Stop the Proposed Changes to Nonsuch and Wallington Schools' Admissions Criteria Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/stop-the-proposed-changes-to-nonsuch-and-wallington-schools-admissions-criteria.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:34 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mrs Juliet Peddle [Signature #126] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6896521?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:59:53 UTC 6896521 Mr Tunde Fasoyiro [Signature #125] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5974269?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:13:15 UTC 5974269 Mrs Cathy Goldfinch [Signature #124] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5144948?utm_medium=rss I feel the old admissions system was fair. It allowed the 2 schools to each take in the 50 top performing children, regardless of area, with the other 130 going to the brightest local children. Sutton has enough gifted children to fill these places, so why the need to open all places to out of area?
Also I feel more notice should be given of this change rather than just a few months which is unfair to families who did not think they needed a tutor as their children are naturally bright.

]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:58:07 UTC 5144948 Mr Victor Tokarski [Signature #123] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5143642?utm_medium=rss My 8 year old daughter would very much like to attend this Wallington Grammar school, and she believes her chances of admission will be further compromised if the school were to increase its catchment area.

We live within a mile away from this school.

thanks

]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:21:41 UTC 5143642 Mr Andrew Cady [Signature #122] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5127318?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:21:06 UTC 5127318 mr David Hunter [Signature #121] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5049951?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:02:35 UTC 5049951 mrs Helen hunter [Signature #120] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5049916?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:00:40 UTC 5049916 Mr Julian Reed [Signature #119] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5039665?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:03:02 UTC 5039665 Mrs Amanda Reed [Signature #118] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5039636?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:57:48 UTC 5039636 mrs julia dunkley [Signature #117] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5038554?utm_medium=rss Another reason to move aboard!

]]> Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:51:15 UTC 5038554 Mrs Alison Henderson [Signature #116] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5036376?utm_medium=rss Having worked hard to send our daughter to a private school with a specific goal of passing the 11plus (and then to move into a state school), it would appear that the rug is now being pulled from under us with the proposed new criteria! Also, as I am now a single parent with both a daughter AND a son at single sex schools, just how far will I have to travel to get them to school and still get to my place of work on time??

]]> Tue, 3 Mar 2009 05:56:06 UTC 5036376 Mr M.A. Waters [Signature #115] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5001281?utm_medium=rss Born and bred in Sutton I wanted my daughter to have an all girls grammar education. My wife and I have made many sacrifices to ensure she reaches the required level, only to learn that the goal posts may move in the year she would go into secondary education. Enraged would not begin to describe my feelings.

]]> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:55:51 UTC 5001281 Mrs Deborah Waters [Signature #114] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/5000973?utm_medium=rss My daughter will be directly affected. Though she is expected to pass the 11+ I doubt she will be a distinction student and will probably miss out if these changes take place. 10 years of scrubbing floors to privately educate her to grammar school level will be wasted.

]]> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:12:48 UTC 5000973 Miss liz bennett [Signature #113] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4990895?utm_medium=rss Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:05:34 UTC 4990895 Mrs Annette Spicer [Signature #112] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4984562?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:30:53 UTC 4984562 DR ANJALI GHOSH [Signature #111] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4981833?utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:54:18 UTC 4981833 Cllr Tim Crowley [Signature #110] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4981186?utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:26:00 UTC 4981186 Mrs Saddaf FAIZ [Signature #109] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4980828?utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:11:36 UTC 4980828 Mrs Joanne Page [Signature #108] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4974910?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:59:51 UTC 4974910 Mr Timothy Page [Signature #107] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4974908?utm_medium=rss Whilst it is imperative that these schools remain selective, this should not be super-selectivity. Priority should be given to those in the local area, as has been the case historically.

]]> Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:58:33 UTC 4974908 mrs nicola gavin [Signature #106] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4973510?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:26:47 UTC 4973510 Mrs Holly Smedley [Signature #105] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4967553?utm_medium=rss I feel very strongly that Sutton Grammer schools should do all they can to provide for local children.

