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Schools
School information
- A-Z list of schools, term dates, opening times, closures and admission area maps
- League tables: All schools and colleges in Kirklees
- School organisation and planning
- School governors
- Schools forum
- Safer schools
- Relationships, sex and health education (RSHE)
School services
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- Primary school meals
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- School transport
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Admissions
Consultations
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Admission to primary and middle school
- Apply for a primary or middle school place
- Your primary school offer - what to do next
- Your middle or junior school offer - what to do next
- Guide to admission to primary school
Admission to secondary school
- Apply for a secondary school place
- Your secondary school offer - what to do next
- High School open evenings
- Guide to admission to secondary school
Finding a school
- Find a school and your priority admission area
- Changing school during the school year
- School applications for foreign national children and children resident outside England
Admission appeals
School waiting lists
Policies and publications
Special education
The Kirklees Local Offer
Help for children with special educational needs
- About special educational needs
- Special educational needs support in schools (SEN)
- Education, Health and Care (EHC) assessments and EHC plans
- My Life Plan
- Additional needs register
- Support for early years special educational needs
- Educational psychology
- Kirklees specialist provision
- Teaching pupils with medical needs
- Kirklees Information Advice and Support Service (KIAS)
- Children with a disability eligibility for support
Special educational needs documents
Adult education
Learning and training during COVID
Advice, support and help with the cost of learning
- Kirklees passport
- Financial support for parents in education
- Professional and career development loans
- Prior attainment level descriptors
Local colleges and learning providers
- C & K My Directions
- Kirklees College
- Learn Direct
- Northern College
- (WEA) Workers' Educational Association
- University of Huddersfield
Post 16 Transport
Adult education for Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND)
Documents for learning providers
Contact us
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Educating your child at home
Preparing for adulthood
- What preparing for adulthood means
- Parents guide: Preparing for adulthood
- Preparing for adult life guide for young people
- Local Offer Live event 2019 evaluation report
- Local Offer Live event 2018
Education and preparing for employment
- From year 9 (age 13/14)
- Year 9 best practice guide checklist
- From year 10-11 (age 15/16)
- Year 10 best practice guide checklist
- Year 11 best practice guide checklist
- From year 12 (age 18-25)
- Post 16 best practice guide checklist
Adult education SEND
Social care and health
- Moving from children's social care to adult social care
- The Community Enablement Team
- A guide to the Care Act 2014 and other laws