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Dulwich & Herne Hill Quiet Skies Campaign
kristymac1 replied to SUT's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
jimlad48 Wrote: > Finally, if you think its bad here, try spending a > day out in Richmond... Ha! My husband is from East Sheen and when visiting his family home in the 90s, the windows would visibly shake when concorde went over, coming from a pit town in the NE I thought it was the end of days the first time it happened. They all strangely missed it when concorde was no more... -
New Sweet Shop on Lordship Lane
kristymac1 replied to Passiflora's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
snqoopy17 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do they sell wham bars? I bloody hope not, I lost a number of my capped tooth to wham bars in the 80s... -
Hi Digbina, My daughter has been playing at SMCC (Streatham and Malborough) for 4 years now and it is a very family friendly and inclusive club - the quality of training has increased over the years and the kids all seem to be very happy. The ethos of the club in terms of match selection has always been a good balance of putting out the side with the best chance of winning whilst also giving every child an opportunity throughout the season to play some matches (there are lots of inter-club friendlies organised throughout the summer too). What age group is your son? The club is always happy to accommodate new players for a trial first to see if they like it. If you contact [email protected] you should get a quick response to any further questions you have. Take care x
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sarvester Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank for that info, do you think that distance > was on offer day or after that Bellendenbear? It's very likely to be on offer day. There is another stat that comes out at the time the schools start in September I think
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Streatham and Malborough Cricket Club (located on the corner of Dulwich Common/Lordship Lane despite its name!) are looking for more girls, especially in school years 5-7, to play league cricket this year. Why not come along next week and give it a go? Most clubs have the boys playing hard-ball and the girls playing soft-ball. Not SMCC! The girls love hard ball cricket - with pads and gloves and helmets. It's great fun. They love it and they want more girls to come along and play alongside them. All abilities are welcome, coaching provided by professional coaches. SMCC is a fun, inclusive and sociable club. https://www.smccjuniors.co.uk/2019-summer-term-cricket-season/girls-teams . My daughter has been playing since Yr4 (now in year 7) and it is a fantastic team sport for girls - very supportive, lots to learn but lots of fun - the girls are a really lovely bunch. You can register for a taster session, just fill in the registration form online and then email [email protected] to let the club know your daughter wants to give it a go. P.S. Don't worry about protective kit - there will be plenty that they can borrow.
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Looking for childcare for those long school summer holidays? New Gumboots Summer Club offers 4 weeks of excellent value, stimulating activities (both onsite and offsite) for children aged from Reception age to year 6. Contact [email protected] for an information pack and booking form (childcare vouchers accepted)
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Brown bin collection - Council starting to charge?
kristymac1 replied to slarti b's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
I have just posted the following on James McCash's Councillor thread: James, In relation to the upcoming changes to collection of garden/food waste please can you confirm whether Southwark Council combines garden waste and food waste once collected? (either at the curb side or back at the depot) If so, it seems utterly ludicrous that when I choose to subscribe to the ?30/year brown bin collection that I will not be able to put food waste in there as well as garden waste (which is the system now), instead I will have to have ANOTHER plastic bin in my front garden just for food waste! If the two compostable components are not combined at the curb side - does this really mean that Southwark will have 2 collection lorries attending the same property every week for the collection of compostable waste? I am reasonably happy to pay the ?30/year charge for brown bin collection - I am certainly not happy at the seemingly ill-thought through process and a complete waste of resources providing additional food waste bins and separate lorry collections - seriously, this is proper 'back of a fag packet' stuff and is an embarrassingly obvious waste of much needed Council resources. -
Goose Green councillors - how can we help?
kristymac1 replied to jamesmcash's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
James, In relation to the upcoming changes to collection of graden/food waste please can you confirm whethe Southwark Council combines garden waste and food waste once collected? (either at the curb side or back at the depot) If so, it seems utterly ludicrous that when I choose to subscribe to the ?30/year brown bin collection that I will not be able to put food waste in there as well as garden waste (which is the system now), instead I will have to have ANOTHER plastic bin in my front garden just for food waste! If the two compostable components are not combined at the curb side - does this really mean that Southwark will have 2 collection lorries attending the same property every week for the collection of compostable waste? I am reasonably happy to pay the ?30/year charge for brown bin collection - I am certainly not happy at the seemingly ill-thought through process and a complete waste of resources providing additional food waste bins and separate lorry collections - seriously, this is proper 'back of a fag packet' stuff and is an embarrassingly obvious waste of much needed Council resources. -
Scruffy Mummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are three very good secondary schools in the > area which aren't over-subscribed I believe - > that's Harris Girls East Dulwich, Harris Boys > Peckham Rye and St Thomas the Apostle College > (which is an outstanding school - boys only) Harris Girls and Harris Boys are also 'outstanding' schools. I believe Harris Girls is oversubscribed this year.
