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The Primary First Trust
Mayplace Primary School is part of The Primary First Trust.
Welcome to Primary First, a Trust that truly celebrates and nurtures the diversity and distinctiveness of its partner schools. We are a growing network of 10 individual primaries across Bexley, Gravesham and Medway. All are at different points in their journey - each with a unique context, considerable strengths and specific opportunities.
Reception Spaces 2025/2026
Children born between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 will be due to start in Reception in September 2025. The application period will be open on Friday 1 September 2024 and the closing date is Monday 15 January 2025.
Offers of places to on time applicants will be made April 2025 (exact date to follow)
Information regarding the schools available in Bexley together with full details on the application process can be found on the Bexley website: https://www.bexley.gov.uk/services/schools-and-education/primary-schools/starting-primary-school
Late applications will only be processed after all on time applicants have received an offer. If you do not live in Bexley, please contact your home Local Authority to find out how to apply, you can apply for Bexley schools, but on the form supplied by your home LA.
Nursery Spaces 2025/2026
Children born between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022 can start in September 2025 in the Nursery, and parents will be able to apply from January to April 2025. Attendance at a school nursery class does not give priority for admission to the Reception class at the same school when your child reaches school age.
The application period for children to start nursery in September 2025 is January 2025 to April 2025.
Offers of places to on time applicants will be made in May 2025.
Information regarding the schools available in Bexley together with full details on the application process can be found in the Admission to Nursery Classes in Bexley Schools booklet 2025 (Link to follow)
Late applications will only be processed after all on time applicants have received an offer. If you do not live in Bexley, please contact your home Local Authority to find out how to apply, you can apply for Bexley schools, but on the form supplied by your home LA.
Appeals Process
If you are not allocated the school of your preference then you can appeal against the decision.
The appeal will be heard by an Appeal Panel which is independent and is set up in accordance with DFE School Admission Appeals Code of Practice.
Members of Appeals Panels will include people with experience of education, but none will have been concerned with making the original admission decision.
Appeals are normally heard in June and July prior to when the child is due to start school in the following September.
Because of the legal requirement to have a maximum of 30 pupils in infant classes, the power of Appeal Panels to allow appeals is very limited, therefore very few are successful.
Parents are only likely to be successful with an appeal if they can show either:
- That the admission of their child would not breach the infant class size limit.
- That a place would have been offered if the admission arrangements had complied with admissions law or had been correctly and impartially applied.
- That the decision not to admit their child was not one which a reasonable Admission Authority would make in the circumstances of the case.
- When you are advised of the outcome of your application, if you have not been offered your first preference school, you will be given information on how to obtain a form on which you can register your appeal.
Governors of voluntary aided and free schools and Academies have their own appeal panels and deal with appeals against their decisions on admissions to their schools. Parents should contact the school for details of the appeal arrangements and an appeal application form.
School Appeals Timetable 2025
Timetable TBC