The hall school- occasional places

[drmumoftwo]

Hi everyone,
I registered my son for the Hall school and unfortunately did not make the cut off to do this before his first birthday.
Does anyone have any experience of getting into the school through the occasional places route? I'm hoping he still has a good chance of getting an assessment.
Thank you!

@drmumoftwo The Hall now accept registration until 2 YO

oh that's interesting re 2yo. wonder why they did that?

falling birth rates in the these parts of London. a lot of people register at birth and then relocate by the time the reception year starts. many preps and state primaries are struggling to fill in the numbers. both occasional places and the places from the reserve list come up at the Hall, people tend to choose the neighbouring all-through schools like UCS/Highgate if they get offers from both to avoid 11+. also it was notoriously difficult to get into Hall back in those days, its changing now, they are (slightly) less selective and more generous with their offers.so there is a chance...

What @Tiredmumofthreekids all makes sense, though I didn’t think of any of those reasons. I thought it might be because WUS is opening up to 4+ soon so they might lose parents to WUS