RECEPTION ADMISSIONS
DEADLINE FOR ONLINE APPLICATIONS: 15TH January 2025
IMPORTANT DATES - Reception places for Sep 2025
Date | Activity |
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September to December 2024 |
Parents can contact primary schools to arrange visits. |
15 January 2025 |
Closing date for receipt of online applications. Common Application Forms should be returned to your first preference school, if this is a Merton school. If your first preference school is not a Merton school, forms should be returned to School Admissions. All supplementary forms should be sent directly to the relevant schools by this date. |
10 February 2025 |
Closing date for applications from people moving into the borough, or changing address after 15 January 2025. |
By 8 March 2025 |
Applications are ranked according to admissions criteria. |
17 April 2025 |
Offer day, letters are posted to applicants who applied using a paper form. Parents who applied online will be able to view the outcome of their application from the evening of 17 April 2025. |
June to July 2025 |
Admission appeals. |
TBC |
Reception Welcome Meeting at school for parents |
TBC |
Reception Tea Party for parents and children to get to know one another |
September 2025 |
Children start school in Reception. |
MERTON COUNCIL SCHOOLS ADMISSIONS PAGE
admission reception amended feb 2016 docx.pdf