Do you need to start spouting Corinthians or become a Tory to get your tot in?
There’s nothing like picking a primary school for your child to reveal the real you. Friends who could barely recite the Lord’s prayer spout Corinthians to get into the local C of E. Closet Tories emerge from beneath socialist hairshirts. Some even move in with their mother-in-law, just to get their tot’s tootsies into a catchment area.
But where to look? Ofsted reports? Too obsessed with maths and literacy. Year 6 Sats results? Again, too narrowly focused. The Good Schools Guide? The Daily Telegraph’s? As if. Even Tatler has one: “Because the best education is not always the most expensive one.” The Sunday Times named East Ham’s St Stephen’s the UK’s best, the first state school to top its league.