Reception Admissions

You need to apply for September 2024:

• if your child's fifth birthday is between 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025 for a place at first, infant or primary school

• if your child will be in year 2 at an infant school in September 2023 for a junior or primary school

• if you child will be in year 4 at a first school in September 2023 for a place at middle or primary school

All applicaitons must be made directly to Staffordshire County Council, please enter the link below into your search engine. 

https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Education/Admissions-primary/Apply/Overview.aspx

Should you have any queries, please contact Staffordshire County Council.

Consulations

REAch2 Academy Trust (the Trust), as the admission authority for all of its academies as per the admissions code 2021, is consulting on the admission arrangements for all of its schools. It is the responsibility of the Trust to determine the arrangements for all of its schools, ensuring that they are fully compliant with the admissions code 2021 and other statutory legislation, such as the Equalities Act 2010.

On 4 October 2023, the Trust Board approved several variations to the current arrangements, which seek to add clarity to a number of key definitions within the policy. The new policy also includes more information on how parents can access other admissions related information, including in-year admissions, appeals processes, and Fair Access Protocol’s.

The new policies do not propose any change to the school’s existing over-subscription criteria. The new policy seeks to make clear that children within the final category of the over-subscription criteria are ranked by the distance they live from the school. The Trust has therefore re-named this criterion from ‘other children’ to ‘distance’. Children within that criterion will still be ranked in the same way.

You can find the proposed school policy for 2025/2026 by visiting  Academy Directory - REAch2 Academy Trust

The consultation will run from 6  December 2023 to 31 January 2024.

We welcome feedback from all stakeholders on the proposed arrangements. Responses to the consultation may be placed by any of the following means:

• By email [email protected]
• Complete the e-form at www.reach2.org/admissions
• By post Admissions Consultation, REAch2 Academy Trust, C/O Henhurst Ridge Primary Academy, Henhurst Ridge, Burton Upon Trent, DE13 9TQ

Applying for a place at our school

All applications for Reception places are made through Staffordshire County Council who apply our admissions criteria to all applications and notify parents directly of allocated places.

Online applications are now the preferred method of making a preference for schools at the normal age of entry. Last year, around 92% of applications for Secondary and Primary School applications were made online. Parents who apply online are able to receive email notification of their school place on the national offer day, rather than through the post.

To apply for a reception place starting in the 2023/2024 academic year applications are open between 1 November 2023 and 15 January 2024.

If you have any questions please call us 01543 279402 or email: [email protected].