How to apply for Reception

We offer 30 reception places each year. For children born between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019, who are due to start the first year of primary school (Reception Class) in September 2023, please apply here.

Admissions are managed through the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham's school admissions team. 

If you would like any support completing your application, please contact the school office on 020 8743 2527 or email info@arkbentworthprimary.org 

How to apply for an in-year place

An in-year admission is when you apply to a school outside the normal admissions round and at a time when your child should already be attending school. You would normally be making an in-year application if you have recently moved, you have arrived from another country or you want to transfer your child to another school.

If you wish to apply for an in-year place, please contact admissions at the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham on 020 7745 6434 or email school.admissions@lbhf.gov.uk

You can find out more here.

If you would like any support completing your application, please contact the school office on 020 8743 2527 or email info@arkbentworthprimary.org 

Before submitting a Primary appeal, please read the following:

Infant class size appeals

The law states infant classes of 5, 6 and 7 year olds may not normally contain more than 30 pupils with a single teacher. As such, there are limited grounds in which an appeal for an infant class will be successful. There are only three grounds on which infant class size appeals can be upheld.

1. If the panel finds that the admission of additional children would not breach the infant class size limit.

2. The panel finds that the admission arrangements for the school did not comply with admissions law or were not correctly and impartially applied and the child would have been offered a place if the arrangements had complied or had been correctly and impartially applied. Here, the panel must be satisfied not only did the arrangements not comply with admissions law or were not correctly and impartially applied but also the child would have been offered a place if the arrangements had complied or had been correctly and impartially applied.

3. The panel decides that the decision to refuse admission was not one which a reasonable admission authority would make in the circumstances of the case. Please note that the law defines ‟unreasonable‟ very narrowly in these cases and it means a decision which was “perverse in the light of the admission arrangements”, i.e. it was “beyond the range of responses open to a reasonable decision maker” or a decision which is “so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind could have arrived at it.”. The panel must use the legal definition of „unreasonable‟, and not their own personal definitions.

If the panel decides that the answer to any of the above categories is yes then your appeal may be allowed. Otherwise your appeal will be refused. Please note that the panel may also take into account the practical consequences for the school and the children in relevant infant classes if any or all the appeals were to be successful.

In Year Admissions

Applications made to any year group outside the main admissions round (In-Year admissions) should be made directly to London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

If you wish to apply for a place, please complete the appication form here (In-Year admissions form)

Parents/carers will be informed of the outcome of their application within 15 school days.  If a place is refused the child will be added to the waiting list, the position on the waiting list will be determined according to the oversubscription criteria in the School's Admissions Policy.

If refused a place, the parent/carer has the right to appeal the decision.  If you wish to appeal, please click here for the appeal form.

Appeal panel hearings will take place within 30 school days of receipt of the appeal.  Parents/carers will be notified of their appeal hearing date by the independent appeal panel clerk.