Lewisham Primary School Admissions

[toast]

Hello

Anyone living on the Southwark/ Lewisham borders who did not get a place at any Lewisham Schools do PM me if your concerned.

With Thanks

Toast

[prdarling]

Hi Toast

We didn't get in but we live in Ryedale so I wasn't very hopeful. I may give the waiting list a go as we are 817m from Fairlawn and the furthest distance they have offered to date is almost 784m. It's a miserable affair.

Am so hopping mad that Southwark are holding back until after the elections due no doubt to their monumental f*** ups last year.

I just want to know where my son is going...

[toast]

My son has been asking if he is staying where he is, wish i could tell him yes, or no, or anything!

[clux]

I missed out on my first choice school in Lewisham last year (we live 576m away) but did get a place two weeks into term. We were initially 7th on the waiting list so there is definite hope as a lot does change!

good luck everyone - its a horrible time.

[prdarling]

Have you seen the numbers though - it's mental 340 applications for 90 places at Fairlawn but that's with 30 additional places (a bulge class??) so it would have been 340 for 60 places.

Meanwhile I can't park in my road at 3pm for parents coming to pick their children up from school as they live so bloody far away

It can't continue like this

[Fuschia]

prdarling Wrote:

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> Have you seen the numbers though - it's mental

> 340 applications for 90 places at Fairlawn but

> that's with 30 additional places (a bulge class??)

> so it would have been 340 for 60 places.

They will not all be first choices though, that includes parents who chose other schools further up the preference list

[prdarling]

True true true. I'm just being giddy and anxious!

[pk]

where can i find the stats for this kind of stuff?

[BB100]

prdarling Wrote:

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> Meanwhile I can't park in my road at 3pm for

> parents coming to pick their children up from

> school as they live so bloody far away

>

That's a legacy from when they were not so popular!

Mr Bosher told me himself last year he always has kids that fail to turn up on the first day but they have to give a full 2 weeks before they can give the places to someone else. So you may hear soon.