Bousfield Primary School A GSG School
- Bousfield Primary School
South Bolton Gardens
Old Brompton Road
London
SW5 0DJ - Head: Jane Griffiths
- T 020 7373 6544
- F 020 7373 8894
- E info@bousfield.rbkc.sch.uk
- W www.bousfieldp…aryschool.co.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Kensington & Chelsea
- Pupils: 431
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: Parent tours please contact the school.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 28th September 2022
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 4th June 2008
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Arts are very strong in the school, though not at the expense of academics. Lots of music, dance and drama going on. School believes performance helps to build children’s self-esteem. Pupils are offered a rich curriculum, full of workshops, plays and concerts. After English, the most prominent languages are French and Arabic. School sees this cosmopolitan element as a real strength and the high level of harmony being something to celebrate. Bousfield has close connections with artist Quentin Blake, who attends prize-givings and pops in regularly....
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since September 2022 Jane Griffiths.
Entrance
Due to cuts in funding there are now 60 part-time places in the nursery on offer, rather than the previous 30 full-time places. Two parallel classes from reception to year 6, each with 30 pupils. Applications for the nursery are done through the school; applications to the main school via local authority.
No automatic transfer from the nursery to the main school – parents must reapply. Children who are in care or have an EHC plan are considered first, followed by siblings and then proximity to school (currently approximately 0.5 miles and shrinking). Distance measured as the crow flies. Places do become available further up the school due to high mobility rates of pupils, so worth persevering. Hugely oversubscribed. As one current parent put it: ‘If you...
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Entry/Exit
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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