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Hi Oscar38, where do you mean by "the hill"?
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How do your kids listen to audiobooks?
kristymac1 replied to MrsP's topic in The Family Room Discussion
I think you can listen to them via Audible using an echo dot? Best thing we bought for my 12 year-old , it is an additional outlay (around ?50) but its been worth it for us. -
Hi, I'm not familiar with the schools at the East side of Peckham Rye - it depends how far up Therapia/mundania - at the forest hill road end you may get into Fairlawn, Goodrich, Heber and most certainly St Francis Cabrini. At the Homestall Road end it's possibly less likely. We are on Dovedale Road and our son goes to Heber (although we got in on a sibling place), that said there are children at Heber (in reception and upwards) who got in on distance from roads such as Shelbury, Scutari and Peckham Rye (by the Harris Boys school). It might be useful to look at the last place distance offers of all the schools around the area. Best x
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We were in your position last year and our daughter is now at Harris Girls ED. We are incredibly impressed with the school, its results are excellent (better than all others in the area) but it is also very pastoral and has an old school mix of firm discipline delivered with warmth. The teachers are excellent, very personable and they 'get' the kids. Our daughter has small group music lessons of instrument of choice (guitar for her) and is performing at the globe theatre later this year in Henry V. There have been one or two friendship 'issues' which have been dealt with swiftly and well. Our daughter is fairly academic and the lessons are challenging and she certainly grumbles about the amount of homework (I suspect that'd the same where-ever she is). Happy to chat further if it'd help at all Good luck where ever your daughter goes - we're very lucky to have a number of really good schools in this area
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johnie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah well, as expected nothing from our list, > instead Harris Acedemy Peckham. Didn't want that > for our dyslexia challenged girl. > > Here come the waiting lists. Really sorry you're in this position today - very stressful for you and your daughter. Our daughter started at Harris Girls last year - it wasn't her first choice (although me and husband were impressed when we visited). It is a very good school, very pastoral (despite the Harris reputation) - have you considered it for your daughter? It's reputation from yesteryear still seems to follows it around and lots of folk turn it down when allocated so a waiting list position might be a shout? Hope everything works out and sending uber good vibes in the mean time I also think the sibling thing is quite unfair at > secondary. By then all kids are making their own > way to school. > Totally agree!
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sleepy-li Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know if you can you add your child to > a waiting list for a school that wasn't one of > your original 6? You can add your child to any waiting list - irrespective of your 6 'choices' X
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products take sublingually absorb into the blood stream much faster than those take orally and more of the product is absorbed into the system - many medicines are delivered sublingually because it is a faster more efficient way of taking it in. It doesn't make sense that a diluted product taken orally would have more efficacy than the same (undiluted) product intended to be taken sublingually. Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not sure if this counts as homeopathy but everyone > I know who uses Rescue Remedy finds it works > better if you put a few drops in water than under > the tongue. Why is that?
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Replacement Double Glazed Windows - advice on type of window
kristymac1 replied to Sue's topic in The Lounge
Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anybody have any recommendations for > companies for wood windows, to get costs, please? > > Only if you have used them yourself and would > recommend them, thanks. We used Sash Smart http://www.sashsmart.co.uk/company/ a small family business based in Croydon. It was a few years ago now (but I see from the website that Chris and his Dad - far right of photo) are still involved. They provided one of the best services of any contractors we have employed (and we've done a lot of renovation on 2 different homes), they were hardworking, clean, polite and reliable - and also very reasonable cost-wise. -
Mothergoise Green Dale had lovely outdoor space, growing and cooking their own vegetables and they used to regularly make use of the wildlife space next door. This was some years ago so may have changed, especially with the ownership issues of the wildlife space...
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School - Christmas fairs and fetes
kristymac1 replied to Ruby Remnant's topic in The Family Room Discussion
Heber primary School has its fair on Saturday 8th December - 2-5pm -
The herne is usually open
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I think this is entirely wrong. I'm astonished that there wasn't a check to ensure that someone was at home to provide care for her on discharge. She sounds very vulnerable, if it were me I would at least bring the matter to a relevant person's attention and ask for an explanation as to why it was deemed appropriate.
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There are only 60 places available for scholarship (presumably 30 sports/30 music) but MANY more full scholarships are offered than that. I have friends who were on the scholarship waiting list (which is a separate list to the main waiting list) last year having been offered full scholarships and their waiting list position was 160 something (main waiting list position around 200-odd), needless to say they weren't offered a place. angelas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And did your friend's children with full > scholarships get places in the end? We have just > been offered a full scholarship (letter lost in > post I assume) and am trying to understand if all > those with full scholarships get a place. Letter > says that those with similar scores all got places > in previous years but not guaranteed.....
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