Any opinions on particular Leicester secondary schools?

[Grandad.]

oi whats wrong with anstey martin i turned out ok

 

Haha, there was always a bit of a war with Martins and Humphreys when I was there, that bad that we had a little teacher escort when we played Anstey away, stones the lot chucked at the bus. They tried kicking us off the pitch but class always prevailed against them.. I did probably commit the worse foul I've ever done on this lad called Nico, the ****er was just too quick for me so I proper two footed him and he went off, I only got booked and I was shit scared for the rest of the game that I was going to get filled in after. 

[Finnegan]

Don't tell me you went somewhere like Anstey Martin?

Stonehill & Longslade.

[Grandad.]

Stonehill & Longslade.

 

Stonehill? Longslade?

 

50 pence 'schools' them. 

[kingcarr21]

Haha, there was always a bit of a war with Martins and Humphreys when I was there, that bad that we had a little teacher escort when we played Anstey away, stones the lot chucked at the bus. They tried kicking us off the pitch but class always prevailed against them.. I did probably commit the worse foul I've ever done on this lad called Nico, the ****er was just too quick for me so I proper two footed him and he went off, I only got booked and I was shit scared for the rest of the game that I was going to get filled in after. 

haha brilliant. Dont know anyone by the name nico but i believe your younger than me so that probably why. Anstey was in hindsight the best school i went to. i played against Anstey Swifts for my local team and got spanked 8-1 or something like that. Shows how good we were

[Guest MattP]

Don't tell me you went somewhere like Anstey Martin?

 

At Brookvale we had a bit of rivalry with Anstey Martin in my day when it came to football. Lads from Glenfield even more so as we all split from the Hall and County to go to either of the two.

[kingcarr21]

Stonehill? Longslade?

 

50 pence 'schools' them. 

i went longslade after anstey. Fvcking shit school. Always remember Stonehill having loads of fights at lunch time haha.

At Brookvale we had a bit of rivalry with Anstey Martin in my day when it came to football. Lads from Glenfield even more so as we all split from the Hall and County to go to either of the two.

Glenfield MASSIVE

[Buce]

That's a good point, Buce, but we've ruled out Oadby & Wigston schools now (mainly because they start from age 10, not 11) and transport practicalities would pretty much rule out anywhere further afield.

You single-handedly got a school closed down, Raj? Respect! I presume you mean "I was so bad they had to close it down"....

Judgemeadow is also about 95% non-white, though I think most kids there are from nicey-nice middle-class backgrounds - mainly 2nd & 3rd generation Indian immigrant families, I think.

Moat actually seems to be doing an exceptional job. It's based in Highfields with about 99% kids of immigrant stock, 90% with English as a second language and a very low standard on arrival....yet Moat achieves the national average at GCSE. They're obviously doing something right. Still not sure that it would be fair to put daughter in the position of being in a tiny minority racially, and good schools can easily go downhill (e.g. if a good head or senior staff leave).

Sir Jonathan North seems to be about 50% white, 50% various shades of brown - about the only secondary school that we've looked at that is not Asian or white-dominated. Even though I know that different areas of Leicester are predominantly white, Asian or whatever, the degree of segregation is disappointing. Hopefully we'll get our No.1 choice of Jonny North, anyway, as many of her mates will go there and it seems to be a good school - and we're in the catchment area. Not sure about the "single sex" aspect, having been a bit fvcked up by going to an all-boys secondary.....might make it less likely that I'll be a Grandad within 6 years, I suppose!

I think statistics consistently show that girls perform better when educated seperately from boys.

[Guest MattP]

I think statistics consistantly show that girls perform better when educated seperately from boys.

 

Understandable as well, must be a lot easier to get on with work when a group of lads aren't trying to unstrap your bra, put their hands down your pants or flick dobbers at you during an exam.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

Humphrey Perkins was the bomb when I was there, we the best football side in the County then though so that made me enjoy it even more. 

 

They do a new thing now though, you go all the way through at Humphreys now, where as before you were there for Years 7, 8 and 9 and then moved on to Rawlins, De Lisle or Longslade (Scum) . 

 

Oh man I hated Humphreys, absolute dive that was. Very few things I remember fondly about my time there. When I finished and got to Rawlins it was a massive breath of fresh air. Made more new mates in the first week of being there than I did in 3 years at Humphreys, just a massive pit of mouthy chavs.

