Applying for Reception Year
Applications for September 2024 can be made between 1 September 2023 and 15 January 2024. If you wish to make an application after this date please contact Kirklees School Admissions. Parents will be notified of their offer on 16th April 2024.
You may register your child for a place at school when your child turns 3. Registration for a Reception Year place is done online through the Parent Portal on the Kirklees Council Website. You can apply online here.
Admissions Policy
Moorlands Primary School caters for the age range 4-11 years. It is part of the Salendine Nook Pyramid and has a working relationship with other schools in the community. Kirklees makes the admission policy which is set out below.
Priorities for Admission. Children in all Key Stages:
Places in school will be offered to children in the following order of priority:
- Children in public care. (Looked after children)
- Children living in the school’s priority admission area who have an older brother or sister attending from the same address at the time of admission.
- Other children living in the school’s priority admission area.
- Children who live outside the priority area who have older brothers or sisters attending from the same address at the time of admission.
- Children who live outside the priority area.
Children who have a statement of Special Educational needs will be admitted where the school is named on the Statement.
If within any one of the priorities mentioned above there are more applicants than remaining places, admission will be offered to the children living nearer to the school, measured in a straight line.
Prospective parents/carers requesting admission should contact school in person or by telephone. Following discussion, arrangements can be made to introduce pupil(s) and parents/carers to the school prior to admission.