]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:53:35 UTC 4967553 mrs rubina din [Signature #104] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4967034?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:06:56 UTC 4967034 Mrs Kim Damen [Signature #103] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4966933?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:48:56 UTC 4966933 Mrs Valerie Simpkins [Signature #102] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4965279?utm_medium=rss T

]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:23:06 UTC 4965279 Mr Simon Downs [Signature #101] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4964893?utm_medium=rss Schools must retain local emphasis, grammar schools are important but they are funded by local taxes and should remember their place in the local community. The academic community at our grammar schools is increasingly non representative of the community they are supposed to serve and the people who fund them.

]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:19:48 UTC 4964893 Mrs R Pepper [Signature #100] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4963682?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:27:08 UTC 4963682 Mr D Pepper [Signature #99] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4963671?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:25:44 UTC 4963671 Mrs Yvonne Akande [Signature #98] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4961392?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:09:45 UTC 4961392 mrs Anonymous [Signature #97] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4959828?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:08:43 UTC 4959828 mr Peter Watkins [Signature #96] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4958259?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:46:20 UTC 4958259 Mr Oliver Smedley [Signature #95] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4955314?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:45:44 UTC 4955314 Mr Vipul Patel [Signature #94] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4954640?utm_medium=rss I believe that the proposal is blatantly unfair to children living in the Sutton borough particularly as schools in neighboring burrows have not adopted a similar stance.

]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:49:00 UTC 4954640 Mr Rob Cummins [Signature #93] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4953945?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:43:30 UTC 4953945 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #92] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4947954?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:22:13 UTC 4947954 Mrs Samantha Hart [Signature #91] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4945950?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:55:00 UTC 4945950 Mr Anonymous [Signature #90] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4945555?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:34:05 UTC 4945555 Ms Donna Teakle [Signature #89] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4945310?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:49:31 UTC 4945310 Mrs Belinda O'Connor-Sanders [Signature #88] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4942542?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:46:29 UTC 4942542 Mr D Hylton [Signature #87] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4942318?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:04:06 UTC 4942318 Mrs Karen O'Kill [Signature #86] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4941987?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:46:15 UTC 4941987 mr stephen rhodes [Signature #85] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4941395?utm_medium=rss i don't understand why they are wanting to change the criteria - more travel for the children and unfair on local children

]]> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:40:32 UTC 4941395 Paul Darbyshire [Signature #84] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4941392?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:40:18 UTC 4941392 Jude Lowe [Signature #83] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4941389?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:39:27 UTC 4941389 Mrs Samantha Snowden [Signature #82] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940854?utm_medium=rss I oppose the proposed changes to the entry criteria for Nonsuch and Wallington girls schools as it restricts the choice of local residents.

]]> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:30:33 UTC 4940854 Mr Neal Watkins [Signature #81] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940844?utm_medium=rss It is a complete disgrace they would consider making it more difficult for local children to attend local schoools. Making children travel further for schools has a number of side effects such as carbon emmissions increasing when they can no longer walk to school, there is also increased danger for children travelling further beyond their local neigbourhood.

]]> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:28:20 UTC 4940844 mrs rosemary kemp [Signature #80] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940386?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:51:26 UTC 4940386 mr william kemp [Signature #79] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940362?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:34:31 UTC 4940362 Timj Featherstone-Griffin [Signature #78] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940349?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:26:29 UTC 4940349 Mrs Julie Lucas-Needham [Signature #77] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940332?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:20:36 UTC 4940332 Mrs Emma Kirkaldie-Clay [Signature #76] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940196?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:56:41 UTC 4940196 Mr Ian Arrowsmith [Signature #75] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940173?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:43:33 UTC 4940173 Mrs Jane Arrowsmith [Signature #74] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940168?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:40:03 UTC 4940168 mr Michael Sansom [Signature #73] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4940002?utm_medium=rss My Family lived in Sutton when my childen where educated at Nonsuch High school. It was touch and go if my children got a place ( they are twins) It was only because they where very musical that they where excepted.
This was in 1993. If they had not got in they would have had to go to a scholl that was right on the oterside of the borough( this has since been closed asit was not performing to a excepted standard) I object to childen being subjected to a lottery.

