Nursery Admissions

Nursery Admissions are managed by the school. Please come in to register your interest or download our Initial Admissions Form at the bottom of this page.

For information on our Nursery provision please click HERE.

Primary School Reception Admissions (For September)

Please Note: all applications must be submitted to and are handled by Medway Council. The school is only informed about who has applied and been accepted once the application deadline has passed.

Medway's policy requires that children must apply to enter Reception (Foundation Stage 2), even if they attend a school nursery. Once a child receives a place in Reception, they automatically pass from year group to year group until they leave for Secondary School.

Children with physical disabilities and/or complex medical conditions should confer with Medway Council and any external agencies supporting the family to help process their application and admission.

Click Here to visit Medway's Online Admissions Page

 

 

Key dates for primary school admissions 2027

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can apply for your child to start school in year R (reception) if they were born between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023.

You can apply to transfer from infant to junior school (year 3) if your child was born between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020 and goes to an infant school.

If your child is in year 2 in a primary school which runs from year R to year 6, you do not need to apply for year 3. You will only need to apply if you want your child to transfer to a junior school.

If your child has an education, health and care (EHC) plan, your child's school placement will be arranged through the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Team.

Find our more about applying for a school place for a child with an EHC plan.

 

Appealing an offer

You can appeal for any school named on your application that has not been able to offer your child a place.

To do this you will need to complete an appeal request form available on the Medway Council Admissions Website. 

The deadline for submitting an appeal is Monday 17 May 2027 for offers made on 16 April.

For late applications, appeal requests should be submitted within 20 school days of your application outcome.

You can appeal after these deadlines but your appeal might not be heard at the same time as those submitted on-time.

When you appeal you:

• can only appeal for schools named on your application
• can appeal for more than one school at the same time
• must complete a request form for each school you're appealing for
• can appeal for a school even if you have accepted another offer.

Schools will not know you have appealed for another school unless you tell them. The appeals for each school are completely independent of each other.

 

In-Year Casual Admissions

You can apply for casual (in-year) school admissions in Medway for any year group between reception and year 11 outside the normal transfer times. This applies if your child is new to Medway, moving from home education, or transferring between Medway schools.

To apply, you must submit a completed in-year admission application form for each school you want to apply to. An enquiry with the school is not a formal application, so even if a school says it is full, you should still apply formally. You can apply for multiple schools at once and do not need to wait for one outcome before applying to others.

If you need help finding a school place, you can contact the council at casualadmissions@medway.gov.uk.

Casual Admissions throughout the academic year require parents to complete an In-Year admission form - see form attached below.  Completed forms should be given directly to the school by hand, post (Twydall Primary School, Twydall Lane, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6JS) or by e-mail to twydall-office@rmet.org. 

If you require any information or would like to arrange a visit to the school, please contact Admissions, on 01634 231761 (option 2) or e-mail to twydall-office@rmet.org

 

SEND Access and Admission Arrangements

Admissions for children to our inclusive specialist provisions is co-ordinated with Medway Local Authority.  An EHCP identifies that the child requires support for their physical disability and/or medical condition that cannot reasonably be provided within the resources normally available to mainstream schools.

For further information on SEND and school admissions, please contact us on 01634 231761 to speak to Mrs N Roscoe.

For SEND access arrangements, please see the SEND report on our Special Provision Page.