Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions

Information for parents Primary Schools 2018-2019 Introduction

Rob Johnstone Interim Assistant Director – Learning Services Children and Family Services Directorate

It is important to secure the right primary Applications open on school place for your child. It needs to be somewhere which will meet both your child’s MONDAY 2 and wider family needs. For many families, that means the local school, but it is your right OCTOBER 2017 to express a preference for a place at any primary school and places are allocated according to published criteria.

In deciding on your preferences, I would encourage you to take a look at the range of schools available in this prospectus. It is also a good idea to visit schools you are interested in – many of them hold special open events to enable you to have a look around and ask any questions you have. Schools also set out considerable information on their websites.

Deadline for applications This document also sets out what you need to do in registering your preferences – and MONDAY 15 it tells you about the options open to you if JANUARY 2018 you don’t get your preferred place.

Applications should be made online at stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by completing an application form by 15 January 2018. You will be informed of the outcome on 16 April 2018. Staff in the Admissions and Transport Team can be contacted on 01782 234598 to provide assistance if you have any queries on making this application.

Rob Johnstone Interim Assistant Director – Learning Services

The information contained in this booklet was accurate at the time of publication. Parents should refer to the website stoke.gov.uk/admissions for the latest information.

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The deadline for applications for a place at a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for in Stoke-on-Trent The deadline for applications for a place at a primary school 2017 is Contents Applications received after this deadline will be processed as soon as possible, after this deadline will be processed Applications received by the deadline will take priority. expressed preferences but parental Applying for a place at primary school

How do I apply for a school place? school on an application form does not increase the chances of being successful. Instead, it will mean Either parent can complete an application form that you can only be considered for places left at on behalf of their child. Applications may not be the end of the process, when other families have processed where there is a parental dispute in been given their second and third preferences. This relation to the school(s) to be applied for. may result in your child being allocated a school place further away from your family home. Each You can apply for a Reception place at a Stoke- community school has a defined catchment area on-Trent Primary (or Infant) school from 2 October and most pupils go to the school which serves 2017. If you live in the city, you should register your their local community (the ’catchment school’). If preferences on-line at stoke.gov.uk/admissions. you are in any doubt about your catchment school, please contact the school or the Admissions and All dates below relate to applications for a Transport Team on 01782 234598. Reception place. Deadlines and notification dates for Nursery applications are contained within a Failure to make an application could jeopardise separate leaflet, “Admission to a Stoke-on-Trent a place at a local school for your child. Late Nursery Class or School”. This is available on line applications should be made on a paper copy of at [email protected] the application form. This is available from the Admissions and Transport Team (see back page), or from your local primary school. The benefits of applying on-line are: Please request a receipt for your completed form • You will get an instant e-mail confirmation that when you deliver it to your preferred school. Your your application has been received. receipt should be kept safe. • You will be notified of the outcome of your application by e-mail on 16 April 2018. Allocation letters to tell you the outcome of your • You may edit your preferences on-line anytime application will be sent out on 16 April 2018. before the closing date of 15 January 2018. Pre-school education nursery schools, If you are applying for a faith place at a Church nursery classes and other early years Aided School or Academy, additional information such as a baptism certificate/faith reference will settings be required. This MUST be forwarded separately. Please refer to the individual admissions policies Stoke-on-Trent City Council is firmly committed for faith schools for which forms of additional to pre-school education. Nursery schools, nursery information are necessary. classes attached to primary schools, and early education settings provide a structured educational Please note: The required additional information environment in which young children learn through relating to applications on faith grounds must play. This gives children an excellent foundation be supplied. Failure to do so will affect the before starting primary school. admissions criteria under which your application is considered. Children in Stoke-on-Trent are entitled to a minimum of a free part time place in a nursery You should express a preference for three schools school or class or other early years setting from the on the form. These should be listed in order of age of three. As a parent, you can choose from the preference. following options: • A maintained nursery school or class: It is most important that you include all of your There are six nursery schools in the city and preferences at this stage, as some schools will have most primary schools have one or more nursery more applications than they can take. Where we classes providing early education in a school are unable to meet your preference, we will try to environment; offer your next preferred school. Naming only one

4. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 5. Attendance at a nursery at a Attendance aguarantee does not class class at reception place in a the same school. To access an early education place at a day nursery access an early education To you should contact the playgroup, or pre-school that settings childcare For a list of setting directly. information or for more deliver early education, entitlement to early education, about the free on contact Co-operative Working 01782 232200. statutory guidance for local authorities in However, changing is childcare education and early to relation Act 2016. in line with the Childcare are and four-year-olds three of parents Working a week. This will eligible for an additional 15 hours universal entitlement of 15 be on top of the current early education for all three hours a week of free year-olds. and four- will be determined Eligibility for the additional hours & Customs (HMRC). Revenue by Her Majesty’s can apply for the additional 15 hours at Parents www.childcarechoices.gov.uk. information about eligibility for the For more additional 15 hours, please visit or contact www.stoke.gov.uk/beststart 01782 232200. some schools/ Please note that in Stoke-on-Trent, early hours free 30 nursery schools provide Please contact the education for all children. making your application to before schools directly offer. check their current or need further If you have any difficulties information or advice, please contact the on Team Admissions and Transport will do our best to help you. 01782 234598. We

