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Enquiries about school admissions should be Transfer From Year 2 to Year 3 made to: Information on Transfer to Junior Education at City of Wolverhampton Council the age of 7+ September 2020 is available for Education Department all pupils transferring from Year 2 to Year 3 in Admissions and Appeals September 2021. If you wish to speak to a Civic Centre member of the Admissions and Appeals St. Peter’s Square Section regarding your child’s transfer, Wolverhampton then please telephone 01902 551122. WV1 1RR Website: In-Year Admissions www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions (Places in Other Year Groups) Email: To speak to a member of the Admissions and [email protected] Appeals Section about transferring your child The information in this booklet is for to a new primary school, please telephone: parents/carers of pupils due to transfer to 01902 551122. primary/junior school in September 2021; and If you wish to speak to someone in person, for parents/carers applying for primary/junior please visit our offices at the Civic Centre school places after the normal intake in between 9.00am and 5pm Monday to September 2021, and for all other in-year Thursday and from 9.00am and transfers to primary/junior schools. 4.30pm on Friday. Transfer to Primary/Infant School Other services provided by the City of If you wish to speak to a member of the Wolverhampton Council are also available to Admissions and Appeals Section regarding support you and your child, please see your child’s move from nursery to page 198. primary/infant school then please telephone: 01902 551122.

HOME ADDRESS Please note that a place obtained through fraudulent use of another person’s address will result in that place being withdrawn. You must use your child’s permanent address, not

grandparents or childminders.

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Chapter 1 A message from the Cabinet Member for Education and Skills 6

Chapter 2 Foreword 7

Chapter 3 Partnerships in education today 8

Chapter 4 Schools admissions explained 13

Chapter 5 Support for pupils and families 22

Chapter 6 Information on Early Years/nursery 26

Chapter 7 Special educational needs 28

Chapter 8 School directory 32

Chapter 9 Transfers between schools during the school year 56

Appendices

Appedix 1 58 Scheme for inter local authority co-ordination of primary admissions 2021/2022

Appedix 2 63 Community schools, voluntary-controlled schools and academies – admission arrangements Academies with these admission arrangements are: Bushbury Lane Academy, D’Eyncourt Primary, Edward the Elder Primary, Elston Hall Primary, Goldthorn Park Primary, Northwood Park Primary, Palmers Cross Primary, Parkfield Primary, St Jude’s CE Primary Academy, St Stephen’s Primary, Trinity CE Primary Academy, Villiers Primary, Woden Primary, Woodfield Primary.

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Appedix 2a 67 Voluntary-aided schools/academies/free schools admission arrangements

Bushbury Lane Academy 68

Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy 74

Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy 81

Holy Trinity Catholic Primary Academy 88

Manor Multi Academy Trust 95 Manor Primary School, Hill Avenue Academy, East Park Academy St Alban’s CE Primary Academy, St Thomas CE Primary Academy

Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton 103

Perry Hall Mat 109 Berrybrook Primary School, Dunstall Hill Primary School, Perry Hall Primary School, Woodthorne Primary School

SS Mary and John Catholic Primary Academy 116

SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy and Nursery 123

St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School 130

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust 137 St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School

St Luke’s Church of England Aided Primary School 144

St Martin’s Multi Academy Trust 148 St Martin’s CE Primary School, Field View Primary School and Grove Primary School

St Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy 152

St Michael’s CE Primary School 159

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St Michael’s Catholic Primary Academy and Nursery 163

St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School 170

St Paul’s Church of England Primary School 177

St Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy 181

The Royal School, Wolverhampton 188

Appedix 2b 194 Written evidence of baptism arrangements

Appedix 3 195 Other Local Authorities

Appedix 4 197 School Terms and Holidays

Appedix 5 198 Where to find out more

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Introduction

Dear Parents / Carers I am well aware that the move into primary education is an important time for parents/carers and young people. The information in this booklet is to help you understand how the schools’ admissions process works. It is to help you make an informed decision when applying for a school place. It acts as a guide to primary education. You can express a preference for five different schools. Each school has an admission limit. There can be no guarantee that everyone can receive their first preference of school. It is important you take this into consideration when making your application and ensure that you use all the preferences available to you. I wish your children every success in primary education.

Councillor Doctor Michael Hardacre Cabinet Member for Education and Skills

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Foreword

Wolverhampton School This booklet contains the names, locations Admissions and admission statistics of all the maintained primary schools in the city. A key to the maps The early years of a child’s education form an contained in this booklet can be found on essential foundation upon which to build for pages 32-33 to help you refer to individual the future. schools more easily. Therefore deciding which school(s) you would prefer your child to attend is an important Please use this booklet as a source of decision for you. We hope that this booklet information to help you complete the will help you in that task. In addition, each relevant application form(s) for your school produces its own prospectus giving child’s entry into primary education in details of school policies, how the school day Wolverhampton. In particular, you is organised, other school activities and should take note of any information that uniform requirements. has been placed in a box like this one.

We hope that you will find this booklet helpful in determining your school preferences.

* Please note: throughout this document any reference to parents also refers to the carer and any other person who has parental responsibility for the child.

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Partnerships in education today

Partnership is a trusting two-way process in What is Parental Responsibility? which participants share the same goals and You will be asked by your child’s primary work together to achieve them. Partnerships school to provide details of all those with only work where there is mutual respect, parental responsibility for your child. Having courtesy and co-operation. parental responsibility means assuming all the Schools and parents rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority that a parent of a child has by law. The partnership between yourself as a parent People other than a child’s natural parents can and the school plays an important role in the acquire parental responsibility through: education of your child. It is through this partnership that your child will be able to • being granted a Residence Order; benefit from the opportunities offered by • being appointed a guardian; schools and their admitting authorities. • being named in an Emergency Protection Home-School Agreement Order (although parental responsibility in such a case is limited to taking reasonable Every school is required to have a steps to safeguard or promote a child’s homeschool agreement, which sets out their welfare); responsibilities, your responsibilities and what is expected of your child. • adopting a child; or • in addition, a local authority can acquire Who is a Parent? parental responsibility if it is named in the care order for a child. Section 576 of the Education Act 1996 defines parents as: You will also be asked how you can be contacted in an emergency in case your child • all natural (biological) parents, whether they becomes ill or has an accident in school. are married or not; Please remember that it is important that all • any person who, although not a natural these details are kept up-to-date and you parent, has the parental responsibility for a must, therefore, notify the school of any child or young person; and changes, most especially changes of address. • any person who, although not a natural parent, has care of a child or young person.

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Equal Opportunities Schools can also assist you in accessing additional support where necessary. Schools draw on the wealth of the many cultures represented in the city, and in this School-Based Complaints way prepare all pupils for life in a multicultural society. Activities undertaken by individual Procedure schools are complemented by city-wide From time to time, you may feel that you have events such as: cause to make a complaint. If so, you should, in the first instance, raise your concerns with • the annual multi-faith service of celebration the school. There will be ways in which you, • exhibitions, reflecting various cultural and your child and the school can work together religious festivals throughout the year. to resolve the issue. If, however, you are not satisfied with the outcome of the discussion Discrimination and prejudice are incompatible you may wish to raise a formal complaint with with effective educational practice and a the school. commitment to equality of opportunity, Each school must, by law, have its own irrespective of race, gender and disability, is a formal complaints procedure that should be fundamental educational duty. By fostering published and available to parents. mutual understanding, support and respect The procedures should have well-defined among young people, schools are able to stages and show how the complaint will be promote equal opportunities to pupils, and dealt with. encourage harmonious relations in the local community. A positive outcome is more likely to result from an understanding of, and commitment to, the School Attendance partnership between schools and parents. It is essential that all children attend school regularly. Frequent or prolonged absence does affect their attainment. If, however, absence cannot be avoided, you should let the school know the reason why as soon as possible. In this way you will help the Headteacher to reach a decision as to whether the absence should be authorised. Please remember that legally it is your responsibility to ensure that your child attends school regularly and that absences are kept to a minimum. If you experience difficulties with your child’s attendance you should always contact your child's school. The school will then work with you to try and resolve any difficulties and implement appropriate levels of support.

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Schools and pupils Religious Education and Collective Worship Curriculum Religious Education is a compulsory subject. Primary education seeks to provide a broad, It is possible for you as parents to withdraw balanced and relevant curriculum for all your child from Religious Education and Wolverhampton children. All children follow collective worship without stating the reason, the National Curriculum which affects the having first notified the Headteacher of your content of what is taught, and the way decision. The programme in each community classes operate. The aim is to ensure that and voluntary controlled school maintained by your child has the opportunity to learn and the Authority, is based upon an ‘agreed develop the basic skills necessary for future syllabus’ which is, in the main, Christian, while life. This is achieved through the commitment taking account of the teaching and practices of well-qualified teachers and support staff. of other principal religions. This is in keeping with statutory requirements. On entering school in Reception Class, your child will follow the curriculum of the Schools may seek advice upon the teaching Foundation Stage, which builds on of Religious Education and collective worship previous experience. from the Standard Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE). At Key Stages 1 & 2, all schools participate in the Literacy Hour and the Numeracy Strategy, Voluntary-aided church schools follow a with additional resources being made syllabus agreed by their relevant diocese. available for those pupils with special educational needs. The Authority has assisted schools in developing their facilities to meet the needs of pupils in areas such as Science and Technology. Information and Communication Technology is also particularly well developed and is available from nursery through to Key Stage 2.

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Behaviour Policies If, for disciplinary reasons, your child is sent home from school it is the duty of the Schools must maintain discipline and good Headteacher/Principal to notify you, not only conduct to secure an orderly environment so of the reasons for the exclusion, but also of that teaching and learning can take place. your right to state your case to the governing All schools aim to develop a positive attitude body. If your child is permanently excluded and to promote a sense of self discipline and, you will be contacted by a member of the therefore, an appropriate behaviour policy Behaviour and Attendance Team who have will have been developed by the school. statutory responsibility to place your child in Pupils can help reinforce behaviour appropriate educational provision by day 6 of policies in many ways: for instance, the exclusion and will be able to provide by active involvement in the development further advice and information. of anti-bullying and harassment policies, or through class discussions. A panel of Governors will meet to review the Headteachers/Principals decision to The behaviour policy should include a permanently exclude your child by day 15 of framework for disciplinary action, involving a the exclusion. There is a process to appeal series of sanctions. While school staff may not this decision should you not be satisfied with use any form of corporal punishment, when the outcome. Your allocated Behaviour and necessary, ‘reasonable force’ can be used to Attendance Officer will be able to advise you. control or restrain pupils. Headteachers/Principals can exclude pupils for serious breaches of the school’s discipline policy. Most exclusions are temporary in nature and last only for a few days. However, the Headteacher/Principal does have the power to exclude for up to 45 days in a school year and, on some occasions, may decide that a permanent exclusion is the appropriate sanction. The decision to exclude rests solely with the Headteacher/Principal.

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Schools and the community The early years & childcare service A wide range of links exist between schools The Early Year 0-5 Service works for you, as and their communities with all schools making parents, to support the provision of affordable, use of the locality as a learning resource. accessible, quality Early Year’s provision in Many have developed close links with the city. industry. In addition, many schools offer Information on Early Years and child care opportunities for the local community to use providers is available free of charge their facilities for recreational as well as from the Wolverhampton Information Network educational purposes. Beneficial and (WIN). This information will enable you to supportive relationships develop between identify the Early Years provision that will suit schools and groups representing families, the needs of you and your child. older people, the very young and the disabled.

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Schools admissions explained

When should my child their medical history and the views of a begin school? medical professional, whether they have previously been educated out of their normal The law does not require a child to begin age group if it were not for being born school until they reach compulsory school age prematurely. The view of the Headteacher of but not beyond the start of the final term of the school concerned will also be sought as the school year for which the application was part of the decision-making process. made. However, in this Authority, children start full-time education in September prior to their Any agreement to defer a child’s admission to fifth birthday. Reception class does not guarantee a place at the preferred school, nor does it give the Having been offered a school place, you may child any additional priority for a place. choose to defer your child’s entry to school Parents are required to make a new until later in the school year. However, you application next year for Reception 2022 and would not be able to defer entry beyond their the application will be considered alongside all fifth birthday nor beyond the academic year other applications for that round in for which admission is sought. If you choose accordance with the criteria. to defer your child’s entry you should do so by writing to the Headteacher who will ensure Which school? that your child’s school place is safeguarded. The law gives you the right to express a Summer-born children preference for the school you would most like your child to attend and to give reasons for Parents of a summer-born child may choose that preference. not to send that child to school until the September following their fifth birthday and If your preference is for – may request that they are admitted outside of • A community or voluntary controlled their normal age group – to reception rather school or academy that follows the than year 1. Any parent wishing to make such criteria for community schools – the LA a request must put their requests in writing to will decide whether a place can be offered the Admissions and Appeals section by 15 January 2021. or Requests will be considered on an individual • A voluntary aided school/academy/ basis and decisions will be reached taking into free school - the governing body of the account of the parent’s views, information relevant school will decide whether a place about the child’s academic, social and can be offered. emotional development, where relevant,

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Transfer From Year 2 to Year 3 case for those children whose parents prefer at the age of 7+ not to access any form of pre-school provision at all. Parents of children who will be seven years old during the current school year and will Reducing infant class size therefore be of junior school age in September 2021 will be written to early in September Schools maintained by Wolverhampton local 2020. The letter will advise parents of the authority (i.e. community, voluntary controlled school currently allocated. and voluntary-aided schools) have published admission numbers that are multiples of 30 The school allocated will be based on whether (or 15 if appropriate) in order that schools can the child is currently: operate within the law that requires all infant classes to have no more than 30 pupils with 1 Attending the infant department of a one teacher. This also applies to free schools primary school. and academies. 2 Attending the corresponding infant school, i.e. if the child currently attends Westacre Where can I find out more about Infant School a place will be allocated at the schools? Uplands Junior School. Before you decide on your preferred school All parents will be able to express alternative for your child, you should gather as much preferences for junior education if they want information as possible about the schools and to. This can be done by contacting the consider carefully the options available. Admissions and Appeals Section at the Civic Schools encourage parents to arrange to visit Centre. The closing date for receipt of the school in order to meet the Headteacher application for a year 3 place in and to view the school in action. September 2021 is 15 January 2021. School Prospectus Transfer to Reception Class Each school publishes its own prospectus. Places in a Reception Class will be allocated These are available (free of charge) from the in accordance with the admission criteria for schools and may be helpful to you in the school. Places are not allocated on the determining your preferred school(s). They are basis of which nursery facility, if any, your child obliged to provide details relating to: attends. Neither are they allocated on a ‘first- come, first served’ basis. Similarly, this • arrangements for the admission of Authority does not allocate on a catchment disabled pupils; area basis. See appendices 1, 2 & 2a for • details of steps to prevent disabled details of the relevant admissions policies. pupils being treated less favourably than All children who access nursery provision other pupils; within the voluntary, independent and private • details of existing facilities to assist access sectors will have equality of access to school to the school by disabled pupils; places in reception class. This is equally the

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• the Accessibility Plan (required under the The limits are set in order to promote the most Disability Discrimination Act 1995) covering favourable environment for efficient and future policies for increasing access to the effective teaching and learning. Each school’s school by disabled pupils; information admission limit is given in the School Directory about the implementation of the governing section of this booklet. body’s policy on pupils with special educational needs and any changes to the Admission arrangements policy during the last year. and criteria Any other content in addition to this is for the The DfE issues an admissions code to all schools to decide on, but may include: admitting authorities, giving details of the important points to be incorporated into • curriculum organisation and teaching admissions arrangements. methods; In accordance with the admission code, • arrangements for special this booklet contains: educational needs; • the full admission arrangements of • National Curriculum assessment results; community and voluntary-controlled • attendance and rates of unauthorized schools (see Appendix 2 on page 63); absence (including a comparison with and last year); • a summary of the admission arrangements • statements about the school’s ethos and criteria for voluntary-aided schools and and values; and academies. This information is included as • further information about the school’s a helpful guide to parents. Full details of the admissions (including the number of various policies are published by the applications for places received in the schools themselves and should be previous year). obtained from the schools direct (see Appendix 2a on page 67). What is an admission limit? See pages 63 - 67 for definitions of The allocation of places in all schools depends community, free, voluntary-controlled and upon the maximum number of pupils that a voluntary-aided schools/academies. school is expected to take in a particular year group (i.e. the ‘admission limit’). Admission limits (published admission numbers or PANs) are based upon the outcome of a formula set by the Department for Education (DfE) and should not be exceeded by an admitting authority except in very exceptional circumstances.

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Key steps for parents & carers • Do I need to seek advice on any points before I submit my application form? Having gathered as much information as possible please take time to think about your • Do I know the deadline for the return of my preference(s) before you complete the application form? The deadline for the application form. Ask yourself the following supplementary information form may vary questions: from the deadline for the preference form. See page 20-21 for allocation timetable. Does my child have a Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)? • Does my application need extra evidence to support it (see Appendices pages If yes, please contact the Special Education 58 - 193)? Needs Statutory Assessment and Review Team (SENSTART) or the SENCO of your • Have I got online access? child’s current school to find out more. Making an application • Do I know where the school is situated Apply online at (see maps on pages 34 - 45)? www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions • Can I get my child there without too much difficulty? • Your application must be submitted by 23.59pm on 15 January 2021. • Have I visited the school(s) to see for myself the facilities they have to offer? • You will need to provide hard copy evidence for social medical claims • Have I obtained all of the relevant forms for (see relevant schools/academy admission my preferred school(s) (see pages 20-21)? arrangements for details). • Have I read and understood the • Fill in any relevant supplementary procedures that will be used if there are information forms for any voluntary aided more applications than there are places school(s)/academies to which you are available (i.e. the school is over- applying. These should be returned as subscribed)? specified to the school concerned by • Do any of my preferred schools have a no later than 15 January 2021. history of over-subscription? If so, how is • Fill in any supplementary information forms my application likely to meet the criteria for any voluntary-controlled school(s)/ that will be used to decide which of the academies to which you are applying. applicants get the places? These should be returned to the School • Does everyone with parental responsibility Admissions and Appeals Section at the for the child: Civic Centre by 15 January 2021. a) agree with my preferred schools? b) agree with the order in which they are presented?

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Expressing a preference St Martin's Multi Academy Trust (MAT). The schools in Manor MAT are Manor Primary, East All admitting authorities require you as parents Park Academy, St Alban's Church of England to express your preferences online at Primary Academy, St Thomas Church of www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. England Primary Academy and Hill Avenue If you are applying for a voluntary-aided Academy. The schools in Perry Hall MAT are school it is vital that you also complete a Perry Hall Primary, Berrybook Primary, Dunstall supplementary information form for the Hill Primary and Woodthorne Primary. The school. If the school is over-subscribed its schools in St Martin’s MAT are St Martin’s CE governing body will use the additional Primary, Field View Primary and Grove Primary. information gathered on the supplementary (Please refer to Appendix 2a (page 67) for their information form to determine the allocation of admission arrangements.). school places. This also applies if you apply The School Directory on pages 46-55 gives online. contact details for schools. It also gives figures about last year’s admissions to help Types of schools and you to identify where over subscription has oversubscription existed previously. Where the number of applicants is greater than the admission limit, Community, Academy, Free and Voluntary- this is a clear indication that some applicants Controlled Schools were not successful. Please bear this in mind • 24 community schools and refer to the Appendices for details of the • 35 academy schools relevant admission criteria used to determine • 2 free schools the allocation of places. • 2 voluntary-controlled church schools Voluntary-Aided There are two infant and two associated junior Schools/Academies schools (i.e. Uplands is the associated junior There are five voluntary-aided church schools school for Westacre Infant School), and 64 in Wolverhampton and seven academies. The mixed infant and junior schools. governing body of each of these schools is The local authority is the admitting authority the admitting authority for the school. Please for all community and voluntary controlled refer to Appendix 2a (page 67) for a summary schools. Please refer to Appendix 2 (page 63) of the criteria that will be used to allocate for details of the criteria that will be used to places if any of these schools are over- allocate places if any of these schools are subscribed, i.e. there are more applications over-subscribed: i.e. there are more than there are places available. applications than there are places available. The School Directory on pages 46-55 gives contact details for these schools. It also gives Academy figures about last year’s admissions to help There are eleven academies for which the local you to identify where over-subscription has authority acts as admitting authority. Their existed previously. Where this is the case, the allocations are carried out the same way as for implications are the same as for community community and voluntary controlled schools. and voluntary controlled schools. (Except for Manor Multi Academy Trust (MAT), Application must be made online at Perry Hall MAT, St Bartholomew's CE MAT and www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions

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Independent Fee-Paying Schools Where a place in an infant class (i.e. Reception, Year 1 and Year 2) has been There are several independent schools in and refused because the legal class size limit has around the City of Wolverhampton. These been reached, there are limited circumstances schools normally charge fees. The local whereby an appeal may be upheld. The law authority does not have any scheme to assist states that an independent appeal panel with either fees or other expenses incurred by must consider: pupils attending these schools. For the addresses and telephone numbers of the • Whether the admitting authority has Education Services in neighbouring administered its published admission authorities, please see Appendix 3 (page 195). arrangements correctly, and/or What can I do if my preference is • Whether the admission authority acted reasonably in the circumstances of not successful? the case.

The Waiting List Parents are able to present personal factors In your notification letter you will be advised as part of their appeal, but the panel cannot that your child’s name will be placed on the take them into account unless they relate to waiting list of the higher preferred schools until the two points above. Appeal panels are, 31 December 2021, when the lists will be therefore, ‘bound to dismiss cases which fall discarded. After that date, you will need to outside these circumstances’. make an in-year application. Please note that parents are only entitled to one appeal per school, per year group, per Appeal academic year. For community and voluntary- Any parent making an unsuccessful controlled schools, the Clerk to the application for a place in a maintained school Independent Appeal Panel is the Office of the is entitled, by law, to appeal against that Chief Executive. For an appeal in respect of a decision. All admitting authorities are bound voluntary-aided school parents should write to by the law to make such an appeal available the chair of the school’s governing body. to parents within a set of prescribed The appeal panel’s decision is final and guidelines. Details of how to make an appeal binding on the school and the admitting will be sent at the same time as you are authority. notified of the result of your application for a Please note that if your child has an school place. These details will include the Education, Health and Care Plan, any appeal closing dates. against refusal to admit will be to the Special Please note that the admitting authority Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal and reserves the right to withdraw a place which not to the Independent Appeal Panel. has been allocated on fraudulent or intentionally misleading information (page 66).

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The role of the DfE Transfer between schools during The Department for Education issues an the school year admissions code to all admitting authorities, giving details of the important points to be Moving House incorporated into admissions arrangements. If you move house during the school year and The admissions code is the basis upon which need to transfer your child to another school, the Wolverhampton schools admissions you should ask the local authority for an in- policies have been determined. year application form (INCAF). On the form, you should state your preference(s) for The role of the Secretary of alternative schools and return the form to the State for Education local authority. The Secretary of State provides, from time to time, guidance regarding the administration of Other Reasons admission arrangements. Parents may write Before deciding to transfer your child from one to the Secretary of State about their concerns. school to another you should consider However, please note that the Secretary of seriously whether this move is absolutely State has no power to intervene in the necessary, i.e. have you changed address? proceedings, or review the decisions, of Moves are nearly always disruptive to the independent appeal panels. child’s education and it is always worthwhile discussing problems with the school to try The role of the Ombudsman and resolve any difficulties. You should, /Education and Skills Funding therefore, speak to the Headteacher of your Agency (ESFA) child’s school. If, after a full discussion with the Headteacher, Only a parent can complain to the Local and having exhausted all avenues of Government and Social Care approach, you feel that a move is necessary, Ombudsman/ESFA. The grounds for such you must complete the in year transfer form a complaint would be maladministration by stating your preference(s) for alternative either an admitting authority or an appeal schools and return it to the Admissions and panel. This means that action is taken only if Appeals Section at the Civic Centre. complainants demonstrate that either body has not operated its admission policy in accordance with the published details. With regard to appeal panels the Ombudsman/ESFA can only make a recommendation (e.g. recommend a fresh hearing) and cannot change a decision made by an independent appeal panel.

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Allocation timetable - for entry in September 2021

All Wolverhampton Schools

Deadline for applying 15 January 2021 Deadline for supplementary information forms to be 15 January 2021 submitted to the school (where required) Notification of allocations on-line 16 April 2021 Notification of places allocated by second class post, posted on 16 April 2021 Appeals heard May - August 2021

Voluntary-aided academies/schools Is a supplementary information form required?

Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School Yes Holy Rosary Catholic Primary School Yes Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School Yes St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School Yes St Luke’s Church of England Primary School Yes SS Mary and John’s Catholic Academy Yes St Mary’s Catholic Primary School Yes St Michael’s Catholic Academy & Nursery School Yes St Michael’s Church of England Primary School Yes St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School Yes St Paul’s Church of England Primary School Yes St Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy Yes SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy & Nursery School Yes

Free Schools Is a supplementary information form required?

Nishkam Yes The Royal School Yes

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Voluntary-controlled schools and academies Is a supplementary information form required?

Bilston C.E. Primary School Yes, but only if you are claiming Christ Church C.E. Infant School (Tettenhall Wood) priority under Criterion 4 of the Christ Church C.E. Junior School Admissions Criteria for over- St Alban’s C.E. Primary Academy subscribed voluntary-controlled St Andrew’s C.E. Primary School schools, i.e. to a child who has St Bartholomew’s C.E. Primary School religious reasons for attending the St Jude’s C.E. Primary School (Academy) preferred school and for whom it can St Martin’s C.E. Primary School be demonstrated that s/he has strong religious connections. St Stephen’s C.E. Primary School These will only be taken into St Thomas’ C.E. Primary School consideration if the preferred Trinity C.E. Primary School school is the nearest Church of England school (voluntary-aided or voluntary-controlled) to the child’s home address.

Berrybrook Primary Yes, but only if you are claiming Dunstall Hill Primary priority under Criterion 3 i.e. to a child East Park Primary whose parent/carer employed at the Hill Avenue Primary school. Manor Primary Perry Hall Primary St Alban's C.E. Primary Academy St Thomas' C.E. Primary School Woodthorne Primary

Field View Primary Yes, but only if you are claiming Grove Primary priority under Criterion 2 i.e. to a child St Martin’s CE Primary whose parent/carer employed at the school

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Support for pupils and families

Transport to primary school Travelling to school in Free travel assistance is available for pupils of Wolverhampton compulsory school age in certain Every local authority has a duty to promote circumstances. You can view the policy at the use of sustainable travel and transport on www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/schooltravel school journeys and to publish a strategy Alternatively, application forms and/or the accordingly. As part of the duty the local policy are available from: authority gathers information on the travel needs of Education & Enterprise. The Travel Unit Education Department The Authority also undertakes an audit of the Civic Centre local infrastructure and how it can best St Peter’s Square promote sustainable modes of transport to Wolverhampton and from school. WV1 1RR In Wolverhampton we have produced maps Tel: 01902 551122 giving us information on where children and young people live in relation to the school they Very few primary aged children qualify for currently attend for full time education. We transport. Queries are dealt with by the Travel have produced a map for each school Unit (see page 198). indicating the travelling times for walking, cycling and for travelling on the bus. We are also able to help parents to access information regarding contracted school buses.

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Public transport travel options Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, for school Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. To help your child plan their journey by public Network West Midlands transport, there are a range of maps available online, detailing bus routes and frequencies, If your child wants to use public transport for as well as rail stations and Metro stops. their school journey there are a number of These public transport maps are available at options across the West Midlands, from the www.networkwestmidlands.com . bus, train or Metro. Network West Midlands is You can also look up timetable information the name that connects all public transport in and plan journeys using this website. the West Midlands metropolitan area:

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Meals Since September 2014, all children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have been able Well-balanced, tasty and popular two-course to enjoy school meals for free under the meals are available at all Wolverhampton Government’s Universal Infant Free School primary schools and academies. Meals (UIFSM) scheme and some may also be Catering providers, menus and payment entitled to receive free milk. arrangements vary – settings either employ Meals are provided free of charge for children the Council’s Catering Services, private of those parents / carers who meet the contractors or their own “in-house” staff. Government’s eligibility criteria – Prices are usually reviewed each year by the www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals. school or Academy. Schools also receive valuable “Pupil Premium” In January 2015, new statutory nutritional funding for all children with a registered Free standards were introduced for primary school School Meals (FSM) claim. lunches. Menus provided at the majority of Under the Government’s “Transitional schools are independently analysed. More Protection” arrangements, all children with an information is available on request from your FSM claim registered at a school in England child’s school. valid between 1 April 2018 and 31 March If your child has special dietary needs (e.g. 2023 will remain eligible for free school meals medically-authenticated food allergy or until the end of the phase of education they intolerance, diabetes, religious / cultural are in as at March 2023 (e.g. primary – Year 6 preferences, etc), please contact your child’s – or secondary – Year 11), even if the claimant school. (parent / carer) has a change in circumstance.

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Transitional Protection does not apply to Additional charges siblings who don’t have a claim registered in Please note: There are no charges or costs their own name. To check if you have a related to the admission of students. current FSM claim or to apply, please contact Contributions to school funds or to offsite your child’s school in the first instance. educational visits are not mandatory. For more information, please contact the Free School Meals team by email Boarding allowance [email protected] or call 01902 554128. The local authority has no control over admissions to independent day and Medical boarding schools. If your child is receiving medication, the School fees medicine, together with your written (independent schools) instructions, should be given to the school. You will be required to provide details of how Please note that the local authority has no you can be reached so that you can be scheme to assist parents with the payment of contacted in the event of an accident or illness school fees for independent schools. in school. In the event of an emergency, the school will arrange for your child to receive medical aid as a priority. The School Health Service aims to provide a level of healthcare that will enable pupils to reach and maintain their potential, and not be disadvantaged by ill-health. The school nurse has, on behalf of the child, the opportunity to liaise between home, school and clinic on health-related matters. School uniform/clothing The local authority does not have a scheme to assist parents in purchasing school uniforms and clothing.

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Information on Early Years/Nursery The aim of early years education is to provide enriching experiences for young children. These experiences will act as a firm foundation for lifelong learning and will support the development of an effective partnership with parents. All of our settings seek to foster this relationship to ensure that children come happily into education.

Wolverhampton guarantees that sufficient Attendance at a local authority places are available for the education of all three and four year olds in the City whose Nursery parents wish to take up this opportunity. This provision is known as the universal entitlement Attendance at nursery is usually on a part- and can be accessed in a variety of childcare time basis: either a three-hour morning or an settings including local authority nursery afternoon session. There is no charge for to schools/classes as well as private, voluntary this. Children living in the city of and independent settings which are registered Wolverhampton can normally be admitted to a to deliver nursery education. The universal nursery setting within their locality, subject to entitlement offers up to fifteen hours free the availability of places. If there are fewer nursery education a week, which can be places available than there are parents taken term time or stretched over more weeks requiring them, any child not accessing a of the year (up to eleven hours per week). place as a result of this, will be signposted to an alternative provision nearby. The local Within Wolverhampton your child may begin authority recommends to settings that priority nursery education in any one of the following: allocation of places is made on the basis of the child’s age, with the eldest having priority. • Local authority nursery classes In exceptional circumstances a child may be • Local authority nursery schools able to receive a priority place if s/he falls • Independent providers within a definition of need as determined by • Schools the local authority. • Childminders* It must be remembered that having a place in a nursery class does not guarantee a • Playgroups* place in that school when your child is of • Day care nurseries* age to enter statutory education.

* You will need to check with these settings that they are registered by the Early Years Service to deliver nursery education.

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Attendance at an independent Childcare information provider, playgroup or The Wolverhampton Information Network day care nursery (WIN) offers a specialist ‘onestop’ information These private, voluntary or independent and advice service for parents seeking nursery settings are registered with the Early Year 0-5 education, child care or play provision for their Service to deliver free nursery education, children. The computer database has details fifteen hours a week. Your child will qualify the of all registered early years and childcare term after their third birthday. You will be provision in the city. This includes registered charged for any extra sessions above the childminders, day nurseries, pre-school fifteen hours free nursery education, settings playgroups, parent/ carer groups, out-of- may charge a refundable deposit and/or school schemes and holiday playschemes. additional activities (such as dance lessons etc). You may also be charged for the cost of meals supplied.

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Special educational needs Support for children with special educational needs • Special educational needs and disabilities from the school website: (SEND) can affect a child or young person’s - SEN Polices ability to learn. They can affect their: - SEN Information reports - behaviour or ability to socialise, for All mainstream school also have a example they struggle to make friends designated Special Educational Needs - reading and writing, for example Coordinator (SENCO). In addition, all because they have dyslexia schools have a designated governor who - ability to understand things takes responsibility for ensuring the needs if concentration levels, for example children and young people with SEND are because they have ADHD physical ability met. Many children will have special educational needs (SEN) at some time during their • High quality teaching that is differentiated education but, in the majority of cases, and personalised will meet the individual these can and will be met within the child’s needs of the majority of children and young own school. people. Some children and young people need educational provision that is • All schools in the city follow the statutory additional to or different from this. This is guidance set out in the SEND code of special educational provision under Section practice: 0 to 25 years, Chapter 6 – 21 of the Children and Families Act 2014. schools in order to meet their duties in Schools must use their best endeavours relation to identifying and supporting all (that means to do its very best) to ensure children with special educational needs that such provision is made for those who (SEN) whether or not they have an need it. Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. • If you have any concerns about the • The City of Wolverhampton Council has provision being made for your child or you developed further guidance on the Levels require advice about SEND, you should of Difficulty and Provision expected for always discuss these with your child’s Schools with reference to the SEND Code school first., you can contact their class of Practice, which is available at teacher, SENCO or Headteacher. If your www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/localoffer- child is not in school, you can contact the sensupportandehcps SENSTART Team at City of Wolverhampton Council. • All schools are required to provide information for parents on how they • The City of Wolverhampton Council is support children and young people with committed to working in partnership with SEND. There are two main sources of parents/carers and recognises their input SEND information that parents can access as essential.

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Education, Health and Care Plans their local mainstream school where either For a very few children it will be necessary for their needs will be met from the school’s own the City of Wolverhampton to identify support resources or The City of Wolverhampton that is required in addition to or that is different Council will provide additional resources to from that which is normally available in a enable the school to meet their needs. If the mainstream school through SEN Support. child requires support from specific specialist This will be set out in an EHC Plan, which input, it might be necessary to consider either looks at all the aspirations and needs that a a resource base or a special school. child or young person has within education, health and care. Professionals and the family Resource bases together through a coordinated single Some mainstream schools have additional assessment decide what outcomes are resources to meet specific needs. required, and through joint working identify Wolverhampton has 4 schools with resource what is needed to achieve those outcomes. bases for children with hearing impairment, visual impairment and speech, language and Special educational provision for communication in primary schools. children with an EHC Plan Resource bases operate flexibly so that The City of Wolverhampton has a wide range children may have times when they are taught of state school provision available to support as a specific group but, at other times, they the needs of children with SEND including will be supported within the mainstream mainstream schools, resource bases and classes. special schools. Any placement will depend upon the individual needs of the child. Travel assistance All parents/carers have a duty to ensure their Mainstream support child attends school. However, in a number of The City of Wolverhampton Council works to special circumstances The City of develop solutions offer opportunities for Wolverhampton Council may decide to help students with SEND to attend mainstream children with SEND to get to school. In these Schools (schools for all children), unless doing cases, the Travel Unit will undertake an individual so would be incompatible with the provision of assessment of travel assistance needs. efficient education for other children. This For further information about home to school means that many children requiring SEN travel assistance please contact the Travel Unit. Support or with an EHC Plan will remain in Primary resource bases across the city Type of Resource Area Name of School Speech, Language and Communication Palmers Cross Primary Springdale Primary Hearing Impairment Warstones Primary Visual Impairment Castlecroft Primary

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Special Schools Wolverhampton has 7 special schools that include provision for primary age pupils. A special school is a school catering for students who have special educational needs due to learning difficulties, physical disabilities or behavioral problems. Special schools may be specifically designed, staffed and resourced to provide appropriate special education for children with additional needs. Primary Special Schools across the city

Broadmeadow Special School Lansdowne Road, Wolverhampton, WV1 4AL Tel: 01902 558330 Headteacher: Miss K Warrington and Miss L Walker Age Range: 2-7 Types of needs met: Severe learning difficulties (SLD), Physical Disabilities (PD)

Tettenhall Wood School Regis Road, Tettenhall, WV6 8XG Tel: 01902 556519 Headteacher: Mrs S Whittington Age Range: 4-19 Types of needs met: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Penn Hall School Vicarage Road, Penn, WV4 5HP Tel: 01902 558355 Headteacher: Mrs F Gillespie Age Range: 3-19 Types of needs met: Physical Disabilities (PD), Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD)

Green Park School Green Park Avenue, Bilston, WV14 6EH Tel: 01902 556429 Headteacher: Mrs LC Dawney Age Range: 3-19 Types of needs met: Profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD)

Penn Fields School Boundary Way, Penn, WV4 4NT Tel: 01902 558640 Headteacher: Ms L Thackaberry Age Range: 5-19 Types of needs met: Specific Learning difficulties (SpLD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN), Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD)

Westcroft School Greenacres Avenue, Underhill, WV10 8NZ Tel: 01902 558350 Headteacher: Ms H Andrioli Age Range: 5 -19 Types of needs met: Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD)

Pine Green Academy (City of Wolverhampton) Cromer Gardens, Whitmore Reans, WV6 0UB Tel: 01902 551564 Executive Headteacher: Ms K Jones Age Range: 7-16 Types of needs met: Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN), Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH), Physical Disabilities (PD) Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD)

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Equality of opportunity Information, advice and support When carrying out their functions, schools are for parents and carers required to have regard to the need to: Wolverhampton Information Advice and Support Service (WIASS), at • Eliminate discrimination that is unlawful www.wolvesiass.org, provide under the Equality Act 2010; • Eliminate harassment of pupils with local impartial information, advice and support disabilities that is related to their disability; on any matters relating to a child’s special educational needs and/or disability. • Promote equality of opportunity between people with special educational needs and WIASS ensure that parents and carers of disabilities and other people; children with additional needs have their views • Promote positive attitudes towards people heard and understood and get involved in the with special educational needs and planning and shaping of services that children disabilities; receive. • Encourage participation by people with The Wolverhampton Local Offer is published, special educational needs and disabilities in at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/localoffer, this public life; website sets out in one place information • Take steps to take account of individuals’ about provision they expect to be available needs even where that involves treating across education, health and social care for people more favourably than other people children and young people in their area who have SEN or are disabled, including those Expressing a preference who do not have Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. If a child has an EHC Plan, the will not be included in the normal mainstream admissions arrangements. Placements will be determined via the procedures for reviewing and amending the EHC Plan. The City of Wolverhampton Council always make every effort to work with parents/carers to secure the school they prefer. Sometimes there may be a difference of opinion that cannot be resolved. In those circumstances, an independent mediation service is available and/or an appeal may be made to the Special Education Needs and Disability Tribunal.

