Admissions
Longshaw Primary Academy is a one-form entry school with 30 places available per year group. Our nursery can accommodate 48 children, offering 15 hours of part-time funded places, split equally between morning and afternoon sessions from Monday to Friday.
Should you wish your child to join Longshaw Primary Academy, please note that all admissions (except nursery admissions) are dealt with on our behalf by the London Borough of Waltham Forest Admissions Service. This applies to students joining in Reception and mid-year admissions for any year group. Full details and advice on academy admissions can be found on the London Borough of Waltham Forest Admissions Service website.
Alternatively you can write to them at:
Town Hall Complex
Fellowship Square
Forest Road
London
E17 4JF
Telephone: 020 8496 3000
Emails can be sent by parents to admissions@walthamforest.gov.uk
Reception Admissions
Our PAN for Reception 2025 is 30 pupils.
You must apply for a reception class place for your child even if they attend a school nursery or have an older brother or sister at your preferred school. If your child currently attends a nursery attached to a school this does not give them any priority for a place in reception class at that school.
Applications for Reception places must be completed online through London Borough of Waltham Forest eAdmissions website. This guide explains How to apply for Primary School.
To apply for your your child to join in Reception 2025, you will need to apply from 1 September 2024 until 11.59pm on 15 January 2025. It’s important to apply as soon as you can. Application recieved after this date will be considered as late application.
If you have any technical issues when applying, please go to eAdmissions support page.
If you can’t apply online, you can use the primary common application form (PDF). It has instructions on the back explaining how to submit your printed application
Admissions arraments for 2024-25 can be found here, which includes information on:-
- arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply
- our oversubscription criteria (ie. how places are offered if there are more applicants than places)
- an explanation of the process you need to follow to apply for a place at Longshaw Primary Academy for your child.
If your child attends a nursery (either attached to a school or independent) a copy of the booklet will be sent home with your child. If your child does not attend nursery or you do not receive a copy, you will be able to download it via the link above or from the Waltham Forest website in September www.walthamforest.gov.uk
Processes for deferring Reception
We follow the London Borough of Waltham Forest's proesses for deferring Reception.
Processes for deferring reception admissions can be found here
Admissions arrangements for the Academic year 2025-26
We follow the London Borough of Waltham Forest Admission Arrangements. For the Academic year 2025-2026, please click the links below for the relevant documents
Admission arrangements for the academic year 2025-26 can be found here. This guide includes information on:
- arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply
- our oversubscription criteria (ie. how places are offered if there are more applicants than places)
- an explanation of the process you need to follow to apply for a place at Longshaw Primary Academy for your child.
London Borough of Waltham Forest co-ordinated Primary Admission scheme for 2025-26 can be found here, which includes information on:-
- arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply
- our oversubscription criteria (ie. how places are offered if there are more applicants than places)
- an explanation of the process you need to follow to apply for a place at Longshaw Primary Academy for your child.
In-Year Admissions
You can apply for a school place at Longshaw Primary Academy at any time. We occassionally have places in each year group when families move from the area. We follow the London Borough of Waltham Forest admissions arrangements as detailed above. Further guidance on how to apply can be found here
You can apply for a school place at Longshaw Primary academy at any time. We occasionally have places in each year group when families move away from the area. We follow the London Borough of Waltham Forest Admission Arrangements, as detailed above. You must apply for a place by contacting the London Borough of Waltham Forest Admissions and Awards Team. Please visit the following page for further information.
If you have been offered a place at our school, Waltham Forest will send you a letter/email and you must respond within 5 days (from date of letter/email) to the school and to Waltham Forest to accept your place. Your place may be offered to someone else if you do not do this.
Our school office team will contact you to arrange a meeting and request you to complete the school enrolment form ahead of the meeting. At this meeting, the Admissions Officer will go through the form with you and clarify any necessary elements. Once this meeting is complete your child will be given their start date.
Transfer to secondary school
We follow the London Borough of Waltham Forest admissions arrangements as detailed above. You will need to apply for your child's secondary school place by contacting London Borough of Waltham Forest. Please see the following link for further guidance here
Admissions appeals
We follow the London Borough of Waltham Forest, further guidance can be found here