childcare setting: setting: childcare playgroups nurseries and pre-school Many day up time places for part the city provide across weeks of the year. per week, 38 to 15 hours but is free, in these settings Early education additional time have to pay for any you may purposes. for childcare that your child attends birthday falls on whose third children of Parents at a 31 August can apply for a place or before school or class. Schools will maintained nursery or from September either from admit children may be offered The youngest children January. as they may not be quite a January start date school in the Autumn term. for ready A private, independent or voluntary or voluntary independent A private,

Parents who prefer their child to benefit from early their child to benefit from who prefer Parents or voluntary education in a private, independent part-time entitled to a free are setting childcare third the term following their child’s place from birthday. Nursery schools and primary schools with nursery Nursery schools and primary schools shown in the list of schools on pages 15 units are letter “N” in the (Nursery) and 22–27 (Primary). The school has a age-range column shows that the nursery class. The city council operates a co-ordinated scheme scheme a co-ordinated The city council operates and classes for admissions to its nursery schools A and its city boundary. within Stoke-on-Trent separate leaflet is available at stoke.gov.uk/admissions • What types of school are available in Stoke-on-Trent?

What types of school are available in Starting school in a reception class Stoke-on-Trent? This section of the booklet applies to all infant, Community Schools junior and primary schools. If you would prefer your A community school is run by the local authority, child to attend a church school, please read very who will: carefully the special rules which apply. These are • employ the staff; detailed in each school’s admissions policy which • own the land and buildings; can be obtained from the relevant school. • decide which admissions criteria will be used to You should read all the information, before deciding allocate places if the school has more applicants which schools to nominate as your preferences than places. Can I choose a primary school for Community schools look to develop strong links my child? with the local community, sometimes offering use of their facilities and providing services such as Parents do not have a right to choose their child’s childcare and adult learning classes. school, but they do have the right to express a preference for the school(s) they would most like Voluntary Aided Schools their child to attend. Voluntary-aided schools are mainly religious or ‘faith’ schools, although anyone can apply for a place. The Your preference must be met, unless to do so governing body: would “prejudice the provision of efficient education • employs the staff; or the efficient use of resources” - for example, • sets the admissions criteria. when a particular school is full.

School buildings and land are normally owned by a If a school is over-subscribed and it is not possible religious or charitable organisation. The governing to meet all parental preferences, your second body contributes to building and maintenance costs. and third preferences will be very important. It is, therefore, vital that you give careful consideration Voluntary Controlled Schools to which schools to name on the application form Voluntary controlled schools are similar to voluntary and in which order you name them. If your child aided schools, but are run by the local authority. As has a Statement of Special Education Needs or with community schools, the local authority: Education, Health & Care Plan which names a • employs the school staff; particular school, your child must be given a • sets the admissions criteria. place there.

School land and buildings are normally owned by Parental Responsibility a charity, often a religious organisation, which also appoints some of the members of the governing An application for a school place can only be made body. by someone with “parental responsibility” for the child. Academies These are state funded independent schools. The Children Act of 1989 requires schools to know who has “parental responsibility” for each child. This helps to ensure that everyone who has parental responsibility for a child is consulted about important decisions, even if s/he does not live with the child. Applications open on MONDAY 2 OCTOBER 2017

6. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 7. MONDAY 15 MONDAY JANUARY 2018 JANUARY Deadline for applications for Deadline We will pass preferences for Voluntary Aided for Voluntary will pass preferences We to the governingschools and Academies bodies The governing the of those schools. bodies are for those schools. The admission authorities governingasked to consider bodies will be with their own in accordance the applications and to return to the city council admissions policy will consider We in priority order. a list of children and Voluntary for Community the preferences with their own schools in accordance Controlled up a list of children admissions criteria and will draw for each school in priority order. to their will allocate places at schools up We a place If a child is eligible for Admission Number. than one school, a place will be offered at more their parent’s at the school which is highest on is called an equal preference list. This preference is that a child system. The advantage of this system likely to gain a place at a school which is is more It must, however, preferences. one of their parent’s that this could be at the expense of be recognised has whose parent a child who lives further away but preference. named a particular school as a first Parents are asked to name three schools, in order schools, in order asked to name three are Parents which they would like their child to of preference, attend. Admissions authorities have to consider published with their in accordance preferences admissions criteria. They cannot take account of in the order the school is placed of where preferences. Schools have an Admission Number (AN) for each Foundation 2 (reception) including the year group, class. The Admission Number is expected to be Places will net capacity. based upon the school’s up to but not exceeding the Admission be offered that Foundation 2 Regulations also require Number. than and Key Stage one classes must have no more 30 pupils per qualified teacher. Full time places in Foundation 2 (reception) Full time places in Foundation 2 (reception) available are classes in schools in Stoke-on-Trent in which a in September of the academic year applications for child becomes five years old. All Controlled, Voluntary admission by Community, and Academies at 4+ are Aided schools Voluntary City Council. managed by Stoke-on-Trent living in Stoke-on- by parents made Preferences for schools in other local authority areas Trent the city council. This should also be made through admissions scheme. is known as the co-ordinated to required applicants are process, help this To complete a common application form. We operate a co-ordinated scheme of admissions operate a co-ordinated We applications covering all schools in the city and for schools in other authorities. city residents from The co-ordinated scheme The co-ordinated If you need help with this matter, the Education the Education If you need help with this matter, to the school will be attached Officer Welfare pleased to assist. Please help the school to collect this information. Please help the school in your family life, or if orders If any changes occur your Act which affect under the Children made are the school. child, please tell Mothers always have parental responsibility, unless unless responsibility, parental have always Mothers parental also have Fathers court. by the removed (and this to the mother if married responsibility or re- after any divorce/separation carries on them). lives apart from even if the child marriage certificate, on the birth Fathers named responsibility. parental married or not, have whether step-fathers and other Unmarried fathers, parental who look after a child can obtain relatives do not by applying to the court, but responsibility qualify automatically. Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education, Health & Care Plan

Statement of Special Educational Needs It is generally expected that, if your child has made or Education, Health & Care Plan progress in a mainstream primary school, she/ he will be able to make progress in a mainstream Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational secondary school. Needs or an Education, Health & Care Plan are considered separately and must be accepted by the The arrangements for transfer of young people with school named on their Statement or Plan. They will a Statement are made by the SEN Monitoring and count towards the school’s admission number. Assessment Service and so families of children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs If your child has a Statement of Special Educational or Education, Health & Care Plan do not need to Needs or Education, Health & Care Plan, you may complete an application form. If you have any wish to contact the Statutory Assessment Section queries please ring 01782 236842. 01782 236842 for advice. SEND Information Advice and Support Children and Young People have Special Service (SENDIASS) Educational Needs (SEN), if they have a learning difficulty which requires a greater level of SEN The service provides information, advice and provision than most children and young people of support to children with Special Educational Needs their age. If your child has a Statement or Plan and and/or Disabilities (SEND), their parents, and young is due to move from one sector of education to people with SEND. We provide free, accurate, another, for example from pre-school to primary, or impartial information; advice and support on the primary to secondary education, an annual review special educational needs to enable children, their meeting will be held in the summer term of the parents and young people to play an active and academic year before they are to transfer, to ensure informed role in their education and care. We help planning and preparation are in place for a smooth to promote independence and self-advocacy. transition. We can support by: The SEN Policy and Inclusion Strategy set out the • Listening to parents/carers/young people’s policy, principles and priorities on which views and concerns about their child/young arrangements for SEN are based. These documents person’s special educational needs and can be found on our website stoke.gov.uk disabilities; • Offering accurate and unbiased information If your child has a Statement of Special Educational from independently trained staff; Needs or Education, Health & Care Plan, it will • Offering support when a child or young person need to be amended to name the school your child with special educational needs or disabilities will attend. The annual review in the summer term, needs extra help in an educational setting; prior to their transfer a year later, will give you the • Offering support in attending meetings, writing opportunity to express a preference for the school letters/reports and filling in forms; you want your child to attend. We must take into • Signposting to Parent/Carer forums and other account your preference providing: relevant organisations. • The school is suitable for the child’s age, ability and aptitude and the Special Educational Needs set out in Part 2 of the statement or as described in the Education, Health & Care Plan; • The child’s attendance is not incompatible with the efficient education of other children in the school; and • The placement is an efficient use of the local authority’s resources.

8. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 9. Families of service personnel with a confirmed Families of service or crown area, posting to the Stoke-on-Trent to live in Stoke- overseas from servants returning or the unit postal address should provide on-Trent This will be used address. quartering area applications when considering as the “address” personnel against the of UK service children from the application oversubscription criteria, providing that Order is accompanied by an Assignment For date and the address. a relocation declares further information click on http://bit.ly/2beN9rT Children of UK UK of Children personnel service Armed (UK Forces) nd out more information, please contact: information, nd out more Signposting children, young people and parents people and parents young Signposting children, to alternative of advice, additional sources information and support that may be available locally or nationally. Home visits (in exceptional cases); services including Signposting to appropriate the Local Offer; Impartial information when children are out of out are Impartial information when children school; considering Impartial information if you are Elective Home Education; Impartial information and guidance on Impartial information and guidance exclusions; Impartial information around Independent Impartial information around Mediation Services; in Impartial information and guidance Appeal Process; understanding the Tribunal Access to an Independent Supporter during an Access to an Independent Supporter EHC assessment; to relating Impartial information and guidance disagreement(s); resolving Impartial information and guidance during the Impartial information and guidance an EHC Plan; transfer of a Statement of SEN to Impartial information and support for parents/ Impartial information and support and young people during an Education carers Plan (EHC) assessment; Health Care Impartial information and support to young Impartial information them to participate fully in people to enable the outcomes they wish to decisions about achieve; Impartial information and guidance through the and guidance through Impartial information and procedures; SEND processes and guidance on local Impartial information including the Law on policy and practice Needs (SEN) and Disability, Special Educational and Personal Budgets; Care Health and Social A confidential telephone/email helpline; telephone/email A confidential package; information A tailored guidance to information and Impartial relating information and interpret understand and Disability Educational Needs to Special (SEND); fi