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 8

School directory

Understanding the School directory map school directory references All of the maintained primary schools in Community Map/ Wolverhampton are listed on the School Ref following pages. Bantock Primary E4 • Schools marked * are either Catholic or Bushbury Hill Primary K4 Church of England voluntary-aided schools/academies. The governing body Castlecroft Primary F1 of each of these schools is responsible for Claregate Primary H1&I4 all aspects of the admission process, Dovecotes Primary J1 including appeals against non-admission. Eastfield Primary E9 See Appendix 2a for a summary of the Fallings Park Primary H5 admission criteria for these schools. Graiseley Primary E5 • Schools marked ** are academies which Lanesfield Primary B6 follow the same admission Long Knowle Primary G2 arrangements as community/ Loxdale Primary A3 voluntary-controlled schools. Merridale Primary E3 Oak Meadow Primary G7 • Schools marked (N) have a nursery class Rakegate Primary J4 attached to them. Springdale Primary C1 • Schools marked (RB) have a resource Spring Vale Primary B5 area/base for pupils with an Education, Stow Heath Primary D2 Health and Care Plan. Stowlawn Primary D3 • A/HT means Acting Headteacher, Uplands Junior F4 pending the appointment of a Warstones Primary C2&F6 permanent Headteacher. Westacre Infant F2 West Park Primary E2 Please note that if your child was born Whitgreave Primary H3&H4 between 01/09/2016 and 31/08/2017, Wilkinson Primary A4 you should be applying for a school place by Wodensfield Primary G4 no later than 15 January 2021. Wood End Primary G3

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled

Academy Map/ Ref

Berrybrook Primary K5 Bushbury Lane H2 Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy L1 D’Eyncourt Primary G1 Dunstall Hill Primary H9 East Park Academy D1 Voluntary-controlled Map/ Edward the Elder Primary G6 School Ref Elston Hall Primary J5&K2 Bilston C of E Primary B4 Field View Primary A1&D5 Christ Church C of E Infant F7 Goldthorn Park Primary B1 Christ Church C of E Junior I2 Grove Primary E8 St Andrew’s C of E Primary H8 Hill Avenue Academy B7 Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy E10 Manor Primary B8 Free Map/ Northwood Park Primary K3 School Ref Palmers Cross Primary I3 Parkfield Primary B3 Nishkam Primary E11 Perry Hall Primary G10 The Royal School E12 SS Mary & John’s Catholic Primary E7 SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy H7&I6 Voluntary-aided Map/ School Ref St Alban’s C of E Primary L2 St Bartholomew’s C of E Primary C4 Holy Trinity Catholic Primary A2 St Jude’s C of E Primary E1&F3 St Anthony’s Catholic Primary J6&K1 St Martin’s C of E Primary A5 St Luke’s C of E Primary E6 St Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy H6 St Michael’s C of E Primary I5 St Michael’s Catholic Primary Academy F5 St Patrick’s Catholic Primary G8 St Stephen’s C of E Primary H11 St Paul’s C of E Primary J3 St Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy B2 St Thomas’ C of E Primary G5 Trinity C of E Primary H12 Villiers Primary D4 Woden Primary H10 Woodfield Primary C3 Woodthorne I1

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 5 1 4 2 3 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP A

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 4 8 6 7 3 5 2 1 OF CITY COUNCIL WOLVERHAMPTON MAP B

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 3 4 2 1 OF CITY COUNCIL WOLVERHAMPTON MAP C

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 5 2 4 3 1 OF CITY COUNCIL WOLVERHAMPTON MAP D

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 10 9 8 7 5 6 2 12 11 4 3 1 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP E

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 3 6 4 5 2 7 1 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP F

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 7 10 6 5 3 8 2 4 1 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP G

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 6 12 5 11 4 10 2 9 8 7 1 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP H

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 6 4 5 3 2 1 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP I

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 6 5 4 3 1 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP J

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 5 4 3 OF CITY 1 COUNCIL 2 WOLVERHAMPTON MAP K

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School Type Academy Community Free School Voluntary Aided Voluntary Controlled 2 1 "© Crowncopyright and database rights2019 OrdnanceSurvey 100019537"; MAP L

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Tel No. Tel No. Tel Nishkam Primary Brickkiln Street, Great WV3 0PR [N] Westacre Finchfield Hill, Finchfield, WV3 9EP School The Royal Penn Road WV3 0EG School CE [N] Christ Church Wood, Shaw Lane, Tettenhall WV6 8EL Wolverhampton School Wolverhampton Infant Schools Free Schools Free

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Tel No. Tel Tel No. Tel Uplands Finchfield Road West, Finchfield, WV3 8BA [N] Bantock Pennfields, Aston Street, WV3 0HY Christ Church CE Christ Church Road, Woodcote WV6 8LG Wood, Tettenhall School **[N] Berrybrook Avenue, Greenacres Underhill, WV10 8NZ Bilston CE Bilston, Albany Crescent, WV14 0HU School Junior Schools Primary Schools

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Tel No. Tel [N] Bushbury Lane Ripon Road, Oxley, WV10 9TR [N] Dovecotes Ryefield, Pendeford, WV8 1TX [N] Bushbury Hill Old Fallings Lane, Bushbury, WV10 8BY [N][R] Castlecroft Windmill Crescent, WV3 8HS Castlecroft, [N] Claregate Tettenhall, Chester Avenue, WV6 9JU *[N] Corpus Christi RC Avenue, Ashmore WV11 2LT Wednesfield, **D’eyncourt Mullett Road, Wednesfield, WV11 1DD School **[N] Dunstall Hill WV6 0NH Dunstall Avenue, Primary Schools

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218 409 600 415 634 598

January Limit 30 60 60 90 60 90 90 30 (KS1) 33 (KS2) 2021/2022 Admission

Mrs B Highman (Head of School) Mr K Grayson (Chief Exec Officer) Mr D Nicholls/ Miss E Foster Mr E Richards (Head of School) Mr B Davis (Executive HT) Mr K Grayson Mrs S Nasa Ms H Guest Mrs S Hay Mr J Hopkins Headteacher DfE No. 3362049 3362075 3362030 3362040 3362103 3363318 3362112 3362015 925701 558730 558745 558899 558604 558765 558866 558375

Tel No. Tel Eastfield WillenhallColliery Road, off Road, WV1 2QY the Elder **[N] Edward Moat House Lane East, WV11 3DB Wednesfield, [N][R] Graiseley Graiseley Hill, Graiseley, WV2 4NE [N] East Park Hollington Road, WV1 2DS **[N] Elston Hall Road, Fordhouses, Stafford WV10 6NN [N] Fallings Park Old Fallings Lane, Bushbury, WV10 8BN School [N] Field View Lonsdale Road, Bilston, WV14 7AE **[N] Goldthorn Park Road, Goldthorn Park, Ward WV4 5ET Primary Schools

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last

time On

0.93

distance

allocated 1.023

1.077 0.737

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appeals

successful 17 60 90 36 46 30 30

45

at 16/04/20 at

as Allocated 2020/2021 12 97 29 68 36 30 38

44

15/01/20

prefs First

reception for Applications

2020

in No.

school

207

302 226 308 333 560 413 173

January Limit 45 30 60 60 30 90 60 30 2021/2022 Admission

Mrs J Curry (Head of School) Mrs L Martin (Executive HT) Miss H Kahlon Head of School Mr E Hateley (Executive HT) Ms K Elliot Mrs P Scott Mrs A Cliff Mr A Jewkes Mrs C McNally Mrs Z Rollinson Headteacher DfE No. 3362058 3362051 3362072 3362019 3362033 3363302 3363309 3362071 925702 558985 558570 556460 558750 878440 558977 558950

Tel No. Tel [N] Hill Avenue Lanesfield, Hill Avenue, WV4 6PY [N] Loxdale Bilston, Dudley Street, WV14 0AU [N] Grove Caledonia Road, WV2 1HZ *Holy Rosary Hickman Avenue, WV1 2BS RC *[N] Holy Trinity Bilston, Fraser Street, WV14 7PD [N] Lanesfield Lanesfield, Newman Avenue, WV4 6BZ [N] Long Knowle Blackwood Avenue, WV11 1EB Wednesfield, School [N] Manor Ettingshall Road, Coseley, Bilston, WV14 9UQ Primary Schools

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last

time On

distance

allocated 0.641

0.664

0.991 0.659 0.246 2.164

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of No.

appeals

successful 72 60 60 60 60

30 30 30

at 16/04/20 at

as Allocated 2020/2021 74 52 50 36 36 58 58

28

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reception for Applications

2020

in No.

school

223 416

211 423 407 589 208 431

January Limit 30 60 60 60 90 30 60 30 (KS1) 32 (KS2) 2021/2022 Admission

Mr A Rogers (Headteacher) Mrs M Price (Executive HT) Mrs R Wood (Head of School) Mr K Grayson (Chief Exec Officer) Mr W Downing (Executive HT) Mrs T Robinson (Deputy Headteacher) Mrs A Cheema OBE (Chief Exec Officer) Miss R Kohli (Executive HT) Mrs S Horton Mr S Lane Mr S Arnold Mrs J Hopkins

Headteacher DfE No. 3362032 3362109 3362034 3362089 3363317 3362102 3362029 3362073 558810 558760 558538 558608 558715 558517 558322 558627

Tel No. Tel **Northwood Park Collingwood Road, Bushbury, WV10 8DS Oak Meadow Ryan Wednesfield, Avenue, WV11 2QQ [N][R] Springdale Drive, Penn Warstones WV4 4NJ [N] Merridale Merridale, Aspen Way, WV3 0UP **[R] Palmers Cross Windermere Road, WV6 9DF Tettenhall, **Parkfield Parkfield, Dimmock Street, WV4 6HB School **[N] Perry Hall Colman Avenue, WV11 3RT Wednesfield, [N] Rakegate Rakegate Close, Oxley, WV10 6US Primary Schools

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time On

distance

allocated See below

0.584 0.352 1.817

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appeals

successful 60 60 60 60 30 30

45 45

at 16/04/20 at

as Allocated 2020/2021 15 67 69 55 32 49 46

45

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reception for Applications

2020

in No.

school

414 315 254 268 175 347 429 422

January Limit 60 45 30 60 30 45 60 60 2021/2022 Admission

Mrs R Kilmister (Headteacher) Mrs K Kent ((Chief Exec Officer) Mrs T Davis Mrs D Dalton Mr C Blunt Mrs L Thompson Mrs A Grennan Mrs L Martin Mr D Jones Headteacher DfE No. 3363303 3363008 3362009 3362074 3363301 3362056 3362118 3363022 558935 558855 556589 556434 558848 558825 558522 925700

Tel No. Tel

[N] Spring Vale Kenilworth Crescent, Parkfield, WV4 6SD CE *[N] St Luke’s South, Blakenhall, Park Street WV2 3AE School CE [N] St Alban’s St. Albans Close, WV11 2PF Wednesfield, CE [N][R] St Andrew’s Coleman Street, Reans, WV6 0RH Whitmore [N] Sedgley Road, Penn, WV4 5LG CE **[N] St Jude’s Paget Road, WV6 0DT *[N] St Anthony’s RC *[N] St Anthony’s Road, Fordhouses, Stafford WV10 6NW CE St Bartholomew’s CE [N] St Martin’s Road, Bradley, Wallace WV14 8BS Primary Schools ***As the number of applicants who claimed under Criterion 4 exceeded the remaining places, the next criteria, which is distance was applied. The furthest at place allocated to those ***As the number of applicants who claimed under Criterion 4 exceeded remaining assessed under Criterion 4 and the distance criteria was 0.936. No applicants were allocated under Criterion 5 alone. assessed under Criterion 4 and the distance criteria was 0.936. No applicants were

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distance)

time On distance

*(Lot drawn

allocated 0.282

as 3 same

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30

30 30 30 30

at 16/04/20 at

as Allocated 2020/2021 77 29 42 32 28 30 34

34

15/01/20

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reception for Applications

2020

in No.

school 213 194

216

206 198 426 208 211

January Limit 30 30 30 30 60 30 30 30 (KS1) 32 (KS2) 2021/2022 Admission

Mrs S Horton (Head of School) Mr W Downing ((Executive HT) Mrs L Bradley (Principal) Mrs S Mulrooney (Head of School) Miss T Ellis ((Executive HT) Mrs J Byrne Mrs A Daniel Mrs V Minihane Mrs J Hanslip Mrs K Jackson

Headteacher DfE No. 3363315 3363010 3363307 3363312 3363314 3363304 3362008 3363316 556447 558840 556368 556451 308870 558621 558780 558845

Tel No. Tel and Paul RC *[N] SS Peter Hordern Close, Stow Heath, Newbridge, WV6 0HR **[N] St Stephen’s CE **[N] St Stephen’s Road, Heath Town, Woden WV10 0BB School *[N] St Michael’s Gardens, Telford Merry Hill, WV3 7LE Catholic *[N] St Mary’s RC *[N] St Mary’s Cannock Road, WV10 8PG *SS Mary and John RC Caledonia Road, WV2 1HZ RC *[N] St Patrick’s Graiseley Lane, Wednesfield, WV11 1PG *St Michael’s CE (Aided) *St Michael’s Lower Street,Tettenhall, WV6 9AF CE *[N] St Paul’s Emsworth Crescent, WV9 5NR Pendeford, Primary Schools

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allocated 0.868

0.222

2.064 0.969

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appeals

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40

at 16/04/20 at

as Allocated 2020/2021 19 75 55 60 68 50 36

23

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reception for Applications

2020

in No.

school

415 274

416 191 275 595 581 205

January Limit 60 30 60 90 90 60 30 30 (KS1) 34 (KS2) 2021/2022 Admission

Mr B Lyons (Head of School) Mrs D Dalton (Executive Principal) Mrs F Feeney Ms B Jones Mrs L Westwood Mrs H Morris Mrs L Scoffham Mr M Pitcher Mrs K Charles Headteacher DfE No. 3362105 3362116 3362054 3363025 3363016 3362066 3363311 3362053 558410 558787 558238 558963 558820 556463 558993 558862

Tel No. Tel *St Teresa’s RC *St Teresa’s Malins Road, Parkfield, WV4 6AW St Thomas’s CE St Thomas’s Mattox Road, WV11 3TG Wednesfield, [N] Warstones Road, Penn, Warstones WV4 4LU Park [N] West Devon Road, WV1 4BE School [N] Stow Heath Hill Road, Willenhall, WV13 3TT [N] Stowlawn Bilston, Park Avenue, Green WV14 6EH CE **[N] Trinity Road, New Park Village, Longford WV10 0UB **[N] Villiers Lane, Bilston, Prouds WV14 6PR Primary Schools

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last

time On

distance

allocated

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30

at 16/04/20 at

as Allocated 2020/2021 37 56 55 64 42 46

40

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reception for Applications

2020

in No.

school

423 400 424 427 425 210 577

January Limit 60 60 60 60 60 30 90 2021/2022 Admission

Mr T Hinkley (Headteacher) Mrs A Cheema OBE (Chief Exec Officer) Mr P Salisbury (Headteacher) Mrs K Kent (Chief Exec Officer) Mrs CJ Gibbon Mrs H Vernon Mrs S Walker Miss S Sharma Mrs S Redfern Headteacher DfE No. 3362115 3362022 3362069 3362006 3362106 3362065 3362055 558544 558835 558930 558971 558880 556350 558940

Tel No. Tel [N] Wilkinson Road, Bradley, Walter WV14 8UR **[N] Woden Springfield Road, Springfields, WV10 0LH **[N] Woodthorne Woodthorne Road South, WV6 8XL Tettenhall, [N] Whitgreave Low Hill, Goodyear Avenue, WV10 9JP [N] Wodensfield Wednesfield, Avenue, Woden WV11 1PW End [N] Wood End Road, Wood WV11 1YQ Wednesfield, **[N] Woodfield Avenue, Woodfield Penn, WV4 4AG School Primary Schools

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9

Transfers between schools during the school year

The Authority recognises that transfers Please note that the same conditions apply outside the normal year of entry are nearly with regard to material changes of always disruptive to the child’s education and circumstance, changes of address, etc. as it is worthwhile to discuss problems with the apply to Reception Class. school to try and resolve any difficulties. The Authority actively monitors the number of Step-By-Step Process for In-Year transfers in respect of its schools. Applications During 2021/2022 If, after a full discussion with the school, and Academic Year. having exhausted all avenues of approach, All applications for a place in a school in you feel that a move is necessary, you should Wolverhampton have to be made to the contact the School Admissions and Appeals School Admissions & Transfers Section. Section (01902 551122) for an in-year transfer form (INCAF). 1 The in-year common application form (INCAF) will be used for the purpose of admitting pupils to Wolverhampton schools. 2 If a Wolverhampton resident wishes to express a preference for a school within another local authority they must contact the appropriate local authority to determine the method of application for the school concerned. 3 Applicants should name all Wolverhampton schools (to a maximum of three) including any community, academy, free, voluntary- aided or voluntary-controlled schools and provide details of siblings. 4 Transfers will only be considered if the INCAF form is completed and has been signed by the parent(s)/carer(s) along with the Headteacher of the present/ previous school. 5 Before responding to the application the local authority will take into account any information supplied by the present

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Headteacher, as well as steps taken to Reception year, Year 2 to 3 and Year 7 resolve any problems/concerns by the transfer groups until 31 December each parent/carer and school (and assessed year. Governing bodies may maintain under the fair access criteria). waiting lists for voluntary aided schools and 6 For applicants, not been allocated their academies for longer than one term. higher preferred school/s; the local 9 An available place should be allocated to authority will notify them in writing, setting an in-year applicant even if appeals are out the reasons why their application was waiting to be heard. not successful and how to access their rights of appeal. Appeal 7 Where the school is its own admitting Parents/carers are only entitled to one appeal authority, the letter will state that the per year group, per school, per academic year offer is being communicated on behalf unless a significant or material change of of the school’s governing body circumstance has occurred. admitting authority. 8 Waiting lists are maintained for all Wolverhampton maintained schools for

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Appendix 1

Scheme for inter local authority co-ordination of primary admissions 2021/2022

Background In brief terms: A primary co-ordinated admissions scheme is • Parents can apply online at set out below (based on the DfE model). www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/ The co-ordinated scheme has been agreed admissions between all maintained admission authorities • Parents whose child has an Education, in Wolverhampton. The scheme has to have a Health and Care Plan follow separate means of deciding between potential offers admissions procedures through the from more than one admitting authority in Statutory Assessment of Annual Review Wolverhampton. The provisions of the scheme process. will be applied equally to applications for the local authority’s schools from parents living in • Parents will only have to fill in one other local authorities - these applications will application form. need to come via the local authority in which • Five preferences are invited. area those parents reside. • Initially, all preferences are treated as Co-ordinated scheme for equal, and sent out as equal to other Wolverhampton admission authorities (i.e. Wolverhampton voluntary-aided schools and other This scheme applies to all primary schools participating local authorities). maintained by Wolverhampton local authority • After over-subscription criteria have been as detailed in this booklet. The scheme is an applied (where appropriate), if more than ‘inter-local authority’ scheme whereby one school place can potentially be offered, Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Shropshire, the single offer is for the available school Staffordshire, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall and the parent ranked highest on the Wolverhampton local authorities have agreed preference form. to coordinate applications for their schools. In so doing these partners aim to ensure that each child receives the best possible single offer of a place at a primary school, based upon parents’ preferences.

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In this process, the School Admissions & Transfers Section will be operating the procedures on behalf of Wolverhampton local authority as follows: Step-by-step process for 2021/2022 academic year Applications should be made using the online application system. In respect of Year 2 to Year 3 transfers, the standard form will be used for the purpose of transferring pupils from infant (Year 2) to junior (Year 3) education at the age of 7 plus in the academic year 2021/2022. The timetable followed will be the same as that for entry into Reception.

1 The online system invites parents of pupils determine whether any supplementary resident in Wolverhampton to name and information forms are required, their give reasons for applying for up to five submission date and to whom they must preferred schools, ranked in order of be submitted. preference, by 15 January 2021. 5 Parents should be aware that where a 2 Parents should name all academies/ supplementary information form is schools, for which they wish their child to completed, it will not be regarded as a valid be considered for a place, including any application unless the local authority has voluntary-aided schools and/or any school also received a completed application outside Wolverhampton local authority’s showing an expressed preference for the area (to a maximum of five). school concerned. 3 In order to assess the application for 6 Parents should submit their online voluntary-aided schools, parents are application by 23:59 15 January 2021. required to provide additional information Any Wolverhampton school that receives and should download a supplementary an application form in error must ensure information form from the online application that it is sent to the local authority as a site. These forms should be returned to the matter of urgency irrespective of whether relevant school, or schools, by the the parent is a Wolverhampton resident. specified date. In the case of voluntary- 7 On receipt of the application, the local controlled schools, the supplementary authority will treat all preferences as being information form must be returned to the ranked equally in the first instance. local authority. Please note if the school is oversubscribed, the additional information 8 By 13 February 2021, the School gathered will be used to determine the Admissions and Transfers Section will send allocation of school places. other admission authorities and local authorities’ details of applicants for their 4 Parents who are applying for schools schools. These details will not reveal the outside of Wolverhampton are advised to order of preference. contact the appropriate local authority to

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9 All own-admitting authority (OAA) schools authority (i.e. the home local authority) will apply their over-subscription criteria will make the allocation on behalf of (where applicable), and return their the relevant Wolverhampton complete ranked list of applicants to the admission authority Admissions and Appeals Section who will 12 Parents will be required to respond to then compare the potential offer lists. any offers made within ten school days. If more than one school place can potentially be offered, a place will be 13 For Wolverhampton residents, where allocated at the available school that preferences cannot be met, the the parent ranked highest on Admissions and Appeals Section will their application. notify parents accordingly, setting out the reasons and advising of the right of 10 If the applicant is a Wolverhampton appeal, how to lodge an appeal and resident and the Admissions and Appeals to whom. Section is unable to allocate a place at any of the preferred schools then a place 14 For other applicants for Wolverhampton will be allocated at the nearest schools, the home local authority will Wolverhampton maintained school that notify parents of the reasons why parental has a place available. Allocations to OAA preference cannot be met and to whom schools in this case would be made any appeal should be lodged. following consultation with the governing 15 Applicants will automatically be placed on body concerned. a waiting list for any preferred 11 On 16 April 2021 - Parents will be able to Wolverhampton schools that are ranked view their allocation via the online higher than the allocated school. admissions facility. The Admissions and 16 Parents can request that the date their Appeals Section will also write to every child is admitted to the school is deferred applicant resident in Wolverhampton until the start of the term following the telling them of their allocated school child’s fifth birthday. However, in this place. Letters will be sent by Authority, children commence full-time 2nd class post. education in September prior to their fifth • Where the school in question is its own birthday. If parents choose to defer entry, admission authority, or in one of the they should do so in writing to the other participating local authorities, the Headteacher who will ensure that the letter will state that the offer is being child’s place is safeguarded. communicated on behalf of that local authority or school’s governing body. • Where a successful applicant for a Wolverhampton school is resident in another local authority, that local

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Applications received after 15 Material changes of January 2021 (including changes circumstances of preference, changes to the In claiming material changes of order of preferences or additional circumstances, the applicant, at the time of preferences) application, must supply documentary Applications for Wolverhampton maintained evidence to confirm the changes. schools received after the closing date will be An example of material changes of treated as late. circumstances is a house move that Therefore, applications received after the necessitates a change of preferences. closing date and before 11 February 2021 will This would need to be validated by only be incorporated into the initial allocation documentary evidence such as a solicitor’s letter process if the late submission is for good and confirming the completion of a house purchase valid reason i.e. parents/carers can or rent book confirming tenancy. An impending demonstrate a material change of change of circumstances should not delay the circumstances, or the request is for a school submission of the online application form. that has not reached its admission limit. If the applicant’s circumstances change during Parents are only allowed to express the course of making the application that preferences for a maximum of five schools at relate to any of the published criteria. any one time. So, if you add a new preference, you must re-rank your list. It is the applicant’s responsibility to provide evidence to the Admissions and Appeals When submitting late applications parents Section, as this may effect the outcome of must give reasons in writing for the late the application. submission. The appropriate admission authority will give consideration to the reasons Waiting lists following which the application will be either: If the applicant has not been allocated their first 1 incorporated into the initial allocation and preference, the application will automatically be assessed against the oversubscription placed on a waiting list for schools ranked criteria for the school(s) concerned higher than the allocated school. or Unless material changes of circumstances have been demonstrated, 2 considered only after all other a child’s name will only be included on applications. those lists for schools that were ranked higher on their application than the Late applications without written reasons for school allocated to the child and, the late application or those received after therefore, if a child is allocated a place at 11 February 2021 will only be considered after the first preference school, the child’s all other applications and the notification may name will not be added to the waiting list be sent shortly after the offer day. for any of the other preferred schools.

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See also Appendices 2a and 2b In-year fair access protocol Requests for inclusion on waiting lists for non- (hard-to-place pupils) Wolverhampton schools. Potentially hard-to-place pupils are those for whom there is evidence that their needs may Appeal be met in a mainstream context but that the The Authority will notify in writing those pupil’s behaviour, emotional or social parents who are Wolverhampton residents background make it unlikely that the and who have not been allocated their first mainstream school could meet their needs preference school, how to access their rights without some additional support. of appeal. Parents/carers are only entitled to All schools share a collective responsibility to one appeal per year group, per school, per ensure that these children are admitted to a academic year unless there is significant or suitable school as quickly as possible. material change of circumstance. However, there is often a balance to be struck between finding a place quickly, say in an Repeat applications undersubscribed school or one facing Please note that in respect of each child the challenging circumstances, and finding a Authority will only consider one application per place that is appropriate for the child. school, per year group, per academic year. It is also important that no school should be Repeat applications will only be considered asked to take an excessive or unreasonable where there are material changes in number of pupils that have been excluded circumstances. from other schools.

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Appendix 2

Community schools and voluntary-controlled schools – admission agreements How are community and Criterion 2: voluntary-controlled school Medical/Social applications ranked? Whether there are specific medical or social Provided that the number of requests for circumstances that can be met only by the places at your preferred community or child’s attendance at the preferred school voluntary-controlled school does not exceed (see paragraph on medical/social claims on the school’s published admission number, a page 65). place could potentially be allocated. Please note that only in very exceptional If the number of requests is greater than the cases are places allocated in respect of school’s published admission number (PAN), child’s/parent’s medical/social grounds. applications will be prioritised in accordance with the Authority’s admission criteria for over- Criterion 3: subscribed community and voluntary- Siblings controlled schools. Priority will be given to Whether siblings (as defined on page 64) children as follows: attend the school (or associated junior school) and will still be attending the school in Over-subscription criteria for September 2021. infant reception/year 2-3 Criterion 4: Criterion 1: Religion Children and young people in care* To a child who has religious reasons for /previously Looked-After Children attending the preferred voluntary controlled (as defined by Section 22 of the Children Act school and for whom it can be demonstrated 1989) A child who is in the care of a local that s/he has current strong religious authority or provided with accommodation by connections (see page 66). These reasons will that authority. only be taken into consideration if the preferred school is the nearest Church of Criterion 1(a): England (voluntary-aided or voluntary Year 2-3 controlled) school to the child’s home address (measured by a straight line from the home Where a child is attending the corresponding address to the school). infant school i.e. a child attending Christ Church, Church of England Infant School will be allocated Christ Church, Church of England Junior School.

* Looked After Children

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Criterion 5: Definition of a sibling for Distance admission purposes How close the child lives (see definition of For admission purposes, a sibling is a child child’s home address on page 65) to the who resides at the same address as the child school requested, with those living closest to for whom a place is being requested, and is the school getting the highest priority. The one of the following: distance from the applicant’s home and school is taken in a straight line between the • brother/sister respective school and the child’s home • half brother/sister address. The distance is measured using the (i.e. share one common parent) Local Authority’s software. • step brother/sister If there are a limited number of spaces (i.e. related by a parent’s marriage) available and we cannot distinguish between applicants using the above criteria, children • any other child (e.g. foster child) for whom who live in the same block of flats will be it can be demonstrated that s/he is offered the available spaces randomly residing permanently at the same address selected by drawing lots. (e.g. under the terms of residence order). NB The sibling connection will only apply where the child has a sibling attending Tiebreaker the associated infant/junior or primary school at the time of the application and If there is an insufficient number of places to will still be attending the school in accommodate all the children of a particular September 2021 (i.e. for normal year-of criterion the next criterion will be used to entry applications, siblings are expected assess the applications concerned in order to to be attending the same school in determine the allocation of places. September 2021). Special Educational Needs A sibling connection will not be accepted if the original place was obtained by The administration of children with an using fraudulent or false information Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) will be agreed between the local authority’s SEN Statutory Assessment and Review Team, Supporting evidence Children and parents and school in accordance with Young People in Care and all parental preference, as far as possible, and Previously Looked-After Children the child’s individual needs. Children with If the child is in the care of a local authority or EHCP are given overall priority to the named provided with accommodation by that school. This will reduce the number of places authority, this must be indicated on the online at the school which are available for allocation application form and evidence (e.g. evidence in accordance with the above criterion. of child in care from the placement authority) to support this claim must be submitted.

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Medical/Social Claims • leased to or rented by the child’s parent(s), carer(s) or guardian(s) under lease or If you believe there are specific reasons, written rental agreement. medical or social, for claiming priority for your child to attend a particular school these Documentary evidence of ownership or rental special factors must be indicated on the form agreement may be required together with and evidence (e.g. a letter from a registered proof of actual permanent residence at the health professional such as a doctor or a property concerned. social worker) to support this claim must be submitted with the common application form. Acceptable proof of address includes: The information submitted must state clearly • copy of a council tax bill; the effects of the condition/illness and why the preferred school is the only school that can • a copy of a recent utility bill (gas, electric, meet your child’s needs. This is necessary dated within the last six months); because you would be asking the Authority to • A solicitor’s letter stating that contracts assess your child as having a stronger case have been exchanged and specifying a than many other children, even some who live completion date; closer to the school in question than you do. The information provided will be used to • A copy of your Child Tax Credit or prioritise the request for a particular school. Working Tax Credit award letter (if you receive either of these benefits); Please note that only in exceptional cases are places prioritised in respect of a child’s/ • A signed and dated tenancy agreement. parent’s medical/social grounds. Where parents have shared responsibility for a child and the child lives with both parents for Child’s Home Address part of the week, then the main residence Parents are asked to provide their child’s will be determined as the address where home address, i.e. the usual place of the child lives for the majority of the residence on weekdays and nights. school week. Please note that childminder’s addresses will If the child equally shares living with both not be accepted. This applies to both formal parents, the parents must inform the School childminders and relatives or friends acting in Admissions and Appeals Section which a childminding capacity. address should be used for admission purposes and which parent will make the The home address of a pupil is considered to application. Parents may be requested to be the permanent residence of a child in a supply documentary evidence to support the residential property when the place is offered. address used for the application. The address must be the child’s only or main residence and is either:

• owned by the child’s parent(s), carer(s) or guardian(s)

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In the event that the family moves For Wolverhampton residents, where between the application and date of preferences cannot be met, the Admissions and allocation, it is the parent’s responsibility Appeals Team will notify parents accordingly, to inform the Authority’s Admissions setting out the reasons and advising of the right Officer as soon as possible of these of appeal, how to lodge an appeal and to whom. circumstances. For other applicants for Wolverhampton schools Documentary evidence related to house moves the home LA will notify parents of the reasons taking place between the offer date why parental preference cannot be met and to (16 April 2021) and the start of the academic whom any appeal should be lodged. year in September 2021 will be considered. Parents are only entitled to one appeal per year Please note that the local authority reserves the group, per school, per academic year unless right to withdraw a place which has been there is a material change of circumstances. allocated on fraudulent or intentionally misleading information. Waiting Lists Religious claims If the applicant has not been allocated their first (for Voluntary-Controlled Schools) preference, the application will automatically be placed on a waiting list for the preferred A supplementary information form will be Wolverhampton school or schools that were provided for you and your religious/ faith leader ranked higher than the allocated school. to complete, to enable you to demonstrate your child’s strong religious/ faith connections. This Unless material changes of circumstances have will only be taken into consideration if the been demonstrated a child’s name will only be preferred school is the nearest Church of included on those lists for schools that were England school (voluntary- aided or voluntary- ranked higher on the application than the school controlled) to the child’s home address when allocated to the child and, therefore, if a child is measured in a straight line. allocated a place at the first preference school the child’s name will not be added to the waiting What happens if my preference is list for any of the other preferred schools. not successful? The waiting lists will be ranked in admission criteria order. As soon as places become Unsuccessful Applications vacant the LA on behalf of the admitting and Appeals authorities will re-allocate those places from the waiting list, even if this is before appeals have If the applicant is a Wolverhampton resident been heard. and the admissions and appeals team is unable to allocate a place at any of the preferred The Authority will maintain the waiting lists schools then a place will be allocated at the until 31 December 2021. nearest Wolverhampton maintained school that Requests for inclusion on waiting lists for has a place available. Allocations to Own non-Wolverhampton schools must be made in Admitting Authority schools in this case would writing to the relevant local authority for the be made following consultation with the school concerned for assessment in governing body concerned. accordance with their scheme.

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Appendix 2a

Voluntary-aided schools/academies/free schools admission arrangements

Each Catholic voluntary-aided school/ academy academies/school’s admission arrangements was founded by the Catholic Church to provide are set out in this Appendix and should be education for Catholic families. These academy read in conjunction with the local authority’s schools are conducted by their individual scheme for co-ordinated admission governing bodies as part of the Catholic arrangements set out in Appendix 1 of this Church in accordance with both the Trust Deed booklet. Full details of the various policies are and the Instrument of Government of the published by the academies/schools academy school. themselves and should be obtained from the academies schools direct. Similarly, each Church of England voluntary- aided school has been founded by the Church Details for these academies/schools (e.g. of England to offer a Christian-based education admission limits, numbers on roll, etc.) are set to as many parents/carers as possible who out in the School Directory (page 46-55). desire it for their children. A definition of a ‘baptised Catholic’ is set out in For voluntary aided academies/schools, the Appendix 2b on page 194. governing body of each individual academy Please note that, for academy community and school determines its admission arrangements voluntary-controlled schools: in consultation with the appropriate diocesan authority and the local authority. These are • attendance at the academies/school nursery reviewed annually. class is not a priority for admission to the Reception Year at the academy/school. If any of these academies/schools are • A separate application must be made for oversubscribed, the governing body will use its admission to Reception Year. published criteria to determine the allocation of the places. These criteria require additional • No interviews are used at any stage to information to that gathered from the online determine suitability for inclusion in any application; therefore, the completion of an category. additional supplementary information form • Open days that are held are not interviews is necessary. and form no part of the admissions process. These forms are downloaded from the online • No fees are charged by the academy/ application system. Having completed the school in connection with admissions or as supplementary information form, you should part of the admission process. return it to the school by the date stated on • All academies/schools have separate the form. policies for nursery admissions. The closing date for your online application You can apply for a school place online at form is 15 January 2021. www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions by Summaries of the individual voluntary aided 15 January 2021.

