Admissions
Apply for a Nursery place
To apply call our main office.
We have a 60 place Nursery and offer full-time places for all children.
We provide 30 hours per week of free nursery education.
The hours are 9am – 3pm.
Children can join in September, January or April after they turn 3 years old.
Apply for a Reception place
Please click the button below to apply for a Reception place. This will take you to the local authority admissions page.
Reception through to Year 6
For places in any year (apart from nursery)
You should apply on your local authority website.
Places are limited by the number of children we can (legally) accept in each year group.
- If you live in an area that’s City of Stoke-on-Trent– stoke.gov.uk
- If you live in another area, find your local council here – gov.uk/find-local-council
Apply for a reception place (if you have missed the deadline)
- If you live in an area that’s City of Stoke-on-Trent – stoke.gov.uk
- If you live in another area, find your local council here – gov.uk/find-local-council
Move to us from another school
If you want to move school, get in touch and we can help you get started. You can complete this online on your council’s website:
- If you live in an area that’s City of Stoke-on-Trent – stoke.gov.uk
- If you live in another area, find your local council here – gov.uk/find-local-council
For support with this, please contact the in-year transfer team. For Stoke this is –
in-yearadmissions@stoke.gov.uk
Oversubscription Criteria
All applications are managed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council. We have a Published Admission Number (PAN) of 60 for our reception year group. Places will be offered up to but not exceeding the PAN. Regulations also require that reception and infant classes must have no more than 30 pupils to each qualified teacher.
Children with an Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP) will be admitted to the school named on their plan. These children are assigned places before the oversubscription criteria is applied.
When there are more applicants than places available
It is the academy’s policy to try and meet parents’ wishes where possible, however, in some cases, there may be more applications than there are places available.
If the total number of preferences for admission to our academy exceeds the Published Admission Number of 60 (PAN), the following order of priority is used to allocate the available places:
1. Children in care and children who ceased to be in care because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order), including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. Children living in the catchment area of the academy who have an older brother or sister attending at the time of admission.
3. Other children living within the catchment area of the academy.
4. Children living outside the catchment area of the academy who have an elder brother or sister at the academy at the time of admission.
5. Children who live nearest to the academy as determined by a straight line measurement from the child’s home address point to the main entrance of the academy.
Help
If you require any help, your local Council website has lots of information about the process.
Stoke-on-Trent Council Admissions Website
Stoke-on-Trent Council Admissions Helpline – 01782 234598