Admissions
Here you will find all the information you need to apply for a place at our school.
Here you will find all the information you need to apply for a place at our school.
Lift Schools is the admissions authority for Lift Barton Hill.
Reception Admissions for September 2026
Applications for places at the school will be made in accordance with Torbay Local Authority’s co-ordinated admission arrangements. In line with this, Reception round applications can be made through Torbay Council Citizen's portal from 1st November 2025 through to 15th January 2026.
Please click here to go to Torbay Council's admission page to make your application.
Open Days and Tours
If you would like to book a tour, please email us on admissions@liftbartonhill.org or call 01803 327161.
For further information on our admissions arrangements, please refer to the links below:
If you would like your child to attend our school:
1. Talk to your local authority’s Special Educational Needs (SEN) team. They will assess your child and provide you with an Educational Health Care Plan (ECHP); these have replaced ‘Statements’. The contact details for the SEN team will be on the education section of the council’s website.
2. Contact the school to arrange an informal visit; you do not have to bring your child at this point. We will be happy to answer your questions as we show you around.
3. If you like what you see, you can let your local authority know that you have been to look around and would like your child to be referred here. You will however then have to wait for your child’s Education Health and Care Plan which will tell you whether your local authority thinks a special school would provide the best education for your child. If this is so, they may agree to your child coming here and would then send us a referral letter and papers for us to consider.
4. If your child is Nursery age we can accept them before they have an EHC plan. The SEN team would write a short report outlining your child’s difficulties and ask for an Assessment place. If the local authority thinks that our school is the best place for your child, they would send us a referral letter and papers for us to consider.
5. We would then consider your child’s referral along with others we may have, in terms of age, educational needs and resource requirements matching them to the places we have available.
6. If on paper it looks as if we can meet your child’s needs, we will invite you and your child in for a visit to the school. This visit is important. It gives us an opportunity to meet your child and find out more about them. It also gives us an opportunity to see whether as a school we can provide the things your child needs.
7. If we have spaces and the resources we need, we will let the local authority know. If we don’t have spaces we will let them know too and ask if they would like us to put your child’s name on our waiting list until a space becomes available.
8. Your local authority will formally let you know if we have a space for your child.
Our nursery provides early education and care, led by our experienced Nursery Teacher and fully qualified staff for children from age 2 years to preschool age.
Our nursery is a term time only. Full wrap around care is available from 7:30am - 6pm within our breakfast & after-school clubs for children aged 3+.
If you would like your child to join our Nursery, you will need to apply for them to go on our waiting list. Our Nursery Manager will get in touch with you during the half term before your child is due to start to organise admission.
In-year admissions are applications made outside the normal round of admissions. The school will coordinate its own in-year admissions and an application for in-year admission should be made directly to the school.
In the first instance, parents should complete an Expression of Interest (see below). A meeting with the Principal and a tour of the school will then be organised.
On receipt of an in-year application, the school will notify the local authority of the application and its outcome, to allow the local authority to keep up to date on the availability of school places within the authority.
Parents have a right to appeal the decision of the admission authority, Lift Schools, to refuse their child a place at the school. Lift Schools delegates the administration of appeals to the local authority. Parents who wish to appeal the decision of the admissions authority to refuse their child a place at your school may apply in writing to the local authority where appeals will be heard by an independent panel. Parents have at least 20 school days from the date of their refusal letter to submit their written appeal and should explain clearly the reason(s) for their appeal. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel and will normally be held within 40 school days of the closing date for receiving the notice of appeal.
