Admission to School

The decisions about admissions to school are based on the following criteria:

1. Children who are looked after by a local authority
2. Children who live in the normal area served by the school
3. Children outside the normal area who have siblings at the school
4. Children from the wider area

Admission decisions will be made by the Admissions Committee of the Governing body.

The limits on our numbers are as follows:

Nursery: 30 morning and 30 afternoon places

Reception: 60 children

Key Stage 1: no more than 30 children per class

Key Stage 2: no more than 33 children per class

If our classes or year groups are not at these levels children will normally be admitted unless their attendance at the school is felt by the governors to be detrimental to the educational opportunities of the children who already attend. 

We always encourage parents and children joining our school to visit the school before a place is taken. Before admission to nursery and reception meetings will be arranged for parents to meet the staff and for children to visit their new classroom and meet their teacher.

Admission to Nursery

We offer places to children once they are three years old at three main points during the year:

• 1st September
• 1st January
• 1st April

Where there are more children wishing to be admitted than there are places we make an offer of a place in age order, starting with the oldest. However we will also take account of the following where possible:

1. Children who are looked after by a local authority
2. Children on the Child Protection at risk register.
3. Children with identified Special Educational Needs
4. Children whose families are suffering severe social and psychological stress which could significantly affect the child’s development
5. Children who live in the normal area served by the school
6. Children outside the normal area who have siblings at the school
7. Children from the wider area

Parents should make an application to the school after their child’s second birthday. A place at our nursery school does not guarantee a place in the main school

Admission to Reception                    

All parents are entitled to send their children to Reception in the September of the year in which they are five. For parents who wish their child to start later children whose fifth birthday falls between 1^st April and August 31^st can be admitted in January.

We follow the admissions advice from Derbyshire County Council including that relating to early and delayed admission and transfer to school.                         

Primary and junior appeals

If your appeal is for a child starting school for the first time during the 2022 to 2023 academic year or transferring from year 2 at an infant school to junior provision in September 2022, you will receive your decision on 19 April 2021. If your application is unsuccessful, you can appeal. Please submit your appeal by 16 May 2022.

If you are informed of a decision for reception 2022 to 2023 or junior school for September 2022 after 19 April 2022 or it relates to an in year admission, you should submit your appeal within 28 days of being told that your application was unsuccessful.

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