School registration

[lisaetpa]

Hello,

We are moving soon to Dulwich from the US and would like to register our 4 years old twins for school but we ve been told that the registration is past...any advises, tips?

Thanks

[Fuschia]

I don't think yiu can apply until you are actually resident. Then go ahead and apply to the council. They are obliged to offer you a school within 3 miles. You're unlikely to be offered an East Dulwich School as they have all filled their Sept places. However, you can go on the waiting list for any school you want, (though you only have a realistic chance of getting into your CLOSEST community school, and then only if you live within a couple of hundred metres. I have a feeling your late application will not go against you... if you live CLOSER than other people on the waiting list, you will be put further up the list. If a family decline the place they have been offered, someone from the waiting list will get a place. Unfortunately, as you need TWO places, it might take quite a while...

what road are you moving to? What school/s are you hoping for?

[lisaetpa]

We still don't know for the road because we are, once again, looking for advices on roads and schools...thanks.

[Fuschia]

lisaetpa Wrote:

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> We still don't know for the road because we are,

> once again, looking for advices on roads and

> schools...thanks.

Ah. You want to be be AS CLOSE AS possible to a school! To be safe, probably within a couple of hundred metres, as the crow flies. THose who did school entry this year maybe can share how small the circle was for some schools...

PS You don't have to send your twins to school till the term AFTER they're 5, so you possibly can delay until January or easter?

[Fuschia]

lisaetpa Wrote:

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> We still don't know for the road because we are,

> once again, looking for advices on roads and

> schools...thanks.

Ah. You want to be be AS CLOSE AS possible to a school! To be safe, probably within a couple of hundred metres, as the crow flies. THose who did school entry this year maybe can share how small the circle was for some schools...

PS You don't have to send your twins to school till the term AFTER they're 5, so you possibly can delay until January or easter?

[lisaetpa]

I thought it was mandatory to send kids when they are 4...

Do you have some advices about the "good" roads in Dulwich?

[Fuschia]

lisaetpa Wrote:

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> I thought it was mandatory to send kids when they

> are 4...

> Do you have some advices about the "good" roads in

> Dulwich?

Mo, they admit "rising 5s" so if your twins are 5 by Easter, they would be offered a pkace from sept, if 5 afterwards, from January. But the law sasy they must go from the start of the term AFTER they are 5, so you can leave them on a iting list till then

In ED, all schools are good...

Heber

Goodrich

Goose Green

St Johns (church school but some general places)

there are also schools in Nunhead and over the border in lewisham

For any school, draw a small circle round it on the map and look there

Goodrich is the biggest, so prob proprortionately more chance someone will move out

Avoid the area round the gardens/close to peckham rye park, is a school black hole

i would print out a map and mark the schools on...

[Vik]

Also wanted to add Dog Kennel Hill school to that list, always gets overlooked on here and a very good school.

[Fuschia]

Vik Wrote:

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> Also wanted to add Dog Kennel Hill school to that

> list, always gets overlooked on here and a very

> good school.

But not really in ED

[Fuschia]

Horniman, Fairlawn, Ivydale etc all nice but not in ED, ditto the schools in Dulwich Village...

[Carrie]

Dog Kennel Hill does have an SE22 postcode so fairly conclusively East Dulwich I would say.

[Vik]

Thank you Carrie.

[Belle]

also - not ED but close by, Bellenden is a nice seeming school I think. Lots of nice streets around it.

[Fuschia]

Carrie Wrote:

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> Dog Kennel Hill does have an SE22 postcode so

> fairly conclusively East Dulwich I would say.

Ok, fair cop. I just don't think of that far up DK Hill as really being ED, but then we are the far opposite end.