CLSG

[peacockfeather11]

Hi, I was wondering if current parents of CLSG girls can help me getting a real picture of the school.

How have they dealt with on-line learning? Do the girls make friends easily? Is pastoral care as good as they say it is? What extra-curricular activities do they offer? How diverse is the school?

Any details that can help me would really be helpful. Many thanks.

Online learning has been excellent right from the start. Lots of attempts to make the lessons engaging and interesting. Thoughtful changes to timetable to give girls breaks from screentime and a 'homework free' week. Very big extra-curic programme, all girls involved in something, with many clubs still running online.

It's a friendly and accepting school and my dd made friends very easily. We've been impressed by the pastoral care that we've seen, though we've not had any issues.

School is very diverse, even for London schools. They did an activity in geography in y7 and the year group (just under 100) spoke more than 40 different languages. I think it's more diverse socially and economically than many other schools as well; quite a large percentage of bursary students, lots of middle class parents but also a few very wealthy ones.

The school has an unpretentious feel. Despite some City ceremonies (e.g. prize day in the Guildhall, commemoration service in St Paul's) it's mostly very down-to-earth and less caught up in ceremony than many comparable schools.

@itinerant42 Thank you. V helpful.

@ itinerant42 hello, May I please ask if your daughter is in Senior or Junior school please? We are struggling to decide if should accept a place of clsg for Junior school, heard the studies could be too relaxing and not challenged enough? Thanks.

Senior school (and dd did not go to CLSG for junior school). The students in her class from the junior school all seem to be very academically strong though. Given the calibre of the students in the junior school I'm surprised to hear the idea that it's not challenging enough but I have little personal knowledge.

@itinerant42 Thank you for your insight. I heard that it was changed recently for the lower year girls because of complains from some parents, again, not proven but just hearing from somewhere.

@LN2001 What did you decide? we have to make the same choice now between City Junior and another more local very good school. What did you decide? thank you