Is this a good school based on A levels results??

Poppy9

Is your child an A grade pupil and is he the sort who will do well where ever he goes?

Barneyco

Yes could be an issue but no one would need to know where he went before.

Barneyco

In the subjects he enjoys he get straight A's maybe a B on occasions. The subject such as pe he hates he still did well. Its his choice where he wants to go but I would like to give him some advice as well.

agrinnall

How has this got anything at all to do with Praise, Vent or Warnings? I don't know whether there is a board specifically for school issues (it's not a subject I have any interest in) but there has to be somewhere more appropriate than this.


I'll give the OP an F for this.

JReacher1

It's a below average school OP. If you can find better I would seek alternative options.

JReacher1

agrinnall wrote: »

How has this got anything at all to do with Praise, Vent or Warnings? I don't know whether there is a board specifically for school issues (it's not a subject I have any interest in) but there has to be somewhere more appropriate than this.


I'll give the OP an F for this.

You should really be nice to new posters

It's a harmless thread from a new poster. There is no real reason to act a "male chicken" about it.....

pinkshoes

Ahhh, I didn't click that it was a private school and was comparing the results to a typical state school.

For a private school, these are quite low, but then money cannot buy intelligence... lots of thick but wealthy children that get good GCSEs due to small classes and private tuition, but then struggle at A Level due to the subject content.

I would also look at their GCSE results.

teddysmum

It's difficult to tell, even from stats as school policies vary so much and they do know when the inspectors are due.


I taught in a fee paying school which had an entrance exam,whereas a state school I worked at let anyone try A levels (I was amazed on doing supply work to find a boy from next to the bottom set (of 6 in maths) was in an A level class.)


The private school therefore had a more able intake, though one member of staff said it was amazing how parents' finances affected entrance results.


Most schools, if pushed would have to concentrate in the middle of the group, but this school aimed at the top abilities, saying that staff must not give up their time to help pupils falling behind as parents should pay for extra tuition. (I found this an appalling attitude.)


Some schools have lower staff to pupil ratios so can get better results from less able pupils, as each has more personal help.

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Barneyco wrote: »

My Son is interested in attending this School for 6th form. I have checked this Year A levels results and I am not convinced. If you had to pay would you send your child to this school. The school has an outstanding from ofsted. But it looks like 50% failed to get A to C is that quiet high. Thanks. A levels only

Is it definitely a private school? I thought they were inspected by ISI, not OFSTED (although I may be wrong). And I don't know if there's parity between what the two would class as outstanding.

teddysmum

Going back to the fee paying school I worked in :


A few years after I left, I met three former pupils who had left to go to the local sixth form college. All three said how happy they were, as parents were saving money , there was no uniform and they were being treated as young adults ,instead of underlings with strict rules to follow. This made the transition of 'school ' to university easier, too.

They reckoned that the teaching was better ( staff were chosen according to academic achievement, which does not mean that someone can communicate well)and the subject choice much wider,as a larger intake meant that minority subjects which smaller institutions could not cover, had enough students to be viable.