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Having teething trouble. Try this East Dulwich Primary School Places facebook group

Re thought now it is a group page called East Dulwich and Peckham Rye Primary School Places

Thanks Inglesa I'm an enthusiastic amature will re think

They just moved this from general ED issues/Gossip section. Isn't primary school places a community issue?

Leggings! Leggings! I have been looking for footless black leggins allover. Not keen on jumpsuits though.

Get a dog or borrow a kid. Then you can get talking to anyone.

East Dulwich Primary School Places facebook page might be a useful thing to join?

Hello There has been a real problem. Local kids are going to school up to 2 miles away from their home. This breaks down community, overcrowds transport, stresses out parents and commuters and lets face it effects house prices. Once we have schools sorted out this will be the PERFECT place to live so suppot the ED community and be a friend of the Eastdulwich Primaryschoolplaces facebook page.

A focused average ability student could get an A easily if they played the game. This does give support to those from nonacademic backgrounds who would otherwise be easily discouraged. Yes dumbed down, but with good intentions. However for many kids it does not encourage them to really challenge themselves. A lot of kids I teach found GCSE such an easy ride they sit back through their A levels. And GCSE just got way easier (especialy for boys who honestly tend to cock up the coursework by leaving it to the last min). ps join Eastdulwich Primaryschoolplaces facebook page :))

Also come and join the brand new East Dulwich Primary School Places facebook group.

United we stand, divided..... we take the bus 4 times a day to north Southwark and our kids won't be part of their local community. Be a friend of East Dulwich and Peckham Rye Primary School Places.

Call me optimistic but thought it worth a go. We now have a facebook group East Dulwich Primary School Places

This is bound to put even more pressure on the limited preschool places in the area, may need an extra nursary class.

Peckham Rye Cafe/ club Tuesday 12 o'clock. Lib dems there to see what we want. (see other thread posted yeaserday and sinking fast) Lets make school places top of their campaigning agenda. Hope to see as many concerned parents there as poss to make sure there are school places for our kids in the next few years.

Thanks for your comment Canning, I do agree with the spirit of your comment "As parents you can assist any Primary school you send your children to by being actively supportive and positive. This is especially true if the school has a new head or lots of new teachers." A lot of people would be keen to do this. But there is no way i could be actively involved and supportive to a school 2 miles away. There is a case for supporting your community school. But i'll be blowed if i am going to go through all that (and your child being at a 'challenging' school is difficult) to support someone elses community.

Hi thought i would share the feedback i have had. Dear , Thank you for your recent emails and for copying me into your letter to Terry Parkin. I fully understand and agree with you how important it is that parents feel that the school place they have been offered is both practical and suitable and that the school allocated is indeed local. Whilst many offers of school places this year have been within the statutory requirement of 2 miles from the child's home, the necessary travel routes and transport complications combined with arrangements for their other children means, that for a large number of parents, the practical difficulties are insurmountable. That is why I have been working with parents this year in order to put pressure on Southwark Council to listen to parents' concerns about the offers they have been made and about the manner in which Southwark has handled their enquiries. Since problems in the East Dulwich area first came to my attention in early May I have been in regular contact with parents who have been in touch with my office and met with a group of 16 parents in early June. Following this some of these parents, local councillors and two members of my staff met with Cllr Nick Stanton, Leader of Southwark Council, to discuss their concerns. I have attached below the contact details for the Advisory Centre for Education, a national charity which provides information and advice to parents on matters such as admissions for your information. http://www.ace-ed.org.uk/ Their general advice line is 0808 500 5793. Community Legal Advice can also offer assistance in these matters and can be contacted on 08453 454 345. It is Southwark's sole responsibility to assess the need for places in the area and plan accordingly. They have put forward plans and proposals for further funding from Department of Children, Schools and Families which I am fully supporting. It does seem Southwark has a problem in the sense that there is a surplus of places in the north of the borough and too few in the south and therefore the absolute need for extra places is a complex case to make. However I sincerely hope that, working together, it will be possible to have extra provision in place so that parents do not continue to suffer the same problems that many did this year. With best wishes Andy Coates On behalf of Tessa Jowell MP

Is it all babies or are big kids ok (big 3y old) Please all dress in blue. Would not look too freeky on journey down there and it would look cool on mass.

Apparently you don't get Primary school places or SE22 mag in the streets south of the the Rye. Beginning to think we don't exist. What do others call this area?

Mine are still small so don't know about 4+, but the gap between the end of colic up until they start hitting other peoples children with sticks is sweet.

You have probably had all this but i had a screamer baby no1 and am convinced its all about digestion and burps.... or lack of sleep. There are colicy baby drops you can use to help the bubbles in their tummy find each other and come out in one lovely burp, which often solved the crying for us. Hope it works. Good luck.

There seem to be people researching this for telly on other threads, it would be a good example of the London crisis. Hope the media does pick it up. Might get this extra school intime for baby no2!

Would love Iveydale but thinking they are v v popular now

Well... I have said this elsewhere (I'm beginning to enjoy this nagging) but the way to stop the school worry is to write to our locl MP's so that Dulwich gets its school problem sorted and now is the time as the current school places crisis is in full flow.

Thanks for advice Have tried primaries but places seem like gold dust and Goodrich has also lost my forms and i had to fill out new ones so yes agree about disorganisation. Planning on ringing around the primaries again at the start of term. Will also check in with Puddleducks and Buds, had assumed they were looking for fulldayers. Thanks again

Hello We have just moved up Mundania/ Forest Hill Road way and are keen for our 3 1/2y old to have a little break from us and socialise every day. Apart froom Goodrich Nursery (which i don't think we will get into even by January) I can't find any other places in the area (within 1/2 mile) that do this type of short stint. Am i missing something? Any advice appreciated.