Admissions

Admissions Arrangements for Bobby Moore Academy

The Bobby Moore Academy is a government approved Free School located in the heart of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. We are proud to serve the Olympic boroughs (Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest) which surround the park, and any other applicant who choose to select Bobby Moore Academy from further afield. 

We are an all-through school with two forms of entry in the primary phase and six forms of entry in the secondary phase. All scholars, regardless of their background and abilities, are welcome at Bobby Moore Academy, as we firmly believe that every scholar has the right to a world class education.

We are an academy, which means we are our own admission authority but have adopted the London Borough of Newham’s admission arrangements and processes to ensure continuity across the borough.

Bobby Moore Academy was formed in 2017 and has grown in size each year meaning we now have students in Reception up to Year 13.

At full capacity our PAN is 1560 as indicated below: 

• Reception to Year 6 – 420 scholars
• Year 7 to Year 11 – 900 scholars
• Sixth form - 240 scholars 

The staff and pupils of Bobby Moore Academy would welcome you to apply for a place at our school.  To do this you must follow the correct process for your child’s age as detailed below. 

All applications for this school at normal points of entry must be made directly through the London Borough of Newham. This can be completed using the following link Education and schools – Newham Council 

The Application Process for Normal Points of Entry – Academic Year 2025/26

Our admissions process is managed by the London Borough of Newham’s Admissions Team. Further information is available on their website at https://www.newham.gov.uk/schools-education. 

All admission applications must be made through your local authority via the e-admissions portal. Further guidance on this process is available here. 

For children living outside Newham, whose family wants them to attend this school their application must be made through their home borough naming this school as a preference on their application. 

The PAN London Coordinated Scheme 

Since 2004 all 33 London boroughs have been working together to deliver a coordinated admissions process for children moving from primary to secondary schools. Further details are available at https://www.newham.gov.uk/schools-education/pan-london-coordinated-scheme

Reception Admissions for September 2026 entry 

All reception 2026 applications must be made through the family’s home local authority via the e-admissions portal. For children living outside Newham, whose family wants them to attend this school their application must be made through their home borough naming this school as a preference on their application. 

For children living in Newham, families must apply via London Borough of Newham. This can be completed using the following link Education and schools – Newham Council   

Please remember, parents/carers must apply for a reception place in this school, even if the child has a brother or sister attending this school. 

Before submitting a reception application we strongly recommend all families read the 2026 edition of the local authorities ‘Starting Primary School’ guide and find out information about the school you are interested in via the following link starting-school-in-newham-2026- 

Important Deadlines 

Reception:

• The national closing date for on-time applications is 15th January 2026
• The national offer date for on-time applications is 16th April 2026 

Further information 

• Further information about the reception process for September 2025 entry is available at

https://www.newham.gov.uk/schools-education

Year 7 Admissions for September 2025 entry 

All year 7 applications for September 2026 must also be made through the family’s home local authority via the e-admissions portal. For children living outside Newham, whose family wants them to attend this school their application must be made through their home borough naming this school as a preference on their application.

We would recommend reading Newham's Guide for all secondary schools before making your application. You can access the guide via this link starting-secondary-school-in-newham-full-digital-version

For children living in Newham, families must apply via London Borough of Newham using the following link Education and schools – Newham Council.   

Please remember, families must apply for a place, even if their child has a brother or sister attending the school in primary. Scholars attending our primary automatically qualify for a space in the secondary but should still follow the application process. 

Important Deadlines 

Year 7:

• The national closing date for on-time applications is Thursday 31st October 2024 
• The national offer date for on-time applications is Monday 3rd March 2025

Further information

• Further information on the year 7 application process can be found at

https://www.newham.gov.uk/schools-education/admissions-secondary-school/2

• Further information about the London Borough of Newham’s Determined Arrangements for the 2026/27 (entry from September 2026) can be found at  

In Year Admissions

Applications made outside the normal admissions round (in-year admissions) should be made directly to Bobby Moore Academy via the application form found here: click here to open document

Completed application forms should be sent to: admissions@bobbymooreacademy.co.uk 

Parents/carers are entitled to apply for a place for their child at any time and to any academy. If more applications are received than there are places available, the oversubscription criteria shall apply. Details of the oversubscription criteria can be found below. 

