National Offer Day

On 16 April we will let our parents know which school has been offered for their child. 

Applications received via Citizens Portal

An email is sent to parents who applied via the Citizens Portal on the 16 April. Parents can also see which school place has been offered by logging into the Citizen Portal website. 

On-time paper applications

Parents who submitted an on-time paper application form and have provided an email address will be sent an email from 9am on National Offer Day.  

Applications received via Citizen’s Portal

Please accept or decline the school offered by logging into the Citizen Portal website.

Paper applications

Please accept or decline the school offered by completing the Infant and primary school place acceptance form. Only one form should be completed.

If you are not happy with the place offered, we recommend that you accept the place and remain on the waiting list for higher preferred schools. Accepting the offered place does not impact your chance of gaining a place from a wait list but will ensure your child has a school place for September.

The closing date for receipt of appeals is 15 May. For more information, please visit the School admissions appeals and exclusions page.

What happens next

You have until 1 May 2025 to respond to your school place offer. On 2 May responses will be imported onto our system and the team will then review any declined school places.

Once the team have confirmed a space is available, they will start to fill spaces from school waiting lists. This process typically takes 2 to 4 weeks to complete.

Waiting list information will be available from 2 May, however, wait list positions will not settle for approximately 2 to 4 weeks. 
To allow the team to focus on processing late applications and fill spaces from waiting lists, we ask that parents keep enquiries about waiting list positions to a minimum until June.

Waiting lists

Your child’s name will automatically be placed on the waiting list, in criteria order, of any Wokingham school that you named as a higher preference than the school you have been offered. Waiting list information isn't available until after 2 May 2025 when we have imported all the responses. If we can offer you a place from the waiting list at a school you listed as a higher preference, we'll allocate this school to you. We'll remove the place we originally offered you. We won't contact you in advance of doing this.

Waiting list positions

Waiting list information will only be provided by email. To request your child’s waiting list position, please email schooladmissions@wokingham.gov.uk including your child’s full name and date of birth. 

Waiting list information will be available from 2 May, however, wait list positions will not settle for approximately 4 to 6 weeks. 

To allow the team to focus on processing late applications and fill spaces from waiting lists, we ask that parents keep enquiries about waiting list positions to a minimum until June.

Waiting list allocations

If a place becomes available for your child from a waiting list, the School Admissions Team will allocate that place and send you an offer letter. At the same time, the existing offer of a place at a lower preference school will be withdrawn. 

Following the new offer, any school(s) listed lower in preference to the offered school will be marked as no longer required. 

You should be aware that this could happen up until the 31 August.

Updating your school preferences after National Offer Day

To request any changes to the school preferences on your infant or primary school application please complete a Change of Preference Form. (Available from National Offer Day).   

Change of Preference forms will be considered from 2 May in order of receipt. Please allow up to 15 school days from 2 May or date of submission (whichever is the latter) for a response.  

The schools listed on this form will replace your original preferences so please include any previous schools you still want as preferences.

Appeals

If you haven't been offered the school you wanted, you can appeal the decision. Appeals have to be received by us by 15 May.

Go to the school appeals page to find out more.