Primary schools in chesterfield help !

[Tamsin1206]

Hi , myself and my husband are relocating to chesterfeld next June , and our little boy will be starting primary school next September...I have seen ALOT of schools in the chesterfield area online , but I am not local to the area at all so I'm a little stumped as to which schools to contact and hopefully put our sons name down for ! If any chesterfield parents could help me out that would be great :) also we do not know where about we are moving too yet ..but hoping to be close the town centre (walking distance ) and Wouk preferably prefer the school journey to be on foot , we don't have a car . So not too far out ! Thanks again

Tamsin

Ah please excuse my spelling mistakes ...typing in a hurry and I don't know how to edit my post , I'm new ! Sorry !

If you are moving in June and he needs a reception place for September, you will be moving after the allocations have been done, which will very much limit the possibilities I'm afraid - the reception classes for most schools will be full.

You will need to contact Derbyshire LEA as soon as you have an address, and they will allocate a school - at that point though there is no guarantee it will be near where you live I'm afraid. Transport to school for the child would be made available if it's over 2 miles I believe. You can of course go on waiting lists, and if you move very close to a school that may help as waiting lists normally take proximity into account.

Moving before admissions apps close on jan 15 would help a lot!

Ps I'm assuming state school, if private ignore me!

Hello there, I'm a Chesterfield mum. I am not an expert but I don't know anyone who didn't get at least their second choice school here (and they'd applied for a first choice about 5-6 miles from home)

Derbyshire have "normal area schools" which means if you put the "normal area school" for your postcode as one of the 3 choices you're guaranteed a place there.

Centrally Abercrombie is usually the most oversubscribed school (but I know little else about it). Westfield infants/Old Hall junior are central and popular with good reputation. Further out Holymoorside has excellent reputation in nice village as do Ashover, Baslow and Tansley.

Hi Tamsin
My daughter has just gone into year 3 at Abercrombie and my son into the nursery so he will be starting in reception in September 2015. It is a lovely school. Quite small and friendly. I would encourage you to go and have a look round. It is generally oversubscribed with a fair amount of children from outside of the normal catchment area. There are a handful of other primary schools fairly close to the town centre. Highfield Hall is one but I don't know a lot about that one.
Abi