Admissions to Ferndale Primary School and Nursery
Nursery
We currently offer 15 hour AM, PM or 30 hour places (subject to availability). If you wish to register interest in a Nursery place, please collect an application form from the main school office. Once complete, please return this form, bringing either your child’s birth certificate or passport, so that identification can be counter-signed and the date of return logged. Demand for nursery places is high, therefore we recommend forms being completed well in advance of your child turning three. Should demand exceed places available, spaces will be allocated according to return date and I.D provided. Forms can be completed as early as possible. Please see the EYFS section of our website for further information.
Reception
As Ferndale is a Sandwell local authority school, admissions follow their arrangements outlined below.
Admissions priorities for places in oversubscribed community and controlled primary schools – academic year:
- Children who are in public care and children who were previously in public care but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangement order or special guardianship order).
- Children with a particular medical condition. Applications submitted under this criterion must be accompanied by a medical declaration form (ASU75M) signed by the child’s general practitioner or consultant confirming the condition, detailing the child’s needs and specifying why, in their opinion, the preferred school is the only or most appropriate to meet the child’s needs. All applications under this criterion will be assessed by the local authority to decide whether the child’s need’s can be met most appropriately by the preferred school.
- Children having a brother or sister at the preferred school (not nursery) at the time of admission.
- Children prioritised by distance measured in a straight line from a child’s home to the center point of the school site.
In all cases, should the number of applicants exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated on the based on the distance between home and school, as measured in a straight line from home to the center point of the school site with priority being given to those living closest to the school. NB. Children with a Statement of Educational Needs or a Education & Health Care Plan (EHCP) (previously known as Statement of Educational Needs), naming a particular school will be admitted before all other applicants.
All school applications for Reception to Year 6 need to be completed online via your local council’s school admission website page.
Applying for a secondary school:
Application process closes 31st October.
Applying for a reception place school:
Application process is now open and closes 15th January.
If you wish to appeal a school place, please use this link.
Changing Schools in the Middle of the Year
Mid-year applications are when you apply to transfer your child from one primary school to another primary school or from one secondary school to another secondary school during the school year.
If you wish to apply for a Sandwell school during the course of the school year, please download the relevant form from the Sandwell Admissions website using this link and follow the instructions on the form.
For any further information on school admissions, appealing a school place or mid-year transfers, use the following link: