Reception Intake

Keys Dates for September 2025 Intake

Sunday 1 September 2024 - Apply from this date

Wednesday 15 January 2025 - National closing date for primary applications (statutory).

Wednesday 16 April 2025 - Offers issued to parents

If you are considering St Peter’s for your child, please fill out the 'Reception Intake' form (which is at the bottom of this page) and we will contact you within 5 working days (term time only) to arrange a visit with Mrs Sullivan our Headteacher.

Applications for places in our reception class need to be made via Lancashire County Council's website 

Below you will find our Admissions Policy, Key Dates and Appeals Information.

For further information regarding the application process, please contact the Pupil Access Team on 01772 531676

Policies

Admissions Policy with SIF (2024-25) - (Current School Year)

Determined - Admissions Policy with SIF (2025-26) - For Reception Intake September 2025 applications

Please below for the Parish Boundaries 

Our Parish Boundaries

Our Parish Boundaries Description

Click the link for all Salford Diocese Parish Boundaries - https://dioceseofsalford.org.uk/diocese/boundaries/

When children can start primary school

Children can start reception year at primary school from the September after their fourth birthday. However, by law children don't have to start school until the beginning of the term after their fifth birthday.

These are the dates that children would usually start school and when to apply for a school place:

Appeals

If you are doing an Admission Appeal it is now an E-Form that goes to Lancashire County Council:  Appeal against an admission decision - Lancashire County Council

By law we must publish the dates on which appeals for September intake admissions will be heard.

These are provisional dates and are subject to change by LCC. Days could be added to or cancelled depending on the volume of appeals lodged and how the Independent Appeal Panel decide that they are to be conducted. (Please click the link for LCC up to date website)

The deadline to submit an appeal is:

• 16 May 2024 for primary Reception appeals

Any appeals submitted after the deadline may be heard after all on time appeals have been heard.

An appeals officer will be in touch with you before the hearing date and will provide full details.

Below is the Reception Intake form. The form is for our school use only and is not the main LCC application. The link to the LCC Primary School Application is above this. (Please note if your child is Baptised we will need their certificate and a SIF Form completing before our admissions meeting)