JOHN PAUL II RC SCHOOL wimbledon

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Am thinking of applying for a job there, does anyone know what it is like.

It would have to fit like a glove for me to give up dd new school and the expense of living in London

Its website is spectacularly unhelpful. I have found out that there are only 464 pupils, has it just been reopened with a rolling programme of intakes.

I think it may have been in special measures

I grew up in Wimbledon and don't remember it. maybe it was a school that has been re opened and renamed.

will ask some of my relatives if thats the case as then i could tell you about what the old school was like.

I think that is the case as I used to teach in London and had not heard of it.

I think I may give it a wide birth as I have just read they are planing on shutting the school and merging with another. It is exactly that situation which is causing the problems in my present school.

was in special measures in 2005

I lived there too and have never heard of it either.

it is listed as Princes Way sw19

I live in nearby Putney, my son goes to an RC primary not far away, and I checked that it is not a school my sons school feed into, and Wimbledon is not too far away, so that is not the reason.

rather useless website

I want to leave my school ( I think) and jobs in my subject with a comparable salary to what am on now are rare.

I know London well although have never lived in that area. I did want to return for many years but the property prices but me off as I think that we would be permanently skint on wages that are considered very good up here. DD also has a place in a private school up here for Sept and if we moved to London clearly she could not go to that school and would have to renter the state system. If there were a job up here I would take it but there are not any and I am not sure how long I could hack it out for at my present school while I hang around for a job that may not ever appear.

Dp thinks I should leave the state sector all together and find myself a job at a nice private school that would not be as demanding, preferably the school that dd will go to so I can get reduced fees, for the first time ever that is approching the realms of possibility.

I would rather stay in the state sector and don't mind a challenge but a challenge that is heading in the right direction, where I am now is on the skids and it is taking up too much of my life and threatening my health.

From what I have read about the school I am surprised they are recruiting, but then again my present school is bankrupt and with a very uncertain future and recruiting. Perhaps it is temporary, I did not see but will check the small print. It is for a head of department which I imagine has to exist so even if the school is threatened the post will need to be filled.

It is permanent here from tes jobs.tes.co.uk/job.aspx?jobId=448235

try again advert here

cakes on Fridays sounds desperate, since we have really hit the shit at school we give out cakes on Friday.

NOR. January '07 465 - I don;t know what that means.

the oftsed report is similar to the one my present school has without the effective leadership bit.

I am aware of house prices which is a great hurdle for us, we have about £50K of equity in our current place so would need a huge mortgage and think to be honest we could not afford to live in London which is quite shocking as we would have a combined income of 80K+ a year.