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Puzzled, you say it's not being used this season but every morning this week I ve seen both lower and upper bits of Peckham Rye being used by two different schools simultaneously...

Puzzled, you say it's not being used this season but every morning this week I ve seen both lower and upper bits of Peckham Rye being used by two different schools simultaneously...

btw which schools are currently regularly using the park? Every morning there's been one school playing rounders at the south east end, and boys playing footie just north east of the one o clock club.

those burning lantern things?

No. Ive checked.

blimey! we were in the mind shop between about 4-4.30.

someone didnt use their new brown recycling bin correctly?

Loz I do as you do, but precede it with 'let me just stop you there...'before they get to say much. It's a very empowering thing to say for some reason and puts you straight in the driving seat. From there you can tangle their minds either with 'my other half sorts it out' or if you are feeling mischeivous, go down the Luddite route and say 'we don't have none of those new fangled things, we likes the candles'. If they are from a 'local company surveying houses in your area' tell them youre a builder.

secondary school application time can be a very emotive time. My advice is only listen to opinions about schools from people who's children are there- it's amazing how rumours take on a life of their own on the basis of very little truth.

I did have a cleaner who skived off after two hours when paid for four- as I discovered when I ran into her while out shopping!-I would find the house pretty clean, but probably only superficially. I wasnt sure how to handle it but she left anyway, and Ive had the same cleaning lady now for ten years. She always does her time, the house is very clean, she's helped me reorganise my mess after builders, she babysits and is trusted completely. During the hols, if we are away and so not there to make a mess she comes in and does other jobs- fridge cleaning, spring cleaning, carpet cleaning so she doesnt loose out. I pay her a tenner an hour and she earns it!

As Bawdy Nan says, the dog had no owner. That was the problem. Leads, muzzles is nothing to do with it, if it doesnt have an owner on the other end of these things even if they were enforced. An owner would have been a good start for bringing this dog under control and without that everything else is irrelevent.

thanks!

wonderful computershorty, thanks for that, much appreciated.

I'm probably being very thick here but where do I book- Ive found the online page but no mention of passwords. Do I register as a new online member? thanks folks.

my daughter and her chums went down to see this last week . Johnny waved.

I don't want my children to be my facebook friends- I want my adult space as much as they want their teenage space. But having said that I keep my ear to the ground re my children and keep myself informed. Re parties where there are no parents present, I remember at that age we always knew which house had the laissez faire parents where you could smoke. As a parent I make myself aware of who those other parents are and my children know that I know and it takes a lot of pressure off them, they can always blame me to extricate themselves from a situation. Mobile phone texting and emailing have opened up a whole new area where our children can have uninhibited communication- I don't spy on mine but Ive said I may take a look from time to time - as part of the deal- and I do. It's a boundary that means they know they can be checked up on.

or cage your letterbox

louisiana is that to add to the growing list or on the current list- was it Woody?

Family Membership is twenty pounds a month more expensive than membership of JAGS- surely some mistake?

Hi Nappy Lady, I have a few wrap around nappy pants from when I used cloth nappies, just found them in the loft! ten years old! any use to anyone or shall I bin them?

yes we had the man and woman calling, but I never engage with door stop sellers.

With greatest respect BB100 I prefer to ask kids who are there (mine and their friends) rather than kids who are now in their twenties and left several years ago, dreaming of halycon days when they were basically getting the equivalent of a private education for free. Under the old regulations my son would not have got in. But he did get in and I for one am jolly pleased.

Sorry I'm confused..so these best teachers were the teachers that went off to a private school when the comprehensive they were teaching in stopped creaming off the best kids in a selective process by any other name and started to stick to the proper rules of comprehensive admission?. Are you sure they were really the best teachers? Or just the teachers who only wanted to teach the best and screw the rest? The brilliant teachers Ive known in my life have been able to teach anyone. Perhaps the teachers who left didnt really believe in the principles of comprehensive education? After all they left a grammar that became comprehensive to go and teach in a grammar that went private....

Hi Emily, my children do enjoy the school and have made good friends. My son didnt seem to know who came from which primary but the new primary fed about forty children into his year, making up about just under a quarter. However, the premises of the new primary have burnt down and the entire primary school will be temporarily housed in portacabins on the main school premises carpark. for two years. (I hope Ive got this right) Perhaps that will affect your choice. I spose the question is, would your friends son have felt more/less confident at another school and if so which one? I think my children would have been happy at Askes, Kingsdale, Charter, Sydenham -but perhaps not at the Harris Academies. They are all big schools and a shock after the cosiness of primary school. re the gcse results- I think the school are horrified by the way. Theyve probably been far too smug in the past.

ladyofleisure, I have two children at Haberdashers, in year 8 and 9. One is very academic and finds the school stimulating and stretching and she is doing well. The younger one is not very academic, a bit of a dreamer, dyxlexic who was pidgeonholed in primary school as a bit silly and lazy- and he is doing well too. The school were very quick to move him up a set as soon as he made progress in maths which has done wonders for his self esteem. He also gets once weekly dyxlexia support. As other people have said on this thread, Haberdashers used to be selective even when it wasnt meant to be.It's taken a few years for the more comprehensive intake to work itself up the school. So there are children there now of lower abilities who might not have got in before. It's how well those children are doing that's the question- I think higher sets are still doing very well. So the question is, is the school failing the lower sets? or is it unrealistic for the government to expect every candidate to get 5 A-Cs including English and Maths? I have no idea, but this may help you make up your mind: linkhttp://www.hahc.org.uk/images/uploads/Admissions/Secondary_Transfer/Hatcham_College_Exam_Results_pdf.pdf which will match levels of candidates with their results. I think that's very informative - you can work out who's getting the A starred results and what's happening with everyone else?.