Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Secondary schools
Interested to hear from any ladder residents about which schools (if any) they have been able to get a place for at Secondary level?
I will have to apply for my eldest in November this year and it seems we're in a no-man's land, wondering if I'm going to have to move again, ideally don't want to.
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Permalink Reply by ElleCarumba on
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There is the brand new Skinners Academy in the middle of Woodbery Down, just by Manor House station (technically its a Hackney school as is just over the borough border)
Am on Burgoyne, so southern ladder, and there I see one kid in Skinners' uniform which I presume lives around here somewhere.
Think it only opened this year so no exam results to see yet. Snazzy building.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Very nearly sent my daughter here. She was offered a place but managed to wriggle out of it. Exactly 100 miles door to door. Very good exam results.
There are lots of other schools like Wymondham. They are supposedly for the armed services and diplomatic staff to send their children to but in actual fact so many of them are sent to private schools (paid for with our taxes) that they usually have lots of space for more borders.
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Permalink Reply by Karin on
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I'm sure this website shows potential catchment areas http://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/ so that might help.
Which school does your daughter go to John if you don't mind saying? Just my neighbour asked me today about secondary schools as his daughter may move to live with him in Harringay as she is having a bad time with bullying at her current school in another borough.
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North Bridge House Senior School in Camden. By "wriggling out" of the one in Norfolk I mean she was awarded a music scholarship which made the fees comparable to the boarding fees. At the moment the lovely 29 bus goes straight there but from next year the campus will move to Hampstead which might be trickier.
Mrs M was quite keen on Heartlands High which I think we may have been able to sneak into but I didn't like the name of the school.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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snob
John, just out of interest North Bridge is run by the Cognita Group, a profit making outfit headed up by Chris Woodhead, the ex chief inspector of schools, who love the free schools concept (for reasons of profit).Interesing report here accusing Cognita of .... (just saying)
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Don't mind Matt, John. 'twould be worse if he'd dropped that 's'.
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link: Cognita Group
Eddie, relax. John & I were having a nice post new years chat only yesterday. But on education he is easy to poke fun at. And he knows it! He sets himself up ... whilst showing off of course about being able to afford an independent school option.
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Matt... people in glass houses...
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We are at the Northern End of the ladder and have exactly the same issue i.e. in no man's land so also keen to hear from others with kids in secondary schools.
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Permalink Reply by cara howard on
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Thanks all. Not really keen on Hornsey tbh, for many reasons, not least that I also have a son and I'd like them to end up at the same school, so it's that strategy of get the eldest in somewhere good and the littl'un follows. She's quite academic, especially keen on the maths and sciences, so would like her to be somewhere she won't coast as she has mild ADHD like symptoms and is easily bored. Looking like moving may be the best option as we're currently renting and plan to buy, so maybe move for the school placing then buy back on the ladder...
We will be applying in November I think, for next Sept intake, so some time really, but I know how hard it is to find somewhere decent if it does mean a move, so trying to be organised and weigh up the options early.
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Interestingly they have a banded admissions system, so all applicants sit an exam, are placed in one of five ability bands and they take 20pc of their intake from each band, by proximity to the school. Seems to be a popular system for Hackney's academies to do this- at least they should get a balanced intake.
Borough boundaries don't matter to admissions so if you live close enough you get in, regardless of living in the "wrong" borough.
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