My DD just started at Kendrick this year (Y7) and we've just received a phone call from HBS offering DD a place. We would have to move but we were planning to move closer to Kendrick anyway so moving is no issue for us.
Now we are wondering if leaving Kendrick for HBS would be more beneficial for my DD in terms of personality and education. We are aware that HBS consistently tops the league tables. We just don't want to make a decision which we may regret later on so if anyone have any experience or advice, we'd appreciate it.
We like both schools but would like to have the best for our DD and not regret the decision.
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Henrietta Barnet vs Kendrick
NameChanged4383 · 12/09/2023 13:18
Echobelly · 12/09/2023 14:33
What does your daughter want, and where are you based now are the questions I'd ask? I'd just looked up Kendrick and that's quite a way from HB!
My oldest was considering HB for 6th form but it turned out they didn't do the A level they want most of all, and my brother says from what he heard from his daughter's friends who go there it is super high pressure and he wasn't sure that would suit my oldest, so that's one thing to consider.
Foxesandsquirrels · 13/09/2023 08:18
I don't know Kendrick but I wouldn't me moving house to change to a school when the only difference is those stats. Keep her where she is if she's happy.
Foxesandsquirrels · 13/09/2023 12:33
I really don't think there will be much difference between two extremely selective girls schools, in any aspect of the school. They'll have very similar funding, very similar pastoral issues and very similar exit routes and personalities of girls. That's just the nature of these schools. Plus, you're unlikely to come across people who have had close dealings with both seeing as geographically they're so different.
Moving to London would be a huge and expensive upheaval, I'm not sure if this is a fake post but this seems to be an extremely unlikely scenario to be in.
PreplexJ · 13/09/2023 13:12
Don't think it is fake post at all, the same group of students takes the exam for Kendrick, Sutton SET and HBS (some will even take Birmingham test), and a significant portion of the parents will try to relocate/commute to the school solely based on ranking orders regardless the practicality aspect.
Normally for HBS there are about 40-50 students turn down the offers by September, some set their heart for privates and some didn't manage to move closer in the end. So this kind of question happen year after year.
Potterinthegarden · 27/10/2023 15:34
What did you do in the end OP? They sound to be similar schools to me.
HBS1985 · 27/03/2024 08:35
Thank you for suggesting…we are in Kendrick’s catchment at the moment ofcourse …and yes HBS would require a massive move from our side hence the confusion…
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