hellosailor

It?s pretty farking simple. Keep a 2 metre distance. You might not be overly worried about yourself or your immediate young and healthy household / family but as you jog past someone, panting, with a 30cm gap, consider that although you reckon that you?re going to come out the other side of this fine, that person may have cancer, or respiratory disease, or live with someone who does. There?s no debate here. Keep a 2 metre distance, that means you might have to stop jogging - gasp - for 30 secs to maintain a 2 metre distance. Your need to jog interrupted is highly, highly unimportant in the current circumstances. If you can?t reconcile this, or feel your civil rights are being violated, stay on your sofa.

se22cat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't help thinking that with the way housing > stock is set out in most of ED, that being at the > doorstep, less than 2 metres apart on many streets > is perhaps not so smart... > > Maybe tweeting support would be a much better > idea. Hey, just to reassure you, ?doorstep? in this context was generally interpreted as ?outside house? rather than having to have your feet firmly planted on your doormat with no common sense or adherence to social distancing.. On our street and I imagine most other streets, we were able to share and enjoy showing our humongous appreciation and respect for the NHS workers on the coal face while still not ignoring the 2 metre guidance by simply standing outside our houses while maintaining the appropriate distance from our neighbours. Hope this Helps x

...for another time I think.

Well don?t you sound like an absolute treasure. What an asset to the local daytime community. Working from your own home sounds like the best way forward for you and, indeed, for everyone else, especially cafe staff who don?t fancy being leered at and having to entertain your drivel when you get bored of table blocking.

It?s as the crow flies yes. I believe one of the main reasons that we?re in this ludicrous secondary school situation in ED is that when Haberdashers Asks bid for the contract of the new school on the hospital site, they pledged to make their nodal point further up LL near the location of what is now Harris primary. This being highly pertinent because it?s the roads north of LL up past Barry road that are in a black hole and desperately needed provision. My understanding is that when Charter put in a rival bid they made the same pledge if they were to win the contract and having secured it immediately went back on their promise and made the nodal point their entrance, thus shafting the scores of families living in the secondary black hole and creating a catchment that hugely overlaps with Charter North. How fortunate to live on one of those roads who now get to choose which Charter tickles their fancy rather than my road where my children may well be offered a school we don?t want several km away. Appalling.

I hope it?s ok to post this here rather than the wanted section but I think it will get seen by more people here! My son has hundreds of match attax to swap or give away and would like to find Ross Barkley base card (Chelsea) Arsenal Duo card Samuel Umtiti base card (Barca) Marco Rues base card (Dortmund) Wissam Ben Yedder base card (Barca) And he is missing lots of ?shiny cards? He has lots and lots of normal cards and shiny cards to swap or give away. Get in touch via pm if you have a child (or adult!) who is interested! We?re on upland road Se22 Thanks!

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Thanks so much for getting us that info from the admissions office Renata, much appreciated. Thanks again

We need clarity and transparency. It?s nuts that lots of local parents are trying to decide whether to make huge decisions like pushing themselves to the financial limit to move house a few roads away and pay stamp duty that will cripple them based on hearsay, gossip and speculation. ?Well fingers crossed because my friend?s neighbour?s daughter got in from Friern Road?....?ah no but I know someone who knows someone who said their place was because they have a statement?...it?s just....madness. We all know that the data from previous years in no way guarantees what will happen in the year we apply but to not even be able to pin down info like whether the final offered distance was not much more than 950 or 1500 after the shakedown is just ludicrous. Please Renata or someone, anyone, properly help with this situation. No more ?the schools don?t publish this information? mantras, just the facts, please?? We can?t know for sure whether our kids will be offered a place even with the data but it is definitely hugely more helpful than desperately casting around for local hearsay. We?re not trying to get our children into Hogwarts here, just trying to work out if they have a realistic chance of being offered ANY local school but even that feels like pulling teeth.