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BUSHBURY LANE ACADEMY Enjoyment Providing learning that is relevant, motivating Bushbury Lane Academy is a primary and engaging releases a child’s curiosity and academy located at Ripon Road, Bushbury fun, so that a task can be tackled and their Lane, Wolverhampton, WV10 9TR and is part goals achieved of REAch2 Academy Trust (the Trust). Inspiration The Trust is the 'admission authority' for all of Inspiration breathes life into our schools. its academies, and has developed an Introducing children to influential experiences Admission Policy which is compliant with the of people and place, motivates them to live School Admissions Code 2014 (the Code) and their lives to the full other guidance/legislation using a Trust-wide approach to admissions, following public Learning consultation. The Trust's aim is to ensure all of Children and adults will flourish in their its academies have simple, consistent learning and through learning discover a future admission arrangements that focus on serving that is worth pursuing the local community and reflect the Trust's Leadership vision and values. REAch2 aspires for high quality leadership by More information about the Trust is available seeking out talent, developing potential and on its website: www.reach2.org spotting the possible in people as well as the More information about the School is actual available on its website: www.bushburylaneacademy.co.uk Published Admission Number (PAN) At REAch2 Academy Trust, our actions and our intentions as school leaders are guided by The PAN is the number of pupils the school our Touchstones: will admit in to Reception. The admission number for Bushbury Lane Academy is 30 Integrity pupils. We recognise that we lead by example and if we want children to grow up to behave The school will accordingly admit this number appropriately and with integrity then we must of pupils if there are sufficient applications. model this behaviour Where fewer applications than this are Responsibility received, the Academy Trust will offer places We act judiciously with sensitivity and care. at the school to all those who have applied. We don’t make excuses, but mindfully answer Applications in the ‘normal round’ (that is the for actions and continually seek to make main cycle of applications for Reception improvements places from the beginning of the school year) Inclusion are administered on behalf of the Academy We acknowledge and celebrate that all people Trust by {Insert name of Local Authority} in are different and can play a role in the REAch2 accordance with the local coordinated family whatever their background or learning scheme. style

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Statutory Maximum resident’ for the majority of the school week, Infant Class Size including overnight, with another relative or carer, such as a grandparent. This may also be By law, infant classes (i.e. classes in the case where a child resides between two Reception Year, Year 1 and Year 2 class) with parents at different addresses following the a single school teacher are not permitted to breakdown of the parental relationship. Where contain more than 30 pupils, except in certain this is the case, the application may be circumstances as set out below. processed on the basis of that address (where Some children are deemed to be 'excepted the child resides for the majority of the school pupils', which means that they can be week) and proof of address and residence admitted to year group over its PAN and into a arrangement will be required with the class over 30 pupils. These include (but are application. The child must be living with the not limited to) children with an EHC plan and parent, relative or carer 24 hours per day, for looked after children and previously looked the majority of the school week. Arrangements after children placed outside the 'normal where parents can leave and collect children admission round'. Further information is from another relative or carer on a daily basis contained in the Code. will be regarded as childcare arrangements, and the child will not be deemed to be Equality ‘ordinarily resident’ with that person. In all The Trust and the School are familiar with, and cases we expect that the adult with whom the fully comply with, their duties and child is ‘ordinarily resident’ receives the child responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 in benefit for the child (where eligible). relation to children with protected The exceptions to this rule are the children of characteristics, and this policy has been UK Armed Forces service personnel with a developed with regard to those confirmed posting to their area, or Crown responsibilities. Servants returning from overseas to live in the Meaning of 'Parent' area, for whom an application for admission may be made in advance of their move where In this policy, the term 'parent' means a it is accompanied by an official letter that natural or adoptive parent of the child, as well confirms the intended relocation date and a as a person who is not the natural or adoptive Unit postal address or quartering area address parent of the child, but who has care of the for the child. child, or parental responsibility for the child. This is the legal definition of a 'parent' in Children at the School's Nursery education law. Parents should note that children who attend Home Address the School's nursery will not automatically transfer to Reception Year at the School. An The ‘home address’ is considered to be the application for admission to Reception Year address at which the child resides on a must be made in the normal way. permanent basis or is ‘ordinarily resident’. This is generally the address of the parent/carer. In Children with an Education Health and Care some cases, children may be ‘ordinarily Plan (EHC Plan)

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Children with an education health and care Definitions relating to the criteria plan (EHC plan) are admitted to school under 1. ‘Looked after children’ are (a) in the care of separate statutory procedures managed by a local authority or (b) being provided with the child's Local Authority, and not under this accommodation by a local authority in the policy. exercise of their social services functions, Where the child with an EHC plan which in England. (see definition in Section 22(1) names the School will be admitted in the of the Children Act 1989). ‘Previously 'normal admission round', they will be looked after children’ are children who allocated places in Reception Year before were previously looked after but other applications are processed, which will immediately after being looked after reduce the number of available places within became subject to adoption, a child the published admission number (PAN). At all arrangement order, or special guardianship other times, the child will be admitted even order. These definitions are set nationally, where this means exceeding the PAN. by the Department for Education. 2. ‘Previously looked after children outside of Oversubscription criteria England’ who were in state care outside When the school is oversubscribed (that is, England, and ceased to be in state care as there are more applications than places a result of being adopted will be allocated available), after the admission of pupils with an cases under this category. Children will be Education, Health and Care Plan that names regarded as having been in state care the school, priority for admission will be given outside England if they were to those children based on the criteria set out accommodated by a public authority, a below, in the order shown: religious organisation or any other provider of care whose sole purpose is to benefit 1. Looked after children and previously society. Applicants under this criterion will looked after children, as set out in also need to fill in a Supplementary definition 1 on page 5. Information Form (SIF) evidencing state 2. Previously looked after children care outside of England. The SIF is outside of England. available from the school website or school office. 3. Children with siblings in the school 3. ‘Siblings’ - For applications made in the 4. Children of school staff fulfilling normal admission round a relevant sibling a skills shortage role is a child who has a brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, stepbrother or 5. Children living in the designated stepsister, foster brother or sister, or the catchment area child of a parent’s co-habiting partner; 6. All other children living in the same family unit in the same family household and address who attends the school in any year group excluding the final year. Biological and adopted siblings

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who attend the preferred school in any Tie Breaker year group excluding the final year will also Where the number of applications exceeds be treated as siblings irrespective of place the number of places available within any of of residence. Children residing in the same the categories above, the order in which household as part of an extended family, places will be allocated will be determined by such as cousins, will not be treated as reference to the distance between the child's siblings. For mid-year applications a sibling home address (as defined by this policy) and is a child who has a brother, sister, the School, with those living nearer receiving adopted brother or sister or stepbrother or higher priority. stepsister living in the same family unit in the same family household and address as Taken from the Primary Schools Booklet: a child who attends or has been offered a Criterion 5: place at the preferred school at the time of application and determination and with a Distance reasonable expectation that the sibling will How close the child lives (see definition of be attending at the time of admission. child’s home address on page 65) to the 4. This option is only available for all staff with school requested, with those living closest to a permanent contract to work at the the school getting the highest priority. The school (and not employees in REAch2 distance from the applicant’s home and cluster or central teams); it will be subject school is taken in a straight line between the to confirmation by an independent respective school and the child’s home REAch2 non-executive that, on the address. The distance is measured using the evidence available, the member of staff is Local Authority’s software. recruited to fill a post where there is a If there are a limited number of spaces demonstrable skills shortage. Staff must available and we cannot distinguish between contact the school Headteacher when applicants using the above criteria, children applying for a place under this criterion. who live in the same block of flats will be The Headteacher will provide a letter to the offered the available spaces randomly Admission Authority and Local Authority selected by drawing lots. Admissions Team confirming the staff Where it is not possible to separate two or members full time employment. more applications because the children 5. The catchment area is as defined by the concerned live an equal distance from the Local Authority in commissioning Lawley School, the order in which places are Village Primary Academy as a new school allocated will be determined by the drawing of to serve the housing development in the lots in front of an independent witness. Lawley area. See map on page 8. Where multiple birth siblings (twins and triplets 6. ‘All other children’ refers to all applicants etc.) from the same family are tied for the final who do not fall in to any of the categories place, we will admit them all, as permitted by above. the infant class size rules and exceed our PAN.

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Late applications the circumstances of the case, based on their All applications received on or by the 15th professional judgement of what is in the best January 2021 will be considered equally. Late interest of the child, taking account of the applications can be accepted for good evidence and rationale provided by the reasons until 11th February 2021. All parents/carers. applications received by the Local Authority Waiting lists after the deadline will be considered to be late applications. These will be considered after Where the school receives more applications those received on time. If all available places for Reception places than there are places are allocated to children whose applications available, a waiting list will operate until 31st were received on time, parents or carers who December 2021 after which parents/carers have made a late application may request that must re-apply for a place in Year 1. The their child is placed on the school’s waiting list waiting list will be maintained by the Local Authority and it will be open to any parent or Deferred entry for carer to ask for his or her child’s name to be Reception places placed on the waiting list, following an Parents/carers offered a place in Reception for unsuccessful application. their child have a right to defer the date their A child’s position on the waiting list will be child takes up the place, or to take the place determined solely in accordance with the up part-time, until the child reaches oversubscription criteria (not by date in which compulsory school age. Children reach the child’s name was added). Where places compulsory school age on 31 August, 31 become vacant, they will be allocated to December or 31 March – whichever of those children on the waiting list in accordance with three dates follows (or falls on) the child’s 5th the oversubscription criteria. The waiting list birthday. will be re-ordered in accordance with the Places cannot be deferred beyond the oversubscription criteria whenever anyone is beginning of the summer term of the school added to or leaves the waiting list. year for which the offer was made. Appeals Admission of children outside Parents have a statutory right of appeal to an their normal age group, including Independent Admission Appeal Panel against the refusal of a place at the School for their for ‘summer-born’ children child. Admission Appeal Panel Hearings are Parents or carers may request that their child is conducted strictly in accordance with admitted outside their normal age group. To do procedure and criteria set out in the School so, they should include a written request with Admission Appeals Code 2012, which is their application, setting out the year group in accessible on the Department for Education's which they wish their child to be allocated a website: https://www.gov.uk/government/ place and the reasons for their request. publications/school-admissions-appeals- When such a request is made, the Admission code Authority will make a decision on the basis of

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The Local Authority manages the appeals process. All applicants refused a place have a right of appeal to an independent appeal panel constituted and operated in accordance with the School Admissions Appeals Code Applicants should contact City of Wolverhampton Council by 13th February 2020 for information on how to appeal. The appeals process is run in accordance with the statutory processes and timescales set out in the School Admissions Appeals Code

In-year Admissions Parents or Carers interested in transferring a child in-year should contact the school office or Local Authority Admissions Team for further information.

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CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC The ethos of this school is Catholic. The PRIMARY ACADEMY school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy is families. Whenever there are more part of the St Francis and St Clare Multi applications that places available, priority will Academy Company. The admissions authority be given to Catholic children in accordance for the school is the Board of Directors of the with the oversubscription criteria listed below. St Francis and St Clare Multi Academy The school is conducted by its Board of Company who has responsibility for Directors as part of the Catholic Church in admissions to this school. The Board of accordance with its Articles of Association Directors has delegated responsibility for the and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our administration of the admissions process to Lord Jesus Christ. the Local Governing Body of Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a The admissions process for Corpus Christi Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Catholic Primary Academy is part of the practice permeate every aspect of the Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic admissions scheme. To apply for a place at character of the school’s education be fully Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy in supported by all families in the school. We the normal admissions round, an application therefore hope that all parents will give their must be made using the school admission full, unreserved and positive support for the application process of the Local Authority in aims and ethos of the school. This does not which you live naming Corpus Christi Catholic affect the right of an applicant who is no Primary Academy on the application form. Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Applications need to be made by 15th place at the school in accordance with the January 2021. A Supplementary Information admission arrangements. Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned directly to the school by the same The Board of Directors is the admissions date (see Note 2). authority and has responsibility for admissions to this school. The Board of Directors has its All applications which are submitted on time admission number at 30 pupils to be admitted will be considered at the same time, after the to the Reception class in the school year closing date. which begins in September 2021 (see Note 1). You will be advised of the outcome of your Where there are more applications for places application on 16th April 2021, or the next than the number of places available, places working day, by the Local Authority on behalf will be offered according to the following order of the school. of priority. If there is oversubscription within a Please note that throughout this policy, the category, the Board of Directors will give term parent means all natural parents, any priority to children living closest to the school person who is not a parent but has parental determined by the shortest distance responsibility for a child and any person who (see Note 5). has care of a child.

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For the purposes of this policy, parish places available to applicants. This is not an boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese oversubscription criteria. of Birmingham parish boundary map which can be accessed at Note 2 http://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/bound In all categories, for a child to be considered ary-map and will be applied to the admission at Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or arrangements for the academic year Reception into the Church will be required. For 2021/2022. a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face Oversubscription Criteria difficulties in producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Church should contact their Parish Priest. who are looked after or previously looked after (see Note 3). Parents making an application for a Catholic child should also complete a Supplementary 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Information Form (SIF) which should be living in the parish of Corpus Christi who returned directly to the school. If you do not have a brother or sister (see Note 4) provide the information required in the attending Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Supplementary Information Form and return it Academy at the time of admission. by the closing date, together with all 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) supporting documentation, this is likely to living in the parish of Corpus Christi. affect the criteria that your child is placed into, 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see being offered a place at this school. Note 4) attending Corpus Christi Catholic For the purpose of this policy, a looked after Primary Academy at the time of admission. child living with a family where at least one of 5. Other Baptised Catholic children the carers is Catholic will be considered as (see Note 2). Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked certificate directly to the school in order for after or previously looked after this priority to be given to the child as failure to (see Note 3). do so will result in the looked after child being 7. Non-Catholic children who have a ranked as a non-Catholic. brother or sister (see Note 4) attending Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy Note 3 at the time of admission. A ‘looked after child’ has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, 8. Non-Catholic children. and means any child who is (a) in the care of the Local Authority or (b) being provided with

Note 1 accommodation by them in the exercise of Children with an Education, Health and Care their social services functions (e.g. Children Plan (EHCP) that names the school MUST be with foster parents) at the time of making the admitted. This will reduce the number of application to the school. A ‘previously looked

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after child’ is a child who immediately moved place when applying the published admission on from that status after becoming subject to criteria. an adoption, child arrangement or special For example, this may occur when children in guardianship order. the same year group live at the same address, For the purposes of this policy, a looked after or if the distance between the home and the child living with a family where at least one of school is exactly the same, for example, the carers is Catholic will be considered as blocks of flats. If there is no other way of Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of separating the application according to the their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of certificate directly to the school in order for the children would cause the Published this priority to be given to the child as failure to Admission Number for the child’s year group do so will result in the looked after child being to be exceeded, the Board of Directors will ranked as a non-Catholic. randomly select the child to be offered the final place. Note 4 The Board of Directors will, where possible, For all applicants the definition of a brother admit twins and all siblings from multiple births or sister is: where one of the children is the last child • A brother or sister sharing the same ranked within the school’s published parents admission number. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two A child’s home address refers to the address children share one common parent where the child usually lives with a parent or carer and will be the address provided in the • A step-brother or step-sister, where two Local Authority’s Common Application Form. children are related by a parents’ marriage or where they are unrelated but their However, where parents have shared parents are living as partners responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part of the week with each parent, the home • Adopted or fostered children address will be the address provided on the The children must be living permanently in the school’s Supplementary Information Form, same household. provided that the child resides at that address for any part of the school week. If no Note 5 Supplementary Information Form is provided The measurement between home and school then the address will be that provided on the will be determined by the straight-line Local Authority’s Common Application Form. measurement form the designated point of the Parents may be requested to supply home address to the designated point of the documentary evidence to satisfy the school using a computerised system. Governing Body that the child lives at the In a very small number of cases, where the address put forward by the parents. school is oversubscribed, it may not be Where parents have shared responsibility for a possible to decide between the applications child, and the child lives for part of the week of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a with each parent, the home address will be

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the address provided in the Local Authority’s The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls Common Application Form, provided that the during the summer term who wishes to defer child resides at that address for any part of their child’s admission until the beginning of the school week. the following academic year (when the child will have begun to be of compulsory school Parents may be requested to supply age) will therefore need to make a separate in- documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of year application for a place in Year 1 at the Directors that the child lives at the address put school. Any reception class place offered forward by the parents. following an application made for the If a place in the school is offered on the basis 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn of an address that is subsequently found to be if the child does not take up that place by the different from a child’s normal and permanent first day of the summer term 2022. home address, then that place is liable to be withdrawn. Applications for Children to be School Entry admitted into a class outside of Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is their normal age group receiving suitable full time education from the Parents have the right to request, but not beginning of the term following the child’s fifth insist, that their child be considered for birthday, when they will have begun to be of admission to a class outside of their normal compulsory school age. age group. This could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted and talented, has Where a place is offered in the school, the experienced problems such as ill health, or pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on that the child is summer born, ie a child born a full-time basis in the September following between 1st April and 31st August. Parents their fourth birthday. who wish for their child to be considered for A child’s parents may defer the date at which admission to a class outside of their normal their child, below compulsory school age, is age group must make an application for the admitted to the school, until later in the school normal age group in the first instance. Parents year but not beyond the point at which they must them submit a formal request to the reach compulsory school age and not beyond Board of Directors for the child to be the first day of the summer term 2022. considered for a different age group class A child may take up a part-time place until instead. This request should be in the form of later in the school year, but not beyond the a written letter of application outlining the point at which the child reached compulsory reasons why they wish for their child to be school age. considered to be admitted into a class outside of their normal age group and enclosing any Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent supportive evidence and documentation that should notify the school, as soon as possible, they wish to be taken into account as part of that they wish to either defer their child’s entry that request. to the school or take up a part-time place.

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The Board of Directors will consider requests DFE guidance which can be found at: submitted for a child to be admitted into a www.gov.uk/government/publications/summe class outside of their normal age group and r-born-children-school-admission advise parents of the outcome of that request before national offer day, having taken into Applications from children account the information provided by the currently attending Corpus parents, the child’s best interests and the Christi Catholic Primary views of the Head Teacher. Academy’s Nursery If the request is refused, the original application for the normal age group class will Attendance at Corpus Christi Catholic Primary progress through the Local Authority co- Academy’s nursery does not automatically ordinated admissions scheme, be considered guarantee that a place will be offered in the by the Board of Directors and the parents Reception class of Corpus Christi Catholic advised of the outcome. Primary Academy. Parents must apply for a Reception place in exactly the same way as If the request is agreed and the year group for parents of children not attending the Nursery. which the parents have requested a place is a All applications will be considered against the current year group in the school, then the oversubscription criteria by the Board of application will be considered by the Board of Directors in the same way regardless of Directors and the parents advised of the whether the child does or does not attend the outcome. Nursery at the time of applications. If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is Appeals for a future year group, ie Reception in Parents who wish to appeal against the September 2022, then the original application decision of the Board of Directors to refuse is withdrawn and the parents must submit a their child a place in the school should make fresh application for Reception 2022 when that appeal request in writing to the Chair of applications open in the Autumn term of the Board of Directors at the school address. 2021. Please note that parents only have the Appeals will be heard by an independent right to re-apply for a place. Where the Board panel. of Directors agrees to consider an application Please note that parents do not have the right for Reception the following year, that to appeal if their request for their children to application is considered alongside all other be admitted to a class outside of their normal applications received and parents will be year group has been refused, but the Board of advised of the outcome of that application on Directors have offered a place in the normal national offer day. No place is reserved or held age group instead. for the child in advance. If parents are considered submitting an Repeat Applications application for their child to be admitted into a Any parent can apply for a place for their child class outside of their normal age group, it is at any time outside of the normal admissions strongly recommended that they also read the round. Parents do not have the right to a

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second appeal in respect of the same school Change in Preference for the same academic year unless, in Requests to change the preferences after an exceptional circumstances, the Board of application has been submitted must be Directors has accepted a second application made in writing to the Local Authority. Parents from the parent because of a significant and may change their preference on their child’s material change in the circumstances of the application up to the closing date of 15th parent, child or school, but have still refused January 2021. Changes made after the admission. closing date but before 11th February 2021 will incorporated into the initial allocation Late Applications process if the request is for a good and valid Late applications will be dealt with in reason, ie parents can demonstrate a material accordance with the Local Authority’s co- change of circumstances, for example a ordinated admissions scheme. This states that change of address. Any change in applications received after the closing date will preferences made after 11th February 2021 or be considered as late. Applications after the where the parents cannot demonstrate a closing date and before the final date for late material change of circumstances will be submissions with approved written evidence treated as a late application and will only be will only be incorporated into the initial considered after all applications that were allocation process if the later submission is for received on time which may affect a child’s a valid reason or parents can demonstrate a chances of being offered a preferred school. material change of circumstances (see below). When submitting late applications parents Waiting List must give reasons in writing and supporting In addition to their right to appeal, children documentary evidence for the late who have not been offered a place at corpus submission. The school will give consideration Christi Catholic Primary Academy but were to the reasons, following which the application offered a school that was ranked as a lower will be: preference on their application form will be added to a waiting list. Either 1) Incorporated into the initial allocation and The waiting list will be maintained until 31st assessed against the over-subscription criteria December 2021 and will then be discarded. Parents may apply to Corpus Christi Catholic Or Primary Academy for their child’s name to 2) Considered only after all application remain on the waiting list until the end of the Applications without written reasons for the academic year when it will be discarded. late application or received after the final date A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. for late submissions will only be considered When a new child joins the waiting list, all after all other applications and the notification applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked may be sent shortly after the national offer to ensure that the list is always maintained in day. oversubscription criteria order. This means You are encouraged to ensure that your that a child’s position on the waiting list could application is received on time. go up or down during the time that it is on the

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list. Any late applications accepted will be via the Local Authority’s website at added to the waiting list in accordance with www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. the oversubscription criteria. Where there are places available but more Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean applications than places, the published that a place will eventually become available. It oversubscription criteria, as set out for the may be that those already offered places may normal round of admissions, will be applied. accept them, thereby filling all available If there are no places available, the child will places. be added to the waiting list (see above). Children who are the subject of a direction by Parents will be advised of the outcome of their the Local Authority to admit or who are application in writing and, where the Board of allocated to a school in accordance with the Director’s decision is to refuse their child a Fair Access Protocol take precedence over place, have the right to appeal to an those on a waiting list. independent appeal panel. There is no charge or cost related to the In Year Fair Access Protocol admission of a child to this school. The Board of Directors of Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions. Applications other than the normal intake to Reception Class (In-Year Admissions) An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round and the child will be admitted where there are places available. Applications should be made using Wolverhampton Council’s admissions department application process

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HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC The ethos of this school is Catholic. The PRIMARY ACADEMY school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy is part families. Whenever there are more of the St Francis and St Clare Catholic Multi- applications than places available, priority will Academy Company. The admissions authority be given to Catholic children in accordance for the school is the Board of Directors of the with the oversubscription criteria listed below. St Francis and St Clare Catholic Multi- The school is conducted by its Board of Academy Company who has responsibility for Directors as part of the Catholic Church in admissions to this school. The Board of accordance with its Articles of Association Directors has delegated responsibility for the and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our administration of the admissions process to Lord Jesus Christ. the Local Governing Body of Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a The admissions process for Holy Rosary Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Catholic Primary Academy is part of the practice permeate every aspect of the Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic admissions scheme. To apply for a place at character of the school’s education be fully Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy in the supported by all families in the school. We normal admissions round, an application must therefore hope that all parents will give their be made using the school admission full, unreserved and positive support for the application process of the local authority in aims and ethos of the school. This does not which you live naming Holy Rosary Catholic affect the right of an applicant who is not Primary Academy on the application form. Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Applications need to be made by 15th place at the school in accordance with the January 2021. A Supplementary Information admission arrangements. Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned directly to the school by the same The Board of Directors is the admissions date (see Note 2). authority and has responsibility for admissions to this school. The Board of Directors has set All applications which are submitted on time its admission number at 30 pupils to be will be considered at the same time, after the admitted to the Reception class in the school closing date. year which begins in September 2021 You will be advised of the outcome of your (see Note 1). application on 16th April 2021, or the next Where there are more applications for places working day, by the local authority on behalf of than the number of places available, places the school. will be offered according to the following order Please note that throughout this policy, the of priority. If there is oversubscription within a term parent means all natural parents, any category, the Board of Directors will give person who is not a parent but has parental priority to children living closest to the school responsibility for a child and any person who determined by the shortest distance has care of a child. (see Note 5).

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For the purposes of this policy, parish Note 1 boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese Children with an Education, Health and Care of Birmingham parish boundary map which Plan (EHCP) that names the school MUST be can be accessed at admitted. This will reduce the number of https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boun places available to applicants. This is not an dary-map and will be applied to the admission oversubscription criteria. arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Note 2 In all categories, for a child to be considered Oversubscription Criteria as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Reception into the Church will be required. For who are looked after or previously looked a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see after (see Note 3). Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face difficulties in producing written evidence of 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Catholic Baptism or Reception into the living in the parish of St Joseph’s, Church should contact their Parish Priest. Wolverhampton, who have a brother or sister (see Note 4) attending Holy Rosary Parents making an application for a Catholic Catholic Primary Academy at the time child should also complete a Supplementary of admission. Information Form (SIF) which should be returned directly to the school. If you do not 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) provide the information required in the living in the parish of St Joseph’s, Supplementary Information Form and return it Wolverhampton. by the closing date, together with all 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see supporting documentation, this is likely to Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see affect the criteria that your child is placed into, Note 4) attending Holy Rosary Catholic which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Primary Academy at the time of admission. being offered a place at this school. 5. Other Baptised Catholic children For the purposes of this policy, a looked after (see Note 2). child living with a family where at least one of the carers is Catholic will be considered as 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of after or previously looked after their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception (see Note 3). certificate directly to the school in order for 7. Non-Catholic children who have a this priority to be given to the child as failure to brother or sister (see Note 4) attending do so will result in the looked after child being Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy at ranked as a non-Catholic. the time of admission. Note 3 8. Non-Catholic children. A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means any child who is (a) in the care of

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the local authority or (b) being provided with In a very small number of cases, where the accommodation by them in the exercise of school is oversubscribed, it may not be their social services functions (e.g. children possible to decide between the applications with foster parents) at the time of making the of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a application to the school. A “previously looked place when applying the published admission after child” is a child who immediately moved criteria. on from that status after becoming subject to For example, this may occur when children in an adoption, child arrangement order or the same year group live at the same address, special guardianship order. or if the distance between the home and the For the purposes of this policy, a looked after school is exactly the same, for example, child living with a family where at least one of blocks of flats. If there is no other way of the carers is Catholic will be considered as separating the application according to the Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception the children would cause the Published certificate directly to the school in order for Admission Number for the child’s year group this priority to be given to the child as failure to to be exceeded, the Board of Directors will do so will result in the looked after child being randomly select the child to be offered the ranked as a non-Catholic. final place. Note 4 The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit twins and all siblings from multiple births For all applicants the definition of a brother or where one of the children is the last child sister is: ranked within the school’s published • A brother or sister sharing the same admission number. parents A child’s home address refers to the address • A half-brother or half-sister, where two where the child usually lives with a parent or children share one common parent carer and will be the address provided in the • A step-brother or step-sister, where two Local Authority’s Common Application Form. children are related by a parents’ marriage However, where parents have shared or where they are unrelated but their responsibility for a child, and the child lives for parents are living as partners part of the week with each parent, the home • Adopted or fostered children address will be the address provided on the school’s Supplementary Information Form, The children must be living permanently in the provided that the child resides at that address same household. for any part of the school week. If no Note 5 Supplementary Information Form is provided The measurement between home and school then the address will be that provided on the will be determined by the straight-line Local Authority’s Common Application Form. measurement from the designated point of the Parents may be requested to supply home address to the designated point of the documentary evidence to satisfy the school using a computerised system. Governing Body that the child lives at the

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address put forward by the parents. Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent Where parents have shared responsibility for a should notify the school, as soon as possible, child, and the child lives for part of the week that they wish to either defer their child’s entry with each parent, the home address will be to the school or take up a part-time place. the address provided in the Local Authority’s The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls Common Application Form, provided that the during the summer term who wishes to defer child resides at that address for any part of their child’s admission until the beginning of the school week. the following academic year (when the child Parents may be requested to supply will have begun to be of compulsory school documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of age) will therefore need to make a separate in- Directors that the child lives at the address put year application for a place in Year 1 at the forward by the parents. school. Any reception class place offered following an application made for the If a place in the school is offered on the basis 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn of an address that is subsequently found to be if the child does not take up that place by the different from a child’s normal and permanent first day of the summer term 2022. home address, then that place is liable to be withdrawn. Applications for Children to be School Entry Admitted into a Class outside of Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is their Normal Age Group receiving suitable full time education from the Parents have the right to request, but not beginning of the term following the child’s fifth insist, that their child be considered for birthday, when they will have begun to be of admission to a class outside of their normal compulsory school age. age group. This could be the case, for Where a place is offered in the school, the example, if a child is gifted and talented, has pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on experienced problems such as ill health, or a full-time basis in the September following that the child is summer born, i.e. a child born their fourth birthday. between 1st April and 31st August. Parents who wish for their child to be considered for A child’s parents may defer the date at which admission to a class outside of their normal their child, below compulsory school age, is age group must make an application for the admitted to the school, until later in the school normal age group in the first instance. Parents year but not beyond the point at which they must then submit a formal request to the reach compulsory school age and not beyond Board of Directors for the child to be the first day of the summer term 2022. considered for a different age group class A child may take up a part-time place until instead. This request should be in the form of later in the school year, but not beyond the a written letter of application outlining the point at which the child reached compulsory reasons why they wish for their child to be school age. considered to be admitted into a class outside

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of their normal age group and enclosing any If parents are considering submitting an supportive evidence and documentation that application for their child to be admitted into a they wish to be taken into account as part of class outside of their normal age group, it is that request. strongly recommended that they also read the DFE guidance which can be found at: The Board of Directors will consider requests www.gov.uk/government/publications/summe submitted for a child to be admitted into a r-born-children-school-admission class outside of their normal age group and advise parents of the outcome of that request Appeals before national offer day, having taken into account the information provided by the Parents who wish to appeal against the parents, the child’s best interests and the decision of the Board of Directors to refuse views of the Head Teacher. their child a place in the school should make that appeal request in writing to the Chair of If the request is refused, the original the Board of Directors at the school address. application for the normal age group class will Appeals will be heard by an independent progress through the Local Authority co- panel. ordinated admissions scheme, be considered by the Board of Directors and the parents Please note that parents do not have the right advised of the outcome. to appeal if their request for their children to be admitted to a class outside of their normal If the request is agreed and the year group for year group has been refused, but the Board of which the parents have requested a place is a Directors have offered a place in the normal current year group in the school, then the age group instead. application will be considered by the Board of Directors and the parents advised of the Repeat Applications outcome. Any parent can apply for a place for their child If the request is agreed and the year group for at any time outside of the normal admissions which the parents have requested a place is round. Parents do not have the right to a for a future year group, i.e. Reception in second appeal in respect of the same school September 2022, then the original application for the same academic year unless, in is withdrawn and the parents must submit a exceptional circumstances, the Board of fresh application for Reception 2022 when Directors has accepted a second application applications open in the autumn term of 2021. from the parent because of a significant and Please note that parents only have the right to material change in the circumstances of the re-apply for a place. Where the Board of parent, child or school, but have still refused Directors agrees to consider an application for admission. Reception the following year, that application is considered alongside all other applications Late Applications received and parents will be advised of the Late applications will be dealt with in outcome of that application on national offer accordance with the Local Authority’s co- day. No place is reserved or held for the child ordinated admissions scheme. This states that in advance. applications received after the closing date will

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be considered as late. Applications received example a change of address. Any change in after the closing date and before the final date preferences made after 11th February 2021 or for late submissions with approved written where the parents cannot demonstrate a evidence will only be incorporated into the material change of circumstances will be initial allocation process if the later submission treated as a late application and will only be is for a valid reason or parents can considered after all applications that were demonstrate a material change of received on time which may affect a child’s circumstances (see below). chances of being offered a preferred school.

When submitting late applications parents Waiting List must give reasons in writing and supporting documentary evidence for the late In addition to their right to appeal, children submission. The school will give consideration who have not been offered a place at Holy to the reasons, following which the application Rosary Catholic Primary Academy but were will be: offered a school that was ranked as a lower preference on their application form will be Either added to a waiting list. 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and assessed against the over-subscription criteria The waiting list will be maintained until 31st December 2021 and will then be discarded. Or Parents may apply to Holy Rosary Catholic 2) considered only after all other applications Primary Academy for their child’s name to Applications without written reasons for the remain on the waiting list until the end of the late application or received after the final date academic year when it will be discarded. for late submissions will only be considered A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. after all other applications and the notification When a new child joins the waiting list, all may be sent shortly after the national offer applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked day. to ensure that the list is always maintained in You are encouraged to ensure that your oversubscription criteria order. This means application is received on time. that a child’s position on the waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the Change In Preference list. Any late applications accepted will be Requests to change the preferences after an added to the waiting list in accordance with application has been submitted must be the oversubscription criteria. made in writing to the local authority. Parents Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean may change their preference on their child’s that a place will eventually become available. It application up to the closing date of 15th may be that those already offered places may January 2021. Changes made after the accept them, thereby filling all available closing date but before 11th February 2021 places. will be incorporated into the initial allocation process if the request is for a good and valid Children who are the subject of a direction by reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a the Local Authority to admit or who are material change of circumstances, for allocated to a school in accordance with the

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Fair Access Protocol take precedence over There is no charge or cost related to the those on a waiting list. admission of a child to this school.

In Year Fair Access Protocol The Board of Directors of Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions. Applications other than the Normal Intake to Reception Class (In-Year Admissions) An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round and the child will be admitted where there are places available. Applications should be made using Wolverhampton Council’s admissions department application process via the local authority’s website at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal round of admissions, will be applied. If there are no places available, the child will be added to the waiting list (see above). Parents will be advised of the outcome of their application in writing and, where the Board of Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel.

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HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC You will be advised of the outcome of your PRIMARY SCHOOL application on 16th April 2021, or the next working day, by the local authority on behalf of “The distinctiveness and ethos of a Catholic the school. school rooted in its commitment to religious Please note that throughout this policy, the education and to a particular vision of the term parent means all natural parents, any human person, is instrumental and not person who is not a parent but has parental incidental to the achievement of success responsibility for a child and any person who and excellence.” has care of a child. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to Holy Trinity is a faith school, established in provide education for children of Catholic 1834 by the parishioners and people of families. Whenever there are more Bilston to provide for the needs of those applications than places available, priority will families served by the Catholic Church of the be given to Catholic children in accordance Most Holy Trinity. The Mission of the school with the oversubscription criteria listed below. states: The school is conducted by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church in Inspired by Christ and His teaching, Holy accordance with its Trust Deed and Trinity Catholic Primary School educates, Instrument of Government and seeks at all nurtures and celebrates the unique nature and times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus worth of every member of its diverse family. Christ. The admissions process for Holy Trinity As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic Primary School is part of the Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Wolverhampton Local Authority coordinated Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and admissions scheme. practice permeate every aspect of the To apply for a place at Holy Trinity Catholic school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic Primary School in the normal admissions character of the school’s education be fully round, an application must be made using the supported by all families in the school. We school admission application process of the therefore expect that all parents will give their local authority in which you live naming Holy full, unreserved and positive support for the Trinity Catholic Primary School on the aims and ethos of the school. This does not application form. Applications need to be affect the right of an applicant who is not made by 15th January 2021. A Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must place at the school in accordance with the also be completed and returned directly to the admission arrangements. school by the same date (see Note 2). All applications, which are submitted on time, will The governing body is the admissions be considered at the same time, after the authority and has responsibility for admissions closing date. to this school. The governing body has set its admission number at 30 pupils to be admitted

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to the Reception class in the school year that 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked begins in September 2021 (see Note 1). after or previously looked after Where there are more applications for places (see Note 3). than the number of places available, places 7. Non-Catholic children who have a will be offered according to the following order brother or sister (see Note 4) attending of priority. If there is oversubscription within a Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School at the category, the Governing Body will give priority time of admission. to children living closest to the school 8. Non-Catholic children. determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5). Note 1 For the purposes of this policy, parish Children with an Education, Health and Care boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be of Birmingham parish boundary map, which admitted. This will reduce the number of can be accessed at places available to applicants. This is not an www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boundary- oversubscription criteria. map and will be applied to the admission Note 2 arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Please see the end of this policy In all categories, for a child to be considered for the written and visual description of the as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism parish boundaries. or Reception into the Church will be required. For a definition of a Baptised Oversubscription Criteria Catholic, see Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face difficulties in producing written 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception into who are looked after or previously looked the Church should contact their Parish Priest. after (see Note 3). Parents making an application for a Catholic 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) child should also complete a Supplementary living in the parish of Holy Trinity, Bilston Information Form (SIF), which should be who have a brother or sister (see Note 4) returned directly to the school. If you do not attending Holy Trinity Catholic Primary provide the information required in the School at the time of admission. Supplementary Information Form and return it 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) by the closing date, together with all living in the parish of Holy Trinity, Bilston supporting documentation, this is likely to affect the criteria that your child is placed into, 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see being offered a place at this school. Note 4) attending Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School at the time of admission. For the purposes of this policy, a looked after child living with a family where at 5. Other Baptised Catholic children least one of the carers is Catholic will be (see Note 2). considered as Catholic. The carer must

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forward a copy of his/her own Catholic marriage or where they are unrelated but Baptismal or Reception certificate directly to their parents are living as partners. the school in order for this priority to be given • Adopted or fostered children to the child as failure to do so will result in the looked after child being ranked as a non- The children must be living permanently in the Catholic. same household. Note 3 Note 5 A “looked after child” has the same meaning The measurement between home and school as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989. It will be determined by the straight-line means any child who is (a) in the care of the measurement from the designated point of the local authority or (b) being provided with home address to the designated point of the accommodation by them in the exercise of school using a computerised system. their social services functions (e.g. children In a very small number of cases, where the with foster parents) at the time of making the school is oversubscribed, it may not be application to the school. possible to decide between the applications A “previously looked after child” is a child who of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a immediately moved on from that status after place when applying the published admission becoming subject to an adoption, child criteria. arrangement order or special guardianship For example, this may occur when children in order. the same year group live at the same address, For the purposes of this policy, a looked after or if the distance between the home and the child living with a family where at least one of school is exactly the same, for example, the carers is Catholic will be considered as blocks of flats. If there is no other way of Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of separating the application according to the his/her own Catholic Baptismal or Reception admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of certificate directly to the school in order for the children would cause the Published this priority to be given to the child as failure to Admission Number for the child’s year group do so will result in the looked after child being to be exceeded, the Governing Body will ranked as a non-Catholic. randomly select the child to be offered the final place. Note 4 For all applicants the definition of a brother or The governing body will, where possible, sister is: admit twins and all siblings from multiple births where one of the children is the last child • A brother or sister sharing the ranked within the school’s published same parents admission number. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two A child’s home address refers to the address children share one common parent where the child usually lives with a parent or • A stepbrother or stepsister, where two carer and will be the address provided in the children are related by a parents’ Local Authority’s Common Application Form.

