If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of our admission arrangements below.
In-Year Admissions
From 1 September 2024, Shropshire Council coordinate and allocate all requests for places at our school.
We welcome prospective parents to visit our school. If you wish to apply for a place at our school, please complete the online application form via this link – Synergy – Homepage (shropshire.gov.uk)
Your application will be processed by the School Admissions Team at Shropshire Council in accordance with our school’s oversubscription criteria. You will then be notified via letter of the outcome of your application.
Applying for a School Place
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▼Starting Reception in September 2027
Children can start school in reception at the beginning of the academic year following their fourth birthday. Therefore, children born between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023 can start primary school from September 2027.
Shropshire residents should make their applications for English state schools using the Shropshire online portal. Local authorities co-ordinate applications.Use our guidance notesto help you make your application.If you have any queries or encounter any difficulties completing your application, please contact the School Admissions Team by email:school-admissions@shropshire.gov.uk
Please note that the online facility is open from 2 November 2026. You must apply by 15 January 2027. If there’s a reason why your application is late, eg due to a house move, please emailschool-admissions@shropshire.gov.ukto advise – there may be exceptional reasons to be considered.
Applications received after 15 January, without exceptional reasons, are considered late. Late applications won’t be processed until all the applications received on time have been allocated. This may result in your child not being offered a school place at you preferred school.
Shropshire Local Authority residents should use the Shropshire online portal to make their application for any English state infant or primary school. If the school you wish to apply to isn’t there, please emailschool-admissions@shropshire.gov.ukwith the name of the school, and we’ll get it added
If you live in another English authority area and want to apply for a Shropshire school, please apply to the authority in which you live. i.e. Telford local authority residents must apply via Telford and Wrekin Council not Shropshire Council
If you wish to apply for a neighbouring Welsh authority primary school, you must apply directly to that authority
Applicants from overseas, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland can use the Shropshire Council website to make an application for a Shropshire school
If an application is made through this portal from a resident in another English authority other than Shropshire it will be discarded
If you’re moving to Shropshire from another English local authority and want to apply for a Shropshire school, unless you’ve exchanged contracts on a house purchase or signed a rental agreement your application will have to be submitted to the authority in which you currently live
How will your child get to school – will they be entitled tofree transport?
If you’re naming schools outside Shropshire on your Shropshire application, you’ll need to contact the appropriate local authority for the information on school admission arrangements in their area
Note the importance of naming more than one school on your application, particularly when not applying for your catchment area school.
Ensure that you’re happy with the application before you submit it. The online portal doesn’t allow you to change your application once it’s been submitted and downloaded by the Admissions Team. If you do need to amend your application after you have submitted it, you must emailschool-admissions@shropshire.gov.uk
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▼Year 2 to Year 3
Children who are in year 2 at infant school from September 2026 will transfer to junior school in September 2027.
Shropshire residents should make their applications for English state schools using the Shropshire online portal. Local authorities co-ordinate applications. Use ourguidance notesto help you make your application. If you have any queries or encounter any difficulties completing your application, please contact the School Admissions Team by email:school-admissions@shropshire.gov.uk
Please note that the online facility is open from 1 September 2026. You must apply before the closing date of 15 January 2027. If there’s a reason why your application is late, eg due to a house move, please emailschool-admissions@shropshire.gov.uk to advise that there may be exceptional reasons to be considered.
Applications received after 15 January, without exceptional reasons, are considered late. Late applications won’t be processed until all the applications received on time have been allocated. This may result in your child not being offered a school place at you preferred school.
Shropshire Local Authority residents should use the Shropshire online portal to make their application for any English state junior school. If the school you wish to apply to isn’t there, please emailschool-admissions@shropshire.gov.ukwith the name of the school, and we’ll get it added
If you want to apply for a Shropshire junior school but live in another English authority, please apply to the authority in which you live (Telford local authority residents must apply via Telford and Wrekin Council not Shropshire Council)
Applicants from overseas, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland can use the Shropshire Council website to make an application for a Shropshire school
If an application is made through this portal from a resident in another English authority other than Shropshire it may be discarded
If you’re moving to Shropshire from another English local authority and want to apply for a Shropshire school, unless you’ve exchanged contracts on a house purchase or signed a rental agreement your application may have to be submitted to the authority in which you currently live
Take a look at the contact details for neighbouring local authorities or visit theGov.UK websitefor details on other local authorities.
How will your child get to school – will they be entitled to free transport?
If you’re naming schools outside Shropshire on your Shropshire application, you’ll need to contact the appropriate local authority for the information on school admission arrangements in their area
Note the importance of naming more than one school on your application, particularly when not applying for your catchment/nearest school
Ensure that you’re happy with your application before you submit it. The online portal doesn’t allow you to change your application once it’s been submitted and downloaded by the Admissions Team. If you do need to amend your application after you’ve submitted it, you must emailschool-admissions@shropshire.gov.uk
The decision to move your child from one school to another should never be taken lightly. A settled placement throughout both primary and secondary school is important. If your child is having difficulties, or you are considering a transfer for other reasons, please discuss issues with your child’s headteacher before making a decision.
School Admissions
Your child is entitled to start school in the academic year in which they turn 5 years old. The academic year runs from September 1st to 31st August inclusive.
Empower Trust, of which the school is part of, is its own admissions authority which is operated by Shropshire Council as the Local Authority (LA) on behalf of the school. Full details of this, together with information about the arrangements for admissions, are set out on the Shropshire website link below.
Parents can contact the admissions team on:
0345 678 9008
Letters will come directly from the Local Authority to your home alerting you about the need to apply for a school place, usually in the autumn term in the school year that your child becomes four.
Those children who are allocated a place at the school for their children to start in Reception are invited to a day and a half induction, which will follow the lines of a normal school day. Parents are invited to a New Entrants’ Evening before the school visit where staff discuss the school’s aims and routines with parents.
Admission in to the Nursery
Parents are able to put their child’s name on the waiting list as soon as they are two years old. There are free nursery places for 2 and 3 year olds, subject to eligibility. For further information please contact the main reception.