The SEND Information Advice and Support Service Helpline is available: Monday - Friday: 10am to 3pm. An answerphone service is available outside of these hours. To To (01782) 234701 or 234847 Tel: E-mail: [email protected] www.sendiass-stoke.co.uk Website: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • We offer: We How to decide which schools to apply for

Information about how places were allocated last If you choose to complete a paper copy of the year is available on pages 18 - 21. Look at that form and your child attends school outside of the information and think about: city, the form should be returned directly to the • what is the admission number of the school(s) Admissions and Transport Team, address on the you are interested in? (This is the number of back page. children the school takes each year). • how many applications were received for your Do second and third preferences matter? preferred school(s) last year? • how many children were on the waiting list for You should name three schools on the form. your preferred school(s)? It is most important that you include all of the • are they likely to be full? preferences at this stage, as some schools may • are you in the school’s catchment area (see the have more applications than they can take. In that school’s website for details of their catchment); situation, where we are unable to meet your first • how far away do you live from the school(s)? preference, we will try to offer your next preferred school. If you have a child in a school, especially The answers to these questions will give you an one which is not your catchment school, you idea of how likely you are to get a place at the cannot assume that you will be allocated a place at school(s). It is important to remember that the that school. pattern of applications may differ from year to year. You can express three preferences and we would Naming three preferences will not negatively encourage you to do so. If you have a low priority affect your chances of securing a place at your (within the published oversubscription criteria for a first preference school. On the other hand, school), you may not get a place at your preferred naming the same school more than once on the school. application form cannot increase the chances of you being successful. Instead, it could reduce your We cannot reserve a place at the catchment school opportunity to secure a place at a second or third for your child. If you wish your child to attend school within a reasonable distance from your your catchment school you must name it on your home address. application form. (This does not apply if your child has a Statement of Special Educational Needs or How do I apply for a Voluntary Aided Education, Health and Care Plan). Church School?

You should also note that we do not offer If you wish to apply for a Voluntary Aided Church assistance with travel costs unless the pupil School as one of your preferences, you must meets the travel criteria (see page 29 for more include the school(s) as one of your three information). preferences on the form. Before deciding to name one of these schools as a preference, you must consider carefully your chances of being successful in gaining a place for your child. Details of these schools’ admission policies can be found on our website or each school’s website. It is important to note that admissions to reception classes are Deadline for applications entirely separate from nursery class admissions. If your child already MONDAY 15 attends a nursery class at the JANUARY 2018 school of your preference, you must still complete an application form. Attending a nursery class does not guarantee a place in that school’s reception class.

10. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 11. ea of the ea of the e of the local authority (looked authority (looked e of the local catchment area. or sister in school who have an older brother attendance at the school. catchment area. after children) or provided with accommodation with accommodation provided or after children) defined by Section 22 of by the authority as who were Act 1989 and children the Children looked after but ceased to be so previously adopted or became subject because they were or special guardianship order to a residency order or sister an older brother school who have to an Infant School, for admission admission or, time of at the linked Junior School, at the admission. other pupils living within the other pupils living within the ar pupils living outside the catchment other pupils living outside the pupils in the car pupils in the catchment ar pupils living within the school at the time of in attendance at