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However, where parents have shared Upon receipt of the offer of a place, a parent responsibility for a child, and the child lives for should notify the school, as soon as possible, part of the week with each parent, the home that they wish to either defer their child’s entry address will be the address provided on the to the school or take up a part-time place. school’s Supplementary Information Form, The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls provided that the child resides at that address during the summer term who wishes to defer for any part of the school week. If no their child’s admission until the beginning of Supplementary Information Form is provided the following academic year (when the child then the address will be that provided on the will have begun to be of compulsory school Local Authority’s Common Application Form. age) will therefore need to make a separate in- Parents may be requested to supply year application for a place in Year 1 at the documentary evidence to satisfy the school. Any reception class place offered Governing Body that the child lives at the following an application made for the address put forward by the parents. 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn If a place in the school is offered based on an if the child does not take up that place by the address that is subsequently found to be first day of the summer term 2022. different from a child’s normal and permanent home address, then that place is liable to be Applications for children to be withdrawn. admitted into a class outside of their normal age group

School Entry Parents have the right to request, but not Parents must ensure, by law, that their child is insist, that their child be considered for receiving suitable full time education from the admission to a class outside of their normal beginning of the term following the child’s fifth age group. This could be the case, for birthday, when they will have begun to be of example, if a child is gifted and talented, has compulsory school age. experienced problems such as ill health, or Where a place is offered in the school, the that the child is summer born, i.e. a child born pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on between 1st April and 31st August. a full-time basis in the September following Parents who wish for their child to be their fourth birthday. considered for admission to a class outside of A child’s parents may defer the date at which their normal age group must make an their child, below compulsory school age, is application for the normal age group in the admitted to the school, until later in the school first instance. Parents must then submit a year but not beyond the point at which they formal request to the Governing Body for the reach compulsory school age and not beyond child to be considered for a different age the first day of the summer term 2022. group class instead. This request should be in the form of a written letter of application A child may take up a part-time place until outlining the reasons why they wish for their later in the school year, but not beyond the child to be considered to be admitted into a point at which the child reached compulsory class outside of their normal age group and school age.

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enclosing any supportive evidence and If parents are considering submitting an documentation that they wish to be taken into application for their child to be admitted into a account as part of that request. class outside of their normal age group, it is strongly recommended that they also read the The Governing Body will consider requests DFE guidance that can be found at: submitted for a child to be admitted into a www.gov.uk/government/publications/ class outside of their normal age group and summer-born-children-school-admission advise parents of the outcome of that request before national offer day, having taken into account the information provided by the Applications from children parents, the child’s best interests and the currently attending the Nursery views of the Head Teacher. class of Holy Trinity Catholic If the request is refused, the original Primary School application for the normal age group class will Attendance at Holy Trinity Catholic Primary progress through the Local Authority co- School’s Nursery does not automatically ordinated admissions scheme, be considered guarantee that a place will be offered in the by the Governing Body and the parents Reception class of Holy Trinity Catholic advised of the outcome. Primary School. Parents must apply for a If the request is agreed and the year group for Reception place in exactly the same way as which the parents have requested a place is a parents of children not attending the Nursery. current year group in the school, then the The Governing Body will consider all Governing Body will consider the application applications against the oversubscription and the parents advised of the outcome. criteria in the same way regardless of whether If the request is agreed and the year group for the child does or does not attend the Nursery which the parents have requested a place is at the time of application. for a future year group, i.e. Reception in Appeals September 2022, then the original application is withdrawn and the parents must submit a Parents who wish to appeal against the fresh application for Reception 2022 when decision of the Governing Body to refuse their applications open in the autumn term of 2021. child a place in the school should make that Please note that parents only have the right to appeal request in writing to the Chair of re-apply for a place. Where the Governing Governors at the school address. An Body agrees to consider an application for independent panel will hear appeals. Reception the following year, that application Please note that parents do not have the right is considered alongside all other applications to appeal if their request for their children to received and parents will be advised of the be admitted to a class outside of their normal outcome of that application on national offer year group has been refused, but the day. No place is reserved or held for the child Governing Body have offered a place in the in advance. normal age group instead.

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Repeat Applications Applications without written reasons for the Any parent can apply for a place for their child late application or received after the final at any time outside of the normal admissions date for late submissions will only be round. considered after all other applications and the notification may be sent shortly after the Parents do not have the right to a second national offer day. appeal in respect of the same school for the same academic year unless, in exceptional You are encouraged to ensure that your circumstances, the Governing Body has application is received on time. accepted a second application from the Change in Preference parent because of a significant and material change in the circumstances of the parent, Requests to change the preferences after an child or school, but have still refused application has been submitted must be admission. made in writing to the local authority. Parents may change their preference on their child’s Late Applications application up to the closing date of 15th Late applications will be dealt with in January 2021. accordance with the Local Authority’s co- Changes made after the closing date but ordinated admissions scheme. This states that before 11th February 2021 will be applications received after the closing date will incorporated into the initial allocation process be considered as late. Applications received if the request is for a good and valid reason, after the closing date and before the final date i.e. parents can demonstrate a material for late submissions with approved written change of circumstances, for example a evidence will only be incorporated into the change of address. initial allocation process if the later submission Any change in preferences made after 11th is for a valid reason or parents can February 2021 or where the parents cannot demonstrate a material change of demonstrate a material change of circumstances (see below). circumstances will be treated as a late When submitting late applications parents application and will only be considered after all must give reasons in writing and supporting applications that were received on time which documentary evidence for the late may affect a child’s chances of being offered a submission. The school will give consideration preferred school. to the reasons, following which the application will be: Waiting List Either In addition to their right to appeal, children 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and who have not been offered a place at Holy assessed against the over-subscription criteria Trinity Catholic Primary School but were offered a school that was ranked as a lower Or preference on their application form will be 2) considered only after all other applications added to a waiting list.

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The waiting list will be maintained until 31st Applications other than the December 2021 and will then be discarded. normal intake to Reception Class Parents may apply to Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School for their child’s name to (In-Year Admissions) remain on the waiting list until the end of the An application can be made for a place for a summer term 2022 when it will be discarded. child at any time outside the normal admission A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. round and the child will be admitted where When a new child joins the waiting list, all there are places available. applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked Applications should be made using to ensure that the list is always maintained in Wolverhampton Council’s admissions oversubscription criteria order. This means department application process via the local that a child’s position on the waiting list could authority’s website at go up or down during the time that it is on the www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. list. Any late applications accepted will be Where there are places available but more added to the waiting list in accordance with applications than places, the published the oversubscription criteria. oversubscription criteria, as set out for the Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean normal round of admissions, will be applied. that a place will eventually become available. It If there are no places available, the child will may be that those already offered places may be added to the waiting list (see above). accept them, thereby filling all available Parents will be advised of the outcome of their places. application in writing and, where the Children who are the subject of a direction by Governing Body’s decision is to refuse their the Local Authority to admit or who are child a place, have the right to appeal to an allocated to a school in accordance with the independent appeal panel. Fair Access Protocol take precedence over There is no charge or cost related to the those on a waiting list. admission of a child to this school. In Year Fair Access Protocol The Governing Body of Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the governing body is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Governing Body has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions.

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MANOR MULTI Admissions to Manor, ACADEMY TRUST East Park and Hill Ave Manor Multi Academy Trust is an Multi Reception Admissions Academy Trust of 7 schools and the Directors The admissions arrangements outline in this of the MAT are its admission authority. The section apply to children starting Reception Directors apply the regulations on admissions for the first time. The PAN for this year is fairly and equally to all those who wish to year group is 90 at Manor; 90 at East Park attend the school. All 7 schools will comply and 45 at Hill Avenue. The City of with the provisions within the Schools Wolverhampton Council (CWC) will co- Admissions Code and the School Appeals ordinate Admissions on behalf of Manor Multi Code available at Academy Trust and will follow CWC co- www.gov.uk/guidance/academy-admissions ordinated primary admissions scheme The School within the MAT are: available from Manor Primary; East Park Academy; Hill www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions Avenue Academy; Saint Thomas’ C of E The closing date for admissions for 2021 will Primary Academy; Saint Alban’s C of E be 15 January 2021. Allocations results will be Primary Academy; Foley Infant Academy and notified on 16 April 2021. Brindley Heath Junior Academy. All applicants must: All seven schools are inclusive schools that 1. Complete the Common Application Form welcomes children from all backgrounds and available from and returnable to their home abilities. The only restrictions we place on entry local authority: is number. If the number of children applying 2. In addition, applicants applying under exceeds the places available, we enforce the oversubscribed criteria relating to Children procedure set out below in order to determine whose parent/carer is a member of staff whether a child is accepted or not. It is our employed at the school must complete wish to allow parents the right to have the the Supplementary Information Forma and place at the school of their choice. However, return it direct to the School Admissions this is not always possible, due to the excess Team, City of Wolverhampton Council demand on the school places available. Parents who would like their child to be • Manor Primary School has a published admitted to this school during the year their admission number (PAN) of 90 child is five should ensure they complete all • Hill Avenue Academy has a published the necessary application forms. Admission to admission number (PAN) of 45 nursery does not mean automatic entry to the • East Park Academy has a published Primary school and a separate application admission number (PAN) of 90 must be made. • Saint Thomas’ C of E has a published In-Year Admissions admission number (PAN) of 30 The admissions arrangements outline in this • Saint Alban’s C of E has a published section apply to in-year admissions to CWC admission number (PAN) of 30 this and subsequent academic years.

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An In-year admission is any entry to school Where there are less applicants than the PAN, other than at the normal point in Reception, all children will be admitted unless they are for example, transferring school due to a offered their first preference. In the event the move of house or personal reasons. Requests school is oversubscribed, the admission for places in Reception after the normal round authority will apply the following of admissions or request for places in other oversubscription criteria in order of priority Year Groups should be made directly to CWC 1. Looked After Children and all previously (At this time, our schools School receive Looked After Children services from CWC) A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child who is in With the exception of a child with an (a)in the care of the local authority, or (b) Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or being provided with accommodation by a Statement of Special Educational Needs local authority in the exercise of the social (SEN), all applications must be considered services functions (see the definition in under the City of Wolverhampton Council’s Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at admission schemes. the time the application is made to school. Applications should be made via CWC at Previously looked after children are children www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions who were looked after, but ceased to be so following CWC local co-ordinated in-year because they were adopted (or became admissions in conjunction with Manor MAT subject to a child arrangements order or Schools Admission Policy special guardianship order); All applicants must: 2. Children with a sibling already attending 1. Complete the Common Application Form the school at the time of admission. available from and returnable to their home For admission purposes, a sibling is a child local authority: who resides permanently at the same 2. In addition, applicants applying under address as the child for whom a place is oversubscribed criteria relating to Children being requested, and is one of the following:- whose parent/carer is a member of staff • brother/sister employed at the school must complete • half brother/sister (i.e. share one the Supplementary Information Forma and common parent) return it direct to the School Admissions • or stepbrother/sister (i.e. related by a Team, City of Wolverhampton Council parent’s marriage) Admission Criteria for the schools • any other child for whom it can be in our MAT for Reception and demonstrated that s/he is residing permanently at the same address (e.g. In-year admissions under the terms of a residence order). A child with an Educational Health and Care The sibling connection only applies where Plan (EHCP) or Statement of Special the child concerned has a sibling attending Educational Needs (SEN) which names the the school at the time of the application as school will be admitted.

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well as at the time of admission, (i.e. for • leased to or rented by the child’s parent(s), normal year of entry applications siblings carer(s) or guardian(s) under lease or are expected to be attending the same written rental agreement. school in September 2021). A sibling Documentary evidence of ownership or connection will not be accepted if the rental agreement may be required together original place was obtained by using with proof of actual permanent residence at fraudulent or false information. the property concerned. 3. Children whose parent/carer is a Acceptable proof of address includes: member of staff employed at the school • copy of a council tax bill; for two or more years at the point at which the application for admission to the school • a copy of a recent utility bill (gas, electric, is made or where the member of staff is dated within the last six months); recruited to fill a vacant post for which • a solicitor’s letter stating that contracts there is a demonstrable skill shortage have been exchanged and specifying a evidence by completing the Supplementary completion date; Information Form • a copy of your Child Tax Credit or Working 4. Children who live closest to our schools Tax Credit award letter (if you receive either The distance from the applicant’s home of these benefits); and school is taken in a straight line • a signed and dated tenancy agreement. between our school (Hill Ave, Manor, and Where parents have shared responsibility for a East Park) and the child’s home address. child and the child lives with both parents for The distance is measured using the Local part of the week, then the main residence will Authority’s software, with those living be determined as the address where the child closest to the school receiving the lives for the majority of the school week. highest priority. If the child equally shares living with both Child’s Home Address parents, the parents must inform the City of Wolverhampton Council (and the home Local Parents are asked to provide their child’s home Authority if this is not the same) which address address, i.e. the usual place of residence on should be used for admission purposes and weekdays and nights. Please note that which parent will make the application. childminder’s addresses will not be accepted. Parents may be requested to supply This applies to both formal childminders and documentary evidence to support the address relatives or friends acting in a childminding used for the application. capacity. The home address of a pupil is considered to be the permanent residence of In the event that the family moves between a child in a residential property when the place the application and date of allocation, it is the is offered. The address must be the child’s parent’s responsibility to inform the City of only or main residence and is either: Wolverhampton Council School Admissions Team (and the home Local Authority if this is • owned by the child’s parent(s), carer(s) not the same) as soon as possible of these or guardian(s) circumstances.

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Admission Appeals Start Date In the event that an applicant is denied a There is a legal requirement that all children be place at the school, the parent/carer will have in full time education by the beginning of the the right to appeal to an Independent appeal term following their 5th birthday. Once a place panel. Information relating to this can be found has been allocated parent/carers can defer at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. the date their child is admitted to school until later in the school year but not beyond the Withdrawing Offer Places point at which they reach compulsory school Any allegations received by the admission age or, for children born between 1st April and authority of people providing false 31st August not beyond the beginning of the accommodation addresses when applying for final term of the final term of the school year school places shall be fully investigated and, if for which the offer was made. Deferred entry found to be true, allocated places may be should be arrange directly with Hill Ave, East withdrawn, as appropriate. Our schools have Park or Manor. If the child does not start at been advised by City of Wolverhampton the agreed date, the place may be revoked Council to ask parent/carer to provide proof of and may be reallocated to someone else residence (for example utility bill) before admitting a child. A child’s home address is Waiting Lists defined as the address at which a child If a place cannot be offered at the time of normally resides or, where the child lives at application, the child’s name will be placed on more than one address, the address at which a waiting list at the parent’s request. Those on the child lives for the majority of the time. the waiting list and late applicants will be Where the home address is unclear parents treated equally and placed on the same will be required to provide documentary proof waiting list. Waiting lists will be held in order of of the child’s residence. the published admission criteria. Multiple Births Parents and carers will be asked to confirm on We understand that parent/carers would like a termly basis their wish for their child to to keep twins, triples and other children of remain on the waiting list in order for the list to multiple births together.In the event that there be kept up to date. is an insufficient number of places to allocate Only complete this form if you are: to twins, triplets, etc. all children will be A member of staff employed by the school for allocated together. two or more years at the time at which the Response to Allocation application for admission to the school is made or a member of staff for or where the Parents/Carers must respond to an allocation member of staff is recruited top fill a vacant of a school place within 2 weeks of the post for which there is a shortage for which notification of the availability of a school place. there is a demonstrable shortage. Response should be made to the school you have been allocated a place. In the absence of a response, the offer may be revoked and the place may be allocated to someone else.

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Admissions to St Thomas’ C of E An In-year admission is any entry to school & St Albans C of E other than at the normal point in Reception, for example, transferring school due to a Reception Admissions move of house or personal reasons. Requests The admissions arrangements outline in this for places in Reception after the normal round section apply to children starting Reception of admissions or request for places in other for the first time in 2021/2022. The City of Year Groups should be made directly to Wolverhampton Council (CWC) will co- CWC(At this time, our schools School receive ordinate Admissions on behalf of Manor Multi services from CWC) Academy Trust and will follow CWC co- With the exception of a child with an ordinated primary admissions scheme Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or available from Statement of Special Educational Needs www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions The (SEN), all applications must be considered closing date for admissions will be 15 January under the City of Wolverhampton Council’s 2021. Allocations results will be notified on 16 admission schemes. April 2021. Applications should be made via CWC at All applicants must: www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions 1. Complete the Common Application Form following CWC’s local co-ordinated in-year available from and returnable to their home admissions in conjunction with Manor MAT local authority: Schools Admission Policy 2. In addition, applicants applying under All applicants must: oversubscribed criteria relating to Children 1. Complete the Common Application Form whose parent/carer is a member of staff available from and returnable to their home employed at the school must complete local authority: the Supplementary Information Forma and 2. In addition, applicants applying under return it direct to the School Admissions oversubscribed criteria relating to Children Team, City of Wolverhampton Council. whose parent/carer is a member of staff Parents who would like their child to be employed at the school must complete the admitted to this school during the year their Supplementary Information Forma and child is five should ensure they complete all return it direct to the School Admissions the necessary application forms. Admission to Team, Wolverhampton City Council nursery does not mean automatic entry to the Primary school and a separate application Admission Criteria for must be made. The schools in our MAT for Reception and In-year admissions In-Year Admissions A child with an Educational Health and Care The admissions arrangements outlined in this Plan (EHCP) or Statement of Special section apply to in-year admissions to the City Educational Needs (SEN) which names the of Wolverhampton Council this and school will be admitted. subsequent academic years.

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Where there are less applicants than the PAN, normal year of entry applications siblings all children will be admitted unless they are are expected to be attending the same offered their first preference. In the event the school in September 2021). A sibling school is oversubscribed, the admission connection will not be accepted if the authority will apply the following original place was obtained by using oversubscription criteria in order of priority fraudulent or false information. 1. Looked After Children and all previously 3. Children whose parent/carer is a Looked After Children member of staff employed at the school A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child who is in for two or more years at the point at which (a)in the care of the local authority, or (b) the application for admission to the school being provided with accommodation by a is made or where the member of staff is local authority in the exercise of the social recruited to fill a vacant post for which services functions (see the definition in there is a demonstrable skill shortage Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at evidence by completing the Supplementary the time the application is made to school. Information Form Previously looked after children are children 4. Religious Reasons To a child and family who were looked after, but ceased to be so who has religious reasons for attending the because they were adopted (or became preferred voluntary controlled school and for subject to a child arrangements order or whom it can be demonstrated by the faith special guardianship order); leader that s/he has current strong religious 2. Children with a sibling already attending connections. This reason will only be taken the school at the time of admission. into consideration if the preferred school is For admission purposes, a sibling is a child the nearest Church of England (voluntary who resides permanently at the same controlled or voluntary aided)school to the address as the child for whom a place is child’s home address (measured by a being requested, and is one of the straight line from the home address to the following:- school using the Local Authority’s software). • brother/sister Supporting Evidence • half brother/sister (i.e. share one A Supplementary Information form is common parent) provided for parents and their faith leader • or stepbrother/sister (i.e. related by a to complete, to enable them to parent’s marriage) demonstrate their child and family’s current • any other child for whom it can be strong religious connections. demonstrated that s/he is residing Parents should be aware that where a permanently at the same address (e.g. Supplementary Information Form is under the terms of a residence order). completed it will not be regarded as a valid The sibling connection only applies where application unless the home LA has also the child concerned has a sibling attending received a completed application showing the school at the time of the application as an expressed preference for the school well as at the time of admission, (i.e. for concerned.

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5. Children who live closest to our schools • a copy of your Child Tax Credit or Working The distance from the applicant’s home Tax Credit award letter (if you receive either and school is taken in a straight line of these benefits); between our school and the child’s home • a signed and dated tenancy agreement. address. The distance is measured using the Local Authority’s software, with those Where parents have shared responsibility for a living closest to the school receiving the child and the child lives with both parents for highest priority. part of the week, then the main residence will be determined as the address where the child Child’s Home Address lives for the majority of the school week. Parents are asked to provide their child’s If the child equally shares living with both home address, i.e. the usual place of parents, the parents must inform the City of residence on weekdays and nights. Please Wolverhampton Council (and the home Local note that childminder’s addresses will not be Authority if this is not the same) which address accepted. This applies to both formal should be used for admission purposes and childminders and relatives or friends acting in which parent will make the application. a childminding capacity. The home address of Parents may be requested to supply a pupil is considered to be the permanent documentary evidence to support the address residence of a child in a residential property used for the application. when the place is offered. The address must be the child’s only or main residence and is In the event that the family moves between either: the application and date of allocation, it is the parent’s responsibility to inform the City of • owned by the child’s parent(s), carer(s) Wolverhampton Council School Admissions or guardian(s) Team (and the home Local Authority if this is • leased to or rented by the child’s parent(s), not the same) as soon as possible of these carer(s) or guardian(s) under lease or circumstances. written rental agreement. Admission Appeals Documentary evidence of ownership or rental agreement may be required together In the event that an applicant is denied a with proof of actual permanent residence at place at the school, the parent/carer will have the property concerned. the right to appeal to an Independent appeal panel. Information relating to this can be found Acceptable proof of address includes: at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. • copy of a council tax bill; • a copy of a recent utility bill (gas, electric, Withdrawing Offer Places dated within the last six months); Any allegations received by the admission authority of people providing false • a solicitor’s letter stating that contracts accommodation addresses when applying for have been exchanged and specifying a school places shall be fully investigated and, if completion date; found to be true, allocated places may be

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withdrawn, as appropriate. Our schools have for which the offer was made. Deferred entry been advised by City of Wolverhampton should be arrange directly with the school. If Council to ask parent/carer to provide proof of the child does not start at the agreed date, residence (for example utility bill) before the place may be revoked and may be admitting a child. A child’s home address is reallocated to someone else defined as the address at which a child normally resides or, where the child lives at Waiting Lists more than one address, the address at which If a place cannot be offered at the time of the child lives for the majority of the time. application, the child’s name will be placed on Where the home address is unclear parents a waiting list at the parent’s request. Those on will be required to provide documentary proof the waiting list and late applicants will be of the child’s residence. treated equally and placed on the same waiting list. Waiting lists will be held in order of Multiple Births the published admission criteria. We understand that parent/carers would like Parents and carers will be asked to confirm on to keep twins, triples and other children of a termly basis their wish for their child to multiple births together.In the event that there remain on the waiting list in order for the list to is an insufficient number of places to allocate be kept up to date. to twins, triplets, etc. all children will be allocated together.

Response to Allocation Parents/Carers must respond to an allocation of a school place within 2 weeks of the notification of the availability of a school place. Response should be made to the school you have been allocated a place. In the absence of a response, the offer may be revoked and the place may be allocated to someone else

Start Date There is a legal requirement that all children be in full time education by the beginning of the term following their 5th birthday. Once a place has been allocated parent/carers can defer the date their child is admitted to school until later in the school year but not beyond the point at which they reach compulsory school age or, for children born between 1st April and 31st August not beyond the beginning of the final term of the final term of the school year

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NISHKAM PRIMARY SCHOOL Faith Inspired - learning from WOLVERHAMPTON the wisdom of religions The Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton At Nishkam Schools. our pupils explore the (NPSW) is an exceptional new state funded divine context of humanity and wonder of all Independent school. It is a non-selective creation. They not only learn about, but also inclusive school for both boys and girls aged learn from, the wisdom of religions and in so 4 - 11. NPSW is a Sikh ethos multi-faith doing explore the infinite human potential to school open to all. The School is a member of do good unconditionally. We support pupils to the multi-academy trust of schools known as develop aspects of their own religious, the Nishkam School Trust (NST). spiritual or human identities. They learn about serenity through prayer and humility in service NST School Vision and in so doing, they deepen their own To empower children with values to enable respective faith, and respect the common them to excel academically and spiritually, purpose of all religious traditions, as well as enabling them to serve humanity selflessly respecting the beliefs of those with no faith (Nishkam) with an abundance of love, tradition. They explore the unique divinity of compassion and forgiveness. the individual, and our common humanity. Pupils are enabled to commit to and practise Sikh ethos their faith/belief through knowledge, and Encourages pupils to practice their own faith experiential learning. Commitment in faith whilst learning about major world religions maybe demonstrated by pupils through faith and supporting others to practice their initiation (eg Baptism/Amritdhari) and regular respective faiths. faith practice (prayer, service and understanding elements of scripture). Multi-faith approach Encourages and supports pupils of all faiths Virtues Led- nurturing and none in a context of shared values. compassionate, responsible At NPSW we believe that all pupils can human beings succeed when given outstanding teaching, At Nishkam Schools. we believe that the pastoral care and family support. We offer fostering of human virtues forms the academic excellence with faith inspired foundation of all goodness. Our curricula are values. The overall Nishkam approach to carefully enriched to allow experiences where education can be summarised as: our pupils, teachers and parents alike learn to “More than Academic Excellence, More than grow through a conscious focus on virtues. a School, More than Self”. Our virtues-led education approach helps to provide guidance to enable pupils to understand their choices in order to help lead better lives. Our pupils become self-reflective and flourish: they are able to build strong. meaningful relationships and understand their

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responsibilities to the global family and al • All applicants must apply to the Local creation founded in faith. Authority in which they live by completing the Reception Common Application Form Aspiring for Excellence - (R-CAF) - also known as the Local in all that we do Authority Preference Form (LAPF). At Nishkam Schools, our pupils and staff alike • Applicants applying for any faith place am to become the best human beings they must also complete the Supplementary can possibly be, in all aspects of spiritual, Information Form (SIF) and return it to social and academic life. We foster a school the school. culture which inspires optimism and hope, as The appropriate form/s must be received on well as determination and confidence. for all to time by the local authority and school achieve their best possible. This is respectively. Late applications will be accomplished through a rich and challenging considered as ‘In-Year Application’. curriculum. along with excellent teaching to nurture awe and wonder. Full details and key dates are provided by each local authority. Many LAs only accept Pupils gain a breadth and depth of knowledge online applications. It’s important to and a love of learning to achieve their full understand your LAs admissions guidance, potential. which is available on their website (for example: www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/ Background admissions) and in Council Offices. Applications are welcome from pupils of all faiths and none. Offers will be made according How to make an to the over-subscription criteria set out below. In-Year application The Sikh Dharam (faith, religion) is emphatic Applications made outside the normal about respecting all religions and beliefs, and admissions round (called “In-Year does not seek to convert others. admissions”) must be sent directly to the School. The local authority will provide an ‘In- The School has a strong Sikh ethos multi-faith Year’ application form on request, the approach, promoting respect for all religions completed application form must be returned and faiths. Further details of the School’s to the school, not to the local authority. ethos and values are available on the School web-site: www.NishkamSchoolTrust.org Applicants applying for any faith place must also complete the Supplementary Information Overview of Admissions Process Form (SIF) and return it to the school. How to apply for Reception Class If a place is available and there is no waiting in September 2021 list then the School will admit the new applicant. If more applications are received The NPSW admissions process is than there are places available then all administered through the Wolverhampton City applications on the waiting list will be ranked in Council “Local Authority Co-ordinated accordance with the over subscription criteria. Admissions Scheme.”

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Children with a statement of iii. Children of staff – applying for a Special Educational Needs faith place. Any child with a Statement of Special Remaining Faith-based places will be Educational Needs or a Health, Education and allocated in the following order. Care Plan is required to be admitted to the i. Child (and/or parent/s or guardian/s) is/are school that is named in the Statement. This Amritdhari (formally initiated) Sikhs. gives such children overall priority for admission to the named school. This is not an ii. Keshdhari Sikh child (has uncut hair). over-subscription criterion. iii. Child (and/or parent/s or guardian/s) is/are baptised (or formally initiated) in their Over subscription respective religion. Where the number of applications received is All applicants applying under the Faith equal to or fewer than the published category will need to provide confirmation of admissions number, all applicants will be religious initiation or practice by completing offered a place without being ranked. the Supplementary Information Form (SIF) and Where the number of applications is greater ensuring sections B or C are countersigned by than the published admission number, all an appropriate religious official or authorised applications will be ranked using the over signatory from an appropriate place of subscription criteria set out below. worship. The SIF can be obtained from the All applicants for the Faith category who are school or the school website. not offered a place under that category will Category 2 – Open Places automatically be considered within the open category according to the over subscription Open place applicants will be ranked in the criteria for that category. following order. Priority Open places Over subscription Criteria i. Looked After or Previously Looked After Where the number of applicants is greater Children. than the published admission number, up to 50% of places will be offered to each of the ii. Siblings. following categories. iii. Children of staff. Category 1 – Faith Places All other open place applicants will be Faith applicants will be ranked in the following ranked by proximity to the School using the order. distance data supplied by the Local Authority. Priority Faith-based places Under-subscription and over- i. Looked After or Previously Looked-After subscription within a category Children – applying for a faith place. The following process will be followed when ii. Siblings – applying for a faith place. the ‘faith’ and/or ‘open’ place categories are undersubscribed or oversubscribed.

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a. Undersubscription within a category www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/article/2541/Sch If the school is undersubscribed within a ool-admission-appeals category, additional offers will be made to Summary of compulsory children from the other category until the admission number of 60 is met or all school age and options for applicants have been offered a place. starting school. b. Oversubscription within a category All parents must apply to enter the Reception or sub-category Class in September after the child’s fourth birthday. Although most children start school Where the number of applications is at this age the School Admissions Code greater than the admission number, all provides some flexibility for parents who feel applications will be ranked using the their child is not ready to start school in oversubscription criteria set out above. September following their fourth birthday. Thereafter, all other applications will be However, all children must start school when ranked using proximity to the school they have reached compulsory school age based on the distance data provided by after their fifth birthday. The options and Wolverhampton Local Authority. procedures for deferring or delaying admission are summarised below. Tie break After receiving an offer to start school full time If a tie-break is necessary due to applicants from the September after a child’s fourth living equidistant from the school, the relevant birthday parents may then write to the Head applicants will be ranked using a teacher to request to defer or delay the start, computerised random number generator or to request to start on a part-time basis. The procedure. criteria and procedure for the various options Waiting list are given below. The school will maintain a waiting list in the Deferring entry to Reception year of transfer until the end of the first Year - options. academic term of the year. Places will be allocated using the over-subscription criteria. Option 1: When a new child is added the list to be Defer starting Reception Year up until the child ranked again in line with the over-subscription reaches compulsory school age (the first day criteria. of term following the child’s fifth birthday). After a school place has been is offered Appeals parents will need to write to the Head teacher Appeals against a decision not to offer your to arrange the deferred start date. The school child a school place are administered by the place will then be held until the first day of the School Admissions and Appeals Team, spring or summer term as appropriate. Wolverhampton City Council. Details about Option 2: making an appeal are available on the Start part time until the child reaches following link: compulsory school age. After a school place

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has been offered parents will need to write to parents do not have the right to insist that the Head teacher to request a part time start. their child is admitted late. Each application The Head teacher will plan how to fit the part will be considered on its own merits by the time admission into the organisation of the School and the decision confirmed to the school. parents. Option 3: A statutory right of appeal will be given upon Defer entry until after the compulsory school refusal if no place has been offered in any age, so as to start school in September after school year. the fifth birthday. Once a school place has been offered parents will need to write to the Definitions Head teacher to request the deferred start 1. “A Looked After Child is a child who is in date. However, the school place would not be the care of a local authority or is being held open for them for a whole year. Parents provided with accommodation by a local would need to make a new application for a authority as set out in s22(1) of the place in the following September’s intake. This Children Act 1989. A Previously Looked would be for a Year One place, because their After Child is a child who immediately after child would have missed the Reception Year. being looked after became subject to an If such parents believe that their child should adoption, special guardianship or child start in the Reception Year instead, a year arrangements order. later than the child was due to start, this is In the case of previously looked after called a delayed start. The procedure for children, admission authorities may requesting a delayed start is described in the request a copy of the adoption order, child section below. arrangements order or special guardianship order and a letter from the Delaying Reception Year a local authority that last looked after the admission or educating children child confirming that he or she was looked outside their chronological after immediately prior to that order being age group made. Parents may request that their child is held 2. “Sibling”. Where a child has a back from joining the correct year group for brother/sister, half brother/sister (where the their age and start Reception class a year children share one common parent), step later. brother/step sister or fostered/adopted sibling living at the same home address Such parents should still apply for a school (i.e. the genuine principal place of place for the September following their child’s residence where they normally and fourth birthday. After receiving an offer of a regularly live) and who will be still attending school place parents would request their child Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton to be educated outside their normal age in September 2020. group and be admitted to the Reception Class a year later. Parents would need to outline the 3. ’Staff’. Children of staff who have been reasons for making the request. However, employed at the school or Nishkam

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School Trust for at least two years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, or a member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. 4. Amritdhari (formally initiated) Sikh is defined in these arrangements as those who have undergone the Khanda-ki-Pahul Amrit Sanchar initiation. 5. ‘Compulsory school age’ is reached on the first day of term after a child’s fifth birthday (or on the child’s fifth birthday if it falls on the first day of term). * A Supplementary Information Form is used by the Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton.

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PERRY HALL MULTI Reception Admissions ACADEMY TRUST The admissions arrangements outlined in this section apply to children starting Reception Perry Hall Multi Academy Trust (PHMAT) is a for the first time in 2021 / 2022. The Multi Academy Trust (MAT) of 6 schools and admissions process for Perry Hall, Berrybrook, the Trustees of the MAT are its admission Dunstall Hill and Woodthorne are part of the authority. The Trustees apply the regulations Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated on admissions fairly and equally to all those admissions scheme. who wish to attend the school. All 6 schools will comply with the provisions within the The closing date for admissions will be 23:59 Schools Admissions Code and the School on 15 January 2021. Allocations results will be Appeals Code available at notified on 16 April 2021 by the applicants’ https://www.gov.uk/guidance/academy- home Local Authority (LA). admissions All applicants must: The Schools within the MAT are: Perry Hall 1. Complete the Common Application Form Primary, Berrybrook Primary, Dunstall Hill by applying online to the Local Authority Primary, Birds Bush Primary, Woodthorne where they reside: Primary and Stanley Road Primary. 2. In addition, applicants applying under the All 6 schools are inclusive, that welcome oversubscription criteria relating to children from all backgrounds and abilities. children whose parent/carer is a The only restriction we place on entry is member of staff employed at the school number. If the number of children applying must complete the Supplementary exceeds the places available, we enforce the Information Form and return it direct to the procedure set out below in order to determine School Admissions Team, City of whether a child is accepted or not. It is our Wolverhampton Council wish to allow parents the right to have the place at the school of their choice. However, Parents who would like their child to be this is not always possible, due to the excess admitted to this school during the year their demand on the school places available. child is five should ensure they complete all the necessary application forms. For Reception 2021/22: Admission to nursery does not mean Perry Hall Primary School has a published automatic entry to the Primary school and a admission number (PAN) of 60 separate application must be made. Berrybrook Primary School has a published Admission Criteria for the schools admission number (PAN) of 30 in PHMAT for Reception and Dunstall Hill Primary School has a published In-Year admissions admission number (PAN) of 60 A child with an Education, Health and Care Woodthorne Primary School has a published Plan (EHCP) which names the school will be admission number (PAN) of 60 admitted. Remaining places are allocated as detailed below.

