Admissions

Year 7 Entry

Newstead Wood School is a highly selective girls school, with a co-educational Sixth Form.

General Application Process

To apply for a Year 7 place at Newstead Wood School you must first register for the selection test by completing our Supplementary Information Form ("SIF") which will only be available here from 1 May to 30 June of each admissions year.  Your daughter will be in Year 5 at this point.  We have an open morning in July of each year purely for Year 5 students who have registered to sit the selection test.  Booking for this is online via this page and will be open around Easter time each year.

The selection test takes place in September of the year preceding entry to the school, while your daughter is in Year 6. You will need to name Newstead Wood School as one of your school choices on your Local Authority secondary school common application form ("CAF") which should be submitted by 31 October. 

For full information please see our Admissions Policy and associated FAQs page for the correct year of entry at the bottom of this page.  

If your daughter has any special educational need or disability that requires access arrangements, her current SENDCo will need to complete a form providing details of the access arrangements currently in place for her whilst sitting timed tests at school.  This form will be available while the registration form (SIF) is open and the completed form must be uploaded to your online registration form at the same time as uploading the medical/diagnosis reports.

Please carefully read our Admissions Policy 2026/27 and the accompanying Frequently Asked Questions document, which can be found further down this page.  These should answer any further queries you have about the process.

Year 7 Open Events

Our next Year 7 Open Morning will be on Saturday 4 July 2026 - bookings will open here from around Easter 2026.  Please note that this event is for children currently in Year 5 only.

Our Year 7 Open Morning for September 2026 entry took place on Saturday 5 July 2025. The speeches given on the day can be found here.

Free Familiarisation Material available to Pupil Premium Students

If your daughter is in receipt of Pupil Premium, we are pleased to be able to offer access to free online familiarisation resources. Please click here for further information.

Familiarisation Tests organised by our Parents' Association

Each year our Parents' Association hold a number of familarisation sessions to enable prospective applicants to have an experience of sitting a selection test under exam conditions in an unfamiliar environment. More information can be found here. 

It should be noted that the School has no involvement in this test other than to provide the test venue, and will not be able to answer any questions about it.  All communications should be directed to the Parents' Association.

In-Year Transfers

'In-Year' admissions:  This refers to applications for school places for any year of entry other than Year 7, or for Year 7 after the waiting lists close on 31 December.  This process applies to any secondary school age child whether they are currently without a school place or are wishing to change schools.

Entry to Newstead Wood School is dependent on the results of a competitive entry test.

If you wish to place your daughter on our waiting list then you must contact the Schools Admissions Department at the London Borough of Bromley and ask for an In Year Application Form.  Their email address is inyear.admissions@bromley.gov.uk.  Once this is completed and returned to them, they will place your daughter on the waiting list.  If a place becomes available we will contact all those on the relevant waiting list and invite them into the school to sit a competitive entrance test.  This would normally occur in the June before the start of the next academic year - we will only run a test if a space is available and we will not be in contact if there are no spaces available.  It will not be necessary to contact Newstead Wood School to ask if there are any places available.

The test involves verbal, non-verbal, quantitative and spatial reasoning.  The results of the test will be put into rank order and the place offered to the candidate at the top of the list, provided that they have reached the same academic standard as students already in the school.  Please note that the catchment area of 9 miles applies for in year admissions.

Further Information

For details of applications to our Sixth Form, please click here.

Click here to view our School Prospectus. 

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