Cookham Dean CE Primary School is a voluntary aided school.  This means that the school administers admissions for all in year transfers.  However if your child is due to start in the next Reception intake, this application is co-ordinated through RBWM, please click the link below for details and time frames. 

Please see our admissions policy below for more information. 

Key Dates for Academic Year 2021/22

Primary (year reception) in September 2021

Primary School Admissions covers those pupils starting at either:

• Primary or First school at the beginning of Reception - Born between 01/09/2016 to 31/08/2017
• Junior school at the beginning of Year 3 - Born between 01/09/2013 to 31/08/2014

Key Dates 

• Opening date - Wednesday 11 November 2020
• Closing date - Friday 15 January 2021
• Extended deadline for exceptional circumstances - Friday 29 January 2021
• National Offer Date - Friday 16 April 2021
• Processing of late applications begins - Monday 19 April 2021
• Deadline to respond to a school place offer - Friday 30 April 2021
• Offers to late applicants and allocations from waiting lists for all applicants - From Monday 24 May 2021

Parents/carers will be able to make an application online from Wednesday 11 November 2020.  Full information about how to apply can be found in the Admission into Primary School September 2021 guide on the RBWM website.

OPEN MORNINGS 2020/21

We welcome all prospective parents to come along to one of our open mornings.  The Headteacher will be taking tours of the school every month on the below dates.  All tours start at 9.30am and last for roughly 45 minutes.

Places are limited, if you would like to book onto one of our school tours, please email office@cookhamdean.org  with your preferred date.

Please come along to the school office at the tour start time.  If you are unable to make the tour for any reason please let us know so we can offer the date to the waiting list.

IMPORTANT COVID-19 UPDATE:

Due to current circumstances, we are unfortunately unable to host school tours for any pupils applying for a place at Cookham Dean School. 

For those children due to start in reception 2021 and for any in year transfers, we will conduct a zoom call where we will show a short video clip of our school in action and you will hear from pupils and staff about the ethos and values of our school. During the zoom call, you will have an opportunity to ask questions via the chat facility. An invitation to join the zoom call will be emailed to you prior to your originally booked tour date via the school office. 

Zoom Tour dates available:

Please email the office to book onto one of the below, you zoom link and password will then be emailed:

Monday 1^st February 2021 @ 9.30am
Monday 1^st March 2021 @ 9.30am
Friday 7^th May 2021 @ 9.30am
Tuesday 8^th June 2021 @ 9.30am
Thursday 1^st July 2021 @ 9.30am