Admissions Procedure

Admission to the school will be made by the Governing Body in accordance with the stated     parental preferences it receives, subject to the school’s Admission Policy ( a copy of which is at the rear of this brochure) and will be used to form a priority order if there are more applications than the school has places available.

Notes

a) If in any category there are more applications than places available, priority will be given on the basis of proximity to the school. This will be determined by the nearest, safest walking routes from the front door of the house to the main entrance of the school. This will be digitally measured using the LA system.

b) If the school is over subscribed, a waiting list will be maintained. This will be ordered according to the admission over-subscription criteria.

c) Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each part of the week, the ‘home’ address will be determined as being where the child resides for a majority of the school week.

d) The term ‘brothers and sisters’ will be taken to include step brothers and sisters, foster children and children of parents living in the same household.  The Governing Body reserves the right to give special consideration to twins or triplets etc to prevent breaking the sibling link. However, the Governing Body must comply with maximum class size of 30 children.

Oversubscription

In the course of allocating places for children in accordance with the Admissions Policy, it is possible that the school’s Admission Number will be reached before all the children  have been allocated places.  If that happens children will be ranked according to distance from the school.  Priority is given to children who live nearest school.  The distance is measured along a straight line between the home address and the school.  This exercise will be carried out by the Local Education Authority using a computer package.