Please read the following notes:
POINTS YOU SHOULD NOTE ABOUT ADMISSION TO STREATHAM WELLS PRIMARY SCHOOL
NURSERY CLASS
As Streatham Wells is a Community Primary School we follow the admissions criteria as set down by Lambeth Council:
Part-Time Places
- Children for whom it is the nearest community school or class, measured along the shortest walking distance. Priority within this group will normally be given to children who live closest to the school. In exceptional circumstances, preference may be given to children who live further away, but for whom this is the nearest community school or class. Addresses other then the child’s home address will not be accepted for admission purposes.
- Children with a particular medical, social or educational reason for wanting a nursery place; this reason must be supported by the relevant professional, e.g. doctor.
- Children for whom it is not the nearest community nursery school or class, measured along the shortest walking distance. Priority within this group will normally be given to children who live closest to the school.
- Children who live in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Having a sibling attending the primary school does not automatically give your child priority to the nursery class, although, because the nursery is non-statutory, the headteacher can use his/her discretion to consider admission providing you can demonstrate that not receiving a place would cause very real difficulties. Because of the criteria for primary school admissions, those children for which this nursery class is the nearest to their home will get priority over children who live closer to another nursery class/school in the area.
We only have one intake for the Nursery which is in September. If a place becomes available during the year the place will be offered to the child on the waiting list.
You can only accept one offer of a free part-time nursery place. It is not possible for a child to have a nursery place at one school in the morning and a different school in the afternoon.
Full-Time Places
1. Children who are looked after, or who have an allocated social worker who has provided written support of the need for a full-time place as part of the Child’s Plan at that school.
2. Children who are recommended for a full-time place by a Team Around the Child (TAC) Locality or Disability Panel.
3. Children in circumstances where the Headteacher considers a full-time place should be provided. To ensure equality across the borough the following two criteria must be met before the school identifies their own specific criteria
a) Children who are eligible for FSMs or newly arrived or asylum seeker and
b) Evidence to demonstrate that home circumstances could significantly affect a child’s well-being.
SCHOOL
Children who attend a nursery class in a primary school do not transfer automatically to the main school; parents have to apply separately to the primary school via the Lambeth Common Application form which can be found in the Starting School Booklet. This is obtainable from the Lambeth School Admissions Team on 020 7926 9503 or visit the Customer Service Centre in Olive Morris House, 18 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1RL or the website at www.lambeth.gov.uk/eadmissions.
This is the criteria that Streatham Wells follows:-
- Looked after children. A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation by that authority – according to section 22 of the Children Act 1989.
- Children with a brother or sister who already attends the school, and who will not have left the school at the time of admission. A sibling is defined as a full brother or sister, or a step/half brother or sister living at the same address, a child who is living as part of the family by reason of a court order, or a child who has been placed with foster carers at that address as a result of being looked after by the local authority.
- Children with a professionally supported medical or social need that the school is especially able to meet. Admissions decisions will be taken by Lambeth’s Children and Young People’s Service (CYPS) in consultation with the headteacher. Letters from an appropriate professional must support these applications although these will not always be conclusive.
- Children for whom it is not the nearest community school, measured by the shortest safe walking route. (The length of the journey between the child’s home and the school by private car of public transport is not taken into account.)
In exceptional cases, a headteacher, in consultation with LA officers, may admit children because they have professionally supported educations, medical or social needs that the school is especially able to meet, even though they would not otherwise qualify for admission. Letters from an appropriate professional (e.g. doctor, social worker) must support these applications although these will not always be conclusive.