Covid-19
It’s never too late – get your first, second or booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at local walk-in clinics.
Information on term dates, free school meals, music tuition, school closures and more.
Calendar dates and term times for Waltham Forest schools.
Find out who can get free school meals and how to apply for it.
Find out if which local schools are open or closed due to bad weather or service disruption
Waltham Forest Music Service (WFMS) provides music tuition in many of the borough’s schools.
Educating your child at home.
Find out about education and schools, colleges and other centres of learning in our borough.
Find out about school meals in Waltham Forest.
Information about pupils being excluded from school.
Information and advice about school governors.
All schools provide religious education through their basic curriculum. SACRE determines RE curriculum content.
Educational rights for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families.
Find out how Virtual School can provide support and guidance for children and young people in care or adopted.
Support available for parents/carers to help their child transition to Reception class.
What a free school is and how to open one.
Encouraging young people and children to cycle and walk to school will keep them fit.
With half of all car trips made in outer London being less than two miles and the school run now accounting for at least one in every five cars on London’s roads, travelling actively and sustainably to school has never been more important.