Awful news from Leytonstone about a rape on a 12-year-old girl. Not sure the Google Ads on the story in the Waltham Forest Guardian are quite the thing (“Dirty girls in your area”). Wansteadium is alerting the paper.

These are the primary school league tables, published on 1 December, based on the performance of 11-year-olds in National Curriculum “sats” tests. The %English, %Maths and %Science columns show percentage of pupils who met or exceeded the government’s level 4 target score. The aggregate column combines these columns, and the “value added” column shows how well a school assists its pupils, balanced for factors like social class, ethnic make-up, and affluence. (100 = what it should be doing, less = underperforming, more = overperforming.)
Full tables at the BBC at this page.
For ease of reference, a couple of South Woodford schools are included here.

	%English	%Maths	%Science	Aggregate	Value added
Churchfields Junior	94	92	95	281	100.5
Snaresbrook	88	93	93	274	100.6
Wanstead Church	93	89	93	274	99.4
Nightingale	91	88	93	272	101.3
Oakdale Junior	91	76	83	250	99.9
Our Lady of Lourdes	83	72	95	250	99.4
Aldersbrook	69	73	86	227	99.1

It’s ok everyone – it turns out the new shop on Wanstead High Street is going to be a Tesco! The long mystery is over.

(Some people apparently aren’t happy about this. But it’d be worse if Wanstead had a Tesco which was closing down.)

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EXCLUSIVE: Wansteadium can reveal that the new occupants of the United Reformed Church halls in Grove Road and Nightingale Lane are to be a nursery which is already based in Wanstead.

The church has said that the proposed buyer would preserve the existing community use, and you can see this being a possibility, especially if the halls were used, as Wansteadium understands is the case, for an after-school club.

The halls were put up for sale to help the URC raise £750,000 to repair the 150-year-old Grade II-listed church building itself. It’s an interesting building, because it was transplanted in Wanstead from its original site in King’s Cross.

If this deal means that the groups which currently use it – Scouts etc – continue to be able to do so, then lots of people will think this is all round a good deal, though there were plenty of opponents of the sale. Most people probably assumed that it would be sold to property developers – and it’s true that as you walk down Nightingale Lane, it’s clear just what an impressive building the Grove Hall is (see right).

Wanstead Guardian has more details on the sale of the halls here (though not the exclusive detail above)