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Saturday will be a dry and fine day again, and with gentle winds it will feel quite warm with temperatures up on Friday's values. Sunday will be cloudier with the risk of a few showers but still potentially quite warm; From bbc

Yes, we would either do that or go after nap (2ish)

Princess Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does this mean 80 more mum's and dad's sitting on > my front wall every day at drop off and pick up > times?! 30. Though the plan is to have a separate gate for reception in Jennings Rd.

LordshipLaneMum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So they had 80 applicants as first choice and have > 80 places...that seems a bit perfect? They will have 90 places, 3 classes of 30. Apparently there were 70 families chose it as 2nd or 3rd choice.

Radio today said Saturday would be the best day. I am hoping to take myself off to see avatar over the weekend (before it's not on anymore!) and need to decide which day.. other day we will be out en famille

Well I have two two year olds as well but they aren't so fussed about company!

Esp if you have children that would like to play with our 7 year old boy...

The 80 families havent been told, existing heber ones have...

If you drive in, you could express in the car ... with an adaptor if necessary

One problem I can foresee is with a larger school roll, more siblings and harder in future years for non-siblings to get in.

Letter from the school to parents today.

Apparently there were 80 children choosing it as a first choice. They will all now get a place, it seems.

I'd ask Lewisham. I have a feeling they are a bit more together! But if in doubt, you really HAVE to accept the Lewisham place, can hardly risk refusing it. But unless Lewisham or the central system advises Southwark you have accepted the place, Southwark will still have you in the system here, won't they?

THis also shows one o'c club loos will be available to children using playground http://www.myattsfieldspark.info/images/park_ims/playground_plan.pdf

"Work will begin during October 2009 on a new children's building and adult toilets for Myatt's Fields Park." http://www.myattsfieldspark.info/

I was sure I'd seen somewhere that there was to be a softplay area provided as part of the refurb, but apparently not James Barber "Soft play not in the plans. Very little feedback in the public consultation for this. I did ask for this in the consultation. At the time my kids were 3 & 4. But little support so I'm afraid still a trek down to the Peckham Pulse for soft play..." What a missed opportunity :-(

That's a shame. Peckham is nice but impossible these days for parking (w ehave twins so buses are a nogo)

I went back to work (2 long days) when my twisn were 7m and I did need to express twice, otherwise I would have exploded. They took one or two feeds while I was away I needed to give the minder a total of 20z.. so 10z would be fine for a single baby but for a 9m old for half a day, one feed would be enough. I used to express at my desk (office full of women) and we just locked the door, but I have heard of womn using a first aid room. It is a legal right. You might find you don't need to express at all.. it's partly for your benefit, partly for theirs!

Useful: to find distance betwene your postcode and closest Lewisham schools http://www2.lewisham.gov.uk/lbl/streetmap/finder.asp

Fliss Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I > gather you can go on a waiting list for your > preferred school, but in that case you relinquish > any place you have been offered. I don't think that is the case. Not in the LEA I work, for sure. And not in Lewisham either - http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/EducationAndLearning/Schools/SchoolAdmissions/PrimarySchoolAdmission/PrimaryAdmissionFaq.htm

Fliss Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > we thought it was worth > it because I thought he'd stand a better chance of > getting into the school if he was in the nursery > class, and also I just felt he was ready for "mini > school", and he has been loving it and learning > lots. The latter is true but the former is expressly not, and the admissions booklet states that.. there are even schools like the one where I work, (not SouthwarK) with 80 part time nursery places but only 30 reception places! (Though we will have a bulge class and are going up to 60 this year) > > Also - I wish I knew for sure whether or not you > can get offers from both boroughs - can anybody > clarify??? His current childminder says yes, but > then the man at Southwark Council said no. Should > I start a separate thread asking this question?

From the same report "As of the end of January 2010 cut-off date, 3699 First Preference applications had been received on time for the 3156 Reception places available. ...If late applications are factored in ... this should result in an additional Borough-wide demand of 15-16fe... It was ... never envisaged that... refurbishments or, ...new builds could be delivered before 2011-12. As a consequence any increases for 2010-11 will continue, as per previous years, to be ?bulge? classes, that is one-off increases in the Reception intakes." Lewisham's plan for 2010, like Southwark's, has always been for bulge classes, according to this report.

Lewisham: http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7294F22B-0661-48A3-9EB9-1F125286B6B7/0/aa141367301345b6b9e3789927131952Item12PrimaryPlacesStrategy24February2010.PDF "Given the predictions of rising continued demand for primary places ... the provision of permanent places is a more appropriate response than the incremental provision of ?bulge? classes. However, the necessary capital is not currently available to convert any of these into permanent increases in schools? published admissions limits from 2011-12 onwards... (Hence) The immediate priorities are to: prioritise the delivery of temporary ?bulge? accommodation for 2010-11 and 2011-12; explore the potential for releasing some existing space in schools by increasing the number of mixed age classes; if and when sufficient finance is available, deliver permanent increases in PAL on existing school sites for delivery from 2011-12, and, in order to do so, consider incremental approaches to building projects; investigate possible new school sites for delivery from 2011-12 onwards negotiate other sites including co-locations for delivery from 2011-12 onwards ..."

Buds, Puddleduck etc also do half days, term time only, free from the term after they're free

clux Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Last year Southwark and Lewisham definitely didn't > link their systems as I rejected a place in > Southwark and then later accepted one in Lewisham, > and then I still got a letter 6 months from BOTH > schools thinking we still wanted a place. THis year there is a common system for the first time. As long as that doesn't mean accepting a place somewhere removes you from the other LA's request list, it's OK...