SW London Girls' Private & Grammar - applying for year 7 in 2022

[SkaterGrrrrl]

I watched with interest the information and support on this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/4177427-PART-3-SW-London-Girls-Indies-11-Results-Decisions-Panic-Over and wanted to start the same thread for South West London parents with daughters who will be applying for secondaries (independents and grammar) for places in year 7 in Sept 2022.

Where are you applying, how are the virtual open days going..... and to tutor or not to tutor?

@SkaterGrrrrl thank you 😊

@doodleandsketch I have friends with kids at St George’s who are very happy with it. Seems academic but also balanced - they do lots of activities alongside their school work. Also a friend with children at Claremont who is enjoying it (less academic I think). I don’t know Notre Dame.

@doodleandsketch ... if you are moving to weybridge then st georges is perfect ...

I used to live in Weybridge. Lovely place! If that's where you will be based I'd forget Claremont and focus on Notre Dame or St George's which are both easy to get to. If you get a St George's offer too, I'd go back and visit them with fresh eyes.

@doodleandsketch

Hi all, this is my first time posting and I have been reading through all your thoughts and messages about schools. My DD sat 11+ for Notre Dame in Cobham, Claremont and St George's. So far she has been offered a place at Notre Dame and Claremont. St George's results come out next week. We have lived overseas for 10 years, so are new to this. My daughter fell in love with Notre Dame when she visited it, but because it has been so difficult to travel we have only viewed the other two schools online. Can anyone give me pros and cons for any of these schools. DD is quite quiet, academic and very arty. She likes sports, especially gymnastics and football, but not super competitive. She is in a small co-ed primary school in Switzerland at the moment and we return to the UK in the summer. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

Weybridge is fine for Claremont - there is a bus. It has been very popular this year - the grounds are pretty special, and it is a very friendly school, where an arty DD would fit in really well

So my ex P won the who gets post delivered first game today and tells me the green envelope from SHS has arrived at his with a yes. So they're on their way!

congratulations @refusetobeasheep !!! we just got a shs green envelope too !! and its a yes !!!!

@Benny12 Congratulations!!

Us too!!

Congratulations all!

Congratulations! Well done DDs!

Congratulations! Still waiting for the postman here.

Congrats all! We are overseas and we are still waiting

We got a yes from SHS! THRILLED!

Congrats, Funky!

Entirely predictably, no post here at all today. Fingers crossed for Monday.

well done to everyone on the surbiton offers ... @HighRopes & @Meimng ...🤞🤞hoping you get good news on Monday...

Congrats to all those getting offers today. We are waiting on PHS, Jags, WHS and ScHS. Think I know the offer dates for all except Putney. Does anyone know when Putney let us know and whether by snail mail or email?

@aliW79 PHS has said that they will come out with offer on the 11/02.

We are also waiting for PHS, KGS, LU, Emanuel and G&L. They all have the same deadline 11/02. My prediction is that KGS will be the first one out together with Emanuel mid next week followed by PHS and last on the Friday G&L and LU.
My fingers are super crossed 🤞

Ah so definitely ON Friday not just BY Friday like WHS?

@Pigtastic We are also waiting on LU and Emanuel but just checked back and both say results on 11 (LU by email and Emanuel post 10 and email 11). I don’t think they will be before.

It's a YES from SHS here too! We are thrilled.

Huge congrats to all the MN DDs with a green envelope today

Not accepting yet, as although SHS is my first choice for the pastoral care and easy commute, DD is equally interested in LEH.... so waiting to see if anything comes of that.

Also can I please check that Surbiton doesn't do exploding offers.... ?

From the letter it looks like a regular deadline but thought I'd check!

It's not an exploding offer. Anyone see the article in The Times today which seems to have SHS leading in grade inflation at GCSE last year? A 34 per cent increase does seem questionable ... could be repercussions?

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/55afd2e2-8685-11ec-83a3-cc7abcec4f36?shareToken=adf2d2f30c611d5943c6c1d22b5c2d20

@refusetobeasheep i think all schools have done it at A level and gcse. The results and final grades were based on predicted grades... those are really subjective from teacher to teacher and school to school. If you look across all the schools you will see some major movements. And thats why the last 2 years league tables are almost useless... well in my opinion.

I’m so glad it’s not an exploding offer - that was a stressful thought, since we haven’t even had the letter yet.

On the grade inflation, I did see quite a lot of school mentioned on this thread on the list. Surbiton topped it for GCSEs, with PHS third and Sutton High tenth.

For A level grade inflation, PHS was seventh, SPGS 16th.