Renata Could you please help us clarify? Whatever that involves? As the previous threads have mentioned this information seems impossible to clarify. We?re trying to guess on hearsay whether the final distance after the first round only increased from 954m by a few metres or to a much more significant 1500. It really is ludicrous that we?re still going round and round in circles about this information. Frustrating doesn?t cover it. Thank you

That?s interesting. I was also surprised to hear that. But having said that I know of a boy a couple of hundred metres up the road from me who got in and we?re about 1.3km away so that would suggest it?s true. Can anyone else tell us more? Xx

954m was the first round of offers and others have said that at a recent open day the head said that after the shakedown and people declining places etc, by the time term started the furthest place was about 1500m. There are currently 6 forms in a year but that is supposed to increase to 8 form entry in a couple of years. Theoretically this should extend the catchment but by then lots of sibling places will come into play so it may make little difference in actuality. Hope this helps a bit xx

There are several long threads on catchments etc on the family discussion part of the forum! There?s one one the first page of the family room at the moment but if you use the search box to search key words like charter, Harris, catchment, admissions etc then you?ll find several discussing this and similar topics xx

Hi Renata, It's actually very hard to get this information from schools and it's something that we really need to be made as easy to find out and transparent as possible. We would really like to know what furthest distance offer made is for the local secondary schools on official offer day and then how much further the catchment distance stretched during the shakedown now that term has started. The schools are very vague and unhelpful when you ring them and this is crucial info. I'm very tired of hearing that someone's friend of a friend of a friend's neighbour says their niece got in from so and so road and trying to work it out with snippets of information and hearsay when it would just be SO helpful to have the data. Could you please compile this data for us? It would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently potentially going to spend a fortune on stamp duty to move house a few roads away in time for my children's secondary school applications without even knowing the data which would tell me if this was our only option. Perhaps you would have more clout in terms of getting this information for us than it appears that we as local parents do...

....why would local people who don?t know your sister and aren?t going to her baby shower ?love? To donate wine and gifts for it? Have I missed something?

If you search the word piplings on here then several threads come up like this one xx /forum/read.php?29,1916973,2014878#msg-2014878

I would definitely go for the one your child is likeliest to end up at for reception

I would like to know this too if anyone has any info!

take it to the tip?

I?ve been told that when this happens it?s because they don?t actually have it with them. They haven?t attempted to deliver it, they only ever had the red slip with them. A postal worker at Peckham sorting office told me that this is because they use ?a lot of agency staff and they can?t be trusted to take parcels as unfortunately there?s a lot of theft.? Not ideal..

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Let's just have a dash of perspective: while every > murder is tragic and one too many, you have far > more likelihood of dying in an accident at work in > the UK than being murdered. More people die > whilst playing football each year than are > murdered. The number of murders in London last > year, which if one believed the press was the > biggest bloodbath in our history, was lower than > that for every single year between 1990 and 2008. > Homicide rates per head in the UK were higher in > 1900 than they are today. Furthermore, the vast > majority of murder victims are killed by someone > they know; the chances of being killed by a > stranger, as seems to have been the case in this > tragic event, are vanishingly small. I'm not > saying don't be vigilant or that everything in the > garden's lovely, but the garden isn't as full of > snakes and boobytraps as this event seems to have > made some people feel. More people do not die playing football each year than are murdered. Not sure if you mean globally or Uk but not true either way.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mayor Khan was on just now, saying that "middle > class drug users" have to take some of the blame > for such deaths (though why only that class is > responsible is beyond me). It's all very sad for > the family and anyone in similar situations. Confused as to why drug users of any class have to take some of the blame for this crime? Sounds like someone very disturbed attacked a local man going about his business in a freak incident. Not drugs or gang related in any way by the sound of it

It?s got nothing to do with the area it happened in, this was a poor poor bloke who declined to give a random person a cigarette and had his throat cut. I?d guess the person was extremely mentally unwell. I think it?s pretty crass to start debating what is does or doesn?t say about the area. It?s a horrific thing to happen.

His kids went to alleyns so he was obviously ok with the risk of having them educated In such a rough area