School places are usually offered within 10 days where places are available and scholars will be added to the waitlist where spaces are not available. 

Waiting Lists

Waiting lists do not work on a first come, first served basis. By law they are organised in line with school's admissions arrangements which includes their oversubscription criteria.

This means a child will not automatically be added to the bottom of the waiting list and they can move up and down the list on a daily basis as other children join and leave the list. 

When a school has an available place, it will be automatically offered to the child who is at the number one position on the day it becomes available.

A child will stay on a school waiting list for one term at a time until:

• They are offered a place elsewhere and choose to accept it; or
• They are offered a place at Bobby Moore Academy and their parents/carers refuse it, or

• Their parents/carers request in writing that they are removed from the list, or

• The application is found to be fraudulent or completed to deliberately mislead.

The waiting list will be refreshed every term, but parents do not need to reapply every term, they simply need to inform the academy by email to admissions, that they wish for their child to remain on the waiting list.

 Oversubscription Criteria

For all state funded schools, the law requires that where applications exceed the Published Admission Number (PAN), their admission authority must strictly apply their published arrangements and oversubscription criteria to determine which children are offered the places available. 

Our oversubscription criteria can be seen as published below and determines a scholar's priority on the wait list for admission to the academy:

Priority 1

Looked after child and any child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order including those who appear to the London Borough of Newham to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

And then, if places are still remaining; Priority 2

Children who have been assessed by Newham Council’s Special Educational Needs Service as requiring a particular named school to meet their special educational needs and/or physical access. In addition, the child must be on the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice and be in receipt of ‘high needs funding’ and/ or have physical access difficulties.

And then, if places are still remaining; Priority 3

Children who have a sibling on roll and they are reasonably expected to still be on roll at the time of admission in the school.

And then, if places are still remaining; Priority 4

Children whose parent/carer (person with parental responsibility) are directly employed by the school.

And then, if places are still remaining; Priority 5

Service children

And then, if places are still remaining; Priority 6

All other children, whether or not they live in Newham including children from outside of England who have a right to education in England. If we have to decide between applicants in any of the above admissions criterion, the tiebreak will be, home to school shortest walking distance, starting with the nearest

Fair Access Protocol (FAP)

The law requires that each local authority must have a Fair Access Protocol (FAP) to ensure that for In-Year admissions unplaced children, especially the most vulnerable, are offered a place at a suitable school as quickly as possible.  In agreeing a protocol, the local authority must ensure that no school - including those with available places - is asked to take a disproportionate number of children who have been excluded from other schools, or who have challenging behaviour.  Bobby Moore Academy has signed up to the LB Newham’s Fair Access Protocol.

Further details on the Fair Access Protocol is available at https://www.newham.gov.uk/schools-education/fair-access-protocol-secondary-schools-newham

Appeals

All Admissions appeals are handled by Newham pupil services. Further details on the appeals process are available using the following link:

https://www.newham.gov.uk/schools-education/admissions-appeals-1/1 

Waiting List

All schools in Newham hold waiting lists if they have more applications than places available.

Children are automatically added to the waiting list when their parents/carers have a current live school application for the school and that school is listed as a higher preference than a school they have been offered.

For schools that are a lower preference on a live application, than the school offered, children can still be added to the waiting list but their parents/carers must email pupil.services@newham.gov.uk to request this.

Further guidance is available at https://www.newham.gov.uk/schools-education/offer-places/1

Sixth Form

Our sixth form admission details can be found on the specialist page for it at https://bobbymooreacademy.co.uk/Sixth-Form/

Admission Contact Emails

You can contact the relevant Admissions team at the following email:
admissions@bobbymooreacademy.co.uk 

Admissions Arrangements Policies

• BMA In Year Application Form
• Bobby Moore Academy Admissions Policy 2024 25
• Bobby Moore Academy Admissions Policy 2025 26
• Bobby Moore Academy Admissions Policy 2026 27
• Bobby Moore Academy Attendance Policy Appendix
• Bobby Moore Academy Appeal Application Form
• Deferred entry application form
• eAdmissions Guide
• In Year Application Form BMA 2023 2024