Admissions

Cambridgeshire County Council manages the school admissions process for children who live within, or are moving into Cambridgeshire for all maintained schools, including academies. Click on the link below to see information on either applying for a Reception place, or admission into an existing year group, known as an 'In-Year Admission'.

Please see:

Cambridgeshire County Council's Primary School Admissions Page for details of how to apply for a school place.

Once your school place has been offered and accepted, we will send you our admission forms to complete and return.

After receiving your completed forms, we will invite you and your child to attend a pre-admission meeting and school tour. This is a wonderful opportunity to visit the school, meet members of our team, and ask any questions you may have about joining Bassingbourn Primary School.

Following this meeting, we will confirm your child's start date and provide details of their class, along with any additional information you may need to help ensure a smooth and positive transition into school.

We look forward to welcoming you and your child to our school community.

Over subscription Criteria for Community and Voluntary Controlled schools

If the school is full, pupils will be allocated, in the following order order for every space:

Children who have a Statement of Special Educational Need (SEN) / Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names the school will be admitted. NB. Those children with a statement of SEN / EHCP that does not name the school will be referred to the Statutory Assessment Team (SAT) to determine an appropriate place.

Children in Care, also known as Looked After Children (LAC) and children who were previously looked after but ceased to be so by reason of adoption, a residence order (now known as a child arrangement order) or special guardianship order.
Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceases to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
Children living in the catchment area with a sibling at the school (or partner infant/junior school) at the time of admission.
Children living in the catchment area.
Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at the school (or partner infant/junior school) at the time of admission.
Children of members of staff, providing that they have been employed for a minimum of two years and/or are recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage.
Children who live outside the catchment area, but nearest the school as measured by a straight line. In cases of equal merit in each set of criteria, priority will go to children living nearest the school as measured by a straight line.

In cases of equal merit in each set of criteria, priority will go to children living nearest the school as measured by a straight line.

UK Service Personnel/Crown Agents

Admission authorities must treat a family being posted to their area, whose posting abroad comes to an end, as meeting the residency criteria for the catchment area even if no house is currently owned in that area, once proof of the posting has been provided.

A school place will be allocated in advance if accompanied by an official government letter declaring a relocation date and intended address. The Admissions Team will accept a unit postal address or a quartering area address for applications from service personnel in the absence of a new postal address.