straight 9s unlike lots of her friends from state and Indy schools but the school has added a huge amount of value to her results. She has benefited from being at a school with strict discipline, small classes and a lot of extra help available from teachers with light classroom hours.

And for whoever claimed that IGCSEs are easier up thread like most Indys DDs school is switching and is about half and half at the moment. It isn't a coincidene that now GCSEs have been revamped and the course work removed Indy schools are returning to them. They have always said that coursework was the issue and the return to GCSEs now they have been made harder proves the point. DD sat edxcel maths GCSE and got a 9 and she is not considered to be particularly good at maths.

You have to remember that the only thing we can ever ask of our kids is to do their best - if this is her best then she has maximised her potential so the school needs to be applauded. Average students can really suffer in state schools because the concentrate on the failing ones.

People who sent their children to private school here are far from upper class. The vast majority are upwardly mobile.

OP does she not want to stay at the indy? She would be allowed to with those grades surely?

Igcses are easier than the new/now GCSEs.

No they aren't.

Ps a B is equivalent to a 6. The new syllabus GCSEs are considered more rigorous than I GCSEs or Scottish qualifications (whether this is a good thing at 16 I'm not sure)