Lewes Forum thread

I hope you're not moving to Lewes but continuing to work in London because that would be a hilarious waste of oil to get you there and back every day. Also, for all their PR, Transition Town Lewes don't actually seem to do anything. They've still not released the figures for the first year of the Lewes pound and the second year has been pretty much an abject failure due to their imposition of a charge on traders to convert the things back into proper money. Don't let that put you off though and that's a discussion for a different thread.

Lewes has a number of very good state schools and if it's a good community you're after then Lewes is probably the ideal place for you. I've heard some murmurs about bullying at a couple of the primary schools but I think that was just Chinese whispers. Priory was great when I was there, despite the drugs problems and even those are mild compared to a lot of private schools (Marlborough College for example has a much higher drug arrests per year than Priory). I've jeard it's gone downhill since then and there certainly seem to be a lot of fences up that never used to be there but I've never heard anyone complain that schools here are bad, certainly compared to what you get even as close as Brighton.

As others have said though, the only way to know for sure is to take a look for yourself. If you're into all that Transition Town stuff you might want to look at the Lewes New School. It's a private school but much like a large family (As they only have about three kids for every teacher), a few of the parents are involved directly with TTL and they follow one of those non-national-curriculum teaching methods where the kids are encouraged to learn what they want when they want to (Kind of like Steiner Schools).