Parents who want to enrol their children at a Wandsworth primary school in September are being urgently reminded that they have only two weeks left to get their applications in.

Application forms for local primary schools must be admitted the town hall by Friday, January 20.

To be eligible for a reception class place in September 2006, children should have been born between September 1, 2001 and August 31, 2002.

A copy of the application form that parents must use is contained in a brochure produced by the council's education department called Choose a Wandsworth Primary School.

The brochure gives detailed advice and guidance on how to make an application and contains simple and straightforward information about all the borough's primary schools, including a map so that parents can locate their nearest schools. It also contains details of after-school care schemes and contact details to help find out more about other early years services in Wandsworth.

Parents can apply for up to four schools on the application form, listing them in order of preference. The application for each school will be considered separately, using the school's published admissions criteria to determine whether a place can be offered. No account will be taken of whether parents have applied for other schools or the order they have listed schools on their application form.

If a child can be offered more than one place, the council will ensure that the one that is forwarded to parents is the highest ranked of those schools able to make an offer. Nobody will receive more than one offer.

Parents will receive a letter confirming their offer on Friday, March 17. The final date for parents to notify the town hall that they would like to accept this place is Friday, March 31. Failure to do so could result in the place being offered to another child.

Parents applying for nursery places in September 2006 should contact individual schools direct.



January 6, 2006