]]> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:45:16 UTC 4940002 Mrs Tracey Leggett [Signature #72] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4938980?utm_medium=rss If you feel the local children should not be put first, please move your school.

]]> Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:23:16 UTC 4938980 mrs Anonymous [Signature #71] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4938802?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:34:18 UTC 4938802 Samantha Evans [Signature #70] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4938254?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:55:32 UTC 4938254 mrs. Maureen Pinches [Signature #69] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4938099?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:17:45 UTC 4938099 Mrs Vicky Cummins [Signature #68] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4938055?utm_medium=rss Having lived here all my life (as did my parents and grandparents) and attended Wallington girls I feel my daughter should have the best chance to have the same oppurtunity that I did. My mother went there and all the rest of my family have attended Wallington boys. We pay extortionate council tax for the 'privilege' to live in this area but our children may not be able to attend the schools we fund. Completely and utterly unfair!!!

]]> Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:04:26 UTC 4938055 John Thompson [Signature #67] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937709?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:30:58 UTC 4937709 L Baker [Signature #66] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937556?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:48:22 UTC 4937556 Mrs M Page [Signature #65] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937549?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:47:04 UTC 4937549 Mr D Page [Signature #64] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937532?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:43:46 UTC 4937532 mrs Jackie Collier [Signature #63] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937154?utm_medium=rss I feel very strongly that Sutton schools should be allocating places to Sutton children. We are extremely lucky to have wonderful schools and would expect our local children to be educated within the borough.

]]> Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:35:57 UTC 4937154 mrs sophie muncaster [Signature #62] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937144?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:33:51 UTC 4937144 Mr Tim Warren [Signature #61] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937025?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:47:51 UTC 4937025 Mrs Nicola Warren [Signature #60] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4937019?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:47:08 UTC 4937019 Mr Trushar Patel [Signature #59] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4935810?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:50:48 UTC 4935810 Mrs Elaine Bullworthy [Signature #58] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4935056?utm_medium=rss We think it is outrageous to offer school places to more students from outside the borough/catchment area based on their ability to do well in exams. Especially since the children from this borough will then find it almost impossible to gain a school place within the borough in which they live. If children from other boroughs wish to take advantage of Sutton's high academic standards, their parents should petition to have grammar schools in their own boroughs.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:31:50 UTC 4935056 Mrs Heidi Shearman [Signature #57] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4934928?utm_medium=rss I hope that both Nonsuch and Wallington Girls will re-think these proposals and give more priority to local children.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:00:09 UTC 4934928 Mr Chris Proctor [Signature #56] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4934204?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:36:43 UTC 4934204 Mrs Rebecca Sewell [Signature #55] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4934120?utm_medium=rss I refer with considerable disappointment to recent publicity of the proposed amendments to the selection criteria for Nonsuch High School from 2010.

My understanding is that your school board proposes to allocate almost all places simply on assessment test results with no consideration of where applicants live.

I must convey my absolute opposition and real concern to this proposal in the strongest terms possible.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:21:06 UTC 4934120 Mr David Sewell [Signature #54] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4934111?utm_medium=rss I refer with considerable disappointment to recent publicity of the proposed amendments to the selection criteria for Nonsuch High School from 2010.

My understanding is that the school boards propose to allocate almost all places simply on assessment test results with no consideration of where applicants live.

