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Topic ID 6525
19/04/2012 by mb976
St Andrews primary school
Dear all, we have just had our primary school allocation through and didn't get any of our three choices for our oldest son. We have been allocated a place at Hertford St Andrews and to be honest it is one of the schools that we hadn't even looked at. Does anyone have children there or know anything about it? We have looked at the OFSTED which has an overall 'outstanding' grading but feel we need to know a little more before accepting as we hadn't considered it before now....knew the school applications were going to be fun, but the stress is more than we expected!!
Any comments greatly received....
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Reply ID 87363
19/04/2012 by spacepirate
Three of my children have been through Hertford st andrews and my fourth is at nursery there and we have just accepted a place in reception for him. (it was our first choice school).
My eldest 3 all did well there and i expect my youngest to as well as he already is.
Reply ID 87365
19/04/2012 by mb976
Thanks space pirate, that's sounds good. We didn't even really know about this school but it looks like a gem. Will be really interesting to have a look round.
Reply ID 87367
19/04/2012 by suemay
Hello
May I be cheeky and ask where you live, and what your 1st choices were? Is St Andrews close to you?
Just interested in how they are allocating.
Thanks
Reply ID 87368
19/04/2012 by mb976
Hi suemay, sure we live beane road end of millmead way, we put millmead, bengeo then abelsmith. We went for this to try and get the school closest to us. We liked Bengeo but to be honest, in our humble opinion not sure of the class sizes due to the bulge class now...starting to like the idea of small class sizes...
Reply ID 87376
20/04/2012 by spacepirate
Yeah, St Andrews has got quite small class sizes compared to some of the others which we like.
So if you accept the place for your son i'll see you there in September!
Reply ID 87378
20/04/2012 by suemay
Thank you for that, we are the year behind and waiting for our nursey place!! We are too near Beane Road, and I put Millmead and St Josephs, (our 2 nearset schools!) but in all honesty am expecting Hollybush. That is what our neighbour was given.
I'm surprised you were offered St Andrews rather tha Hollybush as it is nearer.
We have to remember that all our schools are great, and if St Andrews has smaller class sizes, it sounds like a good option.
Good luck in whatever you choose.
Reply ID 87381
20/04/2012 by spacepirate
You still might get one of the Nurseries you have chosen.
A friend of mine applied for St Joseph's a couple of years ago and her son got a place in Nursery but not for reception.
When we applied for a Nursery place we applied for St Andrews & Hollybush and both offered us a place.
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