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Over the years, we've had knackered old dryer, kids' toys, old TV and old fridge (enormous, it was) taken by people on the look-out for stuff. The best was when we'd put a rusty old BBQ right behind our hedge in the front garden only to find someone…
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Yup, I responded, too and they completely ignored what I, and others, had to say about the times of operation. Loads of people said it was not necessary to have the CPZ operate all day (and that the match day controls should be reconsidered now that…
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Where are you, Bridget? We're miles from Ashmount, but still got a place (and there are places coming up all the time as people move away). Also worth bearing in mind that it will move in 2012 (or that's the plan anyway) and it'll be in SG - top of …
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Don't know if it's related, but I got a visit from the police today (I live on UTP) telling me my car reg had been seen driving from the scene of a burglary. Seems the number plate has been cloned.....
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Been a long time since I visited this page, but Bridget, I thought I'd let you know the final outcome as you'll be going through all this soon. We got a place at Christ the King in June, but the school refused to let us visit for longer than five…
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Yup, ADGS, that's where Ashmount is going - it's been on the cards for years (six or seven, I think), but demolition is due to start early next year to make way for shiny new school, eco-centre and community parkland. About time something was done w…
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Bowlers Community Nursery (just behind totem poles on Crouch Hill) is fab. My son is still there and my daughter went from age 10 months til she started school in September. It will be part of the redevelopment of Ashmount School from early next yea…
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Yup: from my husband's school in Stokey I still have 2 kittens that need homes. Please contact me. 07958711674 Thanks Penny
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Junction of Upper Tollington Park and Victoria Road is particularly dangerous. I live opposite and have seen so many crashes there over the last four and a half years. I have to come out of Victoria Rd on to UTP every day and you can't see whether c…
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Well, it seems as though waiting lists do shift quite a lot. We've now been offered a place at Stroud Green (a hundred times better than Tiverton on distance alone) and moved up the Ashmount list from 23 to 8....Also no 2 on the CTK waiting list. So…
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And thank you, Siolae. We may end up meeting at the school gates!
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@dion - yes, I know that, but it still hasn't sorted out the problems. If you've got lots of parents being offered places miles away from where they live, there's clearly still an issue of there not being enough places where there is demand and …
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Well, spoke to Islington and it seems that Ashmount is v oversubscribed for the first time ever. Our DD is 23rd on the waiting list, so not much hope, but it looks as though we may get a place at Christ the King. I haven't looked around it, but it h…
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Thanks for all your comments. @dion - no place at Stroud Green, apparently. No, we got none of our six choices (applied in Islington and Hackney, too). @katiejane, we're on Upper Tollington Park, so closer than straight TP, but still not withi…
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Didn't even get a place at Ashmount.
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I agree about the system being screwed. You are told you have a choice, but it's all an illusion. Yes, we really want to get our first into a good school so we don't have all this hassle with no 2!
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Copycara, quick question - which road do you live on? We also applied to Parkwood, just over the other side of FP in Hackney. We didn't get a place there, either.
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Thank you Siolae and copycara. I will definitely be in contact with CTK. We have applied to Ashmount - the new site is actually where my two currently go to nursery and we really liked the feel of the place when we visited - but we are some distance…
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Ah, thanks Siolae. Do they have a separate admissions procedure, then? And why do you think it hasn't been oversubscribed in the past, given the issues with some of the local primary schools (asking out of genuine interest here, not because I don't …
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I would, but I don't have another choice. The form I have gives me the option of refusing or rejecting Tiverton and then lists my preferred schools with boxes to tick as to whether I want to be added to waiting list (of course I do!) and whether I w…
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Thanks Siolae - will look into it. I didn't think we'd get in, being non-Catholic, but it's v close. Do you have children there?
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I know - it wasn't on our original list (long story), but given that it wasn't oversubscribed, surely that has to be the closest school that still has places (and proximity is the deciding factor, the Council keeps telling us). However, have now …
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Thanks Ali. Yes, we did consider, especially as garden etc is really lovely, but at the time came to the conclusion that not so good Ofsted report combined with the high proportion of children with English as an additional language would hold our da…
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They can't tell me, which is helpful.
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Would love to get involved, but have kids and could only do evenings after 8......