Please find our full admissions policy, admission appeals form and the appeals timeline for 2023 – 2024 below:

PSPS Admissions Policy 2025 (1)

Admissions-Appeal-Form

Appeals-Timeline-September-2023-1

In-year admissions

An in-year admission means admission to a current year group for a child who is already attending school but wishes to change schools due to relocation or a change in circumstances. Parson Street Primary School manages its own in-year admissions so if you wish to apply for an in-year place, please contact the school office directly, alternatively you can download the PDF form and bring it into the school office. Your child will normally already be attending or have a place at a school so please speak with your current headteacher prior to making an in-year admission application.

Admissions Arrangements

Applications to attend any Trust in Learning (Academies) School are welcomed from all families. Trust in Learning (Academies) is a Multi Academy Trust and therefore its Directors are responsible for their own Admissions Policy and in ensuring that all of its schools arrangements and processes for admitting children are in line with the Admissions Code of Practice (DfE 2014) and the relevant Local Authorities coordinated Admissions Schemes. 

The Planned Admission Number (PAN) for each of Parson Street school is as follows:

Nursery: 52 (26 x 2.5 days and 26 x 2.5 days)

Reception: 60

Where a Nursery provision is in place, children will be admitted to the Nursery during the term following their 3rd birthday. The exact age of admission however is determined by the availability of places at the school. Where applications for admission to Nursery exceed the number of places available, then the admission criteria below will be applied. In the event of over subscription priority will be given to the eldest applicant.

Trust in Learning (Academies) will admit children in the September following their fourth birthday. Each school offering primary education will provide the opportunity for full time education as well as offering parents and children the chance to defer the date of admission until later in the academic year. Parents can request that their child attends part time until they reach compulsory school age, or that the date their child is admitted to school is deferred until later in the same academic year, but not later than the beginning of the final term of the school year. Admission arrangements for Reception are coordinated by Bristol City Council.

Admissions Criteria

Each school within Trust in Learning (Academies) will consider all applications for places that it receives. Where fewer than the published admission number(s) for the relevant year groups are received then all schools will offer places to all those who have applied. Requests to consider applications out of the normal age range must be made in writing to the academy prior to the closing date. Applications will be considered, taking into account the best interests of the child. All children with an Education Health and Care Plan where the school is named will be admitted. Once we have taken these children into account the schools will apply the following oversubscription criteria in the priority as listed below:

i. A looked after child or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order
– Looked After Children who are in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation by that local authority in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act

II. Siblings

– The definition of siblings is: children who live as brother or sister in the same house, including natural brothers or sisters, adopted siblings, stepbrothers or sisters and foster brother or sister
– The siblings attending the preferred school must be on roll at that school in the year of entry

iii. Geography

– Home to school distances will be measured in a direct line from a point on the home address as held by the Local Authority to a point within the main school building using the Local Authorities computerised mapping system.