City of London Freemen's 11+

[omma2025]

We’re seriously considering City of London Freemen's year 7 entry for DS and I would like to ask if anyone can share their own experiences about the recent secondary school life and how new children settle (join the current y6 children)? also about the cocurricular activities at school and travelling from/to school, please? do the students mainly use school buses? thank you.

Freemen’s have had a shake up with how they run their age brackets recently. Year 7 is now considered seniors when it would have been in the prep previously. My understanding is every new child across the school gets a “buddy” in their form group, who they meet at whatever induction events they do before joining. They’re meant to be a sort of built in friend and if I recall quite intentionally selected. I think Year 7 entry might have increased but there’s always been enough of them that I’d find quite hard to imagine they don’t integrate. The school is set up quite well for new joiners imo as they have 4 main points of entry. My DC’s took the bus to school and I’d say a significant portion of kids do or the train although the traffic in the area is still horrible at pick-up. In terms of co-curricular, there’s actually a fair amount of sport despite the schools rep (I think they’re trying to fix this by FINALLY introducing sports scholarships) so squash, fencing, swim squad, running club etc. on top of games. I think chess club, Model United Nations and all sorts of DT madness is available for the more indoorsy types. Music is BIG, most kids take up an instrument at some point although they might not stick to it. Drama was never my DC’s interests but I think they have a lot for those who want it. Most departments run a form club or society so there’s never any shortage of stuff for the kids to be doing.

thank you very much

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