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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Crucial time for my son as this is the year we have to go round and find the best secondary school for him, one that will help his needs and encourage his skills, was it ever like this in the 80s?, i just went from primary school to the closest secondary, don't remember being taken to different schools to see which one would suit me best. |
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In my day it wasn't even the closest (the 11+ had just been scrapped)... they had stupid catchment areas. There was a school 10 minutes walk away, but all the kids around my way had to go to a place nearly 3 miles away because the catchment zone went off in the other direction! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think you have a choice of 3 schools,you pick 1st choice school then 2 others and the education decide what school they go in,unless you are paying for their education,but you can appeal over the choice of school they decide your child goes to. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I think you have a choice of 3 schools,you pick 1st choice school then 2 others and the education decide what school they go in,unless you are paying for their education,but you can appeal over the choice of school they decide your child goes to."
yeah it is 3 choices, our first being Blue Coat, anyone from liverpool will know that that is the top school academically plus its a science and math school which my son excels at. so its fingers crossed for that.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I'm just starting the University Discovery Hunt with my eldest... dragging me all over the effing country looking for the place with the best digs/climbing wall/social life etc....  "
yeah not interested in the uni, just the socializing side  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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nah....just got sent to the local comp after missing out on Grammar School Place.....5 years of unadulterated fun...became a legend in my own lunch time...my reputation was so bad that when my sister due to go there 5 years after I left...she went to court to make sure sis never set foot inside the gates  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Had a similar thing happen to me. My brother started our comp a year before me and when I got there, first day, teacher called my name, I replied, he said, *****'s brother?", "yes sir," I answered.
"Will be keeping a close eye on you then!" He responded.
"Fuck!" Thought I. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm just starting the University Discovery Hunt with my eldest... dragging me all over the effing country looking for the place with the best digs/climbing wall/social life etc.... "
Done that with my youngest, she goes off in September: just seems the other day we were looking for a Montessori nursery... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Had a similar thing happen to me. My brother started our comp a year before me and when I got there, first day, teacher called my name, I replied, he said, *****'s brother?", "yes sir," I answered.
"Will be keeping a close eye on you then!" He responded.
"Fuck!" Thought I. "
lol...my little brother had that problem...he knew something was up when my physics teacher saw him in the corridor, turned, and ran....my name still remembered 25 years on.......think it'll be my legacy to the world |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm just starting the University Discovery Hunt with my eldest... dragging me all over the effing country looking for the place with the best digs/climbing wall/social life etc....
Done that with my youngest, she goes off in September: just seems the other day we were looking for a Montessori nursery..."
My little lad is at one of their nurseries at this precise moment. They're excellent. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm just starting the University Discovery Hunt with my eldest... dragging me all over the effing country looking for the place with the best digs/climbing wall/social life etc....
Done that with my youngest, she goes off in September: just seems the other day we were looking for a Montessori nursery...
My little lad is at one of their nurseries at this precise moment. They're excellent. "
Can't sing their praises enough, before you know it he'll be off to uni too...we really do need a weeping emoticon!!  |
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By *woBiTwoCouple
over a year ago
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"I'm just starting the University Discovery Hunt with my eldest... dragging me all over the effing country looking for the place with the best digs/climbing wall/social life etc....
Done that with my youngest, she goes off in September: just seems the other day we were looking for a Montessori nursery..."
... Had one of those (no, of course I'm not crying!) moments when I discovered the first-day-uniform pics for both kids the other day...   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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... Had one of those (no, of course I'm not crying!) moments when I discovered the first-day-uniform pics for both kids the other day... "
I've always bought my children's school uniform from specialist shops, yet have to fight against welling up everytime the George from Asda ad comes on...!!!
No more school uniform buying for me...
*Cough, hay fever making me sniff... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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up here its the school nearest to your home unless you have religious interest and i gotta say the nearest non denominational school to me is better than local primary but i dont believe in religious education in schools so she at the local ine but it is good!
doesnt time fly though first its nursery then before u know it its secondary and uni!
i think the parents of the kids looking for uni's be feeling it more im dreadin when it comes that time for mine cause then they def not kids any more! xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"up here its the school nearest to your home unless you have religious interest and i gotta say the nearest non denominational school to me is better than local primary but i dont believe in religious education in schools so she at the local ine but it is good!
doesnt time fly though first its nursery then before u know it its secondary and uni!
i think the parents of the kids looking for uni's be feeling it more im dreadin when it comes that time for mine cause then they def not kids any more! xx"
Thing is this is the third time. We didn't feel this way for the other two, I suppose because they went to uni's in London, but our baby has decided to go to uni in the Midlands: so it's a combination of her leaving home and not having "babies" any more.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"up here its the school nearest to your home unless you have religious interest and i gotta say the nearest non denominational school to me is better than local primary but i dont believe in religious education in schools so she at the local ine but it is good!
doesnt time fly though first its nursery then before u know it its secondary and uni!
i think the parents of the kids looking for uni's be feeling it more im dreadin when it comes that time for mine cause then they def not kids any more! xx
Thing is this is the third time. We didn't feel this way for the other two, I suppose because they went to uni's in London, but our baby has decided to go to uni in the Midlands: so it's a combination of her leaving home and not having "babies" any more.
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Oh rite sorry to hear that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm just starting the University Discovery Hunt with my eldest... dragging me all over the effing country looking for the place with the best digs/climbing wall/social life etc.... "
I have to do that with my Daughter shortly, I dont want her to go far but it's whats best for her |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm just starting the University Discovery Hunt with my eldest... dragging me all over the effing country looking for the place with the best digs/climbing wall/social life etc....
I have to do that with my Daughter shortly, I dont want her to go far but it's whats best for her "
Yeah thats rite mate. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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went to Blue Coat school last night and was greeted with a queue the full length of the road , last year over 700 applied for the school and only 120 where accepted, so the odds are stacked against us. , fantastic school obviously, just hoping now our son is lucky enough to be one of the 120. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My primary school was round the corner from me.
My secondary school was right across the road from me.
First day in secondary i and about another 30 or so got suspended for a week for fighting with another secondary school in another part of the town
My mother nearly killed me |
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"went to Blue Coat school last night and was greeted with a queue the full length of the road , last year over 700 applied for the school and only 120 where accepted, so the odds are stacked against us. , fantastic school obviously, just hoping now our son is lucky enough to be one of the 120. "
Reminds me of the odds for a single man on here. LOL |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My primary school was round the corner from me.
My secondary school was right across the road from me.
First day in secondary i and about another 30 or so got suspended for a week for fighting with another secondary school in another part of the town
My mother nearly killed me "
Fighting with the school up the road was a half termly event at our school.....ended up with the police stationed at all the bus stops checking bus passes etc and making sure everyone was on the right buses to go home....not up the hill to kick the crap out of the kids there |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Fighting with the school up the road was a half termly event at our school.....ended up with the police stationed at all the bus stops checking bus passes etc and making sure everyone was on the right buses to go home....not up the hill to kick the crap out of the kids there "
sounds like our school too, we where forever meeting the other local secondary comp for scraps |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Fighting with the school up the road was a half termly event at our school.....ended up with the police stationed at all the bus stops checking bus passes etc and making sure everyone was on the right buses to go home....not up the hill to kick the crap out of the kids there
sounds like our school too, we where forever meeting the other local secondary comp for scraps"
my last day at school.....5 kids from the year below got expelled....they went up the hill....jumped through a plate glass window at the school there and started kicking the crap out of the kids there in the corridor |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"my last day at school.....5 kids from the year below got expelled....they went up the hill....jumped through a plate glass window at the school there and started kicking the crap out of the kids there in the corridor "
Blimey, it was never that bad |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"my last day at school.....5 kids from the year below got expelled....they went up the hill....jumped through a plate glass window at the school there and started kicking the crap out of the kids there in the corridor
Blimey, it was never that bad "
I went to a good school.......for training urban terrorists |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I went to a good school.......for training urban terrorists "
My school was very similar even the emergency services deemed the approach roads to it no-go areas. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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well when my daughter was coming up to 11 she wanted to sit the exams as she especially wanted to go to a certain C of E school. she had to sit an entrance exam and also the parents and child got interviewed. all in all she sat the exams for 3 schools two being interviews and exams and the 3rd being exam only. although my daughter did attend sunday school and also her grandfather being a minster of his own church, this did not help at interviews. she lost points because her father and i were honest that we did not go to church. so her friend whose father changed religion months previous and started a sunday school up to get his child in, well his daughter got in. albeit with less of a exam score than my daughter. The other two schools get got into. My point was that the religious schools just be interested in the religion of the child. The children are the ones to make the impact on, as it is their future.
As it was my daughter was one of the first 50 girls to get into a prestigous school here that until that year had been boys only.
this school judged her purely on her results, rather than the fact her mum and dad didnt go to church. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"well when my daughter was coming up to 11 she wanted to sit the exams as she especially wanted to go to a certain C of E school. she had to sit an entrance exam and also the parents and child got interviewed. all in all she sat the exams for 3 schools two being interviews and exams and the 3rd being exam only. although my daughter did attend sunday school and also her grandfather being a minster of his own church, this did not help at interviews. she lost points because her father and i were honest that we did not go to church. so her friend whose father changed religion months previous and started a sunday school up to get his child in, well his daughter got in. albeit with less of a exam score than my daughter. The other two schools get got into. My point was that the religious schools just be interested in the religion of the child. The children are the ones to make the impact on, as it is their future.
As it was my daughter was one of the first 50 girls to get into a prestigous school here that until that year had been boys only.
this school judged her purely on her results, rather than the fact her mum and dad didnt go to church."
Bible Basher! Sorry God,lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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well i like NEXT DOOR as in school number 1 and im number 3 ffs and i have to take my youngest to a school 5 miles away as they reacon there is no room , its such a nightmare appealing |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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just had my youngest complete her first year at Uni, still expects Mum to sort her out, as do the older ones. When do they get to be adults!!!???
Bit unfair of me really since they have been known to bail me out of a jam now and again as well! Oops |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just had my youngest complete her first year at Uni, still expects Mum to sort her out, as do the older ones. When do they get to be adults!!!???
Bit unfair of me really since they have been known to bail me out of a jam now and again as well! Oops"
Wot Strawberry Jam???
mmmmmmmmmmmm love strawberry.lol |
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