Not so amazing Grinling Gibbons

[Monkey]

Grinling Gibbons, a state primary on Deptford High Street, comes fourth in the Sunday Times' top 600 state and independent primary schools, before Alleyn's. The interview with the headteacher makes for a nice Sunday morning read.

[slh2009]

Thanks for posting this. I couldn't read the whole article online so not sure if it mentioned that she is now also at Adamsrill in Sydenham, am hoping for similar success as this is one of our nearest schools :-)

[yeknomyeknom]

I clicked on this post thinking it was about some new xmas toy fad or something. I can't believe Grinling Gibbons is the name of a school. It's great. Like something out of Harry Potter.

[bawdy-nan]

Grinling Gibbons was a aculptor of decorative wood carvings - usually working in limewood. He created the extraordinary carvings at Hampton Court that were partitially destroyed by fire and then restored by the equally extraordinary David Esterly http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9q6r

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=grinling+gibbons&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ijJqVLS9A87ksASt0YGQBA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

[Monkey]

I posted about what I thought was an amazing school a while ago. Turns out they were cheating...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/london-state-school-rated-best-in-country-has-exam-results-wiped-out-10022662.html

As my grandmother says: if it looks too good to be true, it probably isn't!