Reception New Starters 2025

Welcome everybody!

Welcome to our virtual school!

It is important to us that you and your child feel happy, confident and safe when you join our school family. It is designed to ensure that both our children and our parents are very familiar and comfortable with both the school and the staff before your child begins school in September. This means that when your child officially joins our school family at the beginning of September, they are able to settle quickly and feel happy in their new school environment.

Primary school applications are open from 3 September 2024 until 15 January 2025.


Click the link to apply: https://www.blackburn.gov.uk/SynergyWeb/Enquiries/Citizen/citizen.aspx/admissions-signin 


To arrange a visit, please contact the school office on 01254 52815

Children's Area

Meet The teachers

All the teachers are excited to meet you!

Mrs Wogden

Penguins class teacher

Miss Duerden

Swallows class teacher

Story time!
Pick a story from one of the teachers.

Mrs Wogden is reading 'Shhh!'

Miss Pomfret is reading 'There's a rumble in the Jungle'


Miss Duerden is reading 'The very hungry caterpillar'


Important information!

Keep your eye out here for when our open afternoon will be. During this time you will able to meet all the staff, fill in your child's admission forms and additional paper work and enjoy a visit to the classrooms. 

One activity that you can do at home is to print off the All About Me booklet below in the files section in the folder 'Getting ready for school' and fill it in, or if you have no printer you can make your own with some paper in your house.

We would love to see:


Make sure you bring all of these things into school on your very first day. We can't wait to meet you!

fun online sites to help get you ready for school

let's play

let's move our fingers

Let's sing

let's Count

Let's Sound out

Parent's Area

BwD School Readiness Parent Guide 2024-2025.pdf

Information folders:
in the files below you will find

Folder 1: activities to prepare your child for school 

Folder 2: Getting school ready!

Folder 3: school information


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