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Lordship Lane Primary- anyone have any experience?
Hi all,
My wife and I are just in the process of moving to Turnpike Lane/Wood Green with our baby daughter and are desperately trying to get our heads round primary schools in the area. I just wondered whether anyone had any recent experience of Lordship Lane Primary School?
Barring a miracle, we will fall outside the catchment area for Belmont , so Lordship Lane is our most likely option. We have looked around the school and liked it, but have also heard widely differing views about it from various people. In particular, there seems to be a feeling that the school focuses on those pupils who need additional help to get them up to the required standards at the expense of those who might benefit from being pushed more. Does anyone have any thoughts/opinions on that?
Obviously I know that a lot of this is subjective, but I am just keen to get as many opinions as possible in order to make some kind of rational decision! I'd be really grateful for anyone's thoughts.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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" the school focuses on those pupils who need additional help to get them up to the required standards at the expense of those who might benefit from being pushed more" - you could say that about all schools I think. If you get your child declared talented & gifted then they can monopolise a bit more attention from the teachers, at the expense of perfectly able and not enough of a problem to deal with students.
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Permalink Reply by liz on
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My son went to Lordship Lane Primary in his school years 1 to 6. He's now at year 11 at Latymer. The school is quite large and takes in kids (and so has to deal with families...) from an extremely wide range of backgrounds. In my experience they dealt with the challenges this brings amazingly well. This seems to be evidenced by their good performance in the league tables published yesterday. My son was supported to have a great education and take part in lots of sport, music, plays etc very well. He made lots of good friends, some of whom were very bright and were supported to meet their potential. There was the odd case of attempted bullying which was stopped, effectively and early. The mix of backgrounds in the school mean that there wasnt a culture of fundraising/ parent-led events / huddles around the school gate etc in the way that there may be in a school with a more middle class catchment area. The headteacher would have appreciated more support with such things! I actually chose it above Belmont for my son, because I worried that Belmont was too small to have sports teams etc. For my son, it was the right decision. If anyone is wondering, my son didn't have any private tuition to get into Latymer - just sample test books from WH Smith which we worked through ourselves.
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Permalink Reply by Liza on
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It is sensible to start to think about this, but really schools can change so much in the period of a few years. The most important thing are not the results but the strength of the leadership, whether there is a strong vision , and whether there are changes afoot. Schools perform in cycles and the important thing is to determine whether it is on an upward or downward trajectory...... But. as I said , you have a few years yet before you can know this really !
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