If priorities have to be decided within any of these of will be placed in order categories, children from priority using a straight line measurement point to the main entrance of home address child’s the school. put forward will also consider any reasons We These preference. in support of their by parents with evidence. If the should be supported reasons health or social concernreasons the child’s wellbeing, documentary evidence must be provided by a medical practitioner or other social care professional. for a place at a If we consider that the reasons it will place strong, sufficiently particular school are the child on the school list above those whose position is based upon the distance criterion For admission purposes, an older brother or sister brother For admission purposes, an older the same address is defined as a child who lives at (i.e. half brother/sister and who is the brother/sister, or step brother/sister one common parent), share marriage) of the child for by parent’s (i.e. related It also includes whom the place is being requested. child and any other parents of cohabiting children under the terms of a living at the same residence Residence Order. c) d) e) a) b) We will draw up a list for each school of children children school of each a list for draw up will We as a the school named have parents whose to following criteria will use the We preference. priority is a), of priority (the top order decide the then b) etc.): MONDAY 2 MONDAY Applications open on OCTOBER 2017 Each community, voluntary controlled school and voluntary controlled Each community, by a defined surrounded most academies are from called its catchment area, geographical area is no which it generally admits pupils, but there guarantee of a place for pupils living within it, nor at a later for pupils who may move into the area and regularly reviewed are date. Catchment areas the boundaries may be redrawn. Criteria used to determine admissions to classes at Community Foundation 2 (reception) schools Controlled and Voluntary Admissions to these schools are also the Admissions to these schools are of the schools’ governors. As with all responsibility to be other schools, if you wish your child for a place, you should name the school considered will then send a copy to the on the application. We governors for their attention. Admissions to Academies Diocesan Education Service Don Bosco House, Coventry Road, Coleshill, B46 3EA 01675 464755 Tel: Admissions to these schools are also the Admissions to these schools are of the schools’ governors. If you wish responsibility for a place, you should your child to be considered application name the school on the city council’s governors will then send a copy to the of form. We information the school for their attention. Further may be obtained from: Admissions to Catholic Voluntary Aided Catholic Voluntary Admissions to Primary schools The Lichfield Diocesan Board of Education of Education Board The Lichfield Diocesan House, The Close, Lichfield, St. Mary’s WS13 2LD. 01543 306040 Telephone Admissions to these schools are the responsibility responsibility the are to these schools Admissions governors.of the schools’ child If you wish your should name the for a place, you to be considered We application form. the city council’s school on to the governorswill send a copy of the school Further information may be for their attention. obtained from: Admissions to Church of Voluntary Voluntary of England to Church Admissions Schools Primary Aided Home Address Fraudulent The Home Address of a child is that at which the family live on the closing date for applications. Should a family apply for a school place early in the Applications application cycle and then move house, the change of address MUST be notified to the Admissions Team as soon as possible. Failure to do so may result in the offered school place being withdrawn. If a place is offered on a fraudulent or intentionally misleading application from a parent, this may If a child lives with parents with shared effectively deny a place to a child with a stronger responsibilities, each for part of the week, the claim. In that situation the offered place will be ‘home address’ will be the one at which the child is withdrawn. resident for the greatest part of the school week. Where this is equally shared, the home address will Places can be withdrawn if the address used on the be the address used in relation to child benefit, at application form is not the address where the the time of the allocation of places. child lives. Where an offer is withdrawn on the basis of misleading information, the application must No priority will be given for early application. Late be considered again, and Right of Appeal can be applications will be considered individually. The offered. local authority will normally accept applications received late for a genuine reason, for example, a single parent who has been ill, or a family that has What do I do if I don’t get the school that is recently returned from abroad. A late application is my preference? less likely to result in your child being allocated one of your preferenced schools. You should firstly call the Admissions Team on 01782 234598 to talk about the options available. Applications from pupils resident outside the city There may be a place available at your catchment will be judged according to the same criteria as school, or possibly a place at another school that applications from city-resident pupils. They will be you had not thought about before. If applicable, we ranked according to the same priorities. will explain how you can change your preferences.

NB: The admission policy for Willows Primary Additional information and advice is available from School gives equal priority in Category C to pupils ACE (Advisory Centre for Education) on the free in catchment with an older sibling already at the phone number 020 88883377. school and pupils living outside the catchment area, who have an older sibling attending the You can appeal against the decision to an hearing unit. Independent Appeals Panel, see page 28 for further details.

Applications open on You should be aware that the law on class-sizes in MONDAY 2 reception classes restricts the grounds on which an appeal can be upheld. See page 28 for further OCTOBER 2017 information regarding class size exceptions.

Local Authority Offers

If it is not possible to offer any of your preferences, by law we must make an offer of the nearest school that has a place. This is not done until after we have Deadline for applications considered all the preferences. We make a Local MONDAY 15 Authority offer to ensure that no Stoke-on-Trent child, for whom an application has been received, JANUARY 2018 is without a school place for September. Parents / Carers can accept or decline this offer and have a legal Right of Appeal (ROA) in respect of any of their unsuccessful preferences. A school place can only be refused in writing. This should only be done once an alternative school place has been secured.

We also operate a waiting list process and your

12. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 13. Independent or Private Schools Independent or funding for pupils to be do not provide We schools or free day or boarding educated at private for is necessary such provision (except where Educational with a Statement of Special children Plan). Health & Care Needs or Education, Schools Boarding which offer do not run any primary schools We facilities and do not normally provide boarding schools in funding for pupils to attend boarding for it is necessary where (except other areas of Special Educational with a Statement children Plan). Needs or Education, Health & Care If you would prefer your child to go to a school a school to go to child your prefer would If you on the name the school you should city, out of the to we will send a copy form and application city’s strongly are You local authority. the appropriate preferences to name two other however, advised, be met. cannot in case this preference on the form, if a child moves into the area, closer to the closer to the the area, if a child moves into like, your child will move school you would down the list. if a family with a higher priority moves away and if a family with a for a school place, withdraws their application up the list; your child will move