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Where there are fewer applicants than the 2. Medical/Social PAN, all children will be offered a place. In the Whether there are specific medical or event the school is oversubscribed, the social circumstances that can be met only admission authority will apply the following by the child’s attendance at the preferred oversubscription criteria in order of priority school. 1. Looked After Children and all Supporting Evidence previously Looked After Children If parents believe there are specific A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child who is in reasons, medical or social, for claiming (a)in the care of the local authority, or (b) priority for their child to attend a particular being provided with accommodation by a school these special factors must be local authority in the exercise of the social indicated on the form and evidence (e.g. a services functions (see the definition in letter from a registered health professional Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at such as a doctor or a social worker) to the time the application is made to school. support this claim must be submitted with Previously looked after children are the common application form. The children who were looked after, but ceased information submitted must state clearly to be so because they were adopted (or the effects of the condition/illness and why became subject to a child arrangements the preferred school is the only school that order or special guardianship order); can meet their child’s needs. This is necessary because parents would be Supporting Evidence asking the Authority to assess their child If the child is in the care of a local authority as having a stronger case than many other or provided with accommodation by that children, even some who live closer to the authority this must be indicated on the school in question than they do. The common application form and evidence information provided will be used to (e.g. evidence of child in care from the prioritise the request for the school. Please placement authority) to support this claim note that only in exceptional cases are must be submitted with the common places prioritised in respect of a application form. If the child has previously child’s/parent’s medical/social grounds. been in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation by them 3. Children with a sibling already and has subsequently been adopted, or is attending the school at the time subject to a child arrangements order or of admission. special guardianship order this must be For admission purposes, a sibling is a child indicated on the common application form who resides permanently at the same and evidence (e.g. adoption address as the child for whom a place is certificate/copy of court order) to support being requested, and is one of the following: this claim must be submitted with the • brother/sister common application form. • half brother/sister (i.e. share one common parent)

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• or stepbrother/sister (i.e. related by a measured using the CWC software, with parent’s marriage) those living closest to the school receiving the highest priority. If there are a limited • any other child for whom it can be number of spaces available and we cannot demonstrated that s/he is residing distinguish between applicants using the permanently at the same address (e.g. above criteria, children who live in the under the terms of a residence order). same block of flats will be offered the The sibling connection only applies where available spaces randomly selected by the child concerned has a sibling attending drawing lots. the school at the time of the application as well as at the time of admission, (i.e. for Home Address normal year of entry applications siblings Parents are asked to provide their child’s are expected to be attending the same home address, i.e. the usual place of school in September 2021). A sibling residence on weekdays and nights. Please connection will not be accepted if the note that childminder’s addresses will not be original place was obtained by using accepted. This applies to both formal fraudulent or false information. childminders and relatives and friends acting 4. Children whose parent/carer is a in a childminding capacity. member of staff* employed at the The home address of a pupil is considered to school for two or more years at the point be the permanent residence of a child in a at which the application for admission to residential property when the place is offered. the school is made or where the member The address must be the child’s only or main of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for residence and is either: which there is a demonstrable skill shortage evidence by completing the • Owned by the child’s parent(s), carer(s) Supplementary Information Form (SIF). or guardian(s) • Leased to or rented by the child’s * Member of staff is defined as any parent(s), carer(s) or guardian(s) under member of staff employed at any school lease or written rental agreement. within Perry Hall Multi Academy Trust Documentary evidence of ownership or rental Parents should be aware that where the agreement may be required together with SIF is completed it will not be regarded as proof of actual permanent residence at the a valid application unless the home Local property concerned. Authority has also received a completed application showing an expressed Acceptable proof of address includes: preference for the school(s) concerned. • A copy of a council tax bill; 5. Children who live closest to our schools • A copy of a recent utility bill (gas, electric, The distance from the applicant’s home dated within the last six months); and school is taken in a straight line • A solicitor’s letter stating that contracts between the respective school and the have been exchanged and specifying a child’s home address. The distance is completion date;

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• A copy of your Child Tax Credit or Working to school until the September following their Tax Credit award letter (if you receive either fifth birthday and may request that they are of these benefits); admitted out of their normal age group – to • A signed and dated tenancy agreement. reception rather than year 1. Any parent wishing to make such a request must put the Where parents have shared responsibility for request in writing to the Admissions and the child and the child lives with both parents Appeals section at CWC no later than 15 for part of the week then the main residence January 2021. will be determined as the address where the child lives for the majority of the school week. This request should be in the form of a written If the child equally shares living with both letter of application outlining the reasons why parents, the parents must inform the City of they wish for their child to be admitted into a Wolverhampton Council (and the home Local class outside of their normal age group and Authority if this is not the same) which address enclosing any supportive evidence and should be used for admission purposes and documentation that they wish to be taken into which parent will make the application. account as part of that request. Parents will be requested to supply Requests will be considered on an individual documentary evidence to support the address basis and decisions will be reached by taking used for the application. account of the parent’s views; information In the event that the family moves between about the child’s academic, social and the application and date of allocation, it is the emotional development; where relevant, their parent’s responsibility to inform the City of medical history and the views of a medical Wolverhampton Council School Admissions professional; whether they have previously Team (and the home Local Authority if this is been educated out of their normal age group; not the same) as soon as possible of these and whether they may naturally have fallen circumstances. into a lower age group if it were not for being born prematurely. The view of the head Additional Arrangements teacher of the school concerned will also be sought as part of the decision-making and Information process. Applications for children to be If the request is agreed and the year group for admitted outside their normal which the parents have requested a place is age group for a future year group, i.e. Reception in Parents who wish for their child to be September 2022, then the original application considered for admission to a class outside of is withdrawn and the parents must submit a their normal age group must make an fresh application for Reception 2022 when application for the normal age group in the applications open in the autumn term of 2021. first instance by 15 January 2021. Please note that parents only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where the decision is to This will include Parents of a “summer born agree the request for an application in child” that may choose not to send that child Reception the following year, that application

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is considered alongside all other applications submission. The appropriate admission received and parents will be advised of the authority will give consideration to the outcome of that application on national offer reasons, following which the application will day. No place is reserved or held for the child be: in advance. Either Before any application is submitted it is 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and strongly recommended that parents/carers assessed against the over-subscription criteria also read the DFE guidance which can be for the school(s) concerned found at: Or www.gov.uk/government/publications/ 2) considered only after all other applications. summer-born-children-school-admission Applications without written reasons for the Deferred Entry late application or received after the final date A child’s parents may defer the date at which for late submissions will only be considered their child, below compulsory school age, is after all other applications and the notification admitted to the school, until later in the school may be sent shortly after the national offer year but not beyond the point at which they day. reach compulsory school age and not beyond the first day of the summer term 2021. A child Material Changes of may take up a part-time place until later in the Circumstance school year, but not beyond the point at which In claiming material changes of the child reached compulsory school age. circumstances, the applicant, at the time of Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent application, must supply documentary should notify the school, as soon as possible, evidence to confirm the changes. An example that they wish to either defer their child’s entry of material changes of circumstances is a to the school or take up a part-time place. house move that necessitates a change of preferences. This would need to be validated Late Applications by documentary evidence such as a solicitor’s Applications received after the closing date letter confirming the completion of a house will be treated as late. purchase or rent book confirming tenancy. An Applications received after the closing date impending change of circumstances should and before the final date for late submissions not delay the submission of the preference (11 February) with approved written evidence form. will only be incorporated into the initial If applicants’ circumstances change during allocation process if the late submission is for the course of making the application that a valid reason or parents can demonstrate a relate to any of the published criteria it is the material change of circumstances (see below). applicant’s responsibility to provide evidence When submitting late applications parents to the City of Wolverhampton’s Admissions must give reasons in writing and supporting and Appeals Team as this may affect the documentary evidence for the late outcome of the application.

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Special Educational Needs of a school place within 2 weeks of the The admission of children with an Education notification of the availability of a school place. and Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be agreed Response should be made to the school you between the home Local Authority's SEN have been allocated a place. In the absence Statutory Assessment and Review Team, of a response, the offer may be revoked and parents and school in accordance with the place may be allocated to someone else parental preference, as far as possible, and Waiting Lists the child's individual needs. Children an EHCP are given overall priority to the named school. If a place cannot be offered at the time of This will reduce the number of places at the application, the child’s name will be placed on school, which are available for allocation in a waiting list. Unless offered a higher accordance with the above criteria. preference school. Those on the waiting list and late applicants will be treated equally and Tie Breaker for Oversubscription placed on the same waiting list. Waiting lists If there are an insufficient number of places to will be held in order of the published accommodate all the children of a particular admission criteria. criterion, the next criterion will be used to The Admitting Authority will maintain the assess the applications concerned in order to waiting list until 31 December 2021. prioritise applications. Parents and carers will be asked to confirm on In Year Fair Access Protocol a termly basis their wish for their child to remain on the waiting list in order for the list to The Trustees of PHMAT are committed to be kept up to date. taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in In-Year Admissions locally agreed protocols. The admissions arrangements outlined in this Children who are the subject of a direction by section apply to in-year admissions for this the Local Authority to admit or who are and subsequent academic years. allocated to a school in accordance with the An In-year admission is any entry to school Fair Access Protocol take precedence over other than at the normal point in Reception, those on a waiting list. for example, transferring school due to a Multiple Births move of house or personal reasons. With the exception of a child with an Education, Health We understand that parent/carers would like and Care Plan (EHCP) requests for places in to keep twins, triples and other children of Reception after the normal round of multiple births together. In the event that there admissions or request for places in other Year is an insufficient number of places to allocate Groups should be made directly to CWC at to twins, triplets, etc. all children will be www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions allocated together.

Response to Allocation Parents/Carers must respond to an allocation

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All applicants must: 1. Complete the In Year Transfer Form: 2. In addition, applicants applying under oversubscribed criteria relating to children whose parent/carer is a member of staff employed at the school must complete the Supplementary Information Form and return it direct to the School Admissions Team, CWC

Admission Appeals In the event that an applicant is denied a place at the school, the parent/carer will have the right to appeal to an Independent appeal panel. Information relating to this can be found at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. Fraudulent or Misleading Applications The CWC will follow up any reports they receive that allege that a fraudulent or misleading application has been made.

Withdrawing Offer Places Any allegations received by the admission authority of people providing false accommodation addresses when applying for school places shall be fully investigated and, if found to be true, allocated places may be withdrawn, as appropriate.

Financial Implications There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to Perry Multi-Academy Trust.

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SS MARY & JOHN’S CATHOLIC responsibility for a child and any person who PRIMARY ACADEMY has care of a child. SS. Mary and John’s Catholic Primary The ethos of this school is Catholic. The Academy and Nursery is part of the St Francis school was founded by the Catholic Church to and St Clare Catholic MAC. The admissions provide education for children of Catholic authority for the school is the Board of families. Whenever there are more Directors of the St Francis and St Clare applications than places available, priority will Catholic MAC who has responsibility for be given to Catholic children in accordance admissions to this school. The Board of with the oversubscription criteria listed below. Directors has delegated responsibility for the The school is conducted by its Board of administration of the admissions process to Directors as part of the Catholic Church in the Local Governing Body of SS. Mary and accordance with its Articles of Association John’s Catholic Primary Academy and and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Nursery. Lord Jesus Christ. The admissions process for SS. Mary and As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a John’s Catholic Primary Academy and Nursery Catholic education for all our pupils. At a is part of the Wolverhampton Local Authority Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and co-ordinated admissions scheme. To apply practice permeate every aspect of the for a place at SS. Mary and John’s Catholic school’s activity. It is essential that the Primary Academy, in the normal admissions Catholic character of the school’s education round, an application must be made using the be fully supported by all families in the school. school admission application process of the We therefore hope that all parents will give local authority in which you live naming SS. their full, unreserved and positive support for Mary and John’s Catholic Primary Academy the aims and ethos of the school. This does on the application form. Applications need to not affect the right of an applicant who is not be made by 15th January 2021. A Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must place at the school in accordance with the also be completed and returned directly to the admission arrangements. school by the same date (see Note 2). The Board of Directors is the admissions All applications which are submitted on time authority and has responsibility for admissions will be considered at the same time, after the to this school. The Board of Directors has set closing date. its admission number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the Reception class in the school You will be advised of the outcome of your year which begins in September 2021 application on 16th April 2021, or the next (see Note 1). working day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places Please note that throughout this policy, the will be offered according to the following order term parent means all natural parents, any of priority. If there is oversubscription within a person who is not a parent but has parental category, the Board of Directors will give

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priority to children living closest to the school Mary and John’s Catholic Primary determined by the shortest distance Academy at the time of admission. (see Note 5). 8. Non-Catholic children. For the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese Note 1 of Birmingham parish boundary map which Children with an Education, Health and Care can be accessed at (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boun admitted. This will reduce the number of dary-map and will be applied to the admission places available to applicants. This is not an arrangements for the academic year oversubscription criteria. 2021/2022. Note 2 Oversubscription Criteria In all categories, for a child to be considered as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Reception into the Church will be required. who are looked after or previously looked For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see after (see Note 3). Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) difficulties in producing written evidence of living in the parish of SS. Mary and John’s, Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Snow Hill, Wolverhampton who have a Church should contact their Parish Priest. brother or sister (see Note 4) attending SS. Parents making an application for a Catholic Mary and John’s Catholic Primary child should also complete a Supplementary Academy at the time of admission. Information Form (SIF) which should be 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) returned directly to the school. If you do living in the parish of SS. Mary and John’s, not provide the information required in the Snow Hill, Wolverhampton. Supplementary Information Form and return it by the closing date, together with all 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see supporting documentation, this is likely to Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see affect the criteria that your child is placed into, Note 4) attending SS. Mary and John’s which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Catholic Primary Academy at the time of being offered a place at this school. admission. For the purposes of this policy, a looked after 5. Other Baptised Catholic children child living with a family where at least one of (see Note 2). the carers is Catholic will be considered as 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of after or previously looked after their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception (see Note 3). certificate directly to the school in order for this priority to be given to the child as failure to 7. Non-Catholic children who have a do so will result in the looked after child being brother or sister (see Note 4) attending SS. ranked as a non-Catholic.

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Note 3 Note 5 A “looked after child” has the same meaning The measurement between home and school as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, will be determined by the straight-line and means any child who is (a) in the care of measurement from the designated point of the the local authority or (b) being provided with home address to the designated point of the accommodation by them in the exercise of school using a computerised system. their social services functions (eg children with In a very small number of cases, where the foster parents) at the time of making the school is oversubscribed, it may not be application to the school. A “previously possible to decide between the applications looked after child” is a child who immediately of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a moved on from that status after becoming place when applying the published admission subject to an adoption, child arrangement criteria. order or special guardianship order. For example, this may occur when children in For the purposes of this policy, a looked after the same year group live at the same address, child living with a family where at least one of or if the distance between the home and the the carers is Catholic will be considered as school is exactly the same, for example, Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of blocks of flats. If there is no other way of their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception separating the application according to the certificate directly to the school in order for admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of this priority to be given to the child as failure to the children would cause the Published do so will result in the looked after child being Admission Number for the child’s year group ranked as a non-Catholic. to be exceeded, the Board of Directors will randomly select the child to be offered the Note 4 final place. For all applicants the definition of a brother or The Board of Directors will, where possible, sister is: admit twins and all siblings from multiple births • A brother or sister sharing the same where one of the children is the last child parents ranked within the school’s published admission number. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children share one common parent A child’s home address refers to the address where the child usually lives with a parent or • A step-brother or step-sister, where two carer and will be the address provided in the children are related by a parents’ marriage Local Authority’s Common Application Form. or where they are unrelated but their parents are living as partners. However, where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives for • Adopted or fostered children part of the week with each parent, the home The children must be living permanently in the address will be the address provided on the same household. school’s Supplementary Information Form, provided that the child resides at that address

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for any part of the school week. If no reach compulsory school age and not beyond Supplementary Information Form is provided the first day of the summer term 2022. then the address will be that provided on the A child may take up a part-time place until Local Authority’s Common Application Form. later in the school year, but not beyond the Parents may be requested to supply point at which the child reached compulsory documentary evidence to satisfy the school age. Governing Body that the child lives at the Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent address put forward by the parents. should notify the school, as soon as possible, Where parents have shared responsibility for a that they wish to either defer their child’s entry child, and the child lives for part of the week to the school or take up a part-time place. with each parent, the home address will be The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls the address provided in the Local Authority’s during the summer term who wishes to defer Common Application Form, provided that the their child’s admission until the beginning of child resides at that address for any part of the following academic year (when the child the school week. will have begun to be of compulsory school Parents may be requested to supply age) will therefore need to make a separate in- documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of year application for a place in Year 1 at the Directors that the child lives at the address put school. Any reception class place offered forward by the parents. following an application made for the If a place in the school is offered on the basis 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn of an address that is subsequently found to be if the child does not take up that place by the different from a child’s normal and permanent first day of the summer term 2022. home address, then that place is liable to be Applications for Children to be withdrawn. Admitted into a Class Outside School Entry of their Normal Age Group Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is Parents have the right to request, but not receiving suitable full time education from the insist, that their child be considered for beginning of the term following the child’s fifth admission to a class outside of their normal birthday, when they will have begun to be of age group. This could be the case, for compulsory school age. example, if a child is gifted and talented, has Where a place is offered in the school, the experienced problems such as ill health, or pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on that the child is summer born, ie a child born a full-time basis in the September following between 1st April and 31st August. Parents their fourth birthday. who wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal A child’s parents may defer the date at which age group must make an application for the their child, below compulsory school age, is normal age group in the first instance. admitted to the school, until later in the school Parents must then submit a formal request to year but not beyond the point at which they the Board of Directors for the child to be

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considered for a different age group class is considered alongside all other applications instead. This request should be in the form of received and parents will be advised of the a written letter of application outlining the outcome of that application on national offer reasons why they wish for their child to be day. No place is reserved or held for the child considered to be admitted into a class outside in advance. of their normal age group and enclosing any If parents are considering submitting an supportive evidence and documentation that application for their child to be admitted into a they wish to be taken into account as part of class outside of their normal age group, it is that request. strongly recommended that they also read the The Board of Directors will consider requests DFE guidance which can be found at: submitted for a child to be admitted into a www.gov.uk/government/publications/ class outside of their normal age group and summer-born-children-school-admission advise parents of the outcome of that request before national offer day, having taken into Applications from Children account the information provided by the Currently Attending SS Mary parents, the child’s best interests and the and John’s Catholic Primary views of the Head Teacher. Academy’s Nursery If the request is refused, the original Attendance at SS. Mary and John’s Catholic application for the normal age group class will Primary Academy’s Nursery does not progress through the Local Authority co- automatically guarantee that a place will be ordinated admissions scheme, be considered offered in the Reception class of SS. Mary and by the Board of Directors and the parents John’s Catholic Primary Academy. Parents advised of the outcome. must apply for a Reception place in exactly If the request is agreed and the year group for the same way as parents of children not which the parents have requested a place is a attending the Nursery. All applications will be current year group in the school, then the considered against the oversubscription application will be considered by the Board of criteria by the Board of Directors in the same Directors and the parents advised of the way regardless of whether the child does or outcome. does not attend the Nursery at the time of application. If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is Appeals for a future year group, ie Reception in Parents who wish to appeal against the September 2022, then the original application decision of the Board of Directors to refuse is withdrawn and the parents must submit a their child a place in the school should make fresh application for Reception 2022 when that appeal request in writing to the Chair of applications open in the autumn term of 2021. the Board of Directors at the school address. Please note that parents only have the right to Appeals will be heard by an independent re-apply for a place. Where the Board of panel. Directors agrees to consider an application for Reception the following year, that application Please note that parents do not have the right

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to appeal if their request for their children to Or be admitted to a class outside of their normal 2) considered only after all other applications year group has been refused, but the Board of Applications without written reasons for the Directors have offered a place in the normal late application or received after the final date age group instead. for late submissions will only be considered after all other applications and the notification Repeat Applications may be sent shortly after the national offer Any parent can apply for a place for their child day. at any time outside of the normal admissions round. Parents do not have the right to a You are encouraged to ensure that your second appeal in respect of the same school application is received on time. for the same academic year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board of Change in Preference Directors has accepted a second application Requests to change the preferences after an from the parent because of a significant and application has been submitted must be material change in the circumstances of the made in writing to the local authority. Parents parent, child or school, but have still refused may change their preference on their child’s admission. application up to the closing date of 15th January 2021. Changes made after the Late Applications closing date but before 11th February 2021 Late applications will be dealt with in will be incorporated into the initial allocation accordance with the Local Authority’s co- process if the request is for a good and valid ordinated admissions scheme. This states reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a that applications received after the closing material change of circumstances, for date will be considered as late. Applications example a change of address. Any change in received after the closing date and before the preferences made after 11th February 2021 or final date for late submissions with approved where the parents cannot demonstrate a written evidence will only be incorporated into material change of circumstances will be the initial allocation process if the later treated as a late application and will only be submission is for a valid reason or parents can considered after all applications that were demonstrate a material change of received on time which may affect a child’s circumstances (see below). chances of being offered a preferred school.

When submitting late applications parents Waiting List must give reasons in writing and supporting documentary evidence for the late In addition to their right to appeal, children submission. The school will give who have not been offered a place at [Insert consideration to the reasons, following which name of school] but were offered a school the application will be: that was ranked as a lower preference on their application form will be added to a waiting list. Either 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and The waiting list will be maintained until 31st assessed against the over-subscription criteria December 2021 and will then be discarded.

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Parents may apply to SS. Mary and John’s Applications other than the Catholic Primary Academy for their child’s Normal Intake to Reception Class name to remain on the waiting list until the end of the academic year when it will be (In-Year Admissions) discarded. An application can be made for a place for a A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. child at any time outside the normal admission When a new child joins the waiting list, all round and the child will be admitted where applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked there are places available. Applications to ensure that the list is always maintained in should be made using Wolverhampton oversubscription criteria order. This means Council’s admissions department application that a child’s position on the waiting list could process via the local authority’s website at go up or down during the time that it is on the www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. list. Any late applications accepted will be Where there are places available but more added to the waiting list in accordance with applications than places, the published the oversubscription criteria. oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal round of admissions, will be applied. Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. If there are no places available, the child will It may be that those already offered places be added to the waiting list (see above). may accept them, thereby filling all available Parents will be advised of the outcome of their places. application in writing and, where the Board of Children who are the subject of a direction by Director’s decision is to refuse their child a the Local Authority to admit or who are place, have the right to appeal to an allocated to a school in accordance with the independent appeal panel. Fair Access Protocol take precedence over There is no charge or cost related to the those on a waiting list. admission of a child to this school.

In Year Fair Access Protocol The Board of Directors of St Francis and St Clare Catholic MAC is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions.

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SS PETER AND PAUL provide education for children of Catholic CATHOLIC PRIMARY families. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will ACADEMY & NURSERY be given to Catholic children in accordance SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy with the oversubscription criteria listed below. & Nursery is part of the St Francis and St The school is conducted by its Board of Clare Multi Academy Company. The Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church in Directors has delegated responsibility for the accordance with its Articles of Association administration of the admissions process to and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our the Local Governing Body of SS Peter and Lord Jesus Christ. Paul Catholic Primary Academy. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a The admissions process for SS Peter and Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Paul Catholic Primary Academy is part of the Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated practice permeate every aspect of the admissions scheme. To apply for a place at school’s activity. It is essential that the SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy Catholic character of the school’s education & Nursery in the normal admissions round, an be fully supported by all families in the school. application must be made using the school We therefore hope that all parents will give admission application process of the local their full, unreserved and positive support for authority in which you live naming SS Peter the aims and ethos of the school. This does and Paul on the application form. not affect the right of an applicant who is not Applications need to be made by 15th Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a January 2021. A Supplementary Information place at the school in accordance with the Form (SIF) must also be completed and admission arrangements. returned directly to the school by the same The Board of Directors is the admissions date (see Note 2). authority and has responsibility for admissions All applications which are submitted on time to this school. The Board of Directors has set will be considered at the same time, after the its admission number at 30 pupils to be closing date. admitted to the Reception class in the school You will be advised of the outcome of your year which begins in September 2021 application on 16th April 2021, or the next (see Note 1). working day, by the local authority on behalf of Where there are more applications for places the school. than the number of places available, places Please note that throughout this policy, the will be offered according to the following order term parent means all natural parents, any of priority. If there is oversubscription within a person who is not a parent but has parental category, the Board of Directors will give responsibility for a child and any person who priority to children living closest to the school has care of a child. determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5). The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to

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For the purposes of this policy, parish Note 1 boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese Children with an Education, Health and Care of Birmingham parish boundary map which Plan (EHCP) that names the school MUST be can be accessed at admitted. This will reduce the number of https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boun places available to applicants. This is not an dary-map and will be applied to the admission oversubscription criteria. arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Note 2 In all categories, for a child to be considered Oversubscription Criteria as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Reception into the Church will be required. who are looked after or previously looked For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see after (See Note 3 below). Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face difficulties in producing written evidence of 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Catholic Baptism or Reception into the living in the parish of Saint Peter and Saint Church should contact their Parish Priest. Paul or St Thomas of Canterbury who have a brother or sister (see Note 4) Parents making an application for a Catholic attending SS Peter and Paul Catholic child should also complete a Supplementary Primary Academy & Nursery at the time of Information Form (SIF) which should be admission. returned directly to the school. If you do not provide the information required in the 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Supplementary Information Form and return it living in the parish of Saint Peter and Saint by the closing date, together with all Paul or St Thomas of Canterbury. supporting documentation, this is likely to 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see affect the criteria that your child is placed into, Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Note 4) attending SS Peter and Paul being offered a place at this school. Catholic Primary Academy at the time of For the purposes of this policy, a looked after admission. child living with a family where at least one of 5. Other Baptised Catholic children the carers is Catholic will be considered as (see Note 2). Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked certificate directly to the school in order for after or previously looked after this priority to be given to the child as failure to (see Note 3). do so will result in the looked after child being 7. Non-Catholic children who have a ranked as a non-Catholic. brother or sister (see Note 4) attending SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy Note 3 at the time of admission. A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, 8. Non-Catholic children and means any child who is (a) in the care of

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the local authority or (b) being provided with home address to the designated point of the accommodation by them in the exercise of school using a computerised system. their social services functions (e.g. children In a very small number of cases, where the with foster parents) at the time of making the school is oversubscribed, it may not be application to the school. A “previously possible to decide between the applications looked after child” is a child who immediately of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a moved on from that status after becoming place when applying the published admission subject to an adoption, child arrangement criteria. order or special guardianship order. For example, this may occur when children in For the purposes of this policy, a looked after the same year group live at the same address, child living with a family where at least one of or if the distance between the home and the the carers is Catholic will be considered as school is exactly the same, for example, Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of blocks of flats. If there is no other way of their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception separating the application according to the certificate directly to the school in order for admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of this priority to be given to the child as failure to the children would cause the Published do so will result in the looked after child being Admission Number for the child’s year group ranked as a non-Catholic. to be exceeded, the Board of Directors will randomly select the child to be offered the Note 4 final place. For all applicants the definition of a brother or sister is: The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit twins and all siblings from multiple births A brother or sister sharing the same where one of the children is the last child parents ranked within the school’s published A half-brother or half-sister, where two admission number. children share one common parent A child’s home address refers to the address A step-brother or step-sister, where two where the child usually lives with a parent or children are related by a parents’ marriage carer and will be the address provided in the or where they are unrelated but their Local Authority’s Common Application Form. parents are living as partners. However, where parents have shared Adopted or fostered children responsibility for a child, and the child lives for part of the week with each parent, the home The children must be living permanently in the address will be the address provided on the same household. school’s Supplementary Information Form, provided that the child resides at that address Note 5 for any part of the school week. If no The measurement between home and school Supplementary Information Form is provided will be determined by the straight-line then the address will be that provided on the measurement from the designated point of the Local Authority’s Common Application Form.

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Parents may be requested to supply point at which the child reached compulsory documentary evidence to satisfy the school age. Governing Body that the child lives at the Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent address put forward by the parents. should notify the school, as soon as possible, Where parents have shared responsibility for a that they wish to either defer their child’s entry child, and the child lives for part of the week to the school or take up a part-time place. with each parent, the home address will be The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls the address provided in the Local Authority’s during the summer term who wishes to defer Common Application Form, provided that the their child’s admission until the beginning of child resides at that address for any part of the following academic year (when the child the school week. will have begun to be of compulsory school Parents may be requested to supply age) will therefore need to make a separate in- documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of year application for a place in Year 1 at the Directors that the child lives at the address put school. Any reception class place offered forward by the parents. following an application made for the If a place in the school is offered on the basis 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn of an address that is subsequently found to be if the child does not take up that place by the different from a child’s normal and permanent first day of the summer term 2022. home address, then that place is liable to be Applications for children to be withdrawn. admitted into a class outside of School Entry their normal age group Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is Parents have the right to request, but not receiving suitable full time education from the insist, that their child be considered for beginning of the term following the child’s fifth admission to a class outside of their normal birthday, when they will have begun to be of age group. This could be the case, for compulsory school age. example, if a child is gifted and talented, has Where a place is offered in the school, the experienced problems such as ill health, or pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on that the child is summer born, ie a child born a full-time basis in the September following between 1st April and 31st August. Parents their fourth birthday. who wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal A child’s parents may defer the date at which age group must make an application for the their child, below compulsory school age, is normal age group in the first instance. admitted to the school, until later in the school Parents must then submit a formal request to year but not beyond the point at which they the Board of Directors for the child to be reach compulsory school age and not beyond considered for a different age group class the first day of the summer term 2022. instead. This request should be in the form of A child may take up a part-time place until a written letter of application outlining the later in the school year, but not beyond the reasons why they wish for their child to be

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considered to be admitted into a class outside day. No place is reserved or held for the child of their normal age group and enclosing any in advance. supportive evidence and documentation that If parents are considering submitting an they wish to be taken into account as part of application for their child to be admitted into a that request. class outside of their normal age group, it is The Board of Directors will consider requests strongly recommended that they also read the submitted for a child to be admitted into a DFE guidance which can be found at: class outside of their normal age group and www.gov.uk/government/publications/ advise parents of the outcome of that request summer-born-children-school-admission before national offer day, having taken into account the information provided by the Applications from children parents, the child’s best interests and the currently attending SS Peter views of the Head Teacher. and Paul’s Nursery If the request is refused, the original Attendance at SS Peter and Paul’s Nursery application for the normal age group class will does not automatically guarantee that a place progress through the Local Authority co- will be offered in the Reception class of SS ordinated admissions scheme, be considered Peter and Paul. Parents must apply for a by the Board of Directors and the parents Reception place in exactly the same way as advised of the outcome. parents of children not attending the Nursery. If the request is agreed and the year group for All applications will be considered against the which the parents have requested a place is a oversubscription criteria by the Board of current year group in the school, then the Directors in the same way regardless of application will be considered by the Board of whether the child does or does not attend the Directors and the parents advised of the Nursery at the time of application. outcome. Appeals If the request is agreed and the year group for Parents who wish to appeal against the which the parents have requested a place is decision of the Board of Directors to refuse for a future year group, ie Reception in their child a place in the school should make September 2022, then the original application that appeal request in writing to the Chair of is withdrawn and the parents must submit a the Board of Directors at the school address. fresh application for Reception 2022 when Appeals will be heard by an independent applications open in the autumn term of 2021. panel. Please note that parents only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where the Board of Please note that parents do not have the right Directors agrees to consider an application for to appeal if their request for their children to Reception the following year, that application be admitted to a class outside of their normal is considered alongside all other applications year group has been refused, but the Board of received and parents will be advised of the Directors have offered a place in the normal outcome of that application on national offer age group instead.

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Repeat Applications for late submissions will only be considered Any parent can apply for a place for their child after all other applications and the notification at any time outside of the normal admissions may be sent shortly after the national offer day. round. Parents do not have the right to a You are encouraged to ensure that your second appeal in respect of the same school application is received on time. for the same academic year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board of Change in Preference Directors has accepted a second application Requests to change the preferences after an from the parent because of a significant and application has been submitted must be material change in the circumstances of the made in writing to the local authority. Parents parent, child or school, but have still refused may change their preference on their child’s admission. application up to the closing date of 15th January 2021. Changes made after the Late Applications closing date but before 11th February 2021 Late applications will be dealt with in will be incorporated into the initial allocation accordance with the Local Authority’s co- process if the request is for a good and valid ordinated admissions scheme. This states reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a that applications received after the closing material change of circumstances, for date will be considered as late. Applications example a change of address. Any change in received after the closing date and before the preferences made after 11th February 2021 or final date for late submissions with approved where the parents cannot demonstrate a written evidence will only be incorporated into material change of circumstances will be the initial allocation process if the later treated as a late application and will only be submission is for a valid reason or parents can considered after all applications that were demonstrate a material change of received on time which may affect a child’s circumstances (see below). chances of being offered a preferred school. When submitting late applications parents Waiting List must give reasons in writing and supporting documentary evidence for the late In addition to their right to appeal, children submission. The school will give who have not been offered a place at SS consideration to the reasons, following which Peter and Paul but were offered a school that the application will be: was ranked as a lower preference on their application form will be added to a waiting list. Either 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and The waiting list will be maintained until 31st assessed against the over-subscription criteria December 2021 and will then be discarded. Parents may apply to SS Peter and Paul for Or their child’s name to remain on the waiting list 2) considered only after all other applications until the end of the academic year when it will Applications without written reasons for the be discarded. late application or received after the final date A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed.

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When a new child joins the waiting list, all round and the child will be admitted where applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked there are places available. Applications to ensure that the list is always maintained in should be made using Wolverhampton oversubscription criteria order. This means Council’s admissions department application that a child’s position on the waiting list could process via the local authority’s website at go up or down during the time that it is on the www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. list. Any late applications accepted will be Where there are places available but more added to the waiting list in accordance with applications than places, the published the oversubscription criteria. oversubscription criteria, as set out for the Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean normal round of admissions, will be applied. that a place will eventually become available. If there are no places available, the child will It may be that those already offered places be added to the waiting list. may accept them, thereby filling all available Parents will be advised of the outcome of their places. application in writing and, where the Board of Children who are the subject of a direction by Director’s decision is to refuse their child a the Local Authority to admit or who are place, have the right to appeal to an allocated to a school in accordance with the independent appeal panel. Fair Access Protocol take precedence over There is no charge or cost related to the those on a waiting list. admission of a child to this school. In Year Fair Access Protocol The Board of Directors of SS Peter and Paul is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions. Applications other than the normal intake to reception class (In-Year Admissions) An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission

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ST ANTHONY’S CATHOLIC Instrument of Government and seeks at all PRIMARY SCHOOL times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. The admissions process for St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School is part of the As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated Catholic education for all our pupils. At a admissions scheme. To apply for a place at St Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Anthony’s Catholic Primary School in the practice permeate every aspect of the normal admissions round, an application must school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic be made using the school admission character of the school’s education be fully application process of the local authority in supported by all families in the school. We which you live naming St Anthony’s Catholic therefore hope that all parents will give their Primary School on the application form. full, unreserved and positive support for the Applications need to be made by 15th aims and ethos of the school. This does not January 2021. A Supplementary Information affect the right of an applicant who is not Form (SIF) must also be completed and Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a returned directly to the school by the same place at the school in accordance with the date (see Note 2). admission arrangements. All applications which are submitted on time The governing body is the admissions will be considered at the same time, after the authority and has responsibility for admissions closing date. to this school. The governing body has set its admission number at 45 pupils to be admitted You will be advised of the outcome of your to the Reception class in the school year application on 16th April 2021, or the next which begins in September 2021 (see Note 1). working day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places Please note that throughout this policy, the will be offered according to the following order term parent means all natural parents, any of priority. If there is oversubscription within a person who is not a parent but has parental category, the Governing Body will give priority responsibility for a child and any person who to children living closest to the school has care of a child. determined by the shortest distance The ethos of this school is Catholic. The (see Note 5). school was founded by the Catholic Church to For the purposes of this policy, parish provide education for children of Catholic boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese families. Whenever there are more of Birmingham parish boundary map which applications than places available, priority will can be accessed at be given to Catholic children in accordance https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boun with the oversubscription criteria listed below. dary-map and will be applied to the admission The school is conducted by its governing arrangements for the academic year body as part of the Catholic Church in 2021/2022 accordance with its Trust Deed and

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Oversubscription Criteria difficulties in producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Church should contact their Parish Priest. who are looked after or previously looked after (See Note 3). Parents making an application for a Catholic child should also complete a Supplementary 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Information Form (SIF) which should be living in the parish of St Anthony of Padua returned directly to the school. If you do not who have a brother or sister (see Note 4) provide the information required in the attending St Anthony’s Catholic Primary Supplementary Information Form and return it School at the time of admission. by the closing date, together with all 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) supporting documentation, this is likely to living in the parish of St Anthony of Padua. affect the criteria that your child is placed into, 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see being offered a place at this school. Note 4) attending St Anthony’s Catholic For the purposes of this policy, a looked after Primary School at the time of admission. child living with a family where at least one of 5. Other Baptised Catholic children the carers is Catholic will be considered as (see Note 2). Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked certificate directly to the school in order for after or previously looked after this priority to be given to the child as failure to (see Note 3). do so will result in the looked after child being 7. Non-Catholic children who have a ranked as a non-Catholic. brother or sister (see Note 4) attending St Note 3 Anthony’s Catholic Primary School at the time of admission. A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, 8. Non-Catholic children. and means any child who is (a) in the care of Note 1 the local authority or (b) being provided with accommodation by them in the exercise of Children with an Education, Health and Care their social services functions (eg children with (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be foster parents) at the time of making the admitted. This will reduce the number of application to the school. A “previously looked places available to applicants. This is not an after child” is a child who immediately moved oversubscription criteria. on from that status after becoming subject to Note 2 an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. In all categories, for a child to be considered as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or For the purposes of this policy, a looked after Reception into the Church will be required. child living with a family where at least one of For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see the carers is Catholic will be considered as Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of

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their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of certificate directly to the school in order for the children would cause the Published this priority to be given to the child as failure to Admission Number for the child’s year group do so will result in the looked after child being to be exceeded, the Governing Body will ranked as a non-Catholic. randomly select the child to be offered the final place. Note 4 The governing body will, where possible, For all applicants the definition of a brother or admit twins and all siblings from multiple births sister is: where one of the children is the last child • A brother or sister sharing the same ranked within the school’s published parents admission number. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two A child’s home address refers to the address children share one common parent where the child usually lives with a parent or • A step-brother or step-sister, where two carer and will be the address provided in the children are related by a parents’ marriage Local Authority’s Common Application Form. or where they are unrelated but their However, where parents have shared parents are living as partners. responsibility for a child, and the child lives for • Adopted or fostered children part of the week with each parent, the home address will be the address provided on the The children must be living permanently in the school’s Supplementary Information Form, same household. provided that the child resides at that address for any part of the school week. If no Note 5 Supplementary Information Form is provided The measurement between home and school then the address will be that provided on the will be determined by the straight-line Local Authority’s Common Application Form. measurement from the designated point of the home address to the designated point of the Parents may be requested to supply school using a computerised system. documentary evidence to satisfy the Governing Body that the child lives at the In a very small number of cases, where the address put forward by the parents. school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide between the applications If a place in the school is offered on the basis of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a of an address that is subsequently found to be place when applying the published admission different from a child’s normal and permanent criteria. home address, then that place is liable to be withdrawn. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, School Entry or if the distance between the home and the Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is school is exactly the same, for example, receiving suitable full time education from the blocks of flats. If there is no other way of beginning of the term following the child’s fifth separating the application according to the

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birthday, when they will have begun to be of admission to a class outside of their normal compulsory school age. age group. This could be the case, for Where a place is offered in the school, the example, if a child is gifted and talented, has pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on experienced problems such as ill health, or a full-time basis in the September following that the child is summer born, ie a child born their fourth birthday. between 1st April and 31st August. Parents who wish for their child to be considered for A child’s parents may defer the date at which admission to a class outside of their normal their child, below compulsory school age, is age group must make an application for the admitted to the school, until later in the school normal age group in the first instance. Parents year but not beyond the point at which they must then submit a formal request to the reach compulsory school age and not beyond Governing Body for the child to be considered the first day of the summer term 2022. for a different age group class instead. This A child may take up a part-time place until request should be in the form of a written later in the school year, but not beyond the letter of application outlining the reasons why point at which the child reached compulsory they wish for their child to be considered to be school age. admitted into a class outside of their normal age group and enclosing any supportive Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent evidence and documentation that they wish to should notify the school, as soon as possible, be taken into account as part of that request. that they wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school or take up a part-time place. The Governing Body will consider requests submitted for a child to be admitted into a The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls class outside of their normal age group and during the summer term who wishes to defer advise parents of the outcome of that request their child’s admission until the beginning of before national offer day, having taken into the following academic year (when the child account the information provided by the will have begun to be of compulsory school parents, the child’s best interests and the age) will therefore need to make a separate in- views of the Head Teacher. year application for a place in Year 1 at the school. Any reception class place offered If the request is refused, the original following an application made for the application for the normal age group class will 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn progress through the Local Authority co- if the child does not take up that place by the ordinated admissions scheme, be considered first day of the summer term 2022. by the Governing Body and the parents advised of the outcome. Applications for Children to be If the request is agreed and the year group for Admitted into a Class Outside of which the parents have requested a place is a their Normal Age Group current year group in the school, then the application will be considered by the Parents have the right to request, but not Governing Body and the parents advised of insist, that their child be considered for the outcome.

