Welcome to our school community
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you, on behalf of the children, staff and governors, to our school.
We aim to give each and every child the very best start in life to enable them to go on to be confident, successful and responsible adults. Our dedicated and committed staff team work very hard to provide a safe and secure environment in which every child can thrive and flourish – academically, socially, emotionally, creatively and physically.
Keldmarsh Primary School provides a vibrant learning environment where all children are provided with opportunities to succeed. At our school we aim to give your children an uninterrupted education with smooth transition at each stage.
We are keen to forge strong links between home and school and recognise that parents have a crucial role to play in the education of their child. The continued success of our school is dependent upon the strength of the partnerships we build with everyone in our school community. Each of these partnerships needs to be built on a basis of mutual trust and understanding enabling us all to meet our responsibilities.
Key to developing strong relationships is clear and open communication. We always aim to keep parents informed and involved with what is going on in school through newsletters and the website.
This website provides you with information on the school, its aims, the activities we provide and something of its organisation; the school prospectus will give you even more detail and can be downloaded by accessing it from the parents section of the website.
We welcome you to visit and judge for yourself the opportunities we afford the children of Keldmarsh Primary School and look forward to working with you to ensure that, in partnership, we give your child(ren) the very best possible start in life.
Yours sincerely
Sam Hopkin
Headteacher
Consultation of draft admission arrangements for 2029/29 school year
As a community school, the admission authority for Keldmarsh Primary School is East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Each year admission authorities review the admission arrangements for their schools, and then formally set – or ‘determine’ – these arrangements. Admission arrangements include the number of places made available for Reception – called the published admission number – as well as how preferences for places will be considered if there are more preferences than places available – called the oversubscription criteria. Together these details are sometimes known as the ‘admissions policy’.
If an admission authority wants to make any changes to their admission arrangements, the admission authority must consult on any proposed changes to those arrangements before determining the arrangements. Even where changes are not proposed, a consultation must take place at least every seven years.
As some changes are proposed this year, between Wednesday 14 October and Thursday 3 December, the Council is consulting on the admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools for the 2028-29 school year. All these draft arrangements are available online at:
Whilst the vast majority of the admission arrangements for 2028-29 are procedurally identical to those for previous years, six schools, including Keldmarsh Primary School, have requested a change to their admission number for the start of the 2028-29 school year.
The change proposed at Keldmarsh Primary School is to increase the admission number from 45 to 60. If approved, this change would not come into force for the year group starting in September 2027, but only from September 2028.
During this period the Council are interested in the views of any residents, schools, parents/carers or other interested parties, and would ask that all views be expressed via the online survey accessible from the page link above and also at:
https://consultation.eastriding.gov.uk/s/2028-2029SchoolsAdmissionsConsultation/
