Enfield Council has announced that in order to address the shortfall of primary school places in the south west of the Borough it will be adding a new reception class from September. The new class will be a "partner school" managed by Bowes Primary School, which recently received an Outstanding assessment from Ofsted, but initially will be located on the premises of Broomfield School in Wilmer Way. At some future date it will relocate to a permanent home - possibly at the site next to Grovelands Park which the Council has identified as suitable for a new primary school.
The news comes shortly after the announcement that Ashmole Academy (located in Southgate, but just the other side of the Enfield/Barnet borough boundary) will not be receiving funding to build a new free primary school on their existing site. The campaigning group SWEAT (South West Enfield Action Team) recently suggested that parents from Southgate would wish to send their children to the new Ashmole school because of Enfield's failure to provide promised additional places. However, Enfield Council now claim that the new Bowes capacity will mean that there will be no shortfall this autumn.
