Beatrix Potter Primary School

Our school has a defined set of admission criteria because of its location, popularity and consequent over-subscription. Beatrix Potter is a two form entry school. This means that each year will have an admission limit of 60 pupils.

The order of priority in allocated places is as follows:

• Children looked after.
• Siblings of children currently on school roll, subject to their living within the school’s first or second priority area.
• Other children living within the first priority area.
• Other children living within the second priority area.
• Siblings of children currently on the school roll who live outside the priority areas.
  Other children outside the priority areas.

Within some categories applications will be considered in order of proximity to the school, where home to school distances are taken to be by a straight line. The straight line measurement used to prioritise applicants commences in all cases at the location of the property determined by the National Land Planning Gazetteer and terminates at the central point of the school site as determined by Wandsworths Geographical Information system. Measurements by alternative systems and/or other points will not be taken into account in any circumstances. Where applicants have identical distance measurements, priority amongst them will be determined at random.

The first priority area is bounded by and includes the following roads: Openview (east side from the school boundary wall to the corner of Burntwood Lane); Burntwood Lane (north side from Openview to Trinity Road, odd numbers 227 and upwards); Trinity Road (west side from Burntwood Lane to Magdalen Road, odd numbers 261-309); Magdalen Road (numbers 1-145).

The second priority area is those roads to the east of Trinity Road known as the “Toastrack” and Trinity Road (numbers 238-324) and the roads to the north of Magdalen Road including Groom Crescent, Strickland Row, Alma Terrace, Heathfield Square and Heathfield Road to the junction of Earlsfield Road, Wilde Place and Carmichael Mews.

Our children are our future, we as governors strive to provide the best possible opportunities for our children to achieve their potential, thrive and be happy in this excellent school. We work alongside the whole school community to achieve the best possible outcomes for all our children. Using our experience we act as critical friends, advisors and supporters to the school. We are very proud to be associated with Beatrix Potter and its high standards of education. Working together we will continue this tradition and move the school forward to even greater achievements.

Beatrix Potter is the Lead School of the Wandsworth Primary Schools’ Consortium (WPSC), which has supported a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) unit since 1996.  Throughout this period, the SCITT has been networked to Kingston University and its graduates have undertaken their Primary Post Graduate in Education (PGCE) course.

The WPSC SCITT aims to provide a challenging and well designed programme of school-based practice and academic study to a wide range of trainee teachers. Our inclusive ethos and well resourced environment offer a highly supportive and personalised approach to learning. “Trainees greatly value the high-quality, individual pastoral and academic support they receive which contributes to their very good progress” (Ofsted 2012). Since 1996 Wandsworth Primary Schools’ Consortium (WPSC) has been accredited by the National College for Teaching and Leadership to train highly motivated graduates to teach 5-11 year olds in primary schools via a school-centred initial teacher training (SCITT). From 2003 there has also been the opportunity for trainees to specialise as teachers of 3-7 year olds. We have PGCE places for 34 trainees. The course provides trainees with the theoretical and practical experience needed to meet the standards for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and the award of a PGCE with credits towards one third of a Master’s. For the last six years all who have qualified via Wandsworth SCITT have found work as teachers, a much higher percentage than the national average.