Admissions

National Offer Day 2026-27

Parents who have applied for a reception place for September 2026 should now have received communication from your respective boroughs regarding offers. If you have applied online, then you will receive all information and outcomes via the online eadmissions portal.

Offers - if you have a received an offer for a place please can we encourage all parents to accept places as soon as possible. The deadline for accepting offers is 30/04/2026 and this has to be done online if you have applied online. Any offers not accepted by this date could be withdrawn.

If a family has moved address since making their child's application (and you have not informed your local authority of this) then you must complete an online change of address form on the Lambeth webpage and provide new proof of address documents as a matter of urgency. The list of required documents can be seen on Documents to provide | Lambeth Council.

(For pupils out of borough please double check with your local authority for any changes that need to be submitted).

Once all offers have been accepted, the school will be in contact with parents regarding an induction day which will take place in the summer term (details of this will follow during the summer term).

For those families who had our school as a preference to attend our school but have been unsuccessful in obtaining a space, we do sympathise and encourage you to take the offer which you may have received from the local authority at this stage so that your child has a place in a local school for September 2026.

Pupils who did not obtain a place will be added to our waiting list. Waiting list places will not be ready until mid May, so please contact the school office after this date to obtain list positions. If you have listed our school as a lower preference than the one offered then you will be required to complete a new CAF so that your child can be added to the waiting list. If you have not completed a SIF (Supplementary Information Form - see below for form), then the school admin team will be in contact to ask you to complete a form if you wish to remain on our waiting list.

If you do not wish your child to be on the waiting list then please kindly inform the school either by calling the school office or sending an email to the admissions inbox (admissions@orchardprimaryschool.com).

Please do not hesitate to contact the admin team if you have any queries regarding the above information.

Parents who would still like to apply to be added to our Reception wating list, please can you complete a CAF through your local council, for parents who redside in Lambeth please click the link and complete the online form for the local authority.

Lambeth Admissions

The SIF will also need to be completed and can be obtained further down under In-Year applications (this can either be completed and returned to the admin office in person or can be scanned and sent via email). If sending via email please send completed forms to admissions@orchardprimaryschool.com.

Admissions policy

The agreed policy for the 2026-27:

Admissions Policy 2026-27 (Latest) 

The agreed policy for the 2025-26: 

Admissions Policy

In-year Applications

In-Year application – In-Year Application Form

Supplementary Information Form (SIF) – Orchard School SIF

If you have applied to the school already your application will move up to the next year group automatically, so you do not need to apply again. If a space becomes available in any year group we will go down our waiting list to offer spaces and you will be contacted (please ensure contact details are always updated), so you do not need to contact the school every academic year.

If you have made a recent application to the school please allow at least two to three weeks before contacting the school regarding your position on the waiting list, as distance measurements are carried out by the Local Authority before the application is ranked (Please note there has been delays with this due to staff shortages at Lambeth, so distance measurements have been taking longer then usual).

Please ensure that if your address has changed that you inform the school office or complete the letter below and return it to the school office so that we can update our system. Evidence will be required to confirm your new address (accepted proofs are highlighted in the letter). Also if your contact numbers change please make sure the school is informed so that we can update our records.

Change of address: Address Update letter

 Secondary School Applications

The Secondary school application process has now begun for parents whose pupils will be starting secondary school in September 2025.

All applications must be completed online unless your applying for a fee paying school. The process is similar to the Primary admissions process via the eadmissions portal.

Secondary School 

If you require assistance with the application process please come and speak to a member of the admin team. The deadline for completing secondary applications is 31st October 2025 so please ensure applications are completed in good time and that all necessary evidence is uploaded before the deadline date. Outcomes for Secondary school places will be notified to parents on the 1st March 2026.

For further information please visit the Lambeth.gov.uk/admissions page.

Below is information on how to complete an application form online. If you require assistance please come and speak to a member of the admin team.

Secondary Transfer Presentation 2024

Application Process