Admissions

The Reception September 2025 admissions process will open on 1st November 2024 and closes on 15th January 2025. Staffordshire County Council will offer places on 16th April 2025.

The Nursery admissions process for admission in September 2025 opens on 5th February 2025 and closes at the end of March.  Places will be offered no later than 4th April 2025.  We can accept 24 children in our Morning Nursery and a maximum of 24 children in our afternoon sessions. 

We currently have places available in our morning/all day sessions to start in January - please get in touch if you are interested - or complete the Nursery Admission form at the bottom of this page.

If you wish to apply for a place for your child to start in September 2025 please download an application form below.  Please return your completed form to admissions@oakridge.staffs.sch.uk once the admissions process has opened in 2025.  When we receive your application we will send an acknowledgement. If you do not receive this within 72 hours please call us to check we have received it.

If you wish to apply for a place for your child to start, at a date other than September, please use the same form but state your preferred start date, and we will be in touch.  Oakridge Primary School administer the Nursery application process with places offered by ourselves and will follow our admissions policy.  Please email this later application to office@oakridge.staffs.sch.uk.

Children who are already in our Nursery may increase their hours as the year progresses.  If you would like to add additional hours please complete the form below.

Prospective parents are welcome to visit school prior to their child starting school. We are pleased that once again we are able to offer some Open Mornings so that parents may visit our school, meet the Headteacher and staff as well as ask any questions. Please see below for the days and times.

Please note that an evening induction meeting for parents takes place in the summer term prior to your child starting school. The meeting gives you the opportunity to ask any questions or highlight any concerns that you may have. Children joining our Nursery and Reception classes will also be invited to attend morning Induction sessions at the end of the summer term prior to them starting in the September.

We have a class size limit of thirty children in Reception, Year One and Year Two.  These classes can occasionally exceed thirty, if the Local Authority has accepted pupils as ‘permitted exceptions’ which breach the government's class size pledge.  Our Key Stage Two classes (Years Three, Four, Five and Six), have a class size limit of thirty, although we are sometimes able to admit more than 30 pupils. 

If you would like to apply for a place, then parents are asked to submit an 'In-year Application' form supplied by Staffordshire County Council (download a copy of the form here).  There is a section which must be completed by your child's current headteacher.  The completed form should be submitted to Oakridge Primary School.  Following receipt of an application, we will notify SCC of the application and its status; you will receive a letter stating whether or not a place can be offered.  This letter will also outline the next steps in terms of preparing to start or appealing the decision

We hold Open Mornings for prospective parents of Nursery and Reception children; this is a chance to meet the Headteacher, have a tour of the school with a chance to ask any questions.  

All sessions start at 10.00am and last around an hour.

Reception Open Mornings:

• Monday 25th November 2024
• Wednesday 8th January 2025

Nursery Open Mornings:

• Thursday 6th February 2025
• Thursday 13th March 2025

Please get in touch if you would like to attend on 01785 337300

Children are admitted to Nursery in the September of the year they reach four.  Date of birth between 01.09.20 and 31.08.21 for September 2024/January 2025 entry.

Children join Oakridge Nursery at the beginning of the Autumn Term (in September) following Home Visits from staff. The maximum number of children for the Nursery session is 24. Nursery provision is three hours per day; 8:50am to 11:50am. This provides the 15 funded hours. Wrap around care is also available from 11:50am onwards.

Children who are unable to attend the morning session in the Nursery can access Little Oaks after the morning Nursery session has finished. This is available as soon as your child is 3 years of age. However, please note that funding may not be available until the first term after their third birthday unless you have successfully applied for the 2-year-old funding.

For example, if your child was 3 in November, they could attend Little Oaks as soon as they had turned 3, but payment would be required until the end of that term. The 3-year-old funding is then available at the start of the next term in January. For those children who are eligible for the new two-year-old funding, as long as the funding has been applied for in time, these children may start in the same term that they turn 3 without any charge for 15 hours and use the full 30 funded hours the following term if we have places available.

For further information on funded childcare options - please click here

The school offers the full 30 hours Nursery provision - full details are available during our Open Mornings or by contacting the school office. Further information on eligibility can be found by clicking here.

More information on times and prices are available in the Wrap around Care section of the website.

Children join the Reception class of Oakridge Primary School in September of the year they reach five. Allocations are made by the Local Authority in line with their Admissions Policy. If you are considering applying for your child to attend Oakridge Primary School, please join us for one of our Open Mornings. Current admission numbers for the school are 30.