Admissions

Please call the school office (01303 238429) to book a tour of the school, if your child is due to start in September 2025. We have an Open Afternoon on the 19th November 2024 between 1.30pm and 3.00pm.

ADMISSION CRITERIA
If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of our admission arrangements below:

At Seabrook we have a “Published Admission Number” of 15. This means that we may only take up to 15 children in each year group. If we are over subscribed, preference is given in the following order:

                                    1) children in local authority care, adopted or with an EHCP (Education Health                                                                    Care Plan)

                                     2) attendance at a linked school

                                     3) current family association

                                     4) children of current staff

                                     5) health and special access reasons

                                     6) nearness to the school

APPLICATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 2025

If your child is due to start school in September 2025 (i.e. if he/she was born between 1st September 2020 and the 31st August 2021) then you should apply online using the web address of www.kent.gov.uk/primaryadmissions. KCC will inform you about the school place offered for your child.

If you wish to apply for a place for your child to join our Reception Class in September 2025 you can apply between 5th November 2024 and 15th January 2025.  Please follow the link below for more details/to apply online:

https://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/school-places

Appeals

f your child is due to start Primary school in September 2025, you can appeal if you are refused a place at one of your preferred schools on National Offer Day (Wednesday, 16 April 2025). You needed to submit your appeal before Tuesday 20th May for it to be considered by Friday 18th July. Any appeals received after this time will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline, or where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education

CHILDREN OF MEMBERS OF THE UK ARMED FORCES OR CROWN SERVANTS

If you are a member of the UK Armed Forces or a Crown Servant, with a confirmed posting to Kent, you can apply for an in year admission  by completing an In Year Casual Admission Form (IYCAF) and sending it direct to our school. You must include an official letter that declares a relocation date and a Unit postal address or quartering area address with your application.

Where we are  able to offer a place, we will honour that place for 3 months. This can mean that a place can be kept open for the next academic year providing your child/children will start within the 3 month period. If the place has not been taken up at the end of the 3 months, we may offer it to another child. If this happens, we will inform you that the place is no longer available and you will need to make a new application for a school place. We may  add your child's name to our waiting list if you so wish.

IN YEAR CASUAL ADMISSIONS

If you wish your child to transfer to Seabrook Church of England Primary School from another school whether this is in Kent or in another Local Authority, you should submit an In Year Casual Admission Form (IYCAF) to the school.  You need to complete a separate form for each child. Please download the IYCAF below or collect a paper copy from the school office.