We have a 52-place nursery
Reception to year 6 have 2 classes of 30 children per year group.
When parents move into the area or wish to change their child’s school, they should contact The London Borough of Ealing, for an application form, parents will be advised whether a place is available in a particular year group.
If a place is available, the family will be invited to visit the school to speak to the office, you will be given the relevant paperwork and informed of the routines of the school day.
Where parents or carers are planning to remove their child from the school, the Head Teacher should be informed as soon as the parent has been offered a new school and the parents must complete a school leaver’s form. Information about the child will then be passed on to the new school.
The school admissions team can assist you with any inquiries you may have in relation to school admissions on 020 85711230 or e-mail dwijadmin@dwij.co.uk
The nursery provides 52 places (26-morning places & 26-afternoon places). Children requiring a nursery place may be offered a place between their third and fourth birthdays, Nursery 2. Where there are more requests than places available, the school uses the selection criteria drawn up by The London Borough of Ealing
We also offer places to nursery children, where there are spaces, to children, the term after they become 3 years old, Nursery 1.
Places are allocated by the school. Where there are more applications than places we will use the same guidance the Local Authority uses when allocation school places.
To apply for a nursery place, parents are asked to collect an application form for Dormers Wells from the office, complete and return it with the child’s birth certificate or passport and proof of address. Once the application form has been possessed by the office parents will be contacted with a start date.
The school admits 30 children to each of our reception classes (60 in total). Please note that children currently in our nursery must to apply for a reception place directly to the Local Authority, www.ealing.gov.uk/admissions . There is no automatic right of admission from Nursery to the main primary school. Places will be offered according to the strict application of the Local Authorities admissions criteria.
Children are admitted to the reception classes at the beginning of the Autumn Term.
If we are oversubscribed (our maximum intake is 60 places), the London Borough of Ealing Admissions Section will allocate places using the following criteria. These are listed in priority order:
Please visit the London Borough of EALING Primary Schools Admissions site. Go to www.ealing.gov.uk/admissions for their step to step guide, you make your application via www.edamissions.org.uk
Before making your application:
Submitting a late application greatly reduces your chance of getting a place at our school.
If you do not live in the London Borough of Ealing, you must apply through your own council.
The school admissions team can assist you with any inquiries you may have in relation to school admissions on 020 85711230 or e-mail dwijadmin@dwij.co.uk If parents are finding completing the on-line application form difficult, the office will make an appointment for someone to help them.
Closing date for applications 15th January 2024
National offer day 30th April 2025
When children are in Year 6, preparations will begin for their transfer to secondary school.
All secondary schools will hold open evenings /days, during September and October when you and your child can visit the schools before making your application. The time table is on the first page of the starting High School brochure.
The school admissions team can assist you with any inquiries you may have in relation to school admissions on 020 85711230 or e-mail dwijadmin@dwij.co.uk If parents are finding completing the on-line application form difficult, the office will make an appointment for someone to help them.
Before making your application
Submitting a late application greatly reduces your chance of getting a place at one of your preferred schools.
If you do not live in the London Borough of Ealing, you must apply through your own council.
Some schools (such as faith schools) require you to complete their own Supplementary Information Form (SIF) in addition to Hounslow’s Common Application Form (online application). See the Secondary School Supplementary Information form page.
The admissions team in Ealing can assist you with any inquiries you may have in relation to school admissions. Contact 020 8825 5522 or e-mail mainroundadmissions@ealing.gov.uk
The school admissions team can assist you with any inquiries you may have in relation to school admissions on 020 85711230 or e-mail dwijadmin@dwij.co.uk
Closing date 31st October 2025
National offer day 1st March 2026
If there are fewer applicants than there are places available for Reception entry everyone who applies will be offered a place.
Children who have an Education, Health and Care Plan or Statement of special educational needs, which names the school, will be allocated a place at the school in accordance with their statutory entitlement.
If there are more applicants than there are places available after the admission of students with an Education, Health and Care Plan or statement of special educational needs naming the school, the following criteria will be considered, in order, to determine who will be offered a place:
Tie-breaker: If more applications are received in any one criterion than there are places available, the tiebreaker of distance by straight line from the Ordnance Survey address point for the home address to a point in the school determined by the grid references for the centre of the school’s postcode. In cases where applicants live equidistant from the preferred school and places cannot be offered to all of the applicants affected, the available place(s) will be allocated using random allocation.
