Secondary schooling options. Last minute?
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Secondary schooling options. Last minute?
We had resigned ourselves to not going to Aus, as a result of not having a job lined up. Well, to cut a long story short it looks like that has all changed at the 11th hour. Only 5 weeks left on the PR visa, and a job I went for some time ago has progressed right through 3 stages of interview, and it is between myself any one other candidate.
I don't want to reject the offer if it does come my way in the next day or 2 without a compelling reason to do so. The salary is good, the role is very interesting, but just cannot figure out schooling for the Daughter.
It looks like at such short notice it will be a case of arriving in Sydney (have eyed up Hornsby Heights) for our place to live, and then having to find her a place at any school that just happens to have a place? Is that basically, the only option we have available or are schools obliged to take a student?
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I don't want to reject the offer if it does come my way in the next day or 2 without a compelling reason to do so. The salary is good, the role is very interesting, but just cannot figure out schooling for the Daughter.
It looks like at such short notice it will be a case of arriving in Sydney (have eyed up Hornsby Heights) for our place to live, and then having to find her a place at any school that just happens to have a place? Is that basically, the only option we have available or are schools obliged to take a student?
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If it's the same as WA there will be a local catchment high school which have to take you. You can apply to others but they are not obliged and will only take you if they have room. Good luck.
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You are obliged to send your child to school, and the NSW govt is obliged to offer a place in at least one local school. Schools are not all equal. Do your research on the MySchool web site: Home | My School.
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You are obliged to send your child to school, and the NSW govt is obliged to offer a place in at least one local school. Schools are not all equal. Do your research on the MySchool web site: Home | My School.
If I use the web site you enter and enter Horsnby, nsw. The only listed secondary is Hornsby Girls School. That school is academically selective, and from initial conversations I have had with the school mid term entrance is not something they offer.
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Can you elaborate on "local school"?
If I use the web site you enter and enter Horsnby, nsw. The only listed secondary is Hornsby Girls School. That school is academically selective, and from initial conversations I have had with the school mid term entrance is not something they offer.
If I use the web site you enter and enter Horsnby, nsw. The only listed secondary is Hornsby Girls School. That school is academically selective, and from initial conversations I have had with the school mid term entrance is not something they offer.
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Can you elaborate on "local school"?
If I use the web site you enter and enter Horsnby, nsw. The only listed secondary is Hornsby Girls School. That school is academically selective, and from initial conversations I have had with the school mid term entrance is not something they offer.
If I use the web site you enter and enter Horsnby, nsw. The only listed secondary is Hornsby Girls School. That school is academically selective, and from initial conversations I have had with the school mid term entrance is not something they offer.
How does your daughter feel about the move?
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My wife and I cannot think what it is that is causing her the anxiety, and can only deduce it is because she is scared of the change and having to switch schools.
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Of course she is unhappy, she's a teenager and it's her job to be miserable, petulant and to give you as much grief as possible
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We've been looking at houses near Hornsby. Your local school is required to find a place for your daughter, though the quality of the local school can vary a bit. It's quite common here for people to choose the place they buy or rent based on the local public schools they want their kids in.
Catchment areas for public schools are not based on radius around the school, they are actually quite complicated shapes. This information seems to be hard to find though, I've been told to call or email schools you like the look of. I've also seen that the Domain real estate website lists the catchment area at the bottom of its house listings (like this one, scroll to the bottom)
Hornsby Girls is publicly funded, but academically selective and there is no guarantee of being accepted. Cheltenham Girls is not that far away though - its one of the top public schools in Sydney, and they accept any students who live in their catchment area. If you are open to living on the southern side of the harbour, I found that Strathfield and Burwood are similar to Hornsby (multicultural, middle-class, but less leafy) and have some top non-selective public schools such as Burwood Girls and Strathfield Girls.
Sydney schools often sound like they are private when they are in fact public - I think its just because so many of them are single sex. Not sure why that is, but there don't seem to be many mixed schools at all.
Catchment areas for public schools are not based on radius around the school, they are actually quite complicated shapes. This information seems to be hard to find though, I've been told to call or email schools you like the look of. I've also seen that the Domain real estate website lists the catchment area at the bottom of its house listings (like this one, scroll to the bottom)
Hornsby Girls is publicly funded, but academically selective and there is no guarantee of being accepted. Cheltenham Girls is not that far away though - its one of the top public schools in Sydney, and they accept any students who live in their catchment area. If you are open to living on the southern side of the harbour, I found that Strathfield and Burwood are similar to Hornsby (multicultural, middle-class, but less leafy) and have some top non-selective public schools such as Burwood Girls and Strathfield Girls.
Sydney schools often sound like they are private when they are in fact public - I think its just because so many of them are single sex. Not sure why that is, but there don't seem to be many mixed schools at all.
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You can educate at home but you are obliged to register, and the parents curriculum has to be in line with the state curriculum.