Parents are urged to ensure they have registered their child early for primary school.

Glasgow City Council is continuing the policy of early enrolment begun three years ago to allow bosses to allocate youngsters into P1 classes.

It will see an early registration open from November 7 to 11 as well as the usual January enrolment for P1 entry in August 2017.

Liz Cameron, Executive Member for Children, Young People and Lifelong Learning, said: “We have some of the best schools in Scotland and it is important for families living in the area to check out and research their local school and register there – local schools for local children. 

“Of course, parents still have the right to make a placing request for personal reasons but we would always encourage them to consider their local school first.”

Education bosses said the additional, early registration date has proved very successful with only a small percentage of families now opting to wait until the later January enrolment date.

This means parents and carers of children who are due to start primary one in August 2017 can register their child during the early school registration week.

The aim in the future is to only run the November registration week.

Parents are being urged to visit their local school and see what it has to offer for their child and family, such as major improvements made to primary schools as part of the council’s £255 million 4Rs programme to rebuild or refurbish every primary, ASL and nursery school in the city.

If submitting a placing request parents must register their child at their catchment school in the first instance.

Having and early registration week in November also allows the council to comply with legislation and advise parents, in writing, of the school their child will be going to in plenty of time before the start of the new school term in August.

A second registration week will be held in January 2017 - from Monday, January 9 to Friday, January 13.

Glasgow’s school have for some years been dealing with issues of overcrowding in certain areas of the city.

Early registration also helps bosses deal with issues caused by too many pupils applying for a place at individual schools.