Children of multiple births: In cases where there is only one place available at the school and the next child on the waiting list is one of a twin, triplet or other multiple birth group, both twins (or all the siblings in the case of other multiple births) would be admitted, even if this meant that the school would admit in excess of the admission number.
Applications received in the normal (main) round for entry to reception will automatically be placed on the waiting list for any higher preferences than the school offered, lower preferences are withdrawn. Children will remain on the waiting list for one term, after which they will be removed. If parents wish for their child to remain on the waiting list, they will need to advise the admissions team before 31 December.
Waiting lists for applications received outside of the normal round (in year) will be maintained according to the in-year admissions coordinated scheme.
Waiting lists will be re-ranked in line with the published oversubscription criteria each time a child is added, length of time on a waiting list does not give any priority. Vacancies will be offered to the pupil with the highest priority on the waiting list at that time. The position on the waiting list changes frequently and can move down as well as up when children are added or removed.
You can make an appeal to each school where your application has been unsuccessful. Appeals are heard by an independent panel. The school will advise the panel why a place could not be offered to your child and why it would be detrimental to the education and resources of the school to admit additional children. You will then be heard by the panel and will need to show either the school’s published admission arrangements were not correctly applied or the reasons why your child should be given a place outweigh the negative impact this would have on the school by admitting additional children.
Parents may seek a place for their child outside of their normal age group, for example, if the child is gifted and talented or has experienced problems such as ill health.
A written request must be made to the Head of Admissions at the time of application providing all the reasons for the request with supporting evidence, for example school reports, medical reports, professional recommendations or any other documents to be taken into consideration.
The council must make decisions based on the circumstances of each case and in the best interests of the child concerned. This will include taking account of the parent’s views; information about the child’s academic, social and emotional development; where relevant, their medical history and the views of a medical professional; whether they have previously been educated out of their normal age group; and whether they may naturally have fallen into a lower age group if it were not for being born prematurely. They must also consider the views of the head teacher.
If the council agrees to a parent’s request for their child to be admitted out of their normal age group, the application will be considered alongside all other applications in the requested year group. There would be no guarantee that a place would be offered at the preferred school.
Parents who are refused a place at a school for which they have applied have the right of appeal to an independent admission appeal panel. They do not have a right of appeal if they have been offered a place and it is not in the year group they would like. However, if the parents are dissatisfied with the outcome of the request for delayed entry into reception or admission outside of their child’s normal age group, they would have the right to complain against the decision through the council’s complaints procedure for decisions made by council officers.
Distance – The home address is where a child normally lives. The distance will be measured in a straight light from the address point for the home address to the point in the school determined by the grid references for the centre of the school’s postcode. Distance is calculated using a computerized mapping system based on Ordinance Survey data.
Home address – This must be the address where parent and child normally live and they must be living there on the closing date for receipt of applications. Confirmation of address may be requested and, if so, is required; providing a false or misleading address would permit the academy trust to withdraw the offer of a place, even after a child has started attending the school. Where parents have shared responsibility and the child is residing with one parent for the majority of the time or on a permanent basis, the address of this parent will be used for the purposes of the application.
Where parents have shared responsibility and the child lives with each parent for half of the calendar year, the parents must come to an agreement as to whose address will be used for the application. This address will be used to process the child’s application and can only be changed after the beginning of the academic year unless the address of the chosen parent changes during the admissions process. In all other cases of personal or family arrangements the address of the mother will be taken as the main residence unless there is irrefutable evidence that the child lives elsewhere either full-time or for most of the year with an adult under arrangements which have been endorsed by a court.
Children who are looked after or were previously looked after – A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order immediately following having been looked after.
Adopted children are those who were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 adoption orders) and children who were adopted under the Adoption and Children’s Act 2002 (see section 46 adoption orders). A child arrangements orders are defined in s.8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. Child arrangements orders replace residence orders and any residence order in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to be a child arrangements order. A special guardianship order is defined by s. 14A of the Children Act 1989 as an order appointing one or more 3 individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians).
Sibling – Where children live as brother and sister in the same household they are treated in the same way as siblings for admissions purposes. This includes a child’s brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted/foster brother or sister, step brother or sister living in the same family unit at the same address on a permanent basis or for the majority of time in any calendar year. It does not include cousins or other extended family members who live in the same household.