Prendergast Hilly Fields & Graveney School

[schoolchoice]

Hi,

I am considering these two schools for my daughter who will start secondary school in 2018 and I would like to hear opinions from parents with girls there. Also, what are the chances of getting a music place at Prendergast? do you have to play an instrumt to a high level or can you also sing? is it very compentitive? what's the test like?

For Graveney: What are the chances of getting an academic place; I believe there are 60 places based on the Wandsworth test; is this a reaslitic option? anybody in Dulwich with children there who can tell me what the school is like.

Thank you

[Carbonara]

Have you been and visited the schools?

As well as other local schools?

Just wondering how you hit on these two, especially as Graveney is two boroughs away.

Most people I know are very happy with Graveney. It gets its very high results because it has so many selective places. I think it is 70 now (not sure how they were allowed to increase them?).

Prendergast, like Kingsdale, does music aptitude tests, so it is on potential rather than grade exams.

[schoolchoice]

Thank you Carbonara

We are going to the next open days for these schools and for Sydenham, Charter and Kingsdale.

[mumra]

Prendergast asks you to do a musical aptitude test for the first round and then if called back to play two pieces for your second round. I think they took about 12 children this year on this basis and few of them seem to be from ED/Peckham Rye/Nunhead.

[schoolchoice]

Thank you Mumra; possibilities of getting a place a Prendergast are very low then; we will still try though