 

I heard Rawlins is now doing years 7-9 too, don't know if they've expanded, that's a great school though

[Finnegan]

Fights at Stonehill were hilarious. The entire school would know in about a minute, you'd sprint to whichever side of the yard / field it was to find a huge circle of people shouting at two lads who were stood there going "yeah, cmon then" over and over and occasionally pushing each other.

That lasted about two minutes tops before the deputy head came out and everyone legged it.

It was the most exciting thing that ever happened, everyone went nuts for it. I got in to a couple of very small scuffles and on every occasion, every other lad in mine and whoever the other boys class was spent the entire rest of the day / week going "he wants to fight you!!!!!" trying to make something happen.

It never did. Nobody ever actually wanted a fight.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

We had faux-fights at Humphreys where word would get around between classes that a fight was happening and literally hundreds of us would run laps of the entire campus looking for it. 9 times out of 10 it was nothing, the other times it would be pushing. Then once at registration in year 8, some lad came from year 9 came into our form room bragging to a classmate that he'd fingered his girlfriend, he replied some insult about his mum and they proceeded to knock the absolute shit out of each other. Blood everywhere. Was quite a show

[Alf Bentley]

Oh and Alf, Samworth?

 

Just Googled it.....a faith and enterprise academy co-run by the Church of England and Ginsters Pasties?!? Sounds right up my street! 

 

Now, I'll confess to having eaten the occasional pasty (not usually Ginsters) but Samworth's core values apparently include "faith" and "forgiveness", whereas I prefer reason and vengeance, so that might be a problem....

 

 

I think statistics consistently show that girls perform better when educated seperately from boys.

 

I've read that before: academically, girls perform better in single-sex schools and boys perform better in mixed schools; similarly, single women live longer than married women, but married men live longer than single men!  

 

Is there any data, though, on how single-sex education affects girls' understanding of boys? I went to an all-boys school and grew up completely clueless about girls, but maybe that was just me? I got most of my sex education from stolen copies of "Knave" porno mags, yet perceived girls as fragrant, ladylike creatures on whom sex would be an imposition as they were more interested in pot pourri and wicker shopping baskets! Mind you, as I mainly encountered Grammar school girls from the villages of Kent, that may have been an accurate perception....I did meet a few rather saucy slappers from the Secondary Modern, hanging around the recreation ground, but that just confused me more. Mind you, at 16 one of the nice grammar school girls from the village (daughter of our grammar school head of English, no less) moved to town and shacked up with a prominent drug-dealing criminal. I gave up trying to understand after hearing that one! 

 

Anyone seen any data correlating mixed/single-sex girls' education with the flexibility of their knicker elastic? 

[kingcarr21]

Fights at Stonehill were hilarious. The entire school would know in about a minute, you'd sprint to whichever side of the yard / field it was to find a huge circle of people shouting at two lads who were stood there going "yeah, cmon then" over and over and occasionally pushing each other.

That lasted about two minutes tops before the deputy head came out and everyone legged it.

It was the most exciting thing that ever happened, everyone went nuts for it. I got in to a couple of very small scuffles and on every occasion, every other lad in mine and whoever the other boys class was spent the entire rest of the day / week going "he wants to fight you!!!!!" trying to make something happen.

It never did. Nobody ever actually wanted a fight.

One fight i remember in particular was between 2 lads one fat kid and one skinny kid. the fat kid was giving it the big un pushing this lad around and mouthing off and the skinny lad didnt do anything. Just kept saying im not going to fight you. As you can imagine everyone in the crowd was spurring on for somebody to throw a punch. Cant remember what the fat kid said but whatever it was seemed to unleash the fury in the skinny kid cause out of nowhere the skinny kid planted a perfect roundhouse kick straight to his face.

 

Fat kid out like a light.

 

Skinny kid then proceeds to jump on top of him and elbow his face 12-6 until he is dragged off. We then get a bollocking cause we were older kids and should of stopped it. Your right though every other fight at Stonehill was just pushing and handbags but i will never forget that roundhouse.

[Samilktray]

There was some big rivalry between Thurmaston and birstall back when I was at school, apparently it has gone on for decades. Seemed a bit daft to me so I just smoked a spliff instead of getting amongst it.