Where families decline allocated places, those decline allocated places, those families Where to pupils on the waiting places will be allocated Each year a number of places list, in priority order. to families on the offered become available and are continues for as long as waiting list. This process the city. by families within requested changes are Schools in other local authorities • • child’s name will automatically be added to the to the be added automatically name will child’s of a higher school any Stoke-on-Trent list of waiting lists The waiting than the one offered. preference of the Admissions the order maintained in are position child’s that school. Your to Policy relating it can up and down, as list can go on any waiting their changing families and by other be affected For example: circumstances. Transferring from In-year transfers an infant school to

Transferring from one primary school a junior school to another

If your child is in Year 2 at one of our five infant The legislation in relation to the In Year Admission schools, s/he will normally transfer to the linked Process changed with effect from September 2013. junior school. Since then parents contact schools directly for places. Transferring to the linked school ensures minimal disruption to each child’s education. It is, however, If you are moving into Stoke-on-Trent or from one still necessary to complete an appropriate part of the city to another, and wish your child to application form, which will be sent to your child’s change school, you should first discuss the matter infant school. with your child’s present school.

To apply for a junior school place you must return If your child is experiencing difficulties at their the completed form to your child’s current infant current school and you consider that a transfer to school by 15 January 2018. The form will then be an alternative school may be helpful, you should passed to the Admissions and Transport Team for still discuss your child’s situation with your current processing. school before making a final decision. You should also think about how your child will get to an Parents will be informed of the result of their alternative school, which may be some distance away from your home. application on 16 April 2018. If after discussion and careful consideration it is considered that a transfer may be beneficial to Deadline for applications your child, you will need to complete an In-Year MONDAY 15 Transfer Request Form. This will be provided by the school that you wish your child to attend. Please JANUARY 2018 be aware that some schools require supplementary information such as Baptismal Certificates.

Once you have completed the In-Year Transfer Request Form, you must return it directly to the school. The school will then tell you whether they can offer you a place. Should a place not be available for your child(ren), you may then approach another school. In this instance, the Local Authority will send you a letter confirming the refusal and in it will outline your Right of Appeal.

14. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 15. 28 64 60 26 60 45 NOR Summer 2017 45 78 60 60 60 45 AN 3+ 2+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ Age (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) 235405 235065 234416 319097 234430 237125 Telephone 76 75 72 77 74 73 ref. Map The number in the column headed “NOR” (number headed “NOR” in the column The number in the number of pupils in the school is on roll) schools with a nursery unitSummer 2017. For ‘N’ in the Age Range column),(shown by the letter the pupils attending the nurserythe NOR includes (full-time equivalent). refers to the Number) figure The AN (Admission for each school. admission limit set some schools/ in Stoke-on-Trent, Please note that early 30 hours free nursery schools provide Please contact the education for all children. making your application to before schools directly offer. check their current birth certificate must be Please note that your child’s to confirm eligibility. upon request, provided,

Executive Headteacher: Mrs Lisa Sarikaya Queensberry Road, Longton, ST3 1QZ Executive Headteacher: Mrs Michelle Johnstone College Road, Shelton, ST4 2DQ Executive Headteacher: Mrs Sara Goddard Road, Werrington Eaves Lane, off Bucknall, ST2 9AS Executive Headteacher: Mrs Rachel Beckett ST3 7AN Road, Meir, Harrowby Headteacher: Mrs Diane Herbert Chell Heath Road, Chell Heath, ST6 6PB Nursery Headteacher: Miss Juliet Levingstone Centre, Children’s at Treehouse Dawlish Drive, Bentilee, ST2 0HW Nursery School Burnwood Nursery Grange Nursery Kingsland Nursery Thomas Boughey Nursery Nursery Westfield Some nursery schools offer places for two year olds. Some nursery schools offer eligible for two year old funding, your child If you are for 38 weeksis entitled to 15 hours early education each year (term time only). or contact 01782 232200. Working parents of three and four-year-olds are are and four-year-olds of three parents Working 15 hours a week. This willeligible for an additional of 15 universal entitlement be on top of the current early education for all three hours a week of free Eligibility for the additional and four-year-olds. Revenue hours will be determined by Her Majesty’s can apply for the & Customs (HMRC). Parents additional 15 hours at www.stoke.gov.uk/beststart The statutory guidance for local authorities inThe statutory guidance has early education and childcare to relation Act 2016. the Childcare changed, in line with All children aged three and four are currently entitled currently four are and three aged All children weeks 15 hours early education for 38 to receive each year (term time). Nursery schools in Stoke-on-Trent schools Nursery N.B: Map Ref. - please see the map of local Nursery and Primary schools on the following pageN.B: Map Ref. - please see the map of local Nursery and Primary Map of local schools

16. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 17. How places were allocated for September 2017

