oimissus

Daughter's hay fever has been really well managed this year with Fexofenadine and a nasal spray, she's had barely a symptom, and it's not changed over the weekend. Poor you! Hope this passes soon.

Actually, to be fair, a lot of that isn't clear from the OP's first post - that her son's father lives in a different part of town to her (or that her son's journey to school is more straightforward from hers than from his father's) or that he moved part way through this process. My comment has nothing to do with his education being state or private - my own daughter is at a local(ish) private school and one of the things that informed our choice of indies was the logistics of the journey - a single short train ride (with back up bus if needed) rather than a hellish drive or complicated walk/bus/walk with maybe a train thrown in for good measure - it became such a mare I never quite fathomed it out.

Is Kings still running a walk-in Covid vaccine clinic that I can take my 12 year old to for her 2nd dose? thanks.

Unfortunately there are still sections of society that are deemed to be above scrutiny, and not just within faith groups. We seem to be incapable of learning from history.

I think that you/his father will need to do the journey (both ways) a number of times with him, both over the summer and then when he starts school. He'll probably pick it up fine. Make sure there's an alternative route for invariable delays and cancellations. It sounds quite a journey but equally I don't think you can write it off after one attempt. But personally I wouldn't be sending my child to school requiring this kind of journey (both in terms of complexity and duration) if there are closer options.

It doesn't really make that much difference - I believe a class size has to drop to 15 for there to be a noticeable change. Most primaries have lost whatever TA support they had. And there's the cost of maintaining and half-empty building. I also don't blame the council for opening additional primaries. The pandemic and Brexit have upended everything.

Don't the vast majority of rules like this apply on bank holidays? Eg, you can park on yellow lines on a Sunday but not a bank holiday.

Presumably this will have a knock-on effect on secondary schools a few years down the line. legalalien Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Indeed, there was an article about it in Southwark > News yesterday > https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/honor-oaks-st > -francesca-cabrini-primary-school-could-close-afte > r-nuns-announce-plans-to-move-to-africa/ > > > > Alarmingly it suggests that parents were told that > as many as 17 Southwark schools could face > closure. There?s some background on the > oversupply of primary school places in this > earlier thread. > > /forum/read.php? > 5,2231610,2251037#msg-2251037. The worst problems > of oversupply / risk of closure seem to be in > other parts of the borough, but certainly worth > keeping an eye on the schools that they are > looking to downsize. > > > > > > > sweetgirl Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > FYI, It seems St Francesca Cabrini is at risk > of > > closing down??

Exactly this - we have friends who's child was on both Charter waiting lists but they didn't bother to continue as their child settled in well where they ended up - and that was ultimately why we didn't take the place up when push came to shove. goldilocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you - I guess its also once they've settled > somewhere else that the move could be really > disruptive.

Yes, she started year 7 Sept 2021. End of Easter term 2022 she was offered a place, to start at the beginning of the summer term. I would assume that a lot of parents don?t stay on the waiting list beyond December, either because they no longer want a place or because they don?t realise they?ll drop of it unless they specify they want to stay on it.

They?re lovely! Such a joyful thing to do.

At the point of school offer day, we were around 60 on the waiting list for Charter ED (we live about 1.2km from the school). We elected to remain on the waiting list after December, and at the end of the Easter term were offered a place (which we eventually declined).

I?m in Peckham and as of today I have had one Labour leaflet (a few weeks ago, I chucked it in the recycling) - and that?s it. No leaflets, no canvassers, nothing. There?s always someone at home these days, so it?s not like we?ve missed anyone. I?ve also not seen the Southwark Labour Twitter feed show anyone in my ward out and about. Where are all the candidates?

My niece is at a state school (not local, not language specialist or anything, just a standard comp) and they do 2 in KS3.

Thanks all. That seems quite limited to me, to only offer one. We were offered a Year 7 place but partly on this basis have turned it down, as she's doing French, Spanish and Latin at the moment and has turned out to have quite a flair for languages.

