Enrolment
The annual registration of Primary 1 pupils usually takes place during January of each year. An advertisement appears in the local press giving full details of enrolment dates. A child’s birth certificate and proof of address are both required for registration purposes.

Pre Entry programme
Parents/Guardians and new entrants to Primary 1 will be invited into the school during the summer term. This allows you to familiarise yourself and your child with the people, routines and work at the school so that the transition from home to school life can be made as comfortable as possible.
While the children take part in some activities, parents of new entrants will have an informal meeting with the Principal Teacher and Head Teacher.

Placing Requests

You have the right to make a placing request for your child to be educated in a school other than the local school. In December each year the authority will advertise its arrangements for placing requests. There are sound educational reasons for trying to ensure that the transfer or admission of children to a school takes place at the start of a school session. Other than those who are moving home, to a new area, parents are advised to time any placing requests so that they take effect from the beginning of the new school session. Every effort will be made to try to meet the parental wishes, but you should note that it is not always possible to grant every placing request to a particular school.

Placing requests to Primary School does not necessarily ensure that your child will have a direct entry into the associated secondary. Advice on this must be sought from the Primary School Headteacher. All placing requests details and procedures are available from the school or the council’s website.