In-Year admissions to Prendergast School
IN-YEAR ADMISSIONS ARRANGEMENTS
Thank you for your interest in Prendergast School.
This school acts in accordance with the relevant provisions of the School Admissions Code (2021).
We welcome new in-year applications throughout the academic year (until we close in July). Please use our online in-year application form.
Prendergast School is an all-girls school. This form is for girls in Years 7-11 only. (Year 7 in-year applications are only accepted after 1 January. Please contact Lewisham Admissions until 31 December.)
We are only able to process applications once the school has received all relevant requested documents.
You must provide documents to support your application, including a current proof of address and proof of birth date for your child. For more information and the full list of accepted documents, please read our proof of address and parental responsibility admissions protocol, available on the School Policies page of our website. If you move house, or some other relevant change to your situation, you must re-apply and provide new documents.
For children who have arrived from outside the UK – it is the responsibility of the parents of foreign national children to check that their children have a right under their UK entry conditions to study at a school before applying for a place. For more information, please read this UK Government guidance.
For a child with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), please seek advice from your local authority’s Children with Complex Needs service. (Lewisham: 020 7138 1272 or 020 7138 1275)
Notice: Admissions and appeals arrangements are subject to government guidance and public health advice, and may change at short notice.
Year 8-Year 11
For in-year admissions, you must apply direct to Prendergast School. We welcome new in-year applications from each September, when our school re-opens to students. You must re-apply each academic year. Please follow the link to our in-year application form, below.
For Year 11, we advise you may wish to email the school (using the PS Admissions email address below) to provide more information or contact your own local authority.
The waiting list is closed each year, when the school closes on the last school day of the summer term. Should you wish to re-apply for in-year admission, you will need to make a new application for an in-year place in the relevant year group from the start of each academic year in September.
You do not need to apply via the local authority for Prendergast School. You are advised to submit an In-year Common Application Form (iCAF) to your own local authority if you wish to transfer your child/ward to a different school.
Year 7
For in-year admissions to Year 7, the secondary transfer planned round applies until 31 December each year. This school participates in the pan London Admissions Scheme for secondary transfer admissions into Year 7 each September and all applications must go via your local authority until the end of December of the year of entry.
From the start of term in January each year, our standard in-year admissions procedure applies to in-year applications to Year 7 and you must apply direct to Prendergast School from January onwards.
You do not need to apply via the local authority for Prendergast School from January onwards. You are advised to submit an In-year Common Application Form (iCAF) to your own local authority if you wish to transfer your child/ward to a different school.
How to apply
To apply direct to Prendergast School for an in-year place in secondary years, you will need to complete our online in-year application form:
Online applications are preferred. A paper copy of the form is available on request during periods when admissions are open. Our contact details are below. Paper application forms must be returned to Prendergast School, as outlined in the form.
Please note, this school is Prendergast School located on Hilly Fields and Adelaide Avenue. We are an all-girls secondary school for Years 7-11 (with a mixed Sixth Form). (Our sister schools are Prendergast Ladywell and Prendergast Vale.)
Admission criteria
The oversubscription criteria for in-year admissions are as published in our Determined Admissions Policy each year (with the exception of the 2nd criterion for Music which is not available for in-year admissions). The following provides a summary only of our oversubscrition criteria:
- Female students who meet the definition of looked after children or previously looked after children.
- Up to 10% of the intake will be selected on the basis of aptitude for music as judged by their assessment result and audition. [MUSIC IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR IN-YEAR ADMISSIONS]
- Children with a social or medical need that is exceptional. [SEE ADMISSIONS POLICY FOR DETAILS]
- Siblings: A child whose sibling is on roll in Years 7-10 of the school on the closing date for applications and is expected to be on roll (in Years 7-11) at the intended date of admission.*
- The children of staff in either or both of the following circumstances:
a) Where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made: and/or
b) The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage. - Those who are permanently living nearest to the school. All distances will be calculated digitally as a straight-line distance to a nodal point in the school premises (North Door Park Site) from a nodal point in the applicant’s permanent home address. The child’s home address will be considered to be where the child normally and habitually resides and with a parent with parental responsibility.
Please carefully read our Determined Admissions Policy for the relevant year of entry before applying:
*Please note that for in-year applications only for the secondary phase (Years 7-11), a qualifying sibling is a sibling who is in the secondary phase (in Years 7-11).
Social-Medical consideration is for children with a social or medical need that is exceptional, and who can demonstrate that Prendergast School is particularly well suited to meet that need. Please carefully read our Admissions Policy before making a claim under this discretionary criterion.
Music scholarship places are only available for secondary transfer and are not available outside the normal admissions round for Year 7 September entry.
Please remember to read our proof of address and parental responsibility admissions protocol, for the full list of proof of address and proof of birth date documents thhat we accept, which is also on our School Policies page at the above link. All documents must be current.
Admission Outside the Normal Age Group:
Parents are entitled to request a place for their child outside of their normal age group. If you wish to request a place, please contact the Governance Professional at: governance@leathersellers-federation.com
This admission authority cannot be required to honour a decision made by another admission authority about a child out of the normal age group.
Waiting lists
Waiting lists are held in the same order as the admission oversubscription criteria. Prendergast School operates its own in-year admissions and waiting lists from January of Year 7.
To ensure the waiting list is accurate, the in-year waiting list will close at the end of the academic year in July. You must re-apply to the school at the start of each academic year in September.
If your circumstances change, such as a move to a new address, or some other relevant change to your situation, please submit a new application with this new information, and provide new supporting documents. Please re-apply online or contact the school via the details below.
The school participates in Lewisham local authority’s In-Year Fair Access Protocol and children may be prioritised over those children on the waiting list for admission under this protocol.
Contact Admissions
Please email our Admissions team: admissions@prendergast-school.com
(Emails are monitored during term time only when the school is open.)
Or call the school: 020 8690 3710 (school hours only).
Prendergast School is closed during school holiday periods, Bank Holidays and INSET days. We do not operate during the summer break.