I must convey my absolute opposition and real concern to this proposal in the strongest terms possible.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:19:55 UTC 4934111 Mrs Susan Walsh [Signature #53] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4934058?utm_medium=rss Sutton schools should be for children living in the Borough. The proposed changes are due to obsession about league tables. It is all about status. I do not have a problem with selective schools but they should serve the local community as a priority. This proposal smacks of elitism and is a disgrace.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:11:13 UTC 4934058 Mr David Bell [Signature #52] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4933327?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:09:48 UTC 4933327 Mrs Sandy Rhodes [Signature #51] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4933256?utm_medium=rss Local schools have to be for local children otherwise where do local children go? I do not want my child to have to travel miles to get to school.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:57:07 UTC 4933256 Mr Geoffrey Brindle [Signature #50] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4932879?utm_medium=rss A copy of my letter of 12 February to the Chair of Governors at Nonsuch High School for Girls will be e mailed to you.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:59:51 UTC 4932879 Mrs Clair Brand [Signature #49] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4932404?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:40:49 UTC 4932404 Mrs Sue Sandler [Signature #48] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4932386?utm_medium=rss Whatever happened to saving the planet and walking to school?? Local schools for local children please.

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:38:41 UTC 4932386 Ms Dawn Pinto [Signature #47] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4931556?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:13:47 UTC 4931556 Mrs Tina Haynes [Signature #46] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4931519?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:06:03 UTC 4931519 Mr Derek Brown [Signature #45] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4931278?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:15:23 UTC 4931278 Mrs Samantha Harding [Signature #44] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4930977?utm_medium=rss We have 1 daughter in Year 7 at Nonsuch, we live in walking distance and would obviously like our other daughter to follow her there in 2010, but what are her chances with the boundaries being moved - it will also make Overton oversubscribed - so where will she go to school?

]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:43:42 UTC 4930977 Mrs Shilpa Tejura [Signature #43] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4930927?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:18:14 UTC 4930927 Miss Maria Ganpatsingh [Signature #42] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4930871?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:51:41 UTC 4930871 Mr Richard Bennett [Signature #41] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4929669?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:16:39 UTC 4929669 |Mrs Vanessa Bennett [Signature #40] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4929663?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:14:16 UTC 4929663 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #39] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4927813?utm_medium=rss I wish to strongly oppose the plans to change the admission rules with reference to Nonsuch and Wallington schools.

]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:10:18 UTC 4927813 Mr Adrian Boulding [Signature #38] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4927117?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:25:37 UTC 4927117 Mr Panchen G Large [Signature #37] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4926819?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:22 UTC 4926819 Mary & Don Pothecary Pothecary [Signature #36] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4926560?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:00:49 UTC 4926560 Mr Richard Ellis [Signature #35] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4926492?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:50:14 UTC 4926492 mrs suzanne stone [Signature #34] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4926142?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:07:48 UTC 4926142 Dr Jane Brown [Signature #33] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4925780?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:56:10 UTC 4925780 Mrs Elizabeth Hume [Signature #32] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4925435?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:51:38 UTC 4925435 mrs amanda bushaway [Signature #31] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4925425?utm_medium=rss if this action goes ahead,these girls will have to go to the other schools in the area and ther isn't enough places as it is. it is ridiculous!

]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:50:18 UTC 4925425 Mr John Daniels [Signature #30] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4925127?utm_medium=rss My wife Carole supports me in this. Our daughter and our son attended, respectively, Nonsuch and Wallington County Grammar. We could not have afforded for them to have had private education and yet the policy proposed would have possibly denied them education at those schools. The proposed policy will mean that those who can afford private primary education, whether inside or outside the borough, will be able to cram their children for places at these schools.

]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:32:55 UTC 4925127 Mrs Suzanna Wingham [Signature #29] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4924952?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:33:01 UTC 4924952 Mrs Pamela Peller [Signature #28] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4924929?utm_medium=rss It is grossly unfair that pupils who live in the London Borough of Sutton are not given priority over children from out of the area. It is always better socially for children to live within the borough to achieve good relationships.Education is of the utmost importance and happy children always do well when they can interact with their friends.Making friends who live far away makes it difficult.We pay our rates for this good education.

]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:26:09 UTC 4924929 mrs anne geoghegan [Signature #27] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4924875?utm_medium=rss Either all schools countrywide have equal acces, or all schools countrywide access pupils from own borough. Why on earth is it a good idea to transport children miles to school, it does not work ecologically or for communities.

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