Furthest Published Non- No. of 1st 2nd 3rd Children SEN Catchment + Distance Total Appeals LA Primary School Admission Catchment Catchment + Distance Children Prefs Prefs Prefs in Care Children Siblings Admitted Applications Upheld Offers Number Siblings Admitted (miles) 30 31 21 3 1 0 4 6 14 9 0.611 55 - 30 - Alexandra Infants 60 37 18 7 School Undersubscribed 62 N/A 50 6 Ash Green Primary 60 68 31 9 0 0 21 26 4 9 0.279 108 2 63 - Ball Green Primary 45 52 18 6 2 0 18 24 2 - 0.653 76 6 45 - Belgrave St Bartholomews 60 75 20 12 Last Child admitted under Criteria F (See policy in Appendix A) 0.226 107 0 60 - Academy Primary 60 48 21 8 School Undersubscribed 77 N/A 48 - (The Meadows Academy) Burnwood Community School 90 61 8 14 School Undersubscribed 83 N/A 75 11 Carmountside Primary Academy 30 28 6 8 School Undersubscribed 42 N/A 30 1 Christ Church CE(C) Primary 30 23 13 5 School Undersubscribed 41 N/A 25 - Clarice Cliff Primary 60 55 12 21 School Undersubscribed 88 N/A 60 1 Eaton Park Academy 60 81 40 18 1 0 20 34 4 - 0.816 139 4 63 - Etruscan Primary 60 51 11 13 School Undersubscribed 75 N/A 58 6 Forest Park Primary 60 59 16 11 School Subscribed to Number 86 N/A 60 - Gladstone Primary Academy 60 66 49 23 1 1 13 29 13 3 0.247 138 0 60 - Glebe Academy 30 40 20 20 0 1 10 15 4 - 0.292 80 0 30 - Primary Academy 30 34 18 10 1 0 4 5 11 9 1.192 62 - 30 - Greenways Primary Academy 30 33 33 25 0 0 5 11 7 7 0.913 91 - 30 - Hamilton Academy 60 43 18 10 School Undersubscribed 71 N/A 54 4 Harpfield Primary Academy 30 37 20 12 0 0 8 18 3 1 0.406 69 - 30 - Primary 60 43 6 6 School Undersubscribed 55 N/A 44 - Hillside Primary 30 41 30 10 2 0 11 14 4 - 0.51 81 - 31 - Holden Lane Primary 30 30 3 2 School Subscribed to Number 35 N/A 30 - Jackfield Infants 60 58 26 14 0 2 20 24 3 12 0.762 98 - 61 - Kingsland CE(C) Primary 60 74 31 11 2 0 20 27 7 4 0.515 116 - 60 - Maple Court Academy 60 63 13 19 2 1 30 21 6 - 0.718 95 - 60 - Mill Hill Primary Academy 60 72 13 18 0 0 23 20 10 7 0.437 103 - 61 - Milton Primary Academy 60 53 7 23 School Undersubscribed 83 N/A 60 3 New Ford Academy 60 68 36 16 0 0 10 17 5 28 0.738 120 - 60 - Newstead Primary Academy 60 58 18 14 School Subscribed to Number 90 N/A 60 - Northwood Broom Academy 60 51 20 8 School Undersubscribed 79 N/A 60 8 Norton-le-Moors Primary 30 25 38 10 0 0 9 16 3 2 0.604 73 - 30 - Academy Oakhill Primary 60 49 20 20 School Undersubscribed 89 N/A 54 2 Our Lady & St. Benedict 30 27 12 7 School Undersubscribed 46 N/A 30 - Catholic Academy Our Lady’s Catholic Academy 30 25 13 12 School Undersubscribed 50 N/A 29 1 Packmoor Ormiston Academy 60 69 15 11 1 0 15 32 8 4 0.887 95 - 60 - Park Hall Academy 60 68 51 23 0 0 3 25 21 11 0.489 142 - 60 - Priory CE(C) Primary 60 57 35 15 School Undersubscribed 107 N/A 60 1

School is it’s own admissions authority that follows their own admissions policy - Please refer to attached Booklet for Policy breakdown.

18. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 19. ------4 3 8 2 1 1 6 1 1 6 11 LA Offers 60 61 60 30 60 60 30 30 30 61 30 31 60 30 29 60 54 44 30 60 60 60 54 50 63 48 75 30 25 60 58 60 60 60 45 63 30 No. of Children Children Admitted ------2 0 0 6 4 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Upheld Appeals Appeals School oversubscribed on received first preferences 73 95 62 91 69 98 55 46 50 71 55 35 83 90 79 89 62 77 83 42 41 88 75 86 81 95 76 80 116 103 120 142 138 108 107 107 139 Total Total Applications 0.51 0.489 0.515 0.437 0.738 0.604 0.887 0.762 0.247 1.192 0.913 0.406 0.279 0.611 0.226 0.718 0.292 0.653 0.816 (miles) Furthest Furthest Distance Distance Admitted Admitted - - - - - 2 4 4 7 3 9 7 1 9 9 11 28 12 Distance 8 3 5 3 7 6 7 3 4 4 4 2 4 21 10 13 11 14 Non- Siblings Catchment + Catchment

