Primary, infant or junior school offer day
Contents
- Overview
- Accept or decline a school place
- Waiting list request
- Appeal form request
- Timetable for primary, infant and junior school admissions
Overview
If you applied online, you will get your offer by email on Wednesday 16 April 2025.
If you completed a paper application, a letter will posted out to you by second class post on Wednesday 16 April 2025.
In your letter or email, you will be informed what you need to do next.
The deadline to accept or decline a place, request to go on a waiting list, or request an appeal form is 4:30pm on Tuesday 22 April 2025.
Accept or decline a school place
Parents must accept their school places for their children at the following schools only:
- Bede Burn Primary School
- Biddick Hall Infant School
- Cleadon Church of England Academy
- East Boldon Infants
- East Boldon Juniors
- Hedworth Lane Primary School
- Hedworthfield Primary School
- Lord Blyton Primary School
- Marsden Primary School
- Ridgeway Primary Academy
- SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary
- St Aloysius Catholic Infant School
- St Aloysius Catholic Junior School
- St Bedes Catholic Primary School, South Shields
- St Mary's Catholic Primary, Jarrow
- St Matthews Catholic Primary
- St Oswalds Catholic Primary, South Shields
- Stanhope Primary School
- Valley View Primary School
- Westoe Crown Primary
- Whitburn Village Primary
The deadline to accept school places is 4:30pm on Tuesday 22 April 2025.
Accept or Decline the Offer of a School Place
Waiting list request
Parents refused a place at one of the following oversubscribed schools can request to go on the waiting list using the online form.
- East Boldon Infants
- Lord Blyton Primary
- Ridgeway Primary Academy
- St Aloysius Catholic Infants
- St Bedes Catholic Primary, South Shields
- St Marys Catholic Primary, Jarrow
- Stanhope Primary School
- Valley View Primary
- Westoe Crown Primary
- Whitburn Village Primary School
Cleadon Church of England Academy have their own waiting list.
A parent can only request that their child is placed on a waiting list if that child has been refused a place at that school. If they have not been refused, parents must make a new application for that school.
Appeal form request
Parents can request an appeal form for the following schools only:
- East Boldon Infants
- Lord Blyton Primary
- Stanhope Primary
- Valley View Primary
- Westoe Crown Primary
- Whitburn Village Primary
A parent can only request an appeal for their child if that child has been refused a place at that school. If they have not been refused, parents must make a new application for that school.
The deadline to request an appeal form is 4:30pm on Tuesday 22 April 2025.
Timetable for primary, infant and junior school admissions
- Week commencing Monday 2 September 2024
Letters to nurseries / schools. - Friday 6 September 2024
Letters handed out to parents. - Friday 6 September 2024
Online system available up until closing date. - Wednesday 15 January 2025, 4:30pm
Closing date for Primary applications. Online applications not available after this date. - Monday 20 January 2025
Details of preference data sent to VA and Academy Primary Schools. - Tuesday 28 January 2025
Exchange preference data with other Local Authorities. - Wednesday 12 February 2025
Details received from other Local Authorities to be sent to VA and Academy Primary Schools. - Tuesday 25 February 2025
VA and Academy Schools provide the Authority with list of offers / refusals. - Friday 14 March 2025
Authority exchanges offers / refusals with other Local Authorities - Monday 24 March 2025
Local Authority to match the provisional offers of places against each parent's ranking. - By Thursday 10 April 2025
Schools will be notified which pupils have been allocated places at their schools. - Wednesday 16 April 2025
Primary 'Offer Day' notification sent to parents. - Tuesday 22 April 2025
Initial deadline for parents to return acceptance slip for oversubscribed schools only (reminder letters to be sent) - Tuesday 22 April 2025
Deadline for parents to request to place their child's name on a waiting list. - Tuesday 22 April 2025
Deadline for parents to request an appeal form for Primary Schools. - Wednesday 23 April 2025
Appeal forms sent out where requested. - Friday 25 April 2025
Authority will allocated any places that have become available for oversubscribed schools. - Thursday 1 May 2025
Where parents have not returned their acceptance slip for oversubscribed schools the Authority may withdraw the offer of the school place (Community Schools only). - Tuesday 20 May 2025
Deadline for appeal forms to be returned. - By Friday 23 May 2025
Appeal hearing notice sent to parents. - From week commencing Monday 16 June 2025
Appeals to be heard. - 31 December 2025
No waiting list available after this date.