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If the request is agreed and the year group for Appeals which the parents have requested a place is Parents who wish to appeal against the for a future year group, i.e. Reception in decision of the Governing Body to refuse their September 2022, then the original application child a place in the school should make that is withdrawn and the parents must submit a appeal request in writing to the Chair of fresh application for Reception 2022 when Governors at the school address. Appeals will applications open in the autumn term of 2021. be heard by an independent panel. Please note that parents only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where the Governing Please note that parents do not have the right Body agrees to consider an application for to appeal if their request for their children to Reception the following year, that application be admitted to a class outside of their normal is considered alongside all other applications year group has been refused, but the received and parents will be advised of the Governing Body have offered a place in the outcome of that application on national offer normal age group instead. day. No place is reserved or held for the child in advance. Repeat Applications Any parent can apply for a place for their child If parents are considering submitting an at any time outside of the normal admissions application for their child to be admitted into a round. Parents do not have the right to a class outside of their normal age group, it is second appeal in respect of the same school strongly recommended that they also read the for the same academic year unless, in DFE guidance which can be found at: exceptional circumstances, the Governing www.gov.uk/government/publications/ Body has accepted a second application from summer-born-children-school-admission the parent because of a significant and Applications from Children material change in the circumstances of the parent, child or school, but have still refused Currently Attending St Anthony admission. Catholic Primary School’s Nursery Attendance at St Anthony’s Catholic Primary Late Applications School’s Nursery does not automatically Late applications will be dealt with in guarantee that a place will be offered in the accordance with the Local Authority’s co- Reception class of St Anthony’s Catholic ordinated admissions scheme. This states that Primary School. Parents must apply for a applications received after the closing date will Reception place in exactly the same way as be considered as late. Applications received parents of children not attending the Nursery. after the closing date and before the final date All applications will be considered against the for late submissions with approved written oversubscription criteria by the Governing evidence will only be incorporated into the Body in the same way regardless of whether initial allocation process if the later submission the child does or does not attend the Nursery is for a valid reason or parents can at the time of application. demonstrate a material change of circumstances (see below).

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When submitting late applications parents Waiting List must give reasons in writing and supporting In addition to their right to appeal, children documentary evidence for the late who have not been offered a place at St submission. The school will give consideration Anthony’s Catholic Primary School but were to the reasons, following which the application offered a school that was ranked as a lower will be: preference on their application form will be Either added to a waiting list. 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and The waiting list will be maintained until 31st assessed against the over-subscription criteria December 2021 and will then be discarded. Or Parents may apply to St Anthony’s Catholic 2) considered only after all other applications Primary School for their child’s name to remain on the waiting list until the end of the Applications without written reasons for the summer term 2022 when it will be discarded. late application or received after the final date for late submissions will only be considered A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. after all other applications and the notification When a new child joins the waiting list, all may be sent shortly after the national offer applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked day. to ensure that the list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria order. This means You are encouraged to ensure that your that a child’s position on the waiting list could application is received on time. go up or down during the time that it is on the Change in Preference list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with Requests to change the preferences after an the oversubscription criteria. application has been submitted must be made in writing to the local authority. Parents Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean may change their preference on their child’s that a place will eventually become available. It application up to the closing date of 15th may be that those already offered places may January 2021. Changes made after the accept them, thereby filling all available closing date but before 11th February 2021 places. will be incorporated into the initial allocation Children who are the subject of a direction by process if the request is for a good and valid the Local Authority to admit or who are reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a allocated to a school in accordance with the material change of circumstances, for Fair Access Protocol take precedence over example a change of address. Any change in those on a waiting list. preferences made after 11th February 2021 or where the parents cannot demonstrate a In Year Fair Access Protocol material change of circumstances will be The Governing Body of St Anthony’s Catholic treated as a late application and will only be Primary School is committed to taking its fair considered after all applications that were share of children who are vulnerable and/or received on time which may affect a child’s hard to place, as set out in locally agreed chances of being offered a preferred school.

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protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the governing body is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Governing Body has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions. Applications other than the Normal Intake to Reception Class (In-Year Admissions) An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round and the child will be admitted where there are places available. Applications should be made using Wolverhampton Council’s admissions department application process via the local authority’s website at http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admission s. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal round of admissions, will be applied. If there are no places available, the child will be added to the waiting list (see above). Parents will be advised of the outcome of their application in writing and, where the Governing Body’s decision is to refuse their child a place, have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to this school.

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ST BARTHOLOMEW MULTI Reception Admissions ACADEMY TRUST The admission arrangements outlined in this section apply to children starting Reception for St Bartholomew’s is a Multi Academy Trust the first time in 2021/2022. The admissions (MAT) and the Directors of the Trust are its process for St Bartholomew’s CE Primary own admission authority. School is part of the Wolverhampton Local As at October 2019, the schools in the Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. St MAT are: Benedict Biscop CE Primary School is part of • St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School the Staffordshire County Council co-ordinated admissions scheme. are part of the • St Benedict Biscop CE Primary School Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated • Woodfield Primary School admissions scheme. The MAT and its schools will comply with the The closing date for admissions will be 23:59 provisions within the Schools Admissions on 15 January 2021. Allocation results will be Code and the School Appeals Code, which is notified on 16 April 2021 by Wolverhampton available at www.gov.uk/guidance/academy- Local Authority. admissions In respect of Year 2 to Year 3 transfers, the The City of Wolverhampton Council will standard form will be used for the purposes of administer the admissions arrangements on transferring pupils from infant (Year 2) to junior behalf of the MAT. (Year 3) education at the age of 7 plus in the academic year 2020/21. The timetable St Bartholomew’s CE MAT ensures that all of followed will be the same as that for entry into its schools are inclusive. We welcome children Reception. from all backgrounds, faiths and abilities. The only restriction for entry to any of our schools All applicants must: is on number. If the number of applications 1. Complete the Common Application Form received exceeds the places available, by applying online to the Local Authority allocations are made in accordance with the where they reside. respective oversubscription criteria. 2. In addition, where relevant (as detailed in This document relates to admission to St the oversubscription criteria) applicants Bartholomew’s CE and St Benedict Biscop must complete the Supplementary CE Primary Schools. Information Form and return it direct to the Published Admission School Admissions Team, City of Wolverhampton Council. Numbers (PANs) Parents/carers who would like their child to be Our PAN for Reception Year 2021/22 is: admitted during the year their child is five St Bartholomew’s CE Primary: 45 should ensure they complete all the necessary application forms. Admission to nursery does St Benedict Biscop CE Primary: 30 not mean automatic entry to the Primary school.

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Admission Criteria for the schools a doctor or a social worker) to support this in our MAT for Reception claim must be submitted to the School Admissions Team, City of Wolverhampton A child with an Education, Health and Care Council. Plan (EHCP) which names the school will be admitted. Remaining places are allocated as The information submitted must state clearly detailed below. the effects of the condition/illness and why the preferred school is the only school that can Where there are fewer applicants than the meet their child’s needs. This is necessary PAN, all children will be admitted. In the event because parents/carers would be asking the the school is oversubscribed, the admission Admitting Authority to assess their child as authority will apply the following having a stronger case than many other oversubscription criteria in order of priority: children, even some who live closer to the school in question than they do. The 1. Looked After Children and all information provided will be used to prioritise previously Looked After Children the request for a particular school. Please A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child who is: note that only in exceptional cases are places a) in the care of the local authority, or prioritised in respect of a child’s/parent’s/carer’s medical/social b) being provided with accommodation by a grounds. local authority in the exercise of the social services functions (see the definition in This supplementary information will not be Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at regarded as a valid application, unless the the time the application is made to school. parent/carer has also completed an application with the LA where they reside. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so 3. Children with a sibling already attending because they were adopted (or became the at the time of admission. subject to a child arrangements order or For admission purposes, a sibling is a child special guardianship order); who resides permanently at the same address 2. Medical/Social as the child for whom a place is being requested, and is one of the following:- Whether there are specific medical or social circumstances that can be met only by the • brother/sister child’s attendance at the preferred school. • half brother/sister (i.e. share one Supporting Evidence common parent) If parents/carers believe there are specific • or stepbrother/sister (i.e. related reasons, medical or social, for claiming priority by a parent’s marriage) for their child to attend a particular school these special factors must be indicated on the • any other child for whom it can be application form and evidence (e.g. a letter demonstrated that s/he is residing from a registered health professional such as permanently at the same address (e.g. under the terms of a residence order)

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The sibling connection only applies where the Bartholomew’s CE Primary School and St child concerned has a sibling attending the Benedict Biscop CE Primary School have school at the time of the application as well as distinctive Christian characters and ethos that at the time of admission, (i.e. for normal year reflect the teaching of Jesus Christ and of entry applications siblings are expected to Christian values. We ask all parents and be attending the same school in September carers applying for a place at these schools to 2020). A sibling connection will not be respect this ethos and its importance to the accepted if the original place was obtained by school community. We hope that all children using fraudulent or false information. who come to the school will be able to participate (as appropriate) in the religious life 4. Religious Reasons of the school (including collective worship and To a child and family who has religious religious education). reasons for attending St Bartholomew’s CE This does not affect the rights of parents and Primary School or St Benedict Biscop CE carers who are not Christians to apply for a Primary School and for whom it can be place. Indeed, through our commitment to demonstrated by the faith leader that s/he has inclusion, we actively welcome families from current strong religious connections. This other faiths and no faiths. reason will only be taken into consideration if the preferred school is the nearest Church of (Parents have the legal right of withdrawal England school to the child’s home address from collective worship and religious (measured by a straight line from the home education.) address to the school using the City of The completed Supplementary Information Wolverhampton Council’s software). Form will not be regarded as a valid Supporting Evidence application, unless the parent/carer has also A Supplementary Information Form (Appendix completed an application with the LA where A) will be provided for parents/carers and their they live. faith leader to complete, to enable them to 5. Children who live closest to our schools demonstrate the child and family’s* current strong religious connections. (*Family for this How close the child lives to the school criterion defined as parents/carers) requested with those living closest to the school getting the highest priority. The St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust distance from the applicant’s home and defines “strong religious connections” as school is taken in a straight line between the attendance at a place of worship on at least respective school and the child’s home two occasions per month for at least 2 years. address. The distance is measured using the The completed form should be returned to City of Wolverhampton Council’s software, School Admissions Team, City of with those living closest to the school Wolverhampton Council receiving the highest priority. As well as being an inclusive neighbourhood If there are a limited number of spaces school, as a Church of England School St available and we cannot distinguish between applicants using the above criteria, children

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who live in the same block of flats will be Where parents have shared responsibility for a offered the available spaces randomly child and the child lives with both parents for selected by drawing lots. part of the week, then the main residence will be determined as the address where Child’s Home Address the child lives for the majority of the school Parents are asked to provide their child’s week. home address, i.e. the usual place of If the child equally shares living with both residence on weekdays and nights. parents, the parents must inform the City of Please note that childminder’s addresses will Wolverhampton Council (and the home Local not be accepted. This applies to both formal Authority if this is not the same) which address childminders and relatives or friends acting in should be used for admission purposes and a childminding capacity. which parent will make the application. Parents may be requested to supply The home address of a pupil is considered to documentary evidence to support the address be the permanent residence of a child in a used for the application. residential property when the place is offered. The address must be the child’s only or main In the event that the family moves between residence and is either: the application and date of allocation, it is the parent’s responsibility to inform the • Owned by the child’s parent(s), carer(s) City of Wolverhampton Council School or guardian(s) Admissions Team (and the home Local • Leased to or rented by the child’s Authority if this is not the same) as soon as parent(s), carer(s) or guardian(s) under possible of these circumstances. lease or written rental agreement.

Documentary evidence of ownership or rental Late Applications agreement may be required together with Applications received after the closing date proof of actual permanent residence at the will be treated as late. This includes a change property concerned. of preference for the school, a change in order of preference for the school or the addition of Acceptable proof of address includes: the school as a preference. Changes should • A copy of a council tax bill; be sent to the home LA of the parent/carer. • A copy of a recent utility bill (gas, electric, Therefore applications received after the dated within the last six months); closing date and before 11 February 2021 will only be incorporated into the initial allocation • A solicitor’s letter stating that contracts process if the late submission is for a good have been exchanged and specifying a and valid reason i.e. parents/carers can completion date; demonstrate a material change of • A copy of your Child Tax Credit or Working circumstances, or the request is for an Tax Credit award letter (if you receive either academy that has not reached its admission of these benefits); limit. • A signed and dated tenancy agreement. When submitting late applications parents

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must give reasons in writing for the late accepted will be added to the waiting list in submission. The admission authority will give accordance with the oversubscription criteria. consideration to the reasons, following which the application will be either: In Year Fair Access Protocol 1. Incorporated into the initial allocation and The Directors of St Bartholomew’s CE MAT assessed against the oversubscription are committed to taking its fair share of criteria children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. 2. Considered only after all other applications Children who are the subject of a direction by Late applications without written reasons for the Local Authority to admit or who are the late application or those received after 11 allocated to a school in accordance with the February 2021 will only be considered after all Fair Access Protocol take precedence over other applications. those on a waiting list. Material Change of Fraudulent or Misleading Circumstances Applications In claiming a material change of circumstance The Admitting Authority will follow up any the applicant, at the time of application, must reports they receive that allege that a supply documentary evidence to confirm the fraudulent or misleading application has changes. An example of material changes of been made. circumstances is a house move that necessitates a change of preferences. Multiple Births If applicants’ circumstances change during We understand that parent/carers would like the course of making the application that to keep twins, triplets and other children of relate to any of the published criteria it is the multiple births together. In the event that there applicant’s responsibility to provide evidence is an insufficient number of places to allocate to the City of Wolverhampton’s Admissions to twins, triplets, etc. all children will be and Appeals Team as this may affect the allocated together. outcome of the application. Tie-Breaker for Oversubscription Waiting Lists If there are an insufficient number of places to The Admitting Authority will maintain the accommodate all the children of a particular waiting lists until 31 December 2021. criterion, the next criterion will be used to assess the applications concerned in order to The waiting list will be ranked in admission prioritise applications. criteria order. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. Applications for children to be This means that a child’s position on the admitted outside their normal waiting list could go up or down during the age group time that it is on the list. Any late applications Summer-born children

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Parents/carers of a summer-born child may until later in the school year, but not beyond choose not to send that child to school until the point at which the child reached the September following their fifth birthday compulsory school age. Upon receipt of the and may request that they are admitted offer of a place a parent/carer should notify outside of their normal age group – to the school, as soon as possible, that they Reception rather than Year 1. Any wish to either defer their child’s entry to the parent/carer wishing to make such a request school or take up a part-time place. must put their requests in the first instance in writing to the LA where they reside by In-Year Admissions 15 January 2022. An in-year admission is any entry to school Requests will be considered on an individual other than at the normal point in Reception, basis and decisions will be reached taking into for example, transferring school due to a account the parents’/carers’ views, move of house or personal reasons. Requests information about the child’s academic, social for places in Reception after the normal round and emotional development, where relevant, of admissions or request for places in other their medical history and the views of a year groups should be made directly to the medical professional, whether they have City of Wolverhampton Council. previously been educated out of their normal With the exception of a child with an age group if it were not for being born Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or prematurely. The view of the Statement of Special Educational Needs Headteacher/Head of School of the school (SEN), applications should be made at concerned will also be sought as part of the www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions decision-making process. following The City of Wolverhampton Council’s Any agreement to defer a child’s admission to co-ordinated in-year admissions in Reception class does not guarantee a place conjunction with St Bartholomew’s CE MAT at the preferred school, nor does it give the Schools Admission Policy. child any additional priority for a place. For In-Year Admissions all applicants must: Parents/carers are required to make a new 1. Complete the In-Year Application Form application next year for Reception 2022 and and return to the City of Wolverhampton the application will be considered alongside all Council other applications for that round in accordance with the criteria. 2. In addition, where relevant (as detailed in the oversubscription criteria) applicants Deferred Entry must complete the Supplementary A child’s parents/carers may defer the date at Information Form and return it direct to the which their child, below compulsory school School Admissions Team, City of age, is admitted to the school, until later in the Wolverhampton Council. school year but not beyond the point at which Forms available at: they reach compulsory school age and not www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/article/2547/ beyond the first day of the summer term Changing-schools 2022. A child may take up a part-time place

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Admission Appeals In the event that an applicant is denied a place at the School, the parent/carer will have the right to appeal to an Independent appeal panel. Information relating to this can be found at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. Parents are only entitled to one appeal per year group, per school, per academic year unless there is a material change of circumstances. Withdrawing Offer Places Any allegations received by the admission authority of people providing false accommodation addresses when applying for school places shall be fully investigated and, if found to be true, allocated places may be withdrawn, as appropriate. Our schools have been advised by City of Wolverhampton Council to ask parents/carers to provide proof of residence (for example utility bill) before admitting a child. A child’s home address is defined as the address at which a child normally resides or, where the child lives at more than one address, the address at which the child lives for the majority of the time. Where the home address is unclear parents/carers will be required to provide documentary proof of the child’s residence.

Financial Implications There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust.

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ST LUKE’S CHURCH Admission Criteria for the OF ENGLAND AIDED school: Reception PRIMARY SCHOOL A child with an Educational Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or Statement of Special St Luke’s is a Church of England Aided Educational Needs (SEN) which names the Primary School and the Governors of the school will be admitted. Remaining places are school are its own admission authority. allocated as detailed below. The school will comply with the provisions Where there are less applicants than the PAN, within the Schools Admissions Code and the all children will be admitted. In the event the School Appeals Code, which is available at school is oversubscribed, the admission https://www.gov.uk/guidance/academy- authority will apply the following admissions oversubscription criteria in order of priority Wolverhampton Local Authority will co- The School’s Admission Number to each year ordinate Admissions on behalf of our school. group (PAN) is 60. If the number of requests Details surrounding The City of exceeds the school’s admission limit, places Wolverhampton Council’s co-ordinated will be allocated according to the following primary admissions scheme are available from order of priority: www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions 1. Looked-After Children as defined by St Luke’s ensures that its school is inclusive. Section 22 of the Children Act 1989, and We welcome children from all backgrounds Previously Looked After Children (See and abilities. The only restriction for entry to Section 1 paragraph 1.7 Schools any of our schools is on number. If the Admission Code 2012), will be given first number of applications received exceeds the priority for places. places available, allocations are made in accordance with the respective 2. Children who are siblings of children oversubscription criteria. already attending the school, e.g. a sibling refers to brother or sister, half, adopted or When parents request an admission place for step brother or sister, or the child of the their child at St Luke’s they are encouraged to parent/carer where the child for whom the visit to meet the Head teacher/Member of school place is sought is living in the same Senior Leadership Team and view the school family unit at the same address as that in action. Parents are encouraged to read sibling. the ‘LA Starting School in Wolverhampton’ booklet which is published in electronic 3. Those children showing strength of format on the City Council website and is support from a leader of their faith which available as a hard copy to parents on demonstrates their family commitment to request without charge. the life, work and witness of their particular faith. This will be measured by; i. Comment/evidence regarding frequency of visits to the place of

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worship - must be indicated as C. No evidence/incomplete form: these will additional information on be ranked within category 4. Supplementary Information Form 4. Any other children not falling into the above ii. involvement in the worshipping categories. activities of the place of worship – ‘Tie – Breaker’ If there is an insufficient must be indicated as additional number of places to accommodate all children information on Supplementary then ranking will be applied within all Information Form categories’: Children living closest to the iii. number of years the family has been school, measured by the shortest walking worshipping at present and previous distance. This is determined as the shortest place of worship - must be indicated as distance from their home (or the main additional information on entrance to any communal building) to the Supplementary Information Form front door of the school, using a commercial Information should be supplied on the package that supplies National Grid map Supplementary Information Form for references to 1 metre or greater claimed application for a Reception year group at a accuracy. In the event of applicants living an Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary equal distance or in a block of flats, available School in Wolverhampton . In order to be places will be offered randomly selected by accepted by the Governors all sections of this drawing lots. In addition, if children reside at form should be completed and signed by both two addresses during the school week, the parent/carer and Vicar/Minister/Faith Leader. address where the child spends most "school It should be validated with the faith nights" will be used when determining organisations stamp or headed paperwork proximity to the school. Documentary and returned directly to the Head Teacher. evidence may be required. Supplemenatry Information Forms will be Late Applications graded from A to C by a representative group Late applications will be dealt with in from the Governing Body. Grade A accordance with the City of Wolverhampton applications will then be ranked above grade Council coordinated admissions scheme. B applications; tie breaker criteria will apply within each group Notification of Places A. Significant strength of support from a faith Parents will be notified of the outcome on or leader which demonstrates their family as soon as possible after 15th April - National commitment to the life, work and witness Primary Notification Day, and given the of their particular faith opportunity to have their child’s name placed on a waiting list for their preferred B. Minimal strength of support from a faith Wolverhampton school or schools, which will leader which demonstrates their family be held until the end of the Autumn Term. commitment to the life, work and witness of their particular faith If a child is refused a place because of over- subscription, parents are informed in writing of

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how to access the LA and School’s Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent procedures in respect of their right of appeal should notify the school, as soon as possible, and waiting lists. (see Waiting Lists and that they wish to either defer their child’s entry Admission Appeals) to the school or take up a part-time place.

Waiting lists In-Year Admissions The Authority will maintain the waiting lists An In-year admission is any entry to school until 31 December 2021. other than at the normal point in Reception, A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. for example, transferring school due to a This means that a child’s position on the move of house or personal reasons. Requests waiting list could go up or down during the for places in Reception after the normal round time that it is on the list. Any late applications of admissions or request for places in other accepted will be added to the waiting list in Year Groups should be made directly to the accordance with the oversubscription criteria. City of Wolverhampton Council. With the exception of a child with an Education, Health Fraudulent or Misleading and Care Plan (EHCP) or Statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN), whereby, Applications applications should be made at St Luke’s Church of England Aided Primary www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions School and The City of Wolverhampton following The City of Wolverhampton Council’s Council will follow up any reports they receive co-ordinated in-year admissions in that allege that a fraudulent or misleading conjunction with St Luke’s Church of England application has been made. Aided School Admission Policy. Multiple Births All applicants must: We understand that parent/carers would like 1. Complete the Common Application Form to keep twins, triples and other children of and return to the City of Wolverhampton multiple births together. In the event that there Council is an insufficient number of places to allocate 2. In addition, where relevant (as detailed in to twins, triplets, etc. all children will be the oversubscription criteria) applicants allocated together. must complete the Supplementary Deferred Entry Information Form and return it direct to the Head Teacher of St Luke’s Church of A child’s parents may defer the date at which England Aided Primary School. their child, below compulsory school age, is admitted to the school, until later in the school Admission Appeals year but not beyond the point at which they In the event of a place not being offered, reach compulsory school age and not beyond notice of the intention to appeal to the the first day of the summer term 2022. A child Independent Appeals Panel, established may take up a part-time place until later in the under Section 94 of the School Standards school year, but not beyond the point at which and Framework Act 1998, must be made to the child reached compulsory school age.

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the Chair of Governors via the school office. In Financial Implications due course, Parents will be sent the There is no charge or cost related to the necessary Appeal Form by the governing admission of a child to St Luke’s Church of body. Once the Appeal form has been lodged, England Aided Primary School. details as to when and where the Appeal will be held will be forwarded to the parents by the Local Authority.

Withdrawing Offer Places Any allegations received by the admission authority of people providing false accommodation addresses when applying for school places shall be fully investigated and, if found to be true, allocated places may be withdrawn, as appropriate. Our school has been advised by City of Wolverhampton Council to ask parent/carer to provide proof of residence (for example utility bill) before admitting a child. A child’s home address is defined as the address at which a child normally resides or, where the child lives at more than one address, the address at which the child lives for the majority of the time. Where the home address is unclear parents will be required to provide documentary proof of the child’s residence.

Nursery Admissions The school has a separate policy for Nursery Admissions which is based on older siblings already on full-time role and then birth date order. It should be noted that attending the school Nursery does not give any guarantee or preference for a place in Reception year or give sibling rights to any older child/ren applying for place in the school.

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ST MARTIN’S MULTI

ACADEMY TRUST Reception Admissions St Martin’s is a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) and The admission arrangements outlined in this the Directors of the Trust are its own section apply to children starting Reception admission authority. for the first time in 2021 / 2022. The City of The schools in the MAT are: Wolverhampton Council will co-ordinate Admissions on behalf of St Martin’s Multi St Martin’s Church of England Academy Trust. The closing date for Primary School admissions will be 23:59 on 15 January 2021. Field View Primary School Allocation results will be notified on 16 April 2021 by The City of Wolverhampton Council. Grove Primary School All applicants must: The MAT and its schools will comply with the provisions within the Schools Admissions 1. Complete the Common Application Form Code and the School Appeals Code, which is by applying online to the Local Authority available at www.gov.uk/guidance/academy- where they reside. admissions 2. In addition, where relevant (as detailed in the oversubscription criteria) applicants Our PAN for 2020/21 is: must complete the Supplementary School Reception Information Form and return it direct to the School Admissions Team, City of St Martin’s CE Primary 30 Wolverhampton Council Field View Primary 60 Parents who would like their child to be admitted during the year their child is five should ensure Grove Primary 60 they complete all the necessary application forms. Admission to nursery does not mean Wolverhampton Local Authority will co- automatic entry to the Primary school. ordinate Admissions on behalf of our schools in the MAT. Details surrounding The City of Admission Criteria for the schools Wolverhampton Council’s co-ordinated in our MAT for Reception primary admissions scheme are available from A child with an Educational Health and Care www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions Plan (EHCP) or Statement of Special St Martin’s MAT ensures that all of its schools Educational Needs (SEN) which names the are inclusive. We welcome children from all school will be admitted. Remaining places are backgrounds and abilities. The only restriction allocated as detailed below. for entry to any of our schools is on number. If Where there are less applicants than the PAN, the number of applications received exceeds all children will be admitted. In the event the the places available, allocations are made in school is oversubscribed, the admission accordance with the respective authority will apply the following oversubscription criteria. oversubscription criteria in order of priority

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1. Looked After Children and all previously The sibling connection only applies where the Looked After Children child concerned has a sibling attending the A ‘Looked After Child’ is a child who is in (a)in school at the time of the application as well as the care of the local authority, or (b) being at the time of admission, (i.e. for normal year provided with accommodation by a local of entry applications siblings are expected to authority in the exercise of the social services be attending the same school in September functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of 2020). A sibling connection will not be the Children Act 1989) at the time the accepted if the original place was obtained by application is made to school. Previously using fraudulent or false information. looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because 4. Religious Reasons (St Martin’s Church of they were adopted (or became subject to a England Primary only) child arrangements order or special To a child and family who has religious guardianship order); reasons for attending St Martin’s Church of England Primary School and for whom it can 2. Children whose parent/carer is a be demonstrated by the faith leader that s/he member of staff employed at the MAT for has current strong religious connections. This two or more years at the point at which the reason will only be taken into consideration if application for admission to the school is the preferred school is the nearest Church of made or where the member of staff is England school to the child’s home address recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is (measured by a straight line from the home a demonstrable skill shortage. To support address to the school). applications made under this criterion the Supporting Evidence relevant supplementary information form A Supporting Evidence form will be provided should be completed. for parents and your faith leader to complete, 3. Children with a sibling already attending to enable them to demonstrate your child and the school at the time of admission. family’s current strong religious connections. For admission purposes, a sibling is a child 5. Children who live closest to our schools who resides permanently at the same address The distance from the applicant’s home and as the child for whom a place is being school is taken in a straight line between the requested, and is one of the following:- respective school and the child’s home • brother/sister address. The distance is measured using the • half brother/sister (i.e. share one Local Authority’s software, with those living common parent) closest to the school receiving the highest priority. • or stepbrother/sister (i.e. related by a parent’s marriage) Late Applications • any other child for whom it can be Late applications will be dealt with in demonstrated that s/he is residing accordance with the City of Wolverhampton permanently at the same address (e.g. Council coordinated admissions scheme. under the terms of a residence order).

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Waiting lists move of house or personal reasons. Requests The Authority will maintain the waiting lists for places in Reception after the normal round until 31 December 2021. of admissions or request for places in other Year Groups should be made directly to the A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. City of Wolverhampton Council. This means that a child’s position on the waiting list could go up or down during the With the exception of a child with an time that it is on the list. Any late applications Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or accepted will be added to the waiting list in Statement of Special Educational Needs accordance with the oversubscription criteria. (SEN), applications should be made at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions In Year Fair Access Protocol following The City of Wolverhampton Council’s The Directors of St Martin’s MAT are co-ordinated in-year admissions in committed to taking its fair share of children conjunction with St Martin’s MAT Schools who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as Admission Policy. set out in locally agreed protocols. All applicants must: Children who are the subject of a direction by 1. Complete the Common Application Form the Local Authority to admit or who are and return to the City of Wolverhampton allocated to a school in accordance with the Council Fair Access Protocol take precedence over 2. In addition, where relevant (as detailed in those on a waiting list. the oversubscription criteria) applicants Fraudulent or Misleading must complete the Supplementary Information Form and return it direct to the Applications School Admissions Team, City of The City of Wolverhampton Council will follow Wolverhampton Council up any reports they receive that allege that a fraudulent or misleading application has been Admission Appeals made. In the event that an applicant is denied a place at the school, the parent/carer will have Multiple Births the right to appeal to an Independent appeal We understand that parent/carers would like panel. Information relating to this can be found to keep twins, triples and other children of at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. multiple births together. In the event that there is an insufficient number of places to allocate Withdrawing Offer Places to twins, triplets, etc. all children will be Any allegations received by the admission allocated together. authority of people providing false accommodation addresses when applying for In-Year Admissions school places shall be fully investigated and, if An In-year admission is any entry to school found to be true, allocated places may be other than at the normal point in Reception, withdrawn, as appropriate. Our schools have for example, transferring school due to a been advised by City of Wolverhampton

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Council to ask parent/carer to provide proof of residence (for example utility bill) before admitting a child. A child’s home address is defined as the address at which a child normally resides or, where the child lives at more than one address, the address at which the child lives for the majority of the time. Where the home address is unclear parents will be required to provide documentary proof of the child’s residence.

Financial Implications There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to St Martin’s Multi Academy Trust.

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ST MARY’S CATHOLIC The ethos of this school is Catholic. The PRIMARY ACADEMY school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic St Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy is part of families. Whenever there are more the St Francis and St Clare Multi-Academy applications than places available, priority will Company. The admissions authority for the be given to Catholic children in accordance school is the Board of Directors of the St with the oversubscription criteria listed below. Francis and St Clare Multi-Academy The school is conducted by its Board of Company, who have responsibility for Directors as part of the Catholic Church in admissions to this school. The Board of accordance with its Articles of Association Directors has delegated responsibility for the and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our administration of the admissions process to Lord Jesus Christ. the Local Governing Body of St Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a The admissions process for St Mary’s Catholic Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Primary Academy is part of the practice permeate every aspect of the Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic admissions scheme. To apply for a place at St character of the school’s education be fully Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy in the supported by all families in the school. We normal admissions round, an application must therefore hope that all parents will give their be made using the school admission full, unreserved and positive support for the application process of the local authority in aims and ethos of the school. This does not which you live naming St Mary’s Catholic affect the right of an applicant who is not Primary Academy on the application form. Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Applications need to be made by 15th place at the school in accordance with the January 2021. A Supplementary Information admission arrangements. Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned directly to the school by the same The Board of Directors is the admissions date (see Note 2). authority and has responsibility for admissions to this school. The Board of Directors has set All applications which are submitted on time its admission number at 60 pupils to be will be considered at the same time, after the admitted to the Reception class in the school closing date. year which begins in September 2021 You will be advised of the outcome of your (see Note 1). application on 16th April 2021, or the next working day, by the local authority on behalf of Where there are more applications for places the school. than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order Please note that throughout this policy, the of priority. If there is oversubscription within a term parent means all natural parents, any category, the Board of Directors will give person who is not a parent but has parental priority to children living closest to the school responsibility for a child and any person who determined by the shortest distance has care of a child. (see Note 5).

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For the purposes of this policy, parish Note 1 boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese Children with an Education, Health and Care of Birmingham parish boundary map which (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be can be accessed at admitted. This will reduce the number of https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boun places available to applicants. This is not an dary-map and will be applied to the admission oversubscription criteria. arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Note 2 In all categories, for a child to be considered Oversubscription Criteria as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Reception into the Church will be required. who are looked after or previously looked For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see after (See Note 3). Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face difficulties in producing written evidence of 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Catholic Baptism or Reception into the living in the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Church should contact their Parish Priest. Succour who have a brother or sister (see Parents making an application for a Catholic Note 4) attending St Mary’s Catholic child should also complete a Supplementary Primary Academy at the time of admission. Information Form (SIF) which should be 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) returned directly to the school. If you do not living in the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual provide the information required in the Succour. Supplementary Information Form and return it by the closing date, together with all 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see supporting documentation, this is likely to Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see affect the criteria that your child is placed into, Note 4) attending St Mary’s Catholic which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Primary Academy at the time of admission. being offered a place at this school. 5. Other Baptised Catholic children For the purposes of this policy, a looked after (see Note 2). child living with a family where at least one of the carers is Catholic will be considered as 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of after or previously looked after their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception (see Note 3). certificate directly to the school in order for 7. Non-Catholic children who have a this priority to be given to the child as failure to brother or sister (see Note 4) attending St do so will result in the looked after child being Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy at the ranked as a non-Catholic. time of admission. Note 3 8. Non-Catholic children. A “looked after child” (also referred to as CYCP ‘Children and Young People in Care’ in Wolverhampton) has the same meaning as in

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section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and measurement from the designated point of the means any child who is (a) in the care of the home address to the designated point of the local authority or (b) being provided with school using a computerised system. accommodation by them in the exercise of In a very small number of cases, where the their social services functions (eg children with school is oversubscribed, it may not be foster parents) at the time of making the possible to decide between the applications application to the school. A “previously looked of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a after child” is a child who immediately moved place when applying the published admission on from that status after becoming subject to criteria. an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, For the purposes of this policy, a looked after or if the distance between the home and the child living with a family where at least one of school is exactly the same, for example, the carers is Catholic will be considered as blocks of flats. If there is no other way of Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of separating the application according to the their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of certificate directly to the school in order for the children would cause the Published this priority to be given to the child as failure to Admission Number for the child’s year group do so will result in the looked after child being to be exceeded, the Board of Directors will ranked as a non-Catholic. randomly select the child to be offered the final place. Note 4 For all applicants the definition of a brother or The Board of Directors will, where possible, sister is: admit twins and all siblings from multiple births where one of the children is the last child • A brother or sister sharing the same ranked within the school’s published parents admission number. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two A child’s home address refers to the address children share one common parent where the child usually lives with a parent or • A step-brother or step-sister, where two carer and will be the address provided in the children are related by a parents’ marriage Local Authority’s Common Application Form. or where they are unrelated but their However, where parents have shared parents are living as partners. responsibility for a child, and the child lives for • Adopted or fostered children part of the week with each parent, the home address will be the address provided on the The children must be living permanently in the school’s Supplementary Information Form, same household. provided that the child resides at that address Note 5 for any part of the school week. If no Supplementary Information Form is provided The measurement between home and school then the address will be that provided on the will be determined by the straight-line Local Authority’s Common Application Form.

