ChloeKM

Thanks all. This is all very valuable advice. I hope that once I have a Southwark address things will get easier as schools will actually talk to me about their waiting lists. I need a back-up though, just in case no decent places come up so I am going to call round some more private schools today. Rosemead has a Y4 place but no year 1 place and same with HH. Alleyns practically laughed at me for asking!

Thank you. I also received some lovely PMs re Bessemer Grange. Sadly it is one of the schools I have contacted that is full in both years. In fact all the follwoing are full in the years I need: Dulwich village, Rosendale, Heber, Goodrich, Bessemer. I also contacted three private schools (JAGS, Alleyns and Rosemead) and they are full too. I just don't understand how people move mid-year once they have school aged children.

Hi, We are probably moving to Dulwich just after christmas. Our two older children are currently in Y1 and Y4. We are looking at houses in Dulwich village and just to the east of Dulwich village. I am finding the proces of in-year admissions very daunting. All the schools I have contacted are currently full in Y1 and Y4 so we would need to join a waiting list but we cannot join the list until we move and then once we had movd we would have to wait for spaces to come up and that could be fast or very slow. I would really appreciate help knowing which state primaries are good in the area and which might have places. I fear the answers to these two questions will be rather different. Has anyone got experience with in-year admissions to the very oversubscribed schools? Did you home school while you waited for a place or did you move your children twice? Many thanks for any help.