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School places - primary: Outline
Children normally start school in August if their fifth birthday falls before 1 March of the following year.
Parents should contact their catchment school to confirm arrangements for registration.
For more information see Enrolling your child for school.
Common questions
Further information
- School holidays
- Early entry to school
- Childcare Information Service
- Applying for a nursery place
- Places in nurseries run by South Lanarkshire Council
- Nursery standards
- Deferred entry to primary school
- Transferring to another nursery
- Gaelic education in South Lanarkshire
- Arts and culture in nurseries and schools
- Pre-school children with additional support needs
- Free nursery places
- Bookbug - books for babies
- Count me in 1, 2, 3
- Early years curriculum
- From nursery to primary school
- Paid nursery places
