Admissions - Reception/Years 1-6

If your child was born between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022, you should apply for a school place, even if your child already attends a nursery class attached to an infant or primary school. By law, parents must make sure children start full-time education when they reach compulsory school age
- this is the start of the term after their fifth birthday.

If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of our admission arrangements below. 

APPLY FOR A PLACE ONLINE: 

The quickest and easiest way to apply is online. You can also apply by telephone on 01332 956988. Alternatively, you can request a paper application using the same telephone number.

To apply online visit derby.gov.uk/primary

Advantages of applying online include...
•it is quick and easy to do.
•you will get an email confirmation that your application has been received.
•the system helps you by checking for errors.
•the security of knowing that you have made your own application and the details should be correct
•ability to go back and amend the application any time before it is submitted
•there is no risk that your application will get lost in the post.
•the system has security procedures that will prevent anyone seeing information they are not entitled to see.
•available 24 hours a day seven days a week up until the closing date and time of 15 January 2026.
•On National Offer Day – 16 April 2026, you can log into your account and see which school you have been offered. Paper or telephone applicants will not have this facility.

Deferred Admission

All parents can request that the date their child is admitted to school is deferred until later in the academic year or until the term in which the child reaches the compulsory school age and can also request that their child takes up a place part-time until the child reaches compulsory school age.
Requests will be considered in consultation with the school and /or the Local Authority.

Summer Born Children

The School Admissions Code requires school admission authorities to provide for the admission of all children in the September following their fourth birthday. However, a child is not required to start school until they have reached compulsory school age following their fifth birthday (a child reaches compulsory school age on the prescribed day following his/her fifth birthday or on his/her fifth birthday if it falls on a prescribed day. The prescribed days are 31 December, 31 March and 31 August).
For summer born children this could be a full school year (into Year 1) after the point at which they could first be admitted.
For summer born children parents can request that their child attends part-time until they reach compulsory school age or that the date their child is admitted to school is deferred until later in the same academic year. (All children born from the beginning of April to the end of August reach compulsory school age in the September following their fifth birthday. It is expected that most requests for children to be admitted out of their normal year group will come from parents of children born in the later summer months or those born prematurely).
Where a parent considers sending their summer born children to school in the September after their fifth birthday and requests that they enter the reception class in September 2025 instead of the Year 1 class, the admission authority is required to make the decision based on the individual circumstances of each case. You still need to make an application for delayed entry at the normal time and before the closing date of 15 January 2026 as well as submitting an application for a school place in the current round.
Factors that will be considered include:
•the needs of the child and the possible impact on them of entering Year 1 without having first attended the reception class;
•the case of children born prematurely, the fact that they may have naturally fallen into the lower age group if they had been born on their expected date of birth;
•whether delayed social, emotional or physical development is adversely affecting their readiness for school.
In these cases supporting documentation from professionals involved may be required.

Closing date for applications

The closing date for parents to submit their application for a place for the 2025/2025 school year is 15 January 2026. The Council will contact you on behalf of the Admissions Authority, on 16 April 2026, to let you know whether they can offer your child a place. Applications will be dealt with using the address the child resides at the closing date. Reassessment of any new address, if applicable, will then be made after provisional offers have been decided. If you want to find out your catchment area school, please ring the Admissions Team on 01332 642730, email primary.admissions@derby.gov.uk or catchment areas can be viewed online at derby.gov.uk/ admissions.

If you apply for a place after 15 January 2026 the admissions authority for the school will not look at your application in the first round of allocations to decide which children they can admit in the next school year. After that, if there are still spare places, the admissions authority will look at your application, along with any other applications that were not made by the closing date. When you apply for a place by the closing date, you will have priority over those who have not applied on time when the admissions authority looks at the applications it’s received. If you do move after the closing date and before your child is due to start there, contact the Admissions Team to check if the school can still offer your child a place. If it’s not possible to give your child a place at your preferred school, the Council will write to you, explaining how you can appeal against the decision. 

What happens if I change address?

House Moves - In all cases including those outlined below, if your catchment area changes, we will need to see proof that it is your main residential address. A main residential address is where your child lives at time of application and admission. In cases where children share residency of parents at different addresses, we will take the main address as the one from which parent receives Child Benefit. If this information is insufficient or inconclusive, the Council can request further information.
We need this information to prevent school places being gained fraudulently. Admission authorities have the right to withdraw the offer of a school place if it is found that it was obtained based on a fraudulent or intentionally misleading application, up to one term after admission.
If, after one term, it’s found that the place was obtained in this way, any brothers or sisters of the child will not benefit from ‘sibling priority’.
We cannot consider informal living arrangements unless there are very special circumstances for which we will need to see proof.
We need to see the end of tenancy or proof of sale of the original property and tenancy agreement for the new property or proof of purchase of the new property; for example a solicitor’s letter about the completion of the sale and the exchange of contracts. If this information is insufficient or inconclusive, the Council can request further information.