We already have at least a three tier system at primary; private, faith, popular schools with good ofsted reports, and the rest of the state sector.

We are fortunate to have some excellent primaries in Forest Hill with excellent ofsted reports. But that leads to the situation where people are moving house to deliberately find themselves in the catchment area of certain primaries. At the same time all of the local primaries have had bulge classes in the last couple of years and this is simply unsustainable for many more years.

I would welcome the LEA taking action to properly address this shortage of primary school places, and not by simply adding more temporary classrooms to existing schools. But if the LEA will not address this problem then it is up to parents to explore alternatives. It is no good pretending that a structural problem does not exist, which seems to be more or less the attitude of the LEA.