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What HollandforLife and Gwendolen1 said, particularly about the actions that define bold leadership.

My daughter is 11 and is still using hers! She is small for her age and it still helps her to be the right height at the table.

It seems that the missing thread is now back up - is that right Admin? Is it so that we can redact our comments? Would be helpful if you could say which bit the school complained about. And what authorities will you be passing our details on to?

Yes I think it was taken down. This is a common occurance. The school regularly polices the forums and if they don't like what they see they get the offending thread or post deleted by claiming libel and threatening legal action.

"The school has boasted about its ever improving cohort and even if this was a bit of a weaker year group, it would have been weak when it started, hence why the Value Added Score is so incredibly low. There is no excuse for it being so low, the school has failed very many low achieving students which is unacceptable. " Agree that the score was unacceptably low. If you look at Southwark's results, 11 out of 15 schools achieved a score over 1000 (which is the baseline above which the school is adding value). Of the 4 that has lower scores, Kingsdale is the lowest. Also two of the four have GCSE A*-C on or above 60%. What I can't work out is how this disasterous results tie in with the 'good' outcome for the attainment section of the very recent results. Looks like there is a discrepancy there?

BB100 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > prickle Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > Some Yr 11s this year are having to take 2 > English > > GCSE exams for 2 different boards for the same > > exam period. It seems that the school's > strategy > > is to spread the risk - let them take both and > > choose the best result as 'the one'. Robust and > > bold, maybe but educationally sound? > > What's that got to do with last year's students? > > Anyway, schools up and down the country have been > doing this for ages. There was an article in TES > magazine recently about it and how the government > are planning to have one exam board per subject to > stamp it out. I didn't say that it was anything to do with last year's students. Also the fact that other schools are doing this does not make it right. What struck me was that if this was true, the lengths the school was prepared to go for good results regardless of what the actual education benefits are to the students themselves. Given the track record of the school (being investigated for exam cheating), I was surprised to hear that the school was still using rather questionable (but probably legal) means to pursue good results (but not very successfully!) Its all desperate really. I feel really sorry for these Yr 11 students.

Quote from ofsted: "In tackling these issues robustly, bold decisions were made to switch the courses being followed by some Year 11 students." I've heard that some Yr 11s this year are having to take 2 English GCSE exams for 2 different boards for the same exam period. It seems that the school's strategy is to spread the risk - let them take both and choose the best result as 'the one'. Robust and bold, maybe but educationally sound?

Oh dear indeed. Is this the first set of results after the cheating debacle, ie the first set of 'straight' results?

Ms Boyer is still listed as headteacher for DKH. She left 4-5 years ago! I hope the rest of the data are more accurate!

Yes, agreed. Thank you Renata.

Kingsdale is banding and lottery not distance.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Chillaxed, > I have actively supported the Judith Kerr > bilingual German/English school. I've alerted them > to the Dulwich Hopsital site ...isn't the Dulwich Hospital site earmarked for the Harris Primary? Exactly how many schools are going to be on this site?

There's also smaller selection in stationary shop in Dulwich Village. Take the 37.

Another point of info is that Charter is about the only school in the area that doesn't use fair-banding. It uses proximity instead. Does that make a different to you argument?

LondonMix, a point of info, Charter (and ALL Southwark secondaries) are academies not LA