The tracking page at /admissions/status is where an application comes alive. You enter the applicant ID you received when you submitted the form, and the page shows you the school, the intake, the date you applied, the current status and the whole journey so far — without asking you to sign in, and without asking for a password.

It is the answer to the questions every parent asks afterwards: has my file arrived, is it being looked at, do I have to do anything, and what does the school want from me now? If the school asks you for a correction or extra information, you answer it on this same page and you do not have to start a new application.

Two ways in: type the code when you are ready to check, or open the link /admissions/status/{code} with your code already in it — which is exactly what the confirmation screen does after you submit.

Where the code comes from

It is displayed once, on the confirmation screen that appeared after you pressed submit, with a Copy ID button beside it. If you closed the tab, the code is still the one you copied — the school can also see it on their side and quote it if you ask.

Keep it to yourself

The page says it directly: Keep your ID private. Anyone holding the code can see your application and respond to requests on your behalf. It is not a secret in the paranoid sense — it is a code that grants access to a child’s personal file, so treat it like a bank reference rather than a username.

Put it somewhere you will find it again

Almost every lost application is a lost code, not a lost file. Put it in three places the day you receive it: a message to your own phone number, a note in your phone, and a photograph of the confirmation screen. Then you never have to wonder whether your file exists.

If you lose it

Write to the school whose profile you applied from, quoting your full name, the intake you applied to and the date you applied. They can confirm the file and, where their own process allows it, reissue the reference. For a code you cannot read or have mis-copied, the same applies.

The five statuses

Pending means the file has arrived and is waiting in the queue. Under review means somebody is reading it now. Action required means the school needs something from you. Approved means you are in. Not approved means the school has decided against this application — which, if it happens, is worth reading carefully rather than closing.

The journey, step by step

The page draws your path as a sequence of steps: Application submitted, Under review, Additional information, Admitted & enrolled, Fees cleared. Each is marked as done, in progress, upcoming, needing your input, not needed or not approved. That last pair is deliberate: a school may not charge fees at all for an intake, in which case that step is simply marked not needed rather than left blank.

Dates and messages

The page shows the date you submitted, and any message from the admissions team with the date it was sent. A school that asks for a missing document, or that needs a birth certificate re-scanned, writes its reason there — which is usually the fastest way to find out what went wrong.

Your own answers

Everything you submitted is displayed back to you, grouped exactly as the form grouped it. Reading it once after submitting is a genuinely useful check: it is far easier to spot a wrong date or a mistyped name in front of you than to explain it later through a request for correction.

A little more information is needed

When the status is Action required, the page shows a section listing only the questions the school asked about. Everything you already submitted stays exactly as it was — the page says so explicitly — so you correct what was asked and leave the rest alone.

Resending documents

If the school wants a document, the field for it opens on the same page. Give the file the name the school asks for, add an explanatory message where one is offered, and send. If a whole section of questions is involved, the page can show its own status: pending, answered and awaiting review, or completed with the date it was marked.

Additional questions

Sometimes a school adds a question that was not on the original form. Those appear in their own section on the tracking page, with space for your answer and for a file if one is required. Answer only those, and send — the earlier answers are not touched.

Fees, where there are any

The last step of the journey is Fees cleared. Where the intake carries fees, the page shows how much has been paid against the amount expected, so you always know the balance before the school asks you for it. Where the intake has no fees, it says so instead of showing a zero.

Confirmation

Once your answers are sent, the page confirms that they have been sent for review. Nothing else is needed from you until the school replies — you can check back with the same code as often as you like.