Admissions
Reception 2025
If your child was born between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 you need to apply for a new reception school place to your home local authority.
We would love for you to choose Cotham Gardens as your choice for your child's first year at school, and we're confident that our brilliant teachers and facilities would make this the right choice!
We have arranged the following information sessions and stay & play mornings for any parents and carers who would like to visit our wonderful school:
Parents/Carers Information Sessions
Tuesday 17th September 2024 at 6:30pm
Thursday 17th October 2024 at 9:30am
Thursday 7th November 2024 at 6:30pm
Wednesday 11th December 2024 at 9:30am
Wednesday 8th January 2025 at 9:30am
If you would like to book on either event, please click here or contact the school office - office@cothamgardens.co.uk.
Stay & Play Sessions - suitable for for 3 and 4 year olds
Tuesday 12th November 9:30am to 10:30am
Wednesday 18th December at 9:30am to 10:30am
If you would like to book on either event, please click here or contact the school office - office@cothamgardens.co.uk.
Please see the video below for an overview of reception at Cotham Gardens Primary School. The video, hosted by our EYFS lead Louise King, gives prospective parents some key information about our wonderful Reception classes and our approach to learning:
You can also watch our Reception virtual tour here. This video, again presented by Louise King, shows prospective parents the wonderful facilities at our Elmgrove site:
Cotham Gardens Primary School is an academy and we follow the Bristol City Council admissions policy.
You can see full details by clicking here.
All applications should be made via Bristol City Council Admissions.
For more information and to apply online, please click here.
Should you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to email office@cothamgardens.co.uk or call the main school office on 0117 377 2610.
In Year Admissions
Although we are a popular school, places do occasionally become available in year groups as families move.
Our current PAN for each year group is as follows:
- Reception - 30
- Year 1 - 60
- Year 2 - 60
- Year 3 - 60
- Year 4 - 60
- Year 5 - 90
- Year 6 - 90
Please note, some of our year group PANs have been reduced. We have reduced our PAN to maintain a specific number of classes of an appropriate size. This number of classes reflects our available resources.
We understand that applying for school places can sometimes be a daunting prospect. We would love to show prospective parents around our lovely school, so if you are interested in joining us in-year please contact the office to make an appointment on 0117 377 2610.
Although we are an Academy school, our admissions are handled by Bristol City Council, Therefore if you wish to apply for a place at Cotham Gardens Primary School, you should apply to Bristol City Council who co-ordinate our 'in year' admissions.
You can see full details by clicking here.