Admissions & Transition
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Admissions Policy for 2024/2025 (DRAFT) Holy Trinity CoE Determined Policy 2425-3326
We ask parents and carers applying for a place to complete a School Information Form (SIF):
All parents and carers who would like a place at Holy Trinity will need to apply to Hertfordshire County Council. Further information is available at: http://ow.ly/RBYSy
Key dates for primary admissions from Hertfordshire Local Authority
| 1 November 2022 | Online system opens for you to apply online. |
| Nov / Dec 2022 | Open events at schools.
Find individual school details in the schools directory. |
| 15 January 2023 | Deadline to apply for a school place. |
| 1 February 2023 | Last date to submit a written explanation giving reasons why your application was late, for your application to be agreed as ‘on time’.
If you move house, this is the last date for you to provide evidence of your new address and for it to be considered ‘on time’ in the allocation process. |
| 3 March 2023 | Applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until the week commencing 12 June 2023. |
| 17 April 2023 | National allocation day We will email you the school you’ve been allocated, if you applied online and confirmed your email address. The online allocation system will be updated with allocations and be available only after allocation emails have been sent.Notification letters will be posted first class only to parents or carers who applied on paper.If you applied online, you can use online facilities including appeals and continuing interest. |
| 17 – 24 April 2023 | Continuing interest applications open.
You can add new school preferences for some Hertfordshire schools for the first continuing interest run. Information will be available online on 17 April 2023. |
| 17 April – 1 May 2023 | Continuing interest lists are created.
Applicants with unmet higher preferences will automatically go on the list for those schools. Parents or carers should confirm this with schools responsible for their own admissions. |
| 1 May 2023 | Last date for accepting the place offered.
Online applicants must accept the place online. Paper applicants should return their response form to the Admissions and Transport team. |
| 8 – 12 May 2023 | First continuing interest run.
We’ll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you’re successful at the first continuing interest run. |
| 16 May 2023 (4pm) | Last date to register an appeal. |
| 15 – 23 May 2023 | Continuing interest applications open for the second run.
You can add new school preferences for any school for the second continuing interest run. |
| 23 May 2023 | Last date to register a change of preferences or for new applications to be added for the second continuing interest run. |
| 12 – 16 June 2023 | Second (and final) continuing interest run.
We’ll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you’re successful at the second continuing interest run. |
| June – July 2023 | If school vacancies occur, places will be filled from remaining continuing interest lists. |
| 13 June – 18 July 2023 | School place appeals take place during this period. |
| 23 June 2023 | Continuing interest lists (waiting lists) for junior and middle schools close on 22 June 2023.
To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire junior or middle school, you will need to make an in year application from 23 June 2023. |
| 21 July 2023 | Continuing interest lists (waiting lists) for primary schools close on 20 July 2023.
To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire primary school, you’ll need to make an in year application from 21 July 2023. |
In Year Admissions
We ask parents and carers applying for a place to complete a School Information Form (SIF):
All parents and carers who would like a place at Holy Trinity will need to apply to Hertfordshire County Council. Further information is available at: http://ow.ly/RBYSy