SOS- I need to change primary school ASAP! Help!

[mumonedaughter]

hi. first time on mumsnet, i need help and advice.

My daughter is in a primary school in Southwark and constantly having incidents at school. There is no part at her body which hasn't been injured by other student silly behaviour :( My child is a top student at school and has no issues with behaviour.

I want her to be in a calm and courteous environment to ensure she's brought up with the correct values and try to place her somewhere away from silly behaviour.

I would love to send her to an independent primary however I cannot afford the fees :(

If to transfer her to another primary school what's the procedure ? Is anyone with past experience with this process?

i have to run away from this school, my child's safety is in danger here, no school support at all!

Thanks. I can't seem to find the three dots on the app. I don't have a superiority complex I just want him to not be bullied everyday. Will try and figure out this pm thing.

Honestly I'd just start your own thread. The advice given above is basically good though. Approach the school and put as much pressure as possible on them to resolve the situation. If that doesn't work, then ask Southwark and Lambeth and other neighbouring boroughs which schools have places free. Look at those schools and see whether any of them are acceptable. If they aren't then pick all other schools that are acceptable to you and get on the waiting list ready to pounce.

i haven't implanted the idea that shes better or above her classmates , but she has naturally noticed this , shes been shown that shes above the national average and all her teachers praise her for her working standard.

She may be working above the expected level, although it doesn't sound as if she is exceptional, this still doesn't make her better than them.

Read the OFSTED report then all the headteacher what has been done to address it/ their comments and go with instinct. My dd's school is good but as a new one hasnt been OFSTEDed and its previous inspection was special measures. A lot of OFSTED is actually about management which can be replaced pretty quickly.....

There's a shortage of places in London generally and most schools are full.

One thing that might not be clear is that waiting lists are not held in date order from when you asked to go on the list, but by how well you fit the entrance criteria. This means your place on the list can go down as well as up, depending on who else joins the list. So, for the school with a waiting list of 15, it does not mean you go on it as number 16 but you would go on it at any number 1-16.

The sheer number of people moving in and out if also find, and the fact that people might be on more than one waiting list, mean that there are more people getting places from the waiting list that it might seem from pessimistic first glance.

(What you had at LCS sounds like their basic tour which is open to all. They told you promptly, when your interest moved to an actual application that there were no vacancies in the relevant year group).

You don't have to worry about catchments. Basically the rule is that if a maintained school has a vacancy, they have to offer it to anyone who applies irrespective of where they live. I agree that you should also get your child onto waiting lists.

Look on your current school's website. There will be the procedures on there for filing a complaint. Losing playtime seems rather poor for physical violence.

Make sure you are on the waiting lists for all the state schools you want her to go to. Waiting lists are applied according to the admissions criteria for that school - not first come, first served. So you could go on the waiting list ahead of other people who have been waiting longer. The good news is that there is often a lot of movement in London.

If you choose, in the UK to home educate your child all you need to do is de-register her from the school. You can take her out if you feel her safety is at risk and wait for a place to come up at another school.

Just because you live in Southwark doesn't mean you have to apply to schools in Southwark. Are you near any Lambeth schools? How easily can you get to schools that might require a bus or train journey?

Lets say you call school X, which is 15 mins away on a bus, and they have a vacancy in year 4. If no one else is applying for that vacancy then it doesn't matter that you live further away. Catchments only work when there is an over subscription for the number of places available.

Hi everybody. I have moved my child. Southwark authorities were extremely unhelpful . I have spoken on the phone to ALL Southwark and Lewisham primary schools. I have spoken to 20 primary schools face to face explaining the sutuation and my child was accepted to the school she wanted to go. We are happy now!

P.s.
I have spoken to one of the teachers who shared that her daughter was bullied as well in another school and she was looking for the school to transfer her child. I have asked her why didn't she bring her child to Surrey Square ? She replied: OMG! For worse? Don't you know our school? Never!