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Parents may be requested to supply point at which the child reached compulsory documentary evidence to satisfy the school age. Governing Body that the child lives at the Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent address put forward by the parents. should notify the school, as soon as possible, Where parents have shared responsibility for a that they wish to either defer their child’s entry child, and the child lives for part of the week to the school or take up a part-time place. with each parent, the home address will be The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls the address provided in the Local Authority’s during the summer term who wishes to defer Common Application Form, provided that the their child’s admission until the beginning of child resides at that address for any part of the following academic year (when the child the school week. will have begun to be of compulsory school Parents may be requested to supply age) will therefore need to make a separate in- documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of year application for a place in Year 1 at the Directors that the child lives at the address put school. Any reception class place offered forward by the parents. following an application made for the 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn If a place in the school is offered on the basis if the child does not take up that place by the of an address that is subsequently found to be first day of the summer term 2022. different from a child’s normal and permanent home address, then that place is liable to be Applications for Children to be withdrawn. Admitted into a Class Outside of School Entry their Normal Age Group Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is Parents have the right to request, but not receiving suitable full time education from the insist, that their child be considered for beginning of the term following the child’s fifth admission to a class outside of their normal birthday, when they will have begun to be of age group. This could be the case, for compulsory school age. example, if a child is gifted and talented, has experienced problems such as ill health, or Where a place is offered in the school, the that the child is summer born, ie a child born pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on between 1st April and 31st August. Parents a full-time basis in the September following who wish for their child to be considered for their fourth birthday. admission to a class outside of their normal A child’s parents may defer the date at which age group must make an application for the their child, below compulsory school age, is normal age group in the first instance. Parents admitted to the school, until later in the school must then submit a formal request to the year but not beyond the point at which they Board of Directors for the child to be reach compulsory school age and not beyond considered for a different age group class the first day of the summer term 2022. instead. This request should be in the form of a written letter of application outlining the A child may take up a part-time place until reasons why they wish for their child to be later in the school year, but not beyond the considered to be admitted into a class outside

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of their normal age group and enclosing any If parents are considering submitting an supportive evidence and documentation that application for their child to be admitted into a they wish to be taken into account as part of class outside of their normal age group, it is that request. strongly recommended that they also read the The Board of Directors will consider requests DFE guidance which can be found at: submitted for a child to be admitted into a www.gov.uk/government/publications/ class outside of their normal age group and summer-born-children-school-admission advise parents of the outcome of that request Applications from Children before national offer day, having taken into account the information provided by the Currently Attending St Mary’s parents, the child’s best interests and the Catholic Primary Academy’s views of the Head Teacher. Nursery If the request is refused, the original Attendance at St Mary’s Catholic Primary application for the normal age group class will Academy’s Nursery does not automatically progress through the Local Authority co- guarantee that a place will be offered in the ordinated admissions scheme, be considered Reception class of St Mary’s Catholic Primary by the Board of Directors and the parents Academy. Parents must apply for a Reception advised of the outcome. place in exactly the same way as parents of children not attending the Nursery. All If the request is agreed and the year group for applications will be considered against the which the parents have requested a place is a oversubscription criteria by the Board of current year group in the school, then the Directors in the same way regardless of application will be considered by the Board of whether the child does or does not attend the Directors and the parents advised of the Nursery at the time of application. outcome. If the request is agreed and the year group for Appeals which the parents have requested a place is Parents who wish to appeal against the for a future year group, i.e. Reception in decision of the Board of Directors to refuse September 2022, then the original application their child a place in the school should make is withdrawn and the parents must submit a that appeal request in writing to the Chair of fresh application for Reception 2022 when the Board of Directors at the school address. applications open in the autumn term of 2021. Appeals will be heard by an independent Please note that parents only have the right to panel. re-apply for a place. Where the Board of Please note that parents do not have the right Directors agrees to consider an application for to appeal if their request for their children to Reception the following year, that application be admitted to a class outside of their normal is considered alongside all other applications year group has been refused, but the Board of received and parents will be advised of the Directors have offered a place in the normal outcome of that application on national offer age group instead. day. No place is reserved or held for the child in advance.

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Repeat Applications for late submissions will only be considered Any parent can apply for a place for their child after all other applications and the notification at any time outside of the normal admissions may be sent shortly after the national offer day. round. Parents do not have the right to a You are encouraged to ensure that your second appeal in respect of the same school application is received on time. for the same academic year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board of Change in Preference Directors has accepted a second application Requests to change the preferences after an from the parent because of a significant and application has been submitted must be material change in the circumstances of the made in writing to the local authority. Parents parent, child or school, but have still refused may change their preference on their child’s admission. application up to the closing date of 15th January 2021. Changes made after the Late Applications closing date but before 11th February 2021 Late applications will be dealt with in will be incorporated into the initial allocation accordance with the Local Authority’s co- process if the request is for a good and valid ordinated admissions scheme. This states that reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a applications received after the closing date will material change of circumstances, for be considered as late. Applications received example a change of address. Any change in after the closing date and before the final date preferences made after 11th February 2021 or for late submissions with approved written where the parents cannot demonstrate a evidence will only be incorporated into the material change of circumstances will be initial allocation process if the later submission treated as a late application and will only be is for a valid reason or parents can considered after all applications that were demonstrate a material change of received on time which may affect a child’s circumstances (see below). chances of being offered a preferred school. When submitting late applications parents Waiting List must give reasons in writing and supporting documentary evidence for the late In addition to their right to appeal, children submission. The school will give consideration who have not been offered a place at St to the reasons, following which the application Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy but were will be: offered a school that was ranked as a lower preference on their application form will be Either added to a waiting list. 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and assessed against the over-subscription criteria The waiting list will be maintained until 31st December 2021 and will then be discarded. Or Parents may apply to St Mary’s Catholic 2) considered only after all other applications Primary Academy for their child’s name to Applications without written reasons for the remain on the waiting list until the end of the late application or received after the final date academic year when it will be discarded.

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A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. Applications other than the When a new child joins the waiting list, all Normal IntaketTo Reception Class applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the list is always maintained in (In-Year Admissions) oversubscription criteria order. This means An application can be made for a place for a that a child’s position on the waiting list could child at any time outside the normal admission go up or down during the time that it is on the round and the child will be admitted where list. Any late applications accepted will be there are places available. Applications should added to the waiting list in accordance with be made using Wolverhampton Council’s the oversubscription criteria. admissions department application process via the local authority’s website at Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admission that a place will eventually become available. It s. Where there are places available but more may be that those already offered places may applications than places, the published accept them, thereby filling all available oversubscription criteria, as set out for the places. normal round of admissions, will be applied. Children who are the subject of a direction by If there are no places available, the child will the Local Authority to admit or who are be added to the waiting list (see above). allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol take precedence over Parents will be advised of the outcome of their those on a waiting list. application in writing and, where the Board of Director’s decision is to refuse their child a In Year Fair Access Protocol place, have the right to appeal to an The the Local Governing Body of St Mary’s independent appeal panel. Catholic Primary Academy is committed to There is no charge or cost related to the taking its fair share of children who are admission of a child to this school. vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions.

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ST MICHAEL’S CE (A) Information about the school can be found in PRIMARY SCHOOL the school’s prospectus and on the school website – www.stmichaelscofeprimary.co.uk, Vision which includes details of: The Lord says, ‘For I know the plans I have • Curriculum organisation and for you …. plans to give you hope and a teaching methods future.’ Jeremiah 29 verse 11 • Arrangements for special As an inclusive Christian school, St Michael’s educational needs Church of England (Aided) Primary School • An indication of national curriculum values everyone as a child of God and rejoices assessment results in its diversity. Our vision is to provide a happy, loving and nurturing environment where all • Attendance and rates of have the confidence to make outstanding unauthorised absence progress and so expand and fulfil their hopes • Statements about the school’s and aspirations. Our inspiring, enriched ethos and values curriculum promotes a thirst for knowledge • Religious education and worship and develops wisdom. As this is an Aided school, the governors have Motto formed an admission policy in line with Learning to Love - Loving to Learn Diocesan recommendations and in consultation with the local authority. ‘I give you a new command; love each other. You must love each other as I have The governors are seeking to offer a loved you.’ Christian based education in this Church of John 13 v 34 England school to as many children as possible whose parents/guardians We believe the values of faith, hope, love and earnestly desire it for their children. joy underpin all we do at St Michael’s. We value and respect the diverse cultures and There is no charge or cost related to the faiths represented by our school and wider admission of a child to a school. community. We encourage pupils to share their experiences of faith and culture for the Admission Numbers benefit of all. The school operates an admission limit of 30 for KS1 (Infant) classes and an admission limit Parents considering application for a place at of 30 for KS2 (Junior) classes. St. Michael’s are encouraged to view the school in action. Parents are encouraged to Reception children are admitted in September read the Local Authority (LA) “Starting School at the start of the academic year. in Wolverhampton” booklet which is available Also in September, pupils from other schools online. The school is part of the Inter-LA co- may transfer to Year 3 at St. Michael’s; this is ordination of Primary Admissions for when Key Stage 1 pupils move to Key Stage 2. Wolverhampton.

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Step by Step Process part-time until the child reaches compulsory Parents requesting a Reception place for school age. 2021 - 2022 should complete an LA Common In addition, following new guidance, Application Form (CAF2) online at applications for summer born pupils to be www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. admitted the following year are co-ordinated Parents requesting a Year 3 place for by the Local Authority. Parents are requested September 2021 should complete an LA to consult with the Local Authority should this Common Application Form (CAF3) which is be their wish. issued by and returned to the Civic Centre or The school notifies the local authority of present school by 15 January 2021. In cases names on the preliminary waiting list. of over-subscription parents may be Following notification, the waiting list is requested to complete a Supplementary maintained by the local authority and ranked Information Form which is available from and in admission criteria order details of which are should be returned to school. explained in the ‘Introducing Primary Parents requesting a place after the start of Education – Starting School in the academic year 2021 - 2022 should Wolverhampton 2021/2022 Booklet’. contact the Local Authority – School’s Being on a waiting list does not guarantee the Admissions and Transfers Section. In addition, offer of a place. Applications received after the if applying under category 4 (Strength of family closing date will be considered after all other commitment to faith) please complete a applications and will be determined in Supplementary Information Form available accordance with the school’s published from the school and returnable to the school. criteria. Allocation of Places Applications received after 15 January 2021 Reception places are allocated in the previous will be considered as individual cases. April and places are held in reserve for those For children with statements of special pupils who are allocated places and are due educational need which specifies the school to start in the following September. The date concerned, the school must admit such for allocations is in line with LA deadlines and children whether they have places or not. parents are given this information with The LA Common Application Form. Oversubscription A Supplementary Information Form will be

School Entry required for oversubscription point 4. Children must by law, start school by the beginning of the term after their fifth birthday. If the number of requests is greater than the A parent may defer a child’s entry to the school’s admission limit, places will be school, but not beyond the academic year for allocated on the following basis in order of which the application is accepted. Parents priority: may discuss this with the headteacher. 1. Children in care (Children and Young Parents can request that their child attends People in care and children previously

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classed as ‘Children and Young People ranked within category 5 and category 6. in care’) 5. Those living within the parish of Tettenhall 2. Children who are siblings of children Regis (i.e. Tettenhall, Aldersley, Pendeford already attending the school, at the time of and Bilbrook) Evidence of residency should admission. be supplied at the time an application is made. A map of the parish can be viewed 3. Children with medical or social reasons at the school, by appointment. which make it preferable to attend this school rather than any other. Such 6. Children living closest to the school, requests must be supported by a report, determined by the straight line obtained by the parents from an measurement from the designated point of appropriate professional source justifying the home address to the designated point the grounds for such an application. of the school using a computerised software system. For children who spend 4. The strength of the family commitment to part of the week with one parent/guardian their particular faith as demonstrated on and part with another, home will be the Supplementary Information Form determined by which parent is in receipt of (Appendix A). This will be measured by the largest percentage of Child Benefit for i) number of years the family has that child. Children living in the same block been worshipping of flats will be offered the available spaces ii) frequency of visits to the place randomly selected by drawing lots. of worship In the event of over-subscription, the iii) involvement on the activities of Governing Body Admissions Committee the place of worship will consider in the first instance only those who have applied for a place by 15 Supplementary Information Form will be January 2021. Parents will be notified of graded from A to C by a representative group the outcome on or as soon as possible from the Governing Body. Grade A after 16 April 2021. applications will then be ranked above Grade B applications; tie breaker criteria will apply Child’s Home Address within each group. This is the usual place of residence on A. Significant strength of support from a faith weekdays and nights. Addresses of leader which demonstrates their family childminders (formal or informal) will not be commitment to the life, work and witness accepted as a child’s place of residence. of their particular faith Changes of Address B. Minimal strength of support from a faith (occurring during the allocation process) leader which demonstrates their family commitment to the life, work and witness In these circumstances – or if a query arises in of their particular faith respect of your child’s place of residence – you will be required to supply evidence of your C. No evidence/incomplete form: these will be new address. For instance, a letter from a

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solicitor showing that the purchase of a Waiting lists will be maintained for at least one particular property is firmly in progress; or a term in the academic year of admission. photocopy of a rent book clearly showing your If a child is refused a place through over- name in connection with a particular property. subscription, parents are informed in writing of Material Change of their right to appeal to an independent appeals panel. They should write to the Clerk Circumstances of the Admissions Appeal Panel within 20 If applicant’s circumstances change during the days of receipt of the notice of refusal, c/o the course of making the application that relate to school address. The clerk will provide any of the published criteria it is the information of the appeals procedure. applicants’ responsibility to provide evidence The policy is reviewed annually during the to the School’s Admissions and Transfers Autumn Term. Section as this may affect the outcome of the application.

What is a Sibling? For admission purposes, a sibling is a child who resides at the same address as the child for whom a place is being requested, and is one of the following: • brother/sister • half-brother/sister (i.e. share one common parent) • or stepbrother/sister (i.e. related by a parent’s marriage) • any other child for whom it can be demonstrated that s/he is residing permanently at the same address (e.g. under the terms of a residence order). Where parent(s)/guardian(s) are seeking to place twins, triplets etc, they must submit separate applications for each child. When considering twins, triplets or larger number of siblings, which are the product of a multiple birth, one or more of whom falls within the published admission number of 30, and the others beyond it, Governors will offer a place to them all.

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ST MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC The ethos of this school is Catholic. The PRIMARY ACADEMY school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic St Michael’s Catholic Academy and Nursery is families. Whenever there are more part of the St Francis and St Clare MAC. The applications than places available, priority will admissions authority for the school is the be given to Catholic children in accordance Board of Directors of the St Francis and St with the oversubscription criteria listed below. Clare MAC who has responsibility for The school is conducted by its Board of admissions to this school. The Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church in Directors has delegated responsibility for the accordance with its Articles of Association administration of the admissions process to and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our the Local Governing Body of St Michael’s Lord Jesus Christ. Catholic Academy and Nursery As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a The admissions process for St Michael’s Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic Academy and Nursery is part of the Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated practice permeate every aspect of the admissions scheme. To apply for a place at school’s activity. It is essential that the St Michael’s Catholic Academy and Nursery in Catholic character of the school’s education the normal admissions round, an application be fully supported by all families in the school. must be made using the school admission We therefore hope that all parents will give application process of the local authority in their full, unreserved and positive support for which you live naming St Michael’s Catholic the aims and ethos of the school. This does Academy and Nursery on the application not affect the right of an applicant who is not form. Applications need to be made by 15th Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a January 2021. A Supplementary Information place at the school in accordance with the Form (SIF) must also be completed and admission arrangements. returned directly to the school by the same The Board of Directors is the admissions date (see Note 2). authority and has responsibility for admissions All applications which are submitted on time to this school. The Board of Directors has set will be considered at the same time, after the its admission number at 30 pupils to be closing date. admitted to the Reception class in the school You will be advised of the outcome of your year which begins in September 2021 application on 16th April 2021, or the next (see Note 1). working day, by the local authority on behalf of Where there are more applications for places the school. than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order Please note that throughout this policy, the of priority. If there is oversubscription within a term parent means all natural parents, any category, the Board of Directors will give person who is not a parent but has parental priority to children living closest to the school responsibility for a child and any person who determined by the shortest distance has care of a child. (see Note 5).

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For the purposes of this policy, parish Note 1 boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese Children with an Education, Health and Care of Birmingham parish boundary map which (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be can be accessed at admitted. This will reduce the number of https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boun places available to applicants. This is not an dary-map and will be applied to the admission oversubscription criteria. arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Note 2 In all categories, for a child to be considered Oversubscription Criteria as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Reception into the Church will be required. who are looked after or previously looked For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see after (See Note 3). Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face difficulties in producing written evidence of 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Catholic Baptism or Reception into the living in the parish of St Michael who have Church should contact their Parish Priest. a brother or sister (see Note 4) attending Parents making an application for a Catholic St Michael‘s Catholic Academy and child should also complete a Supplementary Nursery at the time of admission. Information Form (SIF) which should be 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) returned directly to the school. If you do living in the parish of St Michael. not provide the information required in the Supplementary Information Form and return it 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see by the closing date, together with all Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see supporting documentation, this is likely to Note 4) attending St Michael’s Catholic affect the criteria that your child is placed into, Academy and Nursery at the time of which is likely to affect your child’s chance of admission. being offered a place at this school. 5. Other Baptised Catholic children For the purposes of this policy, a looked after (see Note 2). child living with a family where at least one of the carers is Catholic will be considered as 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of after or previously looked after their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception (see Note 3). certificate directly to the school in order for 7. Non-Catholic children who have a this priority to be given to the child as failure to brother or sister (see Note 4) attending St do so will result in the looked after child being Michael’s Catholic Academy and Nursery ranked as a non-Catholic. at the time of admission. Note 3 8. Non-Catholic children. A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989,

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and means any child who is (a) in the care of home address to the designated point of the the local authority or (b) being provided with school using a computerised system. accommodation by them in the exercise of In a very small number of cases, where the their social services functions (eg children with school is oversubscribed, it may not be foster parents) at the time of making the possible to decide between the applications application to the school. A “previously of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a looked after child” is a child who immediately place when applying the published admission moved on from that status after becoming criteria. subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, For the purposes of this policy, a looked after or if the distance between the home and the child living with a family where at least one of school is exactly the same, for example, the carers is Catholic will be considered as blocks of flats. If there is no other way of Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of separating the application according to the their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of certificate directly to the school in order for the children would cause the Published this priority to be given to the child as failure to Admission Number for the child’s year group do so will result in the looked after child being to be exceeded, the Board of Directors will ranked as a non-Catholic. randomly select the child to be offered the Note 4 final place. For all applicants the definition of a brother or The Board of Directors will, where possible, sister is: admit twins and all siblings from multiple births where one of the children is the last child • A brother or sister sharing the ranked within the school’s published same parents admission number. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two A child’s home address refers to the address children share one common parent where the child usually lives with a parent or • A step-brother or step-sister, where two carer and will be the address provided in the children are related by a parents’ marriage Local Authority’s Common Application Form. or where they are unrelated but their However, where parents have shared parents are living as partners. responsibility for a child, and the child lives for • Adopted or fostered children part of the week with each parent, the home address will be the address provided on the The children must be living permanently in the school’s Supplementary Information Form, same household. provided that the child resides at that address Note 5 for any part of the school week. If no Supplementary Information Form is provided The measurement between home and school then the address will be that provided on the will be determined by the straight-line Local Authority’s Common Application Form. measurement from the designated point of the

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Parents may be requested to supply point at which the child reached compulsory documentary evidence to satisfy the school age. Governing Body that the child lives at the Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent address put forward by the parents. should notify the school, as soon as possible, Where parents have shared responsibility for a that they wish to either defer their child’s entry child, and the child lives for part of the week to the school or take up a part-time place. with each parent, the home address will be The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls the address provided in the Local Authority’s during the summer term who wishes to defer Common Application Form, provided that the their child’s admission until the beginning of child resides at that address for any part of the following academic year (when the child the school week. will have begun to be of compulsory school Parents may be requested to supply age) will therefore need to make a separate in- documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of year application for a place in Year 1 at the Directors that the child lives at the address put school. Any reception class place offered forward by the parents. following an application made for the 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn If a place in the school is offered on the basis if the child does not take up that place by the of an address that is subsequently found to be first day of the summer term 2022. different from a child’s normal and permanent home address, then that place is liable to be Applications for Children to be withdrawn. Admitted into a Class Outside of School Entry their Normal Age Group Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is Parents have the right to request, but not receiving suitable full time education from the insist, that their child be considered for beginning of the term following the child’s fifth admission to a class outside of their normal birthday, when they will have begun to be of age group. This could be the case, for compulsory school age. example, if a child is gifted and talented, has experienced problems such as ill health, or Where a place is offered in the school, the that the child is summer born, ie a child born pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on between 1st April and 31st August. Parents a full-time basis in the September following who wish for their child to be considered for their fourth birthday. admission to a class outside of their normal A child’s parents may defer the date at which age group must make an application for the their child, below compulsory school age, is normal age group in the first instance. admitted to the school, until later in the school Parents must then submit a formal request to year but not beyond the point at which they the Board of Directors for the child to be reach compulsory school age and not beyond considered for a different age group class the first day of the summer term 2022. instead. This request should be in the form of a written letter of application outlining the A child may take up a part-time place until reasons why they wish for their child to be later in the school year, but not beyond the considered to be admitted into a class outside

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of their normal age group and enclosing any If parents are considering submitting an supportive evidence and documentation that application for their child to be admitted into a they wish to be taken into account as part of class outside of their normal age group, it is that request. strongly recommended that they also read the The Board of Directors will consider requests DFE guidance which can be found at: submitted for a child to be admitted into a www.gov.uk/government/publications/ class outside of their normal age group and summer-born-children-school-admission advise parents of the outcome of that request Applications from Children before national offer day, having taken into account the information provided by the Currently Attending St Michael’s parents, the child’s best interests and the Catholic Academy and Nursery views of the Head Teacher. Attendance at St Michael’s Catholic Academy If the request is refused, the original ’s Nursery does not automatically guarantee application for the normal age group class will that a place will be offered in the Reception progress through the Local Authority co- class of St Michael’s Catholic Academy and ordinated admissions scheme, be considered Nursery. Parents must apply for a Reception by the Board of Directors and the parents place in exactly the same way as parents of advised of the outcome. children not attending the Nursery. All applications will be considered against the If the request is agreed and the year group for oversubscription criteria by the Board of which the parents have requested a place is a Directors in the same way regardless of current year group in the school, then the whether the child does or does not attend the application will be considered by the Board of Nursery at the time of application. Directors and the parents advised of the outcome. Appeals If the request is agreed and the year group for Parents who wish to appeal against the which the parents have requested a place is decision of the Board of Directors to refuse for a future year group, i.e. Reception in their child a place in the school should make September 2022, then the original application that appeal request in writing to the Chair of is withdrawn and the parents must submit a the Board of Directors at the school address. fresh application for Reception 2022 when Appeals will be heard by an independent applications open in the autumn term of 2021. panel. Please note that parents only have the right to Please note that parents do not have the right re-apply for a place. Where the Board of to appeal if their request for their children to Directors agrees to consider an application for be admitted to a class outside of their normal Reception the following year, that application year group has been refused, but the Board of is considered alongside all other applications Directors have offered a place in the normal received and parents will be advised of the age group instead. outcome of that application on national offer day. No place is reserved or held for the child in advance.

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Repeat Applications for late submissions will only be considered Any parent can apply for a place for their child after all other applications and the notification at any time outside of the normal admissions may be sent shortly after the national offer day. round. Parents do not have the right to a You are encouraged to ensure that your second appeal in respect of the same school application is received on time. for the same academic year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board of Change in Preference Directors has accepted a second application Requests to change the preferences after an from the parent because of a significant and application has been submitted must be material change in the circumstances of the made in writing to the local authority. Parents parent, child or school, but have still refused may change their preference on their child’s admission. application up to the closing date of 15th January 2021. Changes made after the Late Applications closing date but before 11th February 2021 Late applications will be dealt with in will be incorporated into the initial allocation accordance with the Local Authority’s co- process if the request is for a good and valid ordinated admissions scheme. This states reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a that applications received after the closing material change of circumstances, for date will be considered as late. Applications example a change of address. Any change in received after the closing date and before the preferences made after 11th February 2021 or final date for late submissions with approved where the parents cannot demonstrate a written evidence will only be incorporated into material change of circumstances will be the initial allocation process if the later treated as a late application and will only be submission is for a valid reason or parents can considered after all applications that were demonstrate a material change of received on time which may affect a child’s circumstances (see below). chances of being offered a preferred school. When submitting late applications parents Waiting List must give reasons in writing and supporting documentary evidence for the late In addition to their right to appeal, children submission. The school will give who have not been offered a place at St consideration to the reasons, following which Michael’s Catholic Academy and Nursery but the application will be: were offered a school that was ranked as a lower preference on their application form will Either be added to a waiting list. 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and assessed against the over-subscription criteria The waiting list will be maintained until 31st December 2021 and will then be Or discarded. Parents may apply to St 2) considered only after all other applications Michael’s Catholic Academy and Nursery Applications without written reasons for the for their child’s name to remain on the late application or received after the final date waiting list until the end of the academic year when it will be discarded.

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A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. Applications other than the When a new child joins the waiting list, all Normal Intake to Reception Class applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the list is always maintained in (In-Year Admissions) oversubscription criteria order. This means An application can be made for a place for a that a child’s position on the waiting list could child at any time outside the normal admission go up or down during the time that it is on the round and the child will be admitted where list. Any late applications accepted will be there are places available. Applications added to the waiting list in accordance with should be made using Wolverhampton the oversubscription criteria. Council’s admissions department application Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean process via the local authority’s website at that a place will eventually become available. www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. It may be that those already offered places Where there are places available but more may accept them, thereby filling all available applications than places, the published places. oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal round of admissions, will be applied. Children who are the subject of a direction by the Local Authority to admit or who are If there are no places available, the child will allocated to a school in accordance with the be added to the waiting list (see above). Fair Access Protocol take precedence over Parents will be advised of the outcome of their those on a waiting list. application in writing and, where the Board of Director’s decision is to refuse their child a In Year Fair Access Protocol place, have the right to appeal to an The Board of Directors of St Michael’s independent appeal panel. Catholic Academy and Nursery is committed There is no charge or cost related to the to taking its fair share of children who are admission of a child to this school. vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions.

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ST PATRICK’S CATHOLIC The ethos of this school is Catholic. The PRIMARY SCHOOL school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic St Patrick’s Catholic Primary Academy is part families. Whenever there are more of the St Francis and St Clare MAC. The applications than places available, priority will admissions authority for the school is the be given to Catholic children in accordance Board of Directors of the St Francis and St with the oversubscription criteria listed below. Clare MAC who has responsibility for The school is conducted by its governing admissions to this school. The Board of body as part of the Catholic Church in Directors has delegated responsibility for the accordance with its Trust Deed and administration of the admissions process to Instrument of Government and seeks at all the Academy Committee of the St Patrick’s times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Catholic Primary Academy. Christ. The admissions process for St Patrick’s As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic Primary Academy is part of the Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and admissions scheme. To apply for a place at St practice permeate every aspect of the Patrick’s Catholic Primary School in the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic normal admissions round, an application must character of the school’s education be fully be made using the school admission supported by all families in the school. We application process of the local authority in therefore hope that all parents will give their which you live naming St Patrick’s Catholic full, unreserved and positive support for the Primary Academy on the application form. aims and ethos of the school. This does not Applications need to be made by 15th affect the right of an applicant who is not January 2021. A Supplementary Information Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Form (SIF) must also be completed and place at the school in accordance with the returned directly to the school by the same admission arrangements. date (see Note 2). The governing body is the admissions All applications which are submitted on time authority and has responsibility for admissions will be considered at the same time, after the to this school. The governing body has set its closing date. admission number at 30 pupils to be admitted You will be advised of the outcome of your to the Reception class in the school year application on 16th April 2021, or the next which begins in September 2020 (see Note 1). working day, by the local authority on behalf of Where there are more applications for places the school. than the number of places available, places Please note that throughout this policy, the will be offered according to the following order term parent means all natural parents, any of priority. If there is oversubscription within a person who is not a parent but has parental category, the Governing Body will give priority responsibility for a child and any person who to children living closest to the school has care of a child. determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5).

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For the purposes of this policy, parish Note 1 boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese Children with an Education, Health and Care of Birmingham parish boundary map which (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be can be accessed at admitted. This will reduce the number of http://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish- places available to applicants. This is not an map/ and will be applied to the admission oversubscription criteria. arrangements for the academic year 2020/2021. Note 2 A map of the parish boundary is available at In all categories, for a child to be considered the school and parish or by post on request. as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church will be required. Oversubscription Criteria For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) difficulties in producing written evidence of who are looked after or previously looked Catholic Baptism or Reception into the after (see Note 3). Church should contact their Parish Priest. 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Parents making an application for a Catholic living in the parish of St Patrick’s who have child should also complete a Supplementary a brother or sister (see Note 4) attending Information Form (SIF) which should be St Patrick’s at the time of admission. returned directly to the school. If you do not provide the information required in the 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Supplementary Information Form and return it living in the parish of St Patrick’s. by the closing date, together with all 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see supporting documentation, this is likely to Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see affect the criteria that your child is placed into, Note 4) attending St Patrick’s at the time of which is likely to affect your child’s chance of admission. being offered a place at this school. 5. Other Baptised Catholic children Note 3 (see Note 2). A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked and means any child who is (a) in the care of after or previously looked after the local authority or (b) being provided with (see Note 3). accommodation by them in the exercise of 7. Non-Catholic children who have a their social services functions (eg children with brother or sister (see Note 4) attending St foster parents) at the time of making the Patrick’s at the time of admission. application to the school. A “previously looked after child” is a child who immediately moved 8. Non-Catholic children. on from that status after becoming subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order.

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Note 4 The governing body will, where possible, For all applicants the definition of a brother or admit twins and all siblings from multiple births sister is: where one of the children is the last child ranked within the school’s published • A brother or sister sharing the admission number. same parents A child’s home address is considered to be a • A half-brother or half-sister, where two residential property that is the child’s only or children share one common parent main permanent residence and is either: • A step-brother or step-sister, where two • Owned by the child’s parent(s); children are related by a parents’ marriage or where they are unrelated but their • Leased to or rented by the child’s parent(s) parents are living as partners. under lease or written rental agreement of not less than twelve months duration. • Adopted or fostered children Evidence of ownership or rental agreement The children must be living permanently in the may be required, plus proof of permanent same household. residence at the property concerned. Note 5 Where parents have shared responsibility for a The measurement between home and school child, and the child lives with both parents for will be determined by the straight-line part of the week, then the main residence will measurement from the designated point of the be determined as the address where the child home address to the designated point of the lives for the majority of the week. Parents may school using a computerised system. be requested to supply documentary evidence to satisfy the Governing Body that the child In a very small number of cases, where the lives at the address put forward by the parents. school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide between the applications If a place in the school is offered on the basis of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a of an address that is subsequently found to be place when applying the published admission different from a child’s normal and permanent criteria. home address, then that place is liable to be withdrawn. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, School Entry or if the distance between the home and the Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is school is exactly the same, for example, receiving suitable full time education from the blocks of flats. If there is no other way of beginning of the term following the child’s fifth separating the application according to the birthday, when they will have begun to be of admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of compulsory school age. the children would cause the Published Admission Number for the child’s year group Where a place is offered in the school, the to be exceeded, the Governing Body will pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on randomly select the child to be offered the a full-time basis in the September following final place. their fourth birthday.

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A child’s parents may defer the date at which admission to a class outside of their normal their child, below compulsory school age, is age group must make an application for the admitted to the school, until later in the school normal age group in the first instance. Parents year but not beyond the point at which they must then submit a formal request to the reach compulsory school age and not beyond Governing Body for the child to be considered the first day of the summer term 2021. for a different age group class instead. This A child may take up a part-time place until request should be in the form of a written later in the school year, but not beyond the letter of application outlining the reasons why point at which the child reached compulsory they wish for their child to be considered to be school age. admitted into a class outside of their normal age group and enclosing any supportive Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent evidence and documentation that they wish to should notify the school, as soon as possible, be taken into account as part of that request. that they wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school or take up a part-time place. The Governing Body will consider requests submitted for a child to be admitted into a The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls class outside of their normal age group and during the summer term who wishes to defer advise parents of the outcome of that request their child’s admission until the beginning of before national offer day, having taken into the following academic year (when the child account the information provided by the will have begun to be of compulsory school parents, the child’s best interests and the age) will therefore need to make a separate in- views of the Head Teacher. year application for a place in Year 1 at the school. Any reception class place offered If the request is refused, the original following an application made for the application for the normal age group class will 2020/2021 admission round will be withdrawn progress through the Local Authority co- if the child does not take up that place by the ordinated admissions scheme, be considered first day of the summer term 2021. by the Governing Body and the parents advised of the outcome. Applications for Children to be If the request is agreed and the year group for Admitted into a Class Outside of which the parents have requested a place is a their Normal Age Group current year group in the school, then the application will be considered by the Parents have the right to request, but not Governing Body and the parents advised of insist, that their child be considered for the outcome. admission to a class outside of their normal age group. This could be the case, for If the request is agreed and the year group for example, if a child is gifted and talented, has which the parents have requested a place is experienced problems such as ill health, or for a future year group, ie Reception in that the child is summer born, i.e. a child born September 2021, then the original application between 1st April and 31st August. Parents is withdrawn and the parents must submit a who wish for their child to be considered for fresh application for Reception 2021 when

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applications open in the autumn term of 2020. be heard by an independent panel. Please note that parents only have the right to Please note that parents do not have the right re-apply for a place. Where the Governing to appeal if their request for their children to Body agrees to consider an application for be admitted to a class outside of their normal Reception the following year, that application year group has been refused, but the is considered alongside all other applications Governing Body have offered a place in the received and parents will be advised of the normal age group instead. outcome of that application on national offer day. No place is reserved or held for the child Repeat Applications in advance. Any parent can apply for a place for their child If parents are considering submitting an at any time outside of the normal admissions application for their child to be admitted into a round. Parents do not have the right to a class outside of their normal age group, it is second appeal in respect of the same school strongly recommended that they also read the for the same academic year unless, in DFE guidance which can be found at: exceptional circumstances, the Governing www.gov.uk/government/publications/ Body has accepted a second application from summer-born-children-school-admission the parent because of a significant and material change in the circumstances of the Applications from Children parent, child or school, but have still refused Currently Attending St Patrick’s admission. Catholic Primary School’s Nursery Late Applications Attendance at St Patrick’s Catholic Primary Late applications will be dealt with in School’s Nursery does not automatically accordance with the Local Authority’s co- guarantee that a place will be offered in the ordinated admissions scheme. This states that Reception class of St Patrick’s Catholic applications received after the closing date will Primary School. Parents must apply for a be considered as late. Applications received Reception place in exactly the same way as after the closing date and before the final date parents of children not attending the Nursery. for late submissions with approved written All applications will be considered against the evidence will only be incorporated into the oversubscription criteria by the Governing initial allocation process if the later submission Body in the same way regardless of whether is for a valid reason or parents can the child does or does not attend the Nursery demonstrate a material change of at the time of application. circumstances (see below). Appeals When submitting late applications parents Parents who wish to appeal against the must give reasons in writing and supporting decision of the Governing Body to refuse their documentary evidence for the late child a place in the school should make that submission. The school will give consideration appeal request in writing to the Chair of to the reasons, following which the application Governors at the school address. Appeals will will be:

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Either preference on their application form will be 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and added to a waiting list. assessed against the over-subscription criteria The waiting list will be maintained until the last Or day of the summer term and will then be 2) considered only after all other applications discarded. Applications without written reasons for the A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. late application or received after the final date When a new child joins the waiting list, all for late submissions will only be considered applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked after all other applications and the notification to ensure that the list is always maintained in may be sent shortly after the national offer oversubscription criteria order. This means day. that a child’s position on the waiting list could You are encouraged to ensure that your go up or down during the time that it is on the application is received on time. list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with Change in Preference the oversubscription criteria. Requests to change the preferences after an Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean application has been submitted must be that a place will eventually become available. It made in writing to the local authority. Parents may be that those already offered places may may change their preference on their child’s accept them, thereby filling all available application up to the closing date of 15th places. January 2020. Changes made after the Children who are the subject of a direction by closing date but before 11th February 2020 the Local Authority to admit or who are will be incorporated into the initial allocation allocated to a school in accordance with the process if the request is for a good and valid Fair Access Protocol take precedence over reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a those on a waiting list. material change of circumstances, for example a change of address. Any change in In Year Fair Access Protocol preferences made after 11th February 2020 or The Governing Body of St Patrick’s Catholic where the parents cannot demonstrate a Primary School is committed to taking its fair material change of circumstances will be share of children who are vulnerable and/or treated as a late application and will only be hard to place, as set out in locally agreed considered after all applications that were protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal received on time which may affect a child’s admission round the governing body is chances of being offered a preferred school. empowered to give absolute priority to a child Waiting List where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Governing Body In addition to their right to appeal, children has this power, even when admitting the child who have not been offered a place at St would mean exceeding the published Patrick’s Catholic Primary School but were admission number subject to the infant class offered a school that was ranked as a lower size exceptions.

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Applications other than the Normal Intake to Reception Class (In-Year Admissions) An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round and the child will be admitted where there are places available. Applications should be made using Wolverhampton Council’s admissions department application process via the local authority’s website at http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admission s. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal round of admissions, will be applied. If there are no places available, the child will be added to the waiting list (see above). Parents will be advised of the outcome of their application in writing and, where the Governing Body’s decision is to refuse their child a place, have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to this school.

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ST PAUL’S CHURCH OF In requesting a place parents/carers are asked ENGLAND (A) PRIMARY SCHOOL to complete a school’s supplementary evidence form. Preference will be given to Parents/carers considering an application for families with a religious affiliation; parents are a school place for their child at St Paul’s invited to submit a statement of support from School they are invited to visit the school, and their relevant faith leader. experience the school in action. Parents/carers are encouraged to consult the The school operates on an admission limit of Local Authority (LA) ‘Starting School in 30 for Foundation and KS1 (Infant) but an Wolverhampton’ booklet which is available to admission limit of 32 for KS2 (Junior) download at Reception children are admitted in September www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. The at the start of the academic year. school will be part of the Inter – LA co- ordination of Primary Admissions. Also in September, pupils from other schools may transfer to Year 3 at St. Paul’s; this is Parents/carers are given a copy of the when Key Stage 1 pupils move to Key Stage 2. school’s prospectus, which includes details of: Children with Education Health Care Plans or • Statements about the school’s disability which specifies St Paul’s will be ethos and values allocated a place. • Curriculum organisation and Parents/Carers requesting a teaching methods Reception place for 2021/2022 • Arrangements for special The online application system is made live on educational needs the 10th November 2020 • An indication of National Curriculum www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions Assessment results Applications should be made online, hard • Attendance and rates of authorised copies of the form will only be made available /unauthorised absence on request. Hard copies issued by the LA should be returned to the present nursery, • Religious education and Worship preferred school or the Civic Centre – The As St Paul’s is an Aided school, the Governors Schools’ Admission and Transfer Section of have formulated an admissions policy in line the LA by 15th January 2021. In addition to with Diocesan recommendations and in the Common Application form parents/carers consultation with the Local Authority. are asked to complete a St Paul’s School Supporting Evidence form which is The Governors seek to offer a Christian based available in the Starting School Pack education in this Church of England school to should be returned to school. as many parents/carers as possible that have requested it for their children. Parents/Carers requesting a Year 3 place for September 2021 (including those who There is no charge or cost related to the previously were not granted a place due to admission of a child to a school. admission numbers).

