Which part of Bristol to rent in /avoid?
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Thora
Differently Ethical
To give you the example of St. Werburghs primary - there are 28 reception places.
1 went to a child in care (1st priority)
15 went to siblings of children already at the school
12 went to local children - the child furthest away was 300m from the school.
The way round it is that Bristol needs more primary school places. The council are making some attempts to provide those now - I think there's going to be a new school in Ashley Down and there was talk about St. Ursulas (private school) becoming a 3-18 academy.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
MY infants school was about 200 yards away and my Junior school even closer. 
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I still don't get it. Why did you say 500m? I'm not being funny, i just don't get it.
St Ursula's is now a normal school i think.
St Ursula's is now a normal school i think.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
MY infants school was about 200 yards away and my Junior school even closer.
Mine too. I don't really understand the problems these days, I'm guessing the number of school places has just been outstripped by population growth. Or are the problems down to choice, i.e. there are enough school places but people don't want to send their children there because they are crap?
Thora
Differently Ethical
Did you understand the example I gave of 300m?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I got the example of 300m from the school mentioned. What about 300m from where you actually live? Is that what you mean?
Thora
Differently Ethical
Mostly it's a problem of a lack of places - there are (just) enough places in the entire city, but your child might get a place in their 15th closest school rather than the nearest.
Obviously as good schools in nice areas are oversubscribed, there is an element of Clifton parents complaining that Jocasta has been given a school in Southmead.
Thora
Differently Ethical
After children in care and siblings, places are allocated to the children who live nearest. In St. Werburghs the child living furthest from the school who got a place lived 300m from the school.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I know. You said. What about where you live?
Thora
Differently Ethical
Me personally? Our nearest school is crap so I doubt we'd have a problem getting a place
In fact it's a school where people living on the other side of Bristol complain they've been allocated.butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Me personally? Our nearest school is crap so I doubt we'd have a problem getting a place
Ah i get it, you've been applying to schools elsewhere and aren't happy that places go to locals. This is 'the 500m problem'. Tough shit.
Thora
Differently Ethical
I haven't been applying for schools anywhere, we're about 3 years off that.
I think you've missed my point though - some children in Bristol struggling to get a place in any of their local schools. If their local schools are oversubscribed and they don't live within a few hundred metres of any of them, they are allocated schools in other parts of the city.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Thora
Differently Ethical
This might make it clearer - this kid doesn't live close enough to her three local schools in St.George so gets allocated a school in St. Annes:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Mum-quit-job-school-run/article-2233699-detail/article.html
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Mum-quit-job-school-run/article-2233699-detail/article.html
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
A single shocking example rarely does but..why is this happening then?
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
the school we looked at in Totterdown was about 70yds from the border of its catchment area - we were explicitly told that if we moved to an address on the wrong side of X road we stood no hope whatsoever of getting a place at the school. if we had of fallen foul of that the school we'd have got a place in was another half a mile away (yeah, i know - 20 miles each way to school, we were beaten with the strap, starved, couldn't afford friends, made our own fun etc...), and was shit.
we fancied Redfield - good location, nice 'villagy' vibe. lots of interesting shops and cafes, reasonable (ish) prices - but the schools were dire, infact 'dire' is being deceptively charitable...
we fancied Redfield - good location, nice 'villagy' vibe. lots of interesting shops and cafes, reasonable (ish) prices - but the schools were dire, infact 'dire' is being deceptively charitable...
Thora
Differently Ethical
Council have mis-managed school places I guess. It seems to have come as a surprise each year that there have been more 4 year olds than reception places.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
am i a snob because i'm not keen on sending my kids to a school that gets Grade 4's (poor/unsatisfactory - can't remember the terminology) in OFSTED reports?
i'll live with the hurtful arrows you've fired at me...
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
How does one evaluate an infants / primary school before you actually live in the area. ?
I cycle past Whitehall primary every morning and it looks fine. A shame they don't actually use their cycling facilities though ...
Stoke Gifford -
I cycle past Whitehall primary every morning and it looks fine. A shame they don't actually use their cycling facilities though ...
Stoke Gifford -
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
How many people that can't read do schools in east bristol churn out? What's the %? Where have you taken your figures from?
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Yes you are.
Thora
Differently Ethical
To be fair, if a school is in special measures or has an inadequate Ofsted rating you wouldn't want to send your child there even if it looked fine.How does one evaluate an infants / primary school before you actually live in the area. ?
I cycle past Whitehall primary every morning and it looks fine. A shame they don't actually use their cycling facilities though ...
Stoke Gifford -
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Yeah, really. I have some knowledge of the stats around education in Bristol from a previous job I did, and the fact then was that a good few Bristol schools had negative scores in the 'value added' assessment. This measures how far ahead kids at that school are from where a kid would normally be at that age.
In other words, statistically speaking anyway, these schools made kids less able than they would have been if they'd just stayed at home.
I can't see how wanting a decent education for your kids is an issue of snobbery. It's more inverted snobbery not to in a way.
In other words, statistically speaking anyway, these schools made kids less able than they would have been if they'd just stayed at home.
I can't see how wanting a decent education for your kids is an issue of snobbery. It's more inverted snobbery not to in a way.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Everyone wants a decent education for their kids - it is ridiculous of you to suggest otherwise. However, not everyone has the resources to move to areas which are served by the "better" schools!
My niece went to the worst school in North Somerset, where only 31% of pupils achieved 5 GCSEs at grade A-C. She came out with 6 A's and A*s, loads of Bs and Cs. She was one of the top performing pupils in her year.
She is not yet having to apply for jobs in McDonalds!
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
I loves East Bristol-bin ere since 96'Jesus fuck
