KingstonMama wrote:
But what I can't see is what they do differently for those 60 children at Greenshaw? I can see lots of info about the school as a whole, but to want to apply for one of the 60 places I'm wondering what the benefit is over just applying to the school as an 'ordinary' candidate, or to any other non selective. If that makes sense? Their prospectus is all about not capping anyone's individual ability, so once they are there are the 60 selective place children given the same curriculum/teachers as everyone else or are they fast tracked or extended or something? TBH it's a bit of a tricky journey for us so it doesn't really matter/apply but would be good to know!
With a partially selective school, there is nothing to say that all the pupils entering by the selective you're are necessarily the most able overall. Even assuming that the selective route applicants are ranked on proximity to school (Sorry, don't know whether this is how they do it, haven't looked), those who got 'normal' proximity or sibling places may contain in their number more than the total number of 'selective applicants. So one wouldn't necessarily expect the school to run itself as a bilateral school, just on the strength of the test score.