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The online application system is made live on in admission criteria order. Details of which the 10th November 2020. are explained in the ‘Introducing Primary www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions Education – Starting School in Wolverhampton 2021/2022 Booklet’ Applications should be made online, hard copies of the form will only be made available Being on the waiting list does not guarantee on request. Hard copies issued by the LA the offer of a place. An application received should be returned to the Civic Centre – The after the closing date will be considered after Schools’ Admission and Transfer Section of all applications and will be determined in the LA by 15th January 2021. In cases of accordance with the school’s published over subscription parents/carers may be criteria. requested to complete a Supporting Evidence form which is available from and should be Late applications received after returned to school. 15th January 2021 will be Parents/Carers requesting a place after the considered as individual cases. start of the academic year 2020/2021 If the number of requests for places should contact the Local Authority – School exceeds the school’s admission limit, Admission and Transfers section. places will be allocated on the following Parents/Carers of Pre-School children basis in order of priority: making a preliminary request for future 1. Children in Care (Looked after children) years should complete a Pre-school which includes previously looked after Preliminary Expression of interest form children who have been adopted. available from and returnable to the school. 2. Children who are siblings* of children Reception places are allocated in April. The already attending the school, at the time of date for allocations is in line with the LA admission deadlines and parents/carers are given this information with the LA Common Application 3. Children with medical or social reasons form. which make it preferable to attend this school rather than any other. Such The school maintains a waiting list of forms requests must be supported by a report, received before the closing date and these are obtained by the parents/carers from an also subject to the over-subscription criteria. appropriate professional source justifying A parent/carer would not however be able to the grounds for such an application defer entry beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, nor beyond the 4. Those showing strength of support from academic year for which admission is sought. the appropriate faith leader, demonstrating commitment to the life, work and witness The School notifies the Local Authority of the of their faith. The strength of the family names on the preliminary waiting list. commitment to their particular faith as Following notification the waiting list is demonstrated on the Supporting Evidence maintained by the Local Authority and ranked form. This will be measured by

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• Number of years a family has determined by the straight line been worshipping measurement from the designated point of • Frequency of visits to the place the home address to the designated point of worship of the school using computerised software. In the event of the address being • Involvement in activities of the to multiple occupancy (block of flats) this place of worship will be done by lot. • The School is the closest Church of England (VA) or (VC) to their Children with Education Health Care Plans home address will automatically be offered a place thus reducing the number of places available. Information should be supplied on a Supporting Evidence Form at the time the By 13th February 2021 the LA’s School application is made. Admissions and Transfer Section will send details of applicants for St Paul’s, (these 5. Those living within the parish of details will not reveal the order of preference). Tettenhall Regis and within the Wolverhampton L.A. boundary (i.e. In the event of over-subscription the Tettenhall, Aldersley and Pendeford) If Governing Body Admissions Committee will there is an insufficient number of places to consider in the first instance only those who accommodate all the children the places have applied for a place by 15th January. will be allocated to the child(ren) living Parents will be notified of the outcome on or closest to the school. When ranking as soon as possible after 16th April 2021. applications we will use the distances In the case of over-subscription parents may supplied by the LA. The measurements be requested to provide, by a specific date, between home and school will be further details which may include proof of determined by the straight line residency at a given address, letter of support measurement from the designated point of from a faith leader and individual reasons for the home address to the designated point requesting St Paul’s School. of the school using computerised software. In the event of the address Child’s Home Address - being to multiple occupancy This is the usual place of residence on accommodation (block of flats) this will be weekdays and nights. The address of a child done by lot. minder (formal or informal) will not be 6. Any other children not falling into the accepted as a child’s place of residence. above categories. If there is an insufficient number of places to Change of Address (occurring accommodate all the children the places during the allocation process) will be allocated to the child(ren) living In these circumstances – or if a query arises in closest to the school. When ranking respect of a child’s place of residence –it will applications we will use the distances be a requirement that evidence to support supplied by the LA. The measurements residency is supplied. For instance a letter between home and school will be from a solicitor showing that the purchase of a

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particular property is firmly in progress; or a separate application for each child. photocopy of a rent book clearly showing In the event that one child from a multiple birth relevant names in connection with a particular has been accepted in the 30th place, the property. statutory limit of infant class size will be Material Change exceeded to accommodate the other sibling (siblings) of Circumstances Waiting lists will be maintained for at least one If there are any changes in circumstances term in the academic year of admission. during the course of making the application that relate to any of the published criteria it is Appeals the responsibility of the applicant to provide evidence to the School’s Admissions and If a child is refused a place through over- Transfers Section. Changes in circumstances subscription, parents/carers are informed in may affect the outcome of the application. writing of their right to appeal to an independent appeals panel. They should What is a sibling? write to the Clerk of the Admissions Appeal Panel within 20 days of receipt of the notice of * For admission purposes, a sibling is a child refusal, c/o the school address. who resides at the same address as the child for whom a place is being requested, and is This Policy will be reviewed annually one of the following:- • brother/sister • half-brother/sister (i.e. share one common parent) • step brother/sister (i.e. related by a parent’s marriage) • any other child for whom it can be demonstrated that he/she is residing permanently at the same address (e.g under the terms of a residence order) Application in respect of multiple births As far as possible siblings (including twins, triplets or children from multiple births), will be allocated a place based on the criteria for admissions. Where parents/carers are seeking to place twins, triplets etc, they must submit a

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ST TERESA’S CATHOLIC The ethos of this school is Catholic. The PRIMARY ACADEMY school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic St Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy School families. Whenever there are more is part of the St Francis and St Clare Catholic applications than places available, priority will Multi Academy Company. The admissions be given to Catholic children in accordance authority for the school is the Board of with the oversubscription criteria listed below. Directors of the St Francis and St Clare The school is conducted by its Board of Catholic Multi Academy Company who has Directors as part of the Catholic Church in responsibility for admissions to this school. accordance with its Articles of Association The Board of Directors has delegated and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our responsibility for the administration of the Lord Jesus Christ. admissions process to the Academy Committee of St Teresa’s Catholic Primary As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Academy School. Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and The admissions process for St Teresa’s practice permeate every aspect of the Catholic Primary Academy is part of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic Wolverhampton Local Authority co-ordinated character of the school’s education be fully admissions scheme. To apply for a place at St supported by all families in the school. We Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy in the therefore hope that all parents will give their normal admissions round, an application must full, unreserved and positive support for the be made using the school admission aims and ethos of the school. This does not application process of the local authority in affect the right of an applicant who is not which you live naming St Teresa’s Catholic Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a Primary Academy on the application form. place at the school in accordance with the Applications need to be made by 15th January admission arrangements. 2021. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned directly The Board of Directors is the admissions to the school by the same date (see Note 2). authority and has responsibility for admissions to this school. The Board of Directors has set All applications which are submitted on time its admission number at 30 (PAN) pupils to be will be considered at the same time, after the admitted to the Reception class in the school closing date. year, which begins in September 2021 You will be advised of the outcome of your (see Note 1). application on 16th April 2021, or the next Where there are more applications for places working day, by the local authority on behalf of than the number of places available, places the school. will be offered according to the following order Please note that throughout this policy, the of priority. If there is oversubscription within a term parent means all natural parents, any category, the Board of Directors will give person who is not a parent but has parental priority to children living closest to the school responsibility for a child and any person who determined by the shortest distance has care of a child. (see Note 5).

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For the purposes of this policy, parish Note 1 boundaries are as shown on the Archdiocese Children with an Education, Health and Care of Birmingham parish boundary map which Plan (EHCP) that names the school MUST be can be accessed at admitted. This will reduce the number of https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boun places available to applicants. This is not an dary-map and will be applied to the admission oversubscription criteria. arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Note 2 In all categories, for a child to be considered Oversubscription Criteria as Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Reception into the Church will be required. who are looked after or previously looked For a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see after (see Note 3). Appendix 2b on page 193. Those who face difficulties in producing written evidence of 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) Catholic Baptism or Reception into the living in the parish of Parish of St Teresa of Church should contact their Parish Priest. the Infant Jesus, Parkfields who have a brother or sister (see Note 4) attending St Parents making an application for a Catholic Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy School child should also complete a Supplementary at the time of admission. Information Form (SIF) which should be returned directly to the school. If you do not 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2) provide the information required in the living in the parish of Parish of St Teresa of Supplementary Information Form and return it the Infant Jesus, Parkfields. by the closing date, together with all 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see supporting documentation, this is likely to Note 2) who have a brother or sister (see affect the criteria that your child is placed into, Note 4) attending St Teresa’s Catholic which is likely to affect your child’s chance of Primary Academy School at the time of being offered a place at this school. admission. For the purposes of this policy, a looked after 5. Other Baptised Catholic children child living with a family where at least one of (see Note 2). the carers is Catholic will be considered as Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception after or previously looked after certificate directly to the school in order for (see Note 3). this priority to be given to the child as failure to 7. Non-Catholic children who have a do so will result in the looked after child being brother or sister (see Note 4) attending St ranked as a non-Catholic. Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy School at the time of admission. Note 3 A “looked after child” has the same meaning 8. Non-Catholic children. as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989,

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and means any child who is (a) in the care of home address to the designated point of the the local authority or (b) being provided with school using a computerised system. accommodation by them in the exercise of In a very small number of cases, where the their social services functions (e.g. children school is oversubscribed, it may not be with foster parents) at the time of making the possible to decide between the applications application to the school. A “previously looked of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a after child” is a child who immediately moved place when applying the published admission on from that status after becoming subject to criteria. an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, For the purposes of this policy, a looked after or if the distance between the home and the child living with a family where at least one of school is exactly the same, for example, the carers is Catholic will be considered as blocks of flats. If there is no other way of Catholic. The carer must forward a copy of separating the application according to the their own Catholic Baptismal or Reception admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, certificate directly to the school in order for of the children would cause the Published this priority to be given to the child as failure to Admission Number for the child’s year group do so will result in the looked after child being to be exceeded, the Board of Directors will ranked as a non-Catholic. randomly select the child to be offered the final place. Note 4 For all applicants the definition of a brother or The Board of Directors will, where possible, sister is: admit twins and all siblings from multiple births where one of the children is the last child • A brother or sister sharing the same ranked within the school’s published parents admission number. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two A child’s home address refers to the address children share one common parent where the child usually lives with a parent or • A step-brother or step-sister, where two carer and will be the address provided in the children are related by a parents’ marriage Local Authority’s Common Application Form. or where they are unrelated but their However, where parents have shared parents are living as partners. responsibility for a child, and the child lives for • Adopted or fostered children part of the week with each parent, the home address will be the address provided on the The children must be living permanently in the school’s Supplementary Information Form, same household. provided that the child resides at that address for any part of the school week. If no Note 5 Supplementary Information Form is provided The measurement between home and school then the address will be that provided on the will be determined by the straight-line Local Authority’s Common Application Form. measurement from the designated point of the

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Parents may be requested to supply point at which the child reached compulsory documentary evidence to satisfy the school age. Governing Body that the child lives at the Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent address put forward by the parents. should notify the school, as soon as possible, Where parents have shared responsibility for a that they wish to either defer their child’s entry child, and the child lives for part of the week to the school or take up a part-time place. with each parent, the home address will be The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls the address provided in the Local Authority’s during the summer term who wishes to defer Common Application Form, provided that the their child’s admission until the beginning of child resides at that address for any part of the following academic year (when the child the school week. will have begun to be of compulsory school Parents may be requested to supply age) will therefore need to make a separate in- documentary evidence to satisfy the Board of year application for a place in Year 1 at the Directors that the child lives at the address put school. Any reception class place offered forward by the parents. following an application made for the If a place in the school is offered on the basis 2021/2022 admission round will be withdrawn of an address that is subsequently found to be if the child does not take up that place by the different from a child’s normal and permanent first day of the summer term 2022. home address, then that place is liable to be Applications for Children to be withdrawn. Admitted into a Class outside of School Entry their Normal Age Group Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is Parents have the right to request, but not receiving suitable full-time education from the insist, that their child be considered for beginning of the term following the child’s fifth admission to a class outside of their normal birthday, when they will have begun to be of age group. This could be the case, for compulsory school age. example, if a child is gifted and talented, has Where a place is offered in the school, the experienced problems such as ill health, or pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on that the child is summer born, i.e. a child born a full-time basis in the September following between 1st April and 31st August. Parents their fourth birthday. who wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal A child’s parents may defer the date at which age group must make an application for the their child, below compulsory school age, is normal age group in the first instance. Parents admitted to the school, until later in the school must then submit a formal request to the year but not beyond the point at which they Board of Directors for the child to be reach compulsory school age and not beyond considered for a different age group class the first day of the summer term 2022. instead. This request should be in the form of A child may take up a part-time place until a written letter of application outlining the later in the school year, but not beyond the reasons why they wish for their child to be

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considered to be admitted into a class outside day. No place is reserved or held for the child of their normal age group and enclosing any in advance. supportive evidence and documentation that If parents are considering submitting an they wish to be taken into account as part of application for their child to be admitted into a that request. class outside of their normal age group, it is The Board of Directors will consider requests strongly recommended that they also read the submitted for a child to be admitted into a DFE guidance which can be found at: class outside of their normal age group and www.gov.uk/government/publications/ advise parents of the outcome of that request summer-born-children-school-admission before national offer day, having taken into account the information provided by the Appeals parents, the child’s best interests and the Parents who wish to appeal against the views of the Head Teacher. decision of the Board of Directors to refuse If the request is refused, the original their child a place in the school should make application for the normal age group class will that appeal request in writing to the Chair of progress through the Local Authority co- the Board of Directors at the school address. ordinated admissions scheme, be considered Appeals will be heard by an independent by the Board of Directors and the parents panel. advised of the outcome. Please note that parents do not have the right If the request is agreed and the year group for to appeal if their request for their children to which the parents have requested a place is a be admitted to a class outside of their normal current year group in the school, then the year group has been refused, but the Board of application will be considered by the Board of Directors have offered a place in the normal Directors and the parents advised of the age group instead. outcome. Repeat Applications If the request is agreed and the year group for Any parent can apply for a place for their child which the parents have requested a place is at any time outside of the normal admissions for a future year group, ie Reception in round. Parents do not have the right to a September 2022, then the original application second appeal in respect of the same school is withdrawn and the parents must submit a for the same academic year unless, in fresh application for Reception 2022 when exceptional circumstances, the Board of applications open in the autumn term of 2021. Directors has accepted a second application Please note that parents only have the right to from the parent because of a significant and re-apply for a place. Where the Board of material change in the circumstances of the Directors agrees to consider an application for parent, child or school, but have still refused Reception the following year, that application admission. is considered alongside all other applications received and parents will be advised of the outcome of that application on national offer

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Late Applications January 2021. Changes made after the Late applications will be dealt with in closing date but before 11th February 2021 accordance with the Local Authority’s co- will be incorporated into the initial allocation ordinated admissions scheme. This states that process if the request is for a good and valid applications received after the closing date will reason, i.e. parents can demonstrate a be considered as late. Applications received material change of circumstances, for after the closing date and before the final date example a change of address. Any change in for late submissions with approved written preferences made after 11th February 2021 or evidence will only be incorporated into the where the parents cannot demonstrate a initial allocation process if the later submission material change of circumstances will be is for a valid reason or parents can treated as a late application and will only be demonstrate a material change of considered after all applications that were circumstances (see below). received on time which may affect a child’s chances of being offered a preferred school. When submitting late applications parents must give reasons in writing and supporting Waiting List documentary evidence for the late In addition to their right to appeal, children submission. The school will give consideration who have not been offered a place at St to the reasons, following which the application Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy, but were will be: offered a school that was ranked as a lower Either preference on their application form will be 1) incorporated into the initial allocation and added to a waiting list. The waiting list will be assessed against the over-subscription criteria maintained until the last day of the summer term 2022 and will then be discarded. Or 2) considered only after all other applications A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When a new child joins the waiting list, all Applications without written reasons for the applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked late application or received after the final date to ensure that the list is always maintained in for late submissions will only be considered oversubscription criteria order. This means after all other applications and the notification that a child’s position on the waiting list could may be sent shortly after the national offer go up or down during the time that it is on the day. list. Any late applications accepted will be You are encouraged to ensure that your added to the waiting list in accordance with application is received on time. the oversubscription criteria.

Change in Preference Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. Requests to change the preferences after an application has been submitted must be It may be that those already offered places made in writing to the local authority. Parents may accept them, thereby filling all available may change their preference on their child’s places. application up to the closing date of 15th

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Children who are the subject of a direction by Parents will be advised of the outcome of their the Local Authority to admit or who are application in writing and, where the Board of allocated to a school in accordance with the Director’s decision is to refuse their child a Fair Access Protocol take precedence over place, have the right to appeal to an those on a waiting list. independent appeal panel.

In Year Fair Access Protocol There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to this school. The Board of Directors of St Teresa’s Catholic Primary Academy is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions. Applications other than the Normal Intake to Reception Class (In-Year Admissions) An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round and the child will be admitted where there are places available. Applications should be made using Wolverhampton Council’s admissions department application process via the local authority’s website at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal round of admissions, will be applied. If there are no places available, the child will be added to the waiting list.

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THE ROYAL SCHOOL General information WOLVERHAMPTON The Governing body of The Royal School will be responsible for the admissions “Excellence for all: inspiring individuals arrangements which include the overall to achieve their personal best and to procedure and administration of the compete and contribute as local and oversubscription criteria. Parents living both global citizens” within and beyond the Wolverhampton Local The Royal School Wolverhampton is an Authority can apply to the School through independent Free School, serving the local their own Local Authority indicating a and wider community. As an all-through, co- preference for The Royal School on the CAF1. educational, non-denominational day and Applications for Day places in at The Royal boarding school, it will admit pupils from School for the academic year 2021/2022 will across the city, aged 4-19, and build on its be part of Wolverhampton’s coordinated high aspirations and track record of providing admissions arrangements. outstanding, non-selective education for Families living within the Wolverhampton LA children with a wide range of needs. must complete the CAF, indicating The Royal The Royal School will offer a broad and School in a ranked preference and return the balanced, knowledge-rich, strongly academic, form to the LA. Applicants must include The whilst personalised curriculum across the Royal School on the CAF to enable the school Primary and Secondary phases, structured to to consider your application. meet pupils’ differing educational needs. We Families living outside the Wolverhampton LA, will ensure high levels of literacy and must complete the appropriate CAF issued by numeracy, with an emphasis on those your ‘Home’ LA and return it to them subjects seen to provide the most successful accordingly, indicating a ranked preference for foundation for entry to the top universities and The Royal School. Applicants must include future careers, including science, technology, The Royal on the Home LA CAF to be engineering and mathematics (STEM). considered. Key to our success, is developing the whole After completing the LA CAF, families must person through a rich and varied programme complete The Royal School Supplementary of activity both within and outside the form which must be downloaded from the LA classroom, which raises aspiration, builds website. The supplementary form must then leadership skills, confidence and resilience, be sent directly to the Registrar at The Royal and improves both academic and personal School. outcomes for all pupils. Applicants will be required to produce proof All pupils will be educated to the highest (Council Tax or utility bill) of the stated home standards, enabling them to make successful address (permanent residence) used on the and confident transitions to university, further admissions form at the time of application, education and the work place, and to lead and must notify the School of any subsequent fulfilling lives in a rapidly changing and multi change of address. lingual world.

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The child’s permanent residence is where they Day Places live normally, including weekends and during Reception – 90 school holidays, as well as, during the week, and should be used for the application. The Admissions arrangements for day places permanent address of a child who spends for 2021-22 part of their week with one parent and part If undersubscribed, The Royal School will with the other, at different addresses, will be admit all applicants for day places. the address at which the child lives for the majority of the school week. If the child equally Across key points of entry, where fewer than shares living with both parents, the parents the expected number of pupils within the must inform the School which address should school progress automatically to the next year be used for admission purposes and which of their education, additional external pupils parent will make the application. Parents will will be admitted until the respective year be requested to supply documentary evidence groups reach their capacity. to support the address used for the If oversubscribed, the following criteria for the application. different phases of entry will apply in order The distance between a pupil’s home and The 4.1 Oversubscription criteria Royal School will be determined by a straight line measurement from the child’s designated and procedures, for entry for home address to a central point within The day places Royal School, using co-ordinates taken from The Royal School will admit any pupils with an the Local Land and Property Gazetteer, as Education, Health and Care plan naming the calculated through Wolverhampton Council’s School. Geographical Information System (GIS). Priority will then be given to those children A further list of definitions of terms used in the who meet the criteria set out below, in oversubscription criteria (i.e. where there are descending order until all places are filled: more applications than places available) is 1 Looked after children and children who provided at the end of this document. were previously looked after but Summary of key dates immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, child for 2021 entry arrangements order, or special Reception – Local Authority Application guardianship order (see definition 1). window open from 10 November, 2020, to 15 January, 2021, with offers made on 16 April, 2 50% of all places (rounded up to the next 2021. whole child) will be allocated to those children whose permanent address (see Multi –phase admissions arrangements definition 3) is within a 2 or 3 mile radius of which apply to the normal points of entry the school, depending on their age (i.e. 2 For 2021/22, The Royal School will have the miles for applicants under the age of 8, following admission numbers for external and 3 miles for those aged between applicants: 8 and 16, as illustrated in the LA’s map, attached as Annex 2).

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2.2 Within the above, priority will be given Tie breaks to up to 20% of children (rounded up If two or more children are tied for a final place to the next whole child) who meet in category 2, priority will be given to children any of the following criteria: who live closest to the school on the two or a) Children eligible for free school meals three mile rule, using the distance approach and children who have been set out under Section 1 (general notes). registered as eligible for free school An independently verified random draw will meals (see definition 2) at any point in also be used as a further tie-break in Category the past six years; 2 to decide who has the highest priority for b) Children whose parent is serving in admission if the distance between a child’s the regular UK armed forces or was home and RSW is equidistant in any individual serving in the past three years; case.

c) Children who are in receipt of a Twins/multiple births pension under the Armed Forces If twins or children from multiple births are tied Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and for the final place, they will all be admitted and the War Pensions Scheme (WPS) the School will operate over PAN because their parent(s) died on active service with the UK armed forces; Oversubscription criteria 3. Children who have a brother or sister (see All pupils with an Education, Health and Care definition 4), including children living as plan naming the school will be admitted. siblings in the same family unit, already on the school roll and who will still be on roll Where the school is undersubscribed by at the time of the admission; applicants deemed suitable for boarding, The Royal School will admit all suitable applicants. 4. Pupils who have a parent who is employed by The Royal School Wolverhampton (see Where the number of applications for definition 5) and who has been recruited to admission is greater than the published fill a post for which there is a demonstrable admission number, applications deemed skill shortage; suitable for boarding will be considered against the criteria set out below, in order: 5. The remaining places will be allocated to children whose permanent address (1) Looked after children and previously (definition 3) is outside the two or three looked after children (see definition ). mile radius of the school, using an (2) Children of members of the UK independently verified random draw, if the Armed Forces who, because of high number of applications exceeds the family mobility, qualify for Ministry of number of available places. Defense financial assistance with the 6. Other children. cost of boarding school fees. (3) Children who have a brother or sister (see definition 4), including children living as siblings in the same family

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unit, already on the school roll and school is oversubscribed, parents may who will still be on roll at the time of request that their child is placed on the the admission. school’s waiting list. (4) Pupils who have a parent who is Admission of children outside employed by The Royal School Wolverhampton (see definition 5) and their normal age group who has been recruited to fill a post Parents may request that their child is for which there is a demonstrable skill admitted outside their normal age group. shortage When such a request is made, The Royal School will make a decision on the basis of (5) Other children the circumstances of the case and in the best NB evidence required to establish eligibility interests of the child concerned, taking into under categories 2 and 3 above, will be account the views of the Head and any clarified on the boarding application form. supporting evidence provided by the parent/guardian/carer. Infill and In Year Applications All requests for such an admission should be across all year groups submitted to the Local Authority by the Infill and in year applications to year groups relevant application closing date and must outside the normal year of entry (years of entry include recent professional evidence of the are: day places in Reception, Years 7 and 12; child’s circumstances which make education boarding places in Y7, 9 and 12) must be outside the age group necessary. made to the Local Authority. Places will be offered dependent on available Deferred entry for infants vacancies up to DfE published admissions Parents offered a place for their child have a number for each individual school year. In the right to defer entry, or to take a place up part- event of there being more applications than time, until the start of the term beginning places available at the application dates immediately after their child has reached specified within Section 2 of this policy, the compulsory school age6. However, places relevant age-related oversubscription criteria cannot be deferred until the next academic outlined above will be applied. year. In year applications across all year groups will Waiting lists be considered beyond these dates, where The Royal School will operate a separate places are still available, and must be made in waiting list for day and boarding places for writing to the school. each year group. Late applications • Where in any year more applications for All applications received by the Local Authority places are received than there are places and The Royal School after the deadline will available, a waiting list will operate until at be considered after those received on time. If, least 31 December of each school year of following consideration of all applicants the admission.

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• This will be maintained by The Royal Appeals timeline School and it will be open to any parent to Appeals with respect to primary admissions ask for his or her child’s name to be placed must be submitted within 20 school days of a on the waiting list, following an confirmed rejection. The appeal will be held unsuccessful application. within 40 school days of that letter, but in any • Children’s position on the waiting list will case before the start of the school year. be determined solely in accordance with Appeals for an in year place will be heard within the oversubscription criteria. Where places 30 school days of the appeal being received. become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance Definitions with the relevant oversubscription criteria. 1 A looked after child is a child who is (a) in • The waiting list will be reordered in the care of a local authority, or (b) being accordance with the oversubscription provided with accommodation by a local criteria whenever anyone is added to or authority in the exercise of their social leaves the waiting list. services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). Appeals All applicants refused a place have a right of 2 Free School Meal (FSM) appeal to an independent appeal panel Entitlement to FSM funding and constituted and operated in accordance with admissions priority is not the same as the School Admission Appeals Code. being in receipt of the Universal Infant Free School Meal (UIFSM), which is provided to • Appellants should contact Wolverhampton all Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils. City Council’s, Office of the Chief Executive, Democratic Support Unit at the It is an individual pupil benefit for which the Civic Centre for information on how to parent or guardian must apply, and is appeal. awarded in respect of children under the age of 19 where the parent or guardian is in • Information on the timetable for the receipt of one of the benefits shown below: appeals process is as set out below under Section 12.2, and will also be provided on • Income Support; The Royal School website. • Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IB JSA); Acceptance and • Support under part VI of the Immigration Appeals timetable and Asylum Act 1999; 12.1 Acceptance of a conditional offer • Child Tax Credit Primary admissions- normal admissions round • The Guaranteed Element of State 16 April 2021 (national offer day) Pension Credit. Within 10 school days • Employment and Support Allowance Offers and refusals will be issued to parents • Working Tax Credit (only during the 4 Within 10 school days, Parents are required week period immediately after their to accept a conditional offer employment finishes).

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NB: Children in receipt of Income Support and Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA) in their own right are also entitled to free school meals. 3 The child’s permanent residence is where they live, normally including weekends and during school holidays as well as during the week, and should be used for the application. The permanent address of a child who spends part of their week with one parent and part with the other, at different addresses, will be the address at which the child lives for the majority of the school week. If the child equally shares living with both parents, the parents must inform the School which address should be used for admission purposes and which parent will make the application. Parents will be requested to supply documentary evidence to support the address used for the application. 4 ‘Sibling’ refers to the children, including adopted and fostered children, of parents who are married or cohabiting, where the parents and children are living permanently at the same address as one family. 5 Children of staff’ refers to situations where the staff member is the natural parent, the legal guardian or a resident step- parent. 6 Children become of compulsory school age on the first prescribed day following their 5th birthday:31st August, 31st December or 31st March (or on that day if any of the dates are the child’s birthday)

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Appendix 2b

Written evidence of baptism

The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and Definition of a baptised Catholic Boards of Directors of Catholic Academies will To establish clarity, consistency and fairness in require written evidence in the form of a the application of Criteria of Admission in Certificate of Baptism or Certificate of Catholic Schools in accordance with the Trust Reception before applications for school Deed of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, it is places can be considered for categories of necessary to define the description of a “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate of Baptism ‘baptised Catholic’ for the benefit of parents or Reception is to include: the full name, date who are making applications and for of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, and governors who formulate and apply the parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also criteria for admissions. show that it is copied from the records kept by the place of Baptism or Reception. A “Baptised Catholic” is one who:

Those who would have difficulty obtaining • Has been baptised into full communion written evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception (Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) for a good reason, may still be considered as with the Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptised Catholics but only after they have been Baptism of one of the various ritual referred to their parish priest who, after Churches in communion with the See of consulting the Vicar General, will decide how the Rome. Written evidence of this baptism question of Baptism/Reception is to be resolved can be obtained by recourse to the and how written evidence is to be produced in Baptismal Registers of the church in which accordance with the law of the Church. the baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Those who would be considered to have good Law, 877 & 878). reason for not obtaining written evidence would Or include those who cannot contact the place of Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, • Has been validly baptised in a separated the destruction of the church and the original ecclesial community and subsequently records, or where Baptism/Reception was received into full communion with the administered validly but not in the Parish Catholic Church by the Rite of Reception of church where records are kept. Baptised Christians into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. Governors and Boards of Directors may Written evidence of their baptism and request extra supporting evidence when the reception into full communion with the written documents that are produced do not Catholic Church can be obtained by clarify the fact that a person was baptised or recourse to the Register of Receptions, or received into the Catholic Church, (i.e. where in some cases, a sub-section of the the name and address of the Church is not on Baptismal Registers of the church in which the certificate or where the name of the the Rite of Reception took place Church does not state whether it is a Catholic (Cf. Rite of Christian Initiation, 399). Church or not.)

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Appendix 3

Other Local Authorities

Local authorities are required to coordinate What do you need to do? primary transfers for all maintained (i.e. non-fee paying) schools. The following Stage 1: Correspondence will be issued in local authorities: early September inviting you to make an application. If you have not received anything • Birmingham LA • Dudley LA by mid-October 2020 please contact you • Sandwell LA • Staffordshire LA home local authority. • Walsall LA • Wolverhampton LA • Shropshire LA • Telford and Wrekin LA Stage 2: If you want to apply for schools outside of your home local authority you are have agreed to co-ordinate applications for strongly advised to contact those schools’ their schools. There is also a general local authorities for their information booklets. agreement among all Midlands local authoritys to co-operate in this regard. Stage 3: You are strongly advised to find out about your preferred schools by attending What are the main features open evenings and looking at prospectuses. of a co-ordinated Stage 4: You must list all your preferred admissions scheme? schools on your application form even if they 1 The aim of the scheme is to ensure, as far as is are outside your home local authority. possible, that your child receives the best Do not include fee-paying schools. possible single offer of a place at a primary school, based on your preferences. Stage 5: You may need to provide 2 The scheme is easier and fairer for parents, additional information and/or complete pupils and schools because it ensures that ‘supporting evidence/supplementary some parents do not hold several offers, whilst information forms’ for some schools. others have no offer at all. Each local authority’s information booklet 3 You will only have to make one application on will provide more detail. which you will state all your primary school preferences. Stage 6: Your completed application 4 Your preferences can be for primary schools form must be returned by the closing date inside or outside your home local authority and according to the instructions given on (i.e. the local authority in which you and your the form. child live). 5 You will be informed of the outcome of your Stage 7: When you have completed all application by your home local authority which these stages, your home local authority will will make an offer of a single place for your arrange for each of your preferences to be child. This will be posted (2nd class via Royal Mail) on 16 April 2021. considered by the relevant admitting authority for each school. 6 If you are not satisfied with the offer you will be given guidance about any steps you can take.

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Who Can You Contact for More Information?

Birmingham City Council City of Wolverhampton Council Children, Information and Advice Service Tel: Admissions and Appeals Tel: 0121 303 1888 (option 4) 01902 551122 Email: [email protected] Email: school.admissions@ Letter: School Admissions & wolverhampton.gov.uk Pupil Placement Service, Letter: Education & Enterprise PO Box 16513 Pupil & Student Services B2 2FF Admissions & Transfers Civic Centre, St Peter’s Square Staffordshire County Council Wolverhampton WV1 1RR School Admission & Transport Service Tel: 0300 111 8007 Telford & Wrekin Council Web: staffordshire.gov.uk/admissions Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Letter: Telford & Wrekin Council, Darby House, Telford TF3 4JA Letter: Schools Admissions and Transport Service, Staffordshire County Council, Shropshire County Council 1 Staffordshire Place, Stafford Tel: School Admissions 03456 789008 ST16 2DH Email: [email protected] Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council Letter: School Admissions Team, Directorate of Childrens’ Services Learning & Skills, Shirehall, School Admissions Service Abbey Foregale, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND

Tel: 0300 555 2345 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Web: dudley.gov.uk Admissions Service Email: [email protected] Tel: 0121 569 6765 Letter: School Admissions Service Email: annual_schooladmissions The Council House, Priory Road @sandwell.gov.uk Dudley DY1 1HF Letter: Sandwell Council House, Freeth Street, Oldbury B69 3DE Walsall Council Tel: 01922 652578 Email: [email protected] Letter: Parent Support Advisor, Walsall MBC, 2nd Floor Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall WS11TP

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Autumn Term 2021 September 2021 October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 Mo 6 13 20 27 Mo 4 11 18 25 Mo 1 8 15 22 29 Mo 6 13 20 27 Tu 7 14 21 26 Tu 5 12 19 26 Tu 2 9 16 23 30 Tu 7 14 21 26 We 1 8 15 22 29 We 6 13 20 27 We 3 10 17 24 We 1 8 15 22 29 Th 2 9 16 23 30 Th 7 14 21 28 Th 4 11 18 25 Th 2 9 16 23 30 Fr 3 10 17 24 Fr 1 8 15 22 29 Fr 5 12 19 26 Fr 3 10 17 24 31 Sa 4 11 18 25 Sa 2 9 16 23 30 Sa 6 13 20 27 Sa 4 11 18 25 Su 5 12 19 26 Su 3 10 17 24 31 Su 7 14 21 28 Su 5 12 19 26 Term Time: Thursday 2 September 2021 to Friday 22 October 2021 Half Term: Monday 25 October 2021 to Friday 29 October 2021 Term Time: Monday 1 November 2021 to Friday 17 December 2021 Spring Term 2022 Summer Term 2022 January 2022 February 2022 March 2022 April 2022 Mo 3 10 17 24 31 Mo 7 14 21 28 Mo 7 14 21 28 Mo 4 11 18 25 Tu 4 11 18 25 Tu 1 8 15 22 29 Tu 1 8 15 22 29 Tu 5 12 19 26 We 5 12 19 26 We 2 9 16 23 30 We 2 9 16 23 30 We 6 13 20 27 Th 6 13 20 27 Th 3 10 17 24 Th 3 10 17 24 Th 7 14 21 28 Fr 7 14 21 28 Fr 4 11 18 25 Fr 4 11 18 25 Fr 1 8 15 22 29 Sa 1 8 15 22 29 Sa 5 12 19 26 Sa 5 12 19 26 Sa 2 9 16 23 30 Su 2 9 16 23 30 Su 6 13 20 27 Su 6 13 20 27 Su 3 10 17 24 Term Time: Tuesday 4 January 2022 to Friday 18 February 2022 Half Term: Monday 21 February 2022 to Friday 25 February 2022 Term Time: Monday 28 February 2022 to Friday 8 April 2022 Summer Term 2022 May 2022 June 2022 July 2022 August 2022 Mo 2 9 16 23 30 Mo 6 13 20 27 Mo 4 11 18 25 Mo 1 8 15 22 29 Tu 3 10 17 24 31 Tu 7 14 21 26 Tu 5 12 19 26 Tu 2 9 16 23 30 We 4 11 18 25 We 1 8 15 22 29 We 6 13 20 27 We 3 10 17 24 Th 5 12 19 26 Th 2 9 16 23 30 Th 7 14 21 28 Th 4 11 18 25 Fr 6 13 20 27 Fr 3 10 17 24 Fr 1 8 15 22 29 Fr 5 12 19 26 Sa 7 14 21 28 Sa 4 11 18 25 Sa 2 9 16 23 30 Sa 6 13 20 27 Su 1 8 15 22 29 Su 5 12 19 26 Su 3 10 17 24 Su 7 14 21 28 Term Time: Monday 25 April 2022 to Friday 27 May 2022 Half Term: Monday 30 May 2022 to Friday 3 June 2022 Term Time: Monday 6 June 2022 to Friday 22 July 2022

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Education Psychology Service Wolverhampton Information, 01902 550609 Advice and Support Service Behaviour and Attendance Support 01902 556945 01902 550621 City of Wolverhampton Council website Multi Agency Support Teams www.wolverhampton.gov.uk 01902 551953 / 555973 / 551499 / 555946 / 552630 / 556040 / 556952 / 555258 OTHER AGENCIES Travel Unit Team (Bus passes) Central Library 01902 551122 Snow Hill 01902 552025 Free School Meals Wolverhampton Connexions Service 01902 554128 / Civic Centre, St Peter's Square, [email protected] Wolverhampton WV1 1SH Admissions and Appeals 01902 554499 01902 551122 Local Government Ombudsman Behavioural and Mental Health 0300 061 0614 Support Team Schools Adjudicator 01902 551199 08700 012468 Exclusions from School Department for Education 01902 555924 0370 0002288 Special Educational Needs Statutory www.gov.uk/contact-dfe Assessment & Review Team Catering Service Support 01902 555873 / 555986 / 551498 / 555961 01902 555227

OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION OFSTED Reports about the School Local Authority’s Corporate Complaints the school / www.ofsted.gov.uk Procedure Education Services 01902 551901 or the Public Library School Behaviour Policy the school Local Authority’s Equal Opportunities Policy Education Services School Charging Policy 01902 551901 the school

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