THORNHILL LEES CE (VC)

School Admissions

School Admissions

Reception and Junior School Places for September 2025

You must apply online for a Reception / Junior school place in September 2024, between 1st September 2024 and 15th January 2025.

If you apply after this date it can severely reduce your chances of obtaining a place at your preferred school. You need to apply using this link: https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/admissions/apply-primary-school-place.aspx

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Our school admissions are controlled by Kirklees Local Authority.

We can have 90 children in each of our Reception and Key Stage One (Year 1 and Year 2) year groups. We also have a 2 Year Old Provision and Nursery running on the school site.

If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of admission arrangements below. Please do not hesitate to contact the school, if you would like to arrange a visit to see our school in person before completing your application form. You will be most welcome.

Application forms for our Two Year Old Provision and Nursery Class:
The waiting lists for our Two Year Old Provision and Nursery Class are held in school. You can download a Two Year Old Provision or Nursery Class application form from this page or call into the school office to collect one. Please complete and return the form to school with a copy of your child’s birth certificate.

Is your 2 year old child eligible for 15 hours free learning and childcare? You can apply and find out more information in the following ways:
www.kirklees.gov.uk/freechildcare
Contact Kirklees Family Information Service on: (01484) 414887 Email: [email protected]

Children are eligible to start Nursery in the term after their third birthday, but applications can be completed as early as you wish.

Applications for a Reception Class Place
Applications for a school place are now accepted online only.

When to apply:
If your child is starting primary school (Reception) in September 2025, you must apply online between 1 September 2024 and 15 January 2025 (applies for children born between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020)

Applications for a Key Stage One Place:
Applications for a Year One or Year Two place must also completed online. To make an application for a Reception or Key Stage One place or to find out more, please click on the link below: 
http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/admissions/apply-primary-school-place.aspx

For more information about Kirklees Admissions please visit the website: http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/schools-and-education.aspx or contact: (01484) 225007 or email: [email protected]

In – Year Admissions
An in-year admission is when a child already attends a school but wants to transfer to another school outside of the usual transfer time, for example because the child is moving to a new address. These transfers take place during the school year, which is why they are called in-year admissions.

There are two different types of in-year admission:

  1. Parents or carers who are moving/have moved house and wish to move to a school closer to their new home
  2. Parents or carers who are not moving house, or whose change of address is not a significant one (a significant house move is defined as over 2 miles for Key Stage 1 or 3 miles for Key Stage 2 and above), but would like their child to change school

For more information about In-Year Admissions, please click the link below 
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/admissions/pdf/in-year-admissions.pdf

Free 15 hours childcare

 

Download – Nursery application form

Download – 2 years Nursery application for

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