New Admissions

Applying for a Primary School Place in Reception for September 2025

Apply online at www.eadmissions.org.uk

The school offers 60 places per year group. If you would like to visit the school before making your application, please phone or email the school office to book your place on a tour. If you are unable to attend on one the dates listed below, we would be happy to make an appointment for you to visit at a different time.

Tours will take place this term on the following Thursdays at 9.30am:

3rd October - Tour full

17th October - Tour full

7th November - Tour full

21st November - Tour full

New date added:

5th December - Spaces still available

Our policy is that LBWF run our schools’ admissions and we follow their guidelines, criteria and procedure. The current booklet can be viewed on the Waltham Forest website.

DEADLINE	ACTIVITY
1st September	Applications open
15 January 2025	Closing date for applications
16 April 2025	Offer letters will be posted to applicants making paper application
16 April 2025	Online applicants will be sent an email with the outcome during the evening
17 April 2025	Offer letters should be received by applicants making paper application
30 April 2025	Deadline to accept or decline offer
16 May 2025	Deadline for appeal requests to be submitted

If there are more applications than there are places available at a school, Waltham Forest will use the following criteria, in priority order, to decide who should be offered a place. If you wish to apply under priorities 1–4, you must tick the box to indicate this on your application, and supply supporting documentation.

Priority 1 – Looked After Children or Children ‘At Risk’

Priority 2 – Medical or social reasons

Priority 3 – Siblings

Priority 4 – School Staff Children

Priority 5 – Distance

Children with a statement of Special Educational Needs are awarded a school place under the terms of the 1996 Education Act - not through the admissions criteria. They will be allocated a place at the school named on their Education and Health Care Plan.

The priorities are explained in full in the admissions booklet.

Please note:

Children do not automatically transfer from nursery to a Reception class;

Children do not automatically get a place if they have a brother or sister already at the school;

In both these instances you still need to make an application.

Please visit the Waltham Forest Admissions webpage for more information on applying for a primary school place. If you have any questions then you can contact the admissions team directly on 0208 496 3000

email them at admissions@walthamforest.gov.uk.

In Year Admission Procedures

Please contact the school office for details of how to apply for any school place other than a Reception place starting in September.

Applying for in-year admissions

Appeals

If your child’s application for a place at the school is unsuccessful, you will be informed why admission was refused and given information about the process for hearing appeals with your offer. If you wish to appeal, you must set out the grounds for your appeal in writing and send it to the following address:

The Education Appeals Committee; Democratic Services; Town Hall; Forest Road; Walthamstow; E17 8ER

Full details of the school’s appeals process including the deadline for receipt of appeals and timetable for hearing appeals can be found in London Borough of Waltham Forest’s ‘Starting Primary School’: www.walthamforest.gov.uk/content/applying-primary-school-place

Apply for primary school

Applying for Secondary School

There is a lot of information online regarding your child and applying for a secondary school place but we have supplied some relevant points for you;

Before making the application:

• Read the information brochure

• Contacting other Authorities that you are interested in

• Contact schools and ask for a prospectus

• Look at the schools website

• Do any of the schools require a supplementary information form (SIF)

• Reading reports on the schools by OFSTED

• Going to the schools open evenings

Key points to be aware of:

• Some schools are oversubscribed each year

• Try and get a realistic idea of whether your child will be offered a place.

• Read the admission criteria for each school (they are not all the same)

• How many admissions made last year, how the places were allocated

• Does the schools curriculum and aims suit the needs of your child

• Think about travel and possible costs

Making Your Application:

Applications for secondary schools should be made online between 1st September

and 31st October.

The Application:

Online applications can be made at: www.eadmissions.org.uk.

For telephone advice: 0208 496 3000

or email admissions@walthamforest.gov.uk

For full information on applying for a secondary school place follow the link below:

Apply for secondary school

School open evenings

Buxton School	Thursday 10 October 2024	5.30pm to 7.30pm
Chingford Foundation School	Thursday 3 October 2024	5.45pm to 8pm
Connaught School for Girls	Thursday 26 September 2024	6.pm to 8.30pm
Eden Girls School, Waltham Forest	Thursday 10 October 2024	5.30pm to 8pm
Frederick Bremer School	Wednesday 2 October 2024	5.30pm to 8pm
George Mitchell School	Tuesday 8 October 2024	5.30pm to 8pm
Heathcote School & Science College	Wednesday 2 October 2024	5pm to 7.30pm
Highams Park School	Thursday 10 October 2024	5.30pm to 8.30pm
Holy Family Catholic School and Sixth Form	Thursday 19 September 2024	6pm to 8pm
Kelmscott School	Wednesday 25 September 2024	5.30pm to 8pm
The Lammas School	Tuesday 1 October 2024	6pm to 8pm
Leytonstone School	Wednesday 9 October 2024	5pm to 8pm
Norlington School and 6th Form	Saturday 28 September 2024	9.30am to 12 noon
South Chingford Foundation School	Wednesday 25 September 2024	6pm to 8.30pm
Walthamstow Academy	Thursday 3 October 2024	5.30pm to 8pm
Walthamstow School for Girls	Thursday 26 September 2024	4.45pm to 7.30pm
Willowfield School	Thursday 3 October 2024	4pm to 8pm