ADMISSIONS
Reception & Nursery school tours at Hoddlesden St Paul's CE Primary School
For those wanting to join our school family from September 2024, we are pleased to welcome prospective Nursery and Reception parents to visit the school as we return to face-to-face tours.
We are hosting a number of sessions during the Autumn and Spring term and invite prospective parents to book a place for one of the dates below. Bookings open on Monday 4th September 2023 and will need booking via office@stpaulshoddlesden.blackburn.sch.uk. Please indicate if you wish to take part in the 10am or 1.30pm tour times.
Open Days
For in-year admissions, families are invited to visit us once a formal offer of a place has been made by the LA. Tours are not conducted at any other time of the Year.
If you're unable to visit us on one of the scheduled tour dates or would like to look at our Nursery and Reception, you can watch our welcome video and virtual tour on the school websites landing page.
Primary School Admission
2024 School Admission Round – Key Dates
| Secondary | Primary |
Admission round opens: | 4 September 2023 | 4 September 2023 |
Admission round closing date: | 31 October 2023 | 15 January 2024 |
Data sharing with other LAs: | tbc | tbc |
LA to provide AAs with details of children who have indicated their school as a preference (on-time applications): | 28 November 2023 | 26 January 2024 |
Local Authority medical, social, welfare need Panel: | 13 December 2023 | 7 February 2024 |
School cut-off date for criteria to be inputted on SAM (on-time applications). | 15 December 2023 | 23 February 2024 |
LA will check and consider all preferences and allocate school offers: | 2 January 2024 till 2 February 2024 | 26 February 2024 till 22 March 2024 |
Change of preference/late online applications cut-off date (exceptional circumstances accepted as on-time applications – to be confirmed by AA): | 26 January 2024 | 11 March 2024 |
National offer day: | 1 March 2024 | 16 April 2024 |
Parental acceptance deadline: | 14 March 2024 | 29 April 2024 |
Closing date for appeals (to be heard on-time): | 29 March 2024 | 17 May 2024 |
Joining from another local school or moving into the area
We admit 30 children into each age group.
Some children join St. Paul's from other schools and this is known as an 'in-year' admissions.
Current vacancies
Year Group
| Rec
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Number on roll/PAN | 30/30 | 30/30 | 30/30 | 29/30 | 32/30 | 30/30 | 30/30 |
| At/Over PAN | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Last updated: 9th February 2024
In-year admissions are managed centrally by BWD Council and are based on the current admission criteria for community schools. Steps to joining St Paul's:
- Contact the school admissions team.
- Once you have been notified by the Council of a place at St. Paul's for your child(ren), make arrangements to visit us. Contact us at School by telephone to arrange a tour.
- A member of the Senior Leadership Team or Head teacher will meet you and your child(ren) to tour the school and answer any questions that you may have.
Admission Policy
Parish Boundary
Appeals Timetable
Primary
Date | Action |
1 September 2023 | Online application system goes live and requests for paper forms / booklets accepted and considered |
Sunday 15 January 2024 | Closing date for applications (statutory) |
20 January 2024 | Primary schools / academies to forward any paper applications to Area Pupil Access Teams |
27 January 2024 | Preferences information exchange with other Local Authorities |
3 February 2024 | Information to be exchanged with Own Admission Authority Schools |
10 February 2024 | Admission authority to confirm intention to exceed PAN with the LA |
28 February 2024 | No further address changes can be accepted. |
17 March 2024 | Prioritised (ranked) lists back to the Local Authority |
24 March 2024 | Further exchange of lists with other admission authorities |
31 March 2024 | No changes at all can be made to offer letters after this date |
16 April 2024 | Issue finalised offer lists to primary schools / academies |
16 April 2024 | Issue offer letters/emails. (statutory date or next working day) |
