Admissions

The school governors adopt the Norfolk County Council Policy on first admission to school, which is as follows:

By law children must start statutory education full time at the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday.

Children born between 1st September and 31st August may start school full time at the beginning of the autumn term before their fifth birthday.

Our admission policy allows children to start school earlier than the law requires. However, the law also allows parents to ask for their child to be admitted but lets them delay the start date until later in the school year, the school would prefer that all children start full time in September if at all possible. Your child must start school by the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday and the place must be taken up by the start of the summer term. Following discussions if you inform us that you wish to delay your child's entry the place will be held and will not be offered to another child.

1. If there are more applications for places than there are places available, the Local Authority will give preference to children living nearest the school according to the following criteria in this order of priority: Children with an Education Health and Social Care Plan (EHCP) naming that school.
2. Children in public care who are due to start school.
3. Children who are due to start school, living in the area served by the school who have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.
4. Children who are due to start school, living in the area served by the school who have no brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.
5. Children who are due to start school, living outside the area served by the school who have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.
6. Children who are due to start school, living outside the area served by the school who have no brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.

If all children within any of the above rules cannot be offered a place, the highest priority will be given to children living nearest to the school within that rule. To determine who lives nearest, distance will be measured on a straight line crow fly basis, using Ordnance Survey data. The address will be measured from the post office address point on the property. If following the application of the admission rules and distance two applicants cannot be separated for a final place at a school, the authority will use random allocation to determine the priority for the remaining place.

Admissions Policy 2022 2023

Admission to Nursery

Children’s names can be registered for the nursery with the school office on or after the child’s second birthday. Admission to the Nursery is undertaken by the school following the Nursery Admission Policy and the award of a place DOES NOT GUARANTEE a place in the mainstream school for the following Reception year – admission to the main school follows the School Admission Policy and is a process controlled by Norfolk County Council.