Admissions
September 2025 - Reception Intake
Admissions to the Reception Year at Stanion C.E (Aided) Primary School are made in the September after your child turns four years of age. Applications should be made in the September after your child reaches their third birthday to North Northamptonshire Council and can be made electronically via their website admissions@northamptonshire.gov.uk. Paper application forms can also be requested from the Admissions Team, North Northamptonshire Council.
If your child is already at a primary school and you want to move them to a different school you will need to apply for an in-year-place. Contact the Admissions Team, North Northamptonshire Council on:
- telephone the Customer Service Centre on 0300 126 3000
- visit the website: www.northnorthants.gov.uk/school-admissions
Visits to our school are most welcome and can be organised through our school office: 01536 204896 or by emailing: bursar@stanionprimary.org.uk
Primary school places for September 2025
You must apply for a primary school place for each of your children due to start in a Reception class or moving onto the next stage of school, even if you have an older child already attending Stanion C.E (Aided) Primary School. Do not assume that a place will be allocated automatically to a younger sibling.
When is my child legally required to start school?
Children are required to start their compulsory education from the beginning of the term following their 5th birthday (based on a 3 term year with terms starting in September, January and April). In Northamptonshire, children are offered a full year in Reception i.e. the school place is available from the beginning of the school year in which the child has their 5th birthday. A parent can request that entry to the school, where they have been offered a place, is deferred until later in the same school year. If such a request is made the school is required to hold the place for the child; it cannot be offered to another child. The place cannot be kept open beyond the academic year for which the original application was accepted.
Any parent who is considering deferring their child’s admission to school is recommended to discuss this with the Head Teacher when their child has been offered a place. Parents of children born during the summer term who are thinking of deferring their child’s admission by a full school year should contact us to discuss this as soon as possible.
When there are more applications than there are places available, the Governors will admit pupils according to criteria which is listed in order of priority in our Admissions Policy.
Current Availability (November 2024)
| Reception Class | 0 places available |
| Year 1 | 0 places available |
| Year 2 | 1 place available |
| Year 3 | 0 places available |
| Year 4 | 0 places available |
| Year 5 | 0 places available |
| Year 6 | 0 places available |
| Total number on roll | 106 pupils |
We currently have one place available across the school.
Please contact the school office on 01536 204896 if you wish your child to be placed on the waiting list.
The Governing Body of a Voluntary Aided School is the Admission Authority for the school and is therefore responsible for all admissions. If a year group is oversubscribed – that is, there are more applications than places available – the governing body will apply the admissions criteria from the Admissions Policy, allocating places up to their Published Admission Number. Parents/guardians of those refused places are then entitled to appeal against the Governing Body’s decision.
We use the Diocesan Appeals Service for admissions appeals and all appeals will take place on Zoom.
Please visit
https://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/church-schools/admission-and-appeals/ for further details, or contact the Diocese of Peterborough Education Team Executive Administrator by email on education@peterborough-diocese.org.uk or 01604 887060.
Stanion Pre-School
If you have a child aged between 2 years and 6 months, Stanion Pre School offers term-time only provisions. They offer 15 hours and 30 hour funding. Stanion Pre-School is a 'not for profit' registered charity that has been providing high quality early years' education for over 20 years.