Admission to School
The decisions about admissions to school are based on the following criteria:
- Children who are looked after by a local authority
- Children who live in the normal area served by the school
- Children outside the normal area who have siblings at the school
- Children from the wider area
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 Reception
All parents are entitled to send their children to Reception in the September of the year in which they are five years old. Our Pupil admission number (PAN) is 60.
Applications for places are handled by Derbyshire County Council under the co-ordinated admissions policy. The school has no authority to offer places.
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.