Year 7 Admissions

Year 7 Entry

Newstead Wood School is a highly selective girls school, with a co-educational Sixth Form.

• The Selection Test for potential entry to Year 7 in September 2027 will take place over Friday 25 September (full day) and Saturday 26 September 2026 (morning only). 
• Parents who intend to register their daughter(s) for this test must keep these two dates free as no other dates will be offered. 
• Parents cannot select which date their child sits the test.  
• Test dates will not be rearranged or postponed due to candidates' other family commitments (including holidays or other entrance tests elsewhere).  If your child is booked onto a school residential on these dates, please email admissions@newsteadwood.co.uk to discuss.  
• The registration form (also known as the Supplementary Information Form ("SIF")) will be open from 8.30am on 1 May 2026 until 10.00pm on 30 June 2026.  The link to access the form will be available on this page during that time.  
• BEFORE registering your daughter to sit the test, please read our Admissions Policy and our Frequently Asked Questions document carefully.  These can be found further down this page.

Overview of the Year 7 admissions process

• Register your daughter for the selection test by completing our Supplementary Information Form ("SIF") which will only be available here from 1 May to 30 June of each admissions year.  Your daughter will be in Year 5 at the point of registration. 
• Late registrations cannot be accepted. 
• The selection test takes place at the end of the September of the year preceding entry to the school, just after your daughter has entered Year 6. 
• You will receive an email towards the end of the first full week of September providing all information for the test day.  Within that email we will confirm the date window in October during which the test results will be emailed to parents.  
• You must name Newstead Wood School as one of your school choices on your Local Authority secondary school common application form ("CAF") which should be submitted by 31 October.  Failure to do this will mean that your daughter cannot be considered for a place, regardless of her selection test score.
• If your daughter has any special educational need or disability that requires access arrangements, her current SENDCo will need to complete a form providing details of the access arrangements currently in place for her whilst sitting timed tests at school.  This form will be available while the registration form (SIF) is open and the completed form must be uploaded to your online registration form at the same time as uploading the medical/diagnosis reports.
• Test results will always be emailed to parents at least one week before the CAF submission deadline.
• Offers will be sent out by your Local Authority on the first business day of March and you must accept/decline as soon as possible direct to your Local Authority.
• If you have been made an offer for Newstead Wood School, you will also be contacted directly by us once you have received your offer from your Local Authority.  You will be asked to confirm acceptance or refusal of the place to both your Local Authority and also to the School - a link will be provided by the School for this purpose.  If you accept, you will then be asked by the School to complete an online Post-Offer form which will provide us with all the information we will need about your daughter.

Year 7 Open Events

Our next Year 7 Open Morning will be on Saturday 4 July 2026 - bookings will open here from around Easter 2026.  Please note that this event is for girls currently in Year 5 only.

Our Year 7 Open Morning for September 2026 entry took place on Saturday 5 July 2025. The speeches given on the day can be found here.

Free Familiarisation Material available to Pupil Premium Students

If your daughter is in receipt of Pupil Premium, we are pleased to be able to offer access to free online familiarisation resources. Please click here for further information.