Recap – we have a looming primary school places crisis of 215-235 reception places September 2016. The East Dulwich Harris Primary School will provider 60 places to fill this gap with huge local parent support to make it happen.
Harris have appointed the Principal for the school. I’m hoping to meet them in April.
The former East Dulwich Police station has been bought to provide the site for this school. The full funding agreement has been signed off with governments Educational Finance Agency (EFA).
The EFA will have appointed their full technical team by the end of this week to ensure the new school is completed by September 2015 as the permanent site.
Discussions are ongoing about the temporary site the school will open on this September 2014. But it looks 99% likely that the temporary site will be the East Dulwich Harris Girls Academy site.
During the 1st week of April an admissions evening will be held for parents and families.
We just need to find a site for the second local Harris Primary school.
It would appear that little thought has been given to the fact this will create traffic issues. Some of us are actually dependent on driving as public transport is difficult to use. As it is all the current schools in Dulwich create traffic bottlenecks. This is a ridiculous site for a school. Perhaps have passed this, the Council could get the local schools to encourage children to walk, as we did?