Admission Arrangements
Consultation on Admission Arrangements for September 2026- August 2027
All admission authorities are required to formally consult if they propose to make any changes to their admission arrangements for the following school year. We are currently consulting on our admission arrangements for the academic year September 2026 – August 2027. You can find full details on our Trust website using the following link:
https://www.pdet.org.uk/Consultation-on-Admission-Arrangements/
The consultation period runs from 17th December 2024 to 28th January 2025. Should you wish to make any comments about the proposed arrangements you can do so by email to admissions@pdet.org.uk
A school year runs from September 1st to August 31st. By law, parents are required to make sure that their child is educated from the beginning of the term after his or her fifth birthday.
Primary Schools in Peterborough offer places to Reception children at the beginning of the Autumn Term. Admission arrangements for these children are at the discretion of the school.
Newborough CE Primary School has a pupil admission limit of 30 children. The age range is 4 – 11 years, i.e. Reception to Year 6. After seven years at Newborough School children living within the catchment area of Newborough and Borough Fen transfer mainly to Arthur Mellows Village College, Glinton but other schools can be considered based on parental preference.
Admission arrangements for the academic year 2024/25 and 2025/26
Admissions to Newborough School are the responsibility of the Local Authority. To find more information about how to apply, click here.
How to apply for a school place at Newborough CofE Primary
The Academy Governance Committee (AGC) have delegated responsibility for admissions in our school and are therefore responsible for all admissions. All places are allocated in accordance with our Admissions Policy, which you will find on the policy section of our website.
Admission to reception
Children are able to start at [school name] in the September following their 4th birthday. Applications for reception can be made in the autumn term. The deadline is 15th January.
Applications must be made through the local authority where you live.
Admission to any year group during the school year (known as in-year applications)
If you are interested in joining our school and would like to arrange a visit please contact office1@newborough.peterborough.sch.uk
We are part of the Peterborough City Council in year scheme, which means applications must be made via the local authority rather than directly to the school. You can do this online here:
Admissions Criteria
Where applications for admission exceed the number of places available, the following criteria will be applied in the order set out below, to decide which children to admit:
The local authority will admit children with an education health and care plan which names a school. This will be in addition to any specific arrangements to specialist provision. The order of priority for all other children is as follows:
- A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989).
- Children who are both living in the catchment area* served by the school and have siblings** of compulsory school age still attending the school at the time of their admission.
- Other children living in the catchment area* at the time of admission.
- Children of members of staff, provided that they have been employed for a minimum of two years and/or are recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill's shortage.
- Children who do not live in the catchment area* served by the school, but who have siblings** of compulsory school age attending the school (or are attending an infant or junior school on the same site) at the time of their admission.
- For admission to junior (KS2) schools only; children who are in attendance at an infant school on the same site at the time of application, have been in attendance at the school for at least a term prior to application and remain there until the end of the summer term.
- Other children whose parents have requested a place who live outside the catchment area* of the school.
*An alphabetical list of streets and their school catchment areas is available on the Peterborough City Council website
**For the purposes of admissions, the Department for Education definition of sibling is as follows: ‘Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step-brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every case, the child should be living in the same family unit at the same address.
Every effort will be made to ensure that brothers or sisters (as defined above) and those from multiple births can attend the same primary school, understanding that the local authority must comply with the Education (Infant Class Sizes) (England) Regulations 1998.
How to appeal for a place at Newborough CofE Primary
If you have applied and been refused a place at our school (in any year group), you are entitled to appeal against that decision. Appeals for PDET academies are administered by The Diocese of Peterborough Education team. For more information on the process please see: Appeals - The Diocese of Peterborough . If you wish to appeal please contact education@peterborough-diocese.org.uk and ask for an appeals pack.
The pack includes some explanatory notes about the process of Admission Appeals and a Notice of Appeal form that, should you decide to proceed with an appeal, will need to be completed and returned by email if possible, but if not, to the Diocesan Office instead.
Appeals in relation to September 2025 applications
The appeals timetable will be published here once available.
Admissions Team
Peterborough City Council,
Children’s Services, Sand Martin House
Bittern Way, Fletton Quays
Peterborough
PE2 8TY
We adhere to the Local Authority Admissions Policy to address starting in Reception, in-year transfers and appeals.