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My wife and I just wanted to share our recent very positive experience of Heber School. We personally found relatively little to choose between Heber, the new Harris and Goodrich schools but put Goodrich as our number 1 for a few reasons but namely as it is our closest, living at the Rye end of Upland Road.


Heber has always been traditionally very hard to get into so we were surprised when we ended up getting Heber as our school and by the start of term we were number one on the waiting list for Goodrich.


Our daughter started at Heber and has had a brilliant time there - we have been amazed at what she has learned in that time and enjoyed all of the class and school events such as the nativity performance. Her teacher was Mrs Piddington and we can?t speak highly enough about her from our experience.


Our waiting list place at Goodrich just came up and we deliberated intensely and finally made the stressful decision to move over to our local school having had a trial visit and joined in with another very nice class.


We don?t know whether we?ve made the right or wrong choice and obviously there is strong rationale for leaving her where she is happy and thriving but we wanted to put this post up to share our positive experience of Heber in case it helped other parents with their decisions.


The headteacher is now established and has exciting plans for the school. Both the headteacher and our daughter?s class teacher agreed to meet us to discuss our position whilst we were making our decision and made a very persuasive case to stay. The plans for the near future of the school also sound very positive and exciting. We made our decision on a knife edge which was very stressful but we are obviously so lucky to have had the choice of these schools.


We don?t need or want responses on our personal choice to move our daughter but did want to point out that Heber has a catchment area which has expanded in recent years and could be a great option for anyone in the area. We know of people who would have loved to have had Heber as a choice but thought they were too far away ? which is why we wanted to put this out there.

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