Schools in Camden

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Maria Fidelis-
The school is not up to scratch with education until Year 9 when there are sets. The staff are very nice and supportive but bullying is not dealt with and brushed under the rug as "everyone is friends here". Lot of poor sub lessons. Behaviour is great (though quite a few fights).

Camden School for Girls-
Excellent education/results and behaviour. Would definitely recommend or travel far for this.

Parliament Hill-
Good enough education though gifted kids are ignored and appears to be racism in school.

La Sainte Union-
Head has brought down the school to drugs and knives. Staff will pretend to be nice but quite toxic in reality. Education seems moderate but very undersubscribed so don't be jumping for joy if you get a place.

Hampstead school-
Beware. Awful, disgusting behaviour and no rules in this school. Do NOT apply.

Where on earth are these reviews from?

This poster seems to be on a mission to share her views about all the schools in North London. Since they can't all be personal experience, we should take them all with a pinch of salt.

@CarrotParrot @Foxesandsquirrels I have children (plural), who have moved schools and I live in the area

I see. Well, all the schools have their pros and cons. They're all very different. My daughter would really struggle at Camden Girls for example, their site is cramped and SEN support non existent.
My DD is at Parli and its not perfect, no school is, but shes doing very well there. Their SEN support and teaching is amazing, but the cohort is predominantly academic girls and there's a lot of mutual pressure to achieve highly, not from the staff, but between the girls. Even though my DD has gone from 1s and 2s to now passing with a few is and 7s, it doesn't feel on par with her friends who are casually on track for 7s, 8s and 9s. Lots of them take further maths GCSE too.
All kids are different and for eg a girl with dyslexia or a very clever but sensitive girl would imo be much happier at Parli than CSG. CSG is brilliant for very confident very academic middle class girls. Esp if they're musical, Parli doesn't have that many musical opportunities and CSG is so small, it's hard to be an outlier. I don't know the other schools well enough to comment but I know LSU well and again it has a very very different demographic, so really you can't paint all the schools with the same brush. A child that would like them all equally just doesn't exist.

I have a child at Parliament Hill (since last Sept). Her academic results in primary were good to average (depending on subject). She is a compliant child in school. She does like it: I feel that it seems to be a relaxed environment where students are encouraged to do well and be ambitious, and their efforts are recognised. We just had a parent evening and all the teachers we met (drama, RE, DT, Art and design, science, English) seemed to be enthusiastic, organised, interested in the children.... it was very positive... of course, teachers are probably different in the class versus with parents...
There is a wide variety of clubs of all sorts. The site is spacious, calm and pleasant.