5 6 25 32 16 17 21 20 24 27 14 18 11 29 15 34 26 24 Catchment

follows the LA admissions policy

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13 10 11 20 20 30 23 10 21 18 20 Siblings School Subscribed to Number Catchment + Catchment 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 SEN Children Last Child admitted under Criteria F (See policy in Appendix A) in Appendix under Criteria F (See policy Last Child admitted 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 in Care in Care Children Children 7 8 6 2 8 7 9 6 8 5 3 10 12 12 11 23 15 23 20 10 25 10 12 10 14 11 19 18 16 14 20 23 21 18 13 11 14 3rd 3rd Prefs 6 3 7 8 6 38 12 20 21 13 15 51 35 49 20 18 33 18 20 30 26 31 13 13 36 18 20 20 18 31 18 13 12 40 11 16 21 2nd Prefs 25 27 75 48 25 69 68 57 66 40 34 33 43 37 43 41 30 58 74 63 72 53 68 58 51 49 37 68 52 61 28 23 55 81 51 59 31 1st Prefs 30 30 60 60 30 60 60 60 60 30 30 30 60 30 60 30 30 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 45 90 30 30 60 60 60 60 30 Number Published Published Admission Admission Kingsland CE(C) Primary Maple Court Academy Mill Hill Primary Academy Milton Primary Academy Academy New Ford Newstead Primary Academy Academy Northwood Broom Norton-le-Moors Primary Academy Oakhill Primary Our Lady & St. Benedict Catholic Academy Catholic Academy Our Lady’s Packmoor Ormiston Academy Park Hall Academy Priory CE(C) Primary Alexandra Infants Primary Ash Green Primary Ball Green Belgrave St Bartholomews Academy Blurton Primary (The Meadows Academy) Burnwood Community School Carmountside Primary Academy Primary CE(C) Christ Church Primary Clarice Cliff Eaton Park Academy Etruscan Primary Primary Park Forest Gladstone Primary Academy Glebe Academy Goldenhill Primary Academy Primary Academy Greenways Hamilton Academy Harpfield Primary Academy Primary Cross Heron Hillside Primary Holden Lane Primary Jackfield Infants Primary School Primary Abbey Hulton How places were allocated for September 2017 September for allocated were places How Furthest Published Non- No. of 1st 2nd 3rd Children in SEN Catchment + Distance Total Appeals LA Primary School Admission Catchment Catchment + Distance Children Prefs Prefs Prefs Care Children Siblings Admitted Applications Upheld Offers Number Siblings Admitted (miles) Saint Nathaniel’s Academy 60 73 13 9 1 0 24 23 8 2 0.291 95 1 61 - Sandford Hill 60 67 42 15 0 1 10 21 12 16 0.548 124 2 62 - Sandon Primary Academy 60 47 10 12 School Undersubscribed 69 - 49 - Primary Academy 30 31 35 23 0 0 7 10 7 7 0.781 89 - 31 - Primary 90 49 19 27 School Undersubscribed 95 N/A 65 10 St. Augustine’s Catholic Academy 30 24 17 6 School Undersubscribed 47 N/A 24 - St. George & St. Martin’s Catholic 30 37 15 11 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 5 (See policy in Appendix A) 2.556 63 - 30 - Academy St. Gregory’s Catholic Academy 60 63 44 16 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix A) 0.559 123 1 61 - St. John’s CE(A) Primary 45 32 24 15 School Undersubscribed 71 N/A 39 2 St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy 30 22 4 8 School Undersubscribed 34 N/A 28 3 St. Luke’s CE(A) Primary Hanley 60 57 26 16 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 7 (See policy in Appendix A)) 2.337 99 - 60 - St. Maria Goretti Catholic 30 30 19 11 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix A) 0.649 60 0 30 - Academy St. Mark’s CE(A) Primary 60 63 21 8 School Undersubscribed to those who applied ontime 92 N/A 60 3 St. Mary’s Catholic Academy - 30 43 20 15 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 6 (See policy in Appendix A) 0.081 78 - 31 - Norton St. Mary’s CE(A) Primary - Tunstall 60 67 43 14 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 7 (See policy in Appendix A) 0.423 124 0 60 - St. Matthew’s CE Academy 15 9 9 10 School Undersubscribed 28 N/A 10 - St. Paul’s CE(C)Primary 45 40 14 7 School Undersubscribed 61 N/A 45 3 St. Peter’s Catholic Academy 30 34 37 8 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix A) 0.188 79 - 30 - St. Teresa’s Catholic Primary 45 47 22 25 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix A) 1.048 94 - 45 - St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic 30 49 36 12 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix A) 0.371 97 - 30 - Primary St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy 45 54 40 17 Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix A) 0.212 111 - 45 - Star Academy - