If your child gets a place at the Dulwich Village Infants School it doesn't mean they will automatically go to Dulwich Hamlets into Year 3, where the intake starts. My eldest (now 20) went to nursery at Bessemer Grange but didn't get a place at Reception. Went to two appeals, lost and he had to start at a different school for Reception. After 6 months managed to get him back into Bessemer. For me it was a family school which many members of family had attended from the 1950s. My three children went to Bessemer Grange from nursery and I used to wonder where their friends disappeared to at the start of Year 3! It was Dulwich Hamlet.