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on the plus side (if this is a plus side) you're guaranteed a place at the secondary. And yes, they are temporarily being housed in the senior school's grounds but they do have their own playground and access to the senior school's facilites; library, sports hall etc. In terms of the quality of teaching I'm not sure, but I do know that their music department is really strong.

I went to see it last year when I was looking for a place for my daughter as my friend told me she was really impressed with it. I asked quite a few questions and this is the information I managed to glean:

- They changed the head teacher when the school was made a feeder school, but kept all the other staff. I think there were some tensions because of this - possibly resolved now.

- After seeing some horrible blue slush puppy rotating in a machine in the dining hall I asked if all the food was cooked fresh on site. The head teacher assured me that it was. I then asked if I could see the kitchen, she tried a few times to dissuade me, first telling me it was being knocked down so I didn't need to see it, then saying I would disturb all the busy kitchen staff just before lunch if I went in. I have to say that this discouragement made me even more determined to see it. I peeked in to see two kitchen staff heating up trays of externally made food, which disappointed me, mainly because I had been lied to.

- In the discussion room later, I asked the head what she thought had been going wrong with the school before she took over. No kidding, she said " I dunno, I wasn't here, was I?"

- I also noticed the that the new construction work, costing over ?1,000,000, was to a very poor standard (I'm an architect) and was not at all surprised to hear that the site had burnt down due to contractor negligence.


Needless to say, I didn't put it down as one of my choices.

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