Feel free to tell the Somali ladies changing into their burkinis in the communal changing rooms at Camberwell Leisure Centre for the women-only swim session that they need to accept male-bodied people into that space. That's what Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens want. Feel free to tell young girls that they need to accept male-bodied children into their toilets and changing rooms. That's what Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens want. Feel free to tell women escaping male violence using local refuges that they need to accept male-bodied people into that space. That's what Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens want. Feel free to tell women in hospital that they need to accept male-bodied people into single-sex wards. That's what Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens want. Your attempts to shut women up by shouting 'transphobia' are wearing thin. Misogyny is no longer a vote-winner either. (I'm using male-bodied because some fragile, usually male, EDFers don't like plain English. Of course, male-bodied people are always in point of fact men.) All of these are local council issues. Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > oimissus Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > However - Respect my sex if you want my X. > Which > > basically knocks out Labour, the Lib Dems and > the > > Greens. > > Transphobia isn't going to be a big election > winner in this area.

I haven't received anything. I'm rarely canvassed (certainly not by Labour, who clearly think they don't need to bother). However - Respect my sex if you want my X. Which basically knocks out Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens.

Well, thank you for allowing them in, but saying that the only way they can deal with a hellishly loud noise which has been ongoing for several hours is to to enter someone?s home, which as you say a lone woman is simply not going to say yes to, is not a solution. You?d have to have the most unreal quadruple glazing to have kept that noise out. So they need to come up with something else that?s workable. Like, for instance, driving to the street of the complainant, getting out of the car, getting knocked sideways by the noise and going to do something about it. They must have had hundreds of complaints about this party.

I rang the noise team at 1am to report deafening music coming from a house in Peckham at the weekend. The man I (a woman) spoke to said the only way they could do anything was by entering my home (specifically, given the time of night, my bedroom) to assess the noise level. They couldn?t assess the noise and disturbance from the street, apparently. I also rang the police who said that they couldn?t do anything as this was an environmental health issue and were astonished when I said that apparently they could only do something once they had been inside my home. Music continued blaring our until 3.45am, having started at 11pm. 100% jobsworths. I?ve called them in the past (about a car alarm that went off for 6 hours), there was no suggestion then that they needed to enter my home to assess the level of disturbance. So I?m afraid I have no faith in them at all.

What language choices are on offer for Year 7s at Charter East? thanks x

I?m glad to hear none of the women felt bullied. You mention your family sponsor a player - tell me, if that player had spoken up to say that she didn?t believe that transwomen are women and she wasn?t happy about playing a team of male players - would she have lost that sponsorship? Because we know that that?s exactly what happened to women obliged to race against Lia Thomas - that if they spoke up or refused to swim, they would lose their sponsorship, their college scholarships. Hence my comment. Happy to be proved wrong. With regards to the rest of your post - well, that all hinges on your belief that humans can change sex. Many people don?t share that belief. No one *has* to share that belief. And I?ll finish by directing you to Spartacus?s post with the information released today from the EHRC.

So the school benefits from these groups being successful. It's in their interests for these clubs to be held. If they're not successful they'll stop being held and the schools buildings will be empty and unprofitable during the holidays. And the children will suffer. Like I said, the issue is school funding. Lobby your MP, don't have a go at the school's HT for simply trying to keep his school's head above water. The clubs presumably pay for this advertising - it must work otherwise why would they bother? School railings are often covered with banners that are to do with the school's own activities, like the summer fair. Would you ask the HT to remove those as well?

So the schools gain nothing at all from hiring out their halls during the holidays for private businesses to use? I'm still not sure I understand. Are these businesses using the school's premises?

So these are clubs that take place on the school property, but for the general public? I don?t have a problem with it. I think they can be very effective as a method of publicising a club or event and London schools have had their budgets slashed. Unfortunately architectural beauty comes second to raising the money needed to keep the school going for the children. I would lobby my MP rather than the HT.

Thanks both!