In an hour and a half..

peachyprice

Here in Essex we do the 11+ and 13+ but only if you put a grammar school down as a choice, if you don't you don't do it.

elfen

GemB, you must have gone slightly before me, they phased out the beige and kept the kilts and tried keeping the blazers.

Think they still had the 13+ here, as a LOT of girls from the local private school moved over in Year 9. Also, am VERY glad I went to grammar, as if I went to the local comp I'da spent half my life being bullied and the other half doing better than everyone else, getting bullied even more for it. So I'm glad for grammar schools.

loftus

Curious_George wrote: »

i think i read somewhere that nobody "fails" the 11+ anymore...
the grammar schools just take the ones with the best results

It's always been the case that pupils don't fail the 11+. Grammar schools just fill their quota with the top performers. You could get 90% but if the quota is filled with kids getting over 90% you don't get in and there is no way a child who gets 90% in an exam can be said to have failed.

patchwork_cat

Here in Halifax we have Grammar schools and an 11+ style entrance exam. Not everyone takes it only those that want to be considered for the Grammars (there are 2) my DD got in to the grammar last yeat, but my son 6 years ago was offered a place at the one furthest away, at the last minute, which he didn't want and went to the local comp. If it is any consolation OP he went on to get 3 A* and 5 A + some others, so grammar school is not the be all! Don't get stressed or you will be a mess by the time they take their A's (spoken fron experience!!)

Frith

They stopped the 11+ here in 1982! The old girls grammar school became a 6th form college (and was where I went after comp).

L

tandraig

choccybikkie wrote: »

Gabyjane- I know you said you were in devon and just wanted to say if it is TGGS you are talking about I went there and wouldn't wish that place on anybody!
Awful,awful school (ok it was a few years ago I was there).
Yes performance wise they do very well but when it comes to life experiences and the teaching of a varied cirriculum then they fail IMO.

I remember being in assembly once and it had come to the attention of the headmistress that 2 students(all girls school) had had an arguement on a friday night at a party and she told the school that any girls who hang out at parties where boys were present were prostitutes and protection should be used if anyone were to hold hands with boys:eek:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
May I add she is no longer the headmistress at that school:cool:

did she mean Marigold gloves?:rotfl:

leanneq

euronorris wrote: »

Also another one who lived in Kent and had to sit 11+ exams. That was.......erm.......1990/91 ish. lol

I had no idea it wasn't a national thing, so it was quite surprising to hear otherwise.

Gabyjane, I'm glad your daughter is happy. That is the most important thing.

Same as me - i sat mine in 1991

VfM4meplse

Wow herein lies the most persuasive argument to move back to the home counties I've heard (and I don't even have children). Essex, Kent and Bucks are the best bet.

elfen

1994 - highly recommended - passed it - spent 5 years being told off for smoking in uniform and getting drunk at in-school parties.

gabyjane

Hi yes to clarify i guess she 'failed' but i hate using that term. No it is not compulsary but she wanted to try so? Imo she tried and we have no idea how she did and will never know..she could have been very close or not and who knows..there was a very high amount trying to get in this year as was last so it was always going to be a possible close call. At the end of the day i now know today who is and isn't going..there are 4 children in her class who were a dead cert to and didn't pass..says it all really..think one was v stressed and just lost it tbh..there were parents who basically blackmailed their kids to do well..others who have stressed so much the kids have had a knock on effect so i felt sorry for their poor teacher today as a very mixed class..most of them happy though..just think it is such a shame at this age..the pressure. One mum is distraught as her son isn't going to 1st or 2nd choice and is set for a very long journey each day..he has had a tutor since year 2 so she is blaming the tutor etc..its all gone mad!

There was 1 school i didnt want really her to go to and luckily she is not, the one she is going to has very good results and a lot of what i would call 'upper class' parents are happy they are going there so im happy with that. The school i went to was awful in ways but i know people who are solicitors, teachers and architects so wasn't all bad and proves if you want to learn you can achieve..at the end of the day dd is doing very well now and hope she wilol carry on trying when she gets there.

I am happy just guess i hate like i said the whole failure aspect to it..we will never know!

chockybiccie no she didnt put down TGGS! her friend is going there..(twin) other twin is going with dd so will see how they get on! I have spoke to numerous old parents who have mixed reviews and most of them say that although the grammer school is more of a 'pusher' the secondary is as good as she has 2 kids and the one at comp is doing better (sound like im justifying it i'm not!)..just the fact im happy where she is going!

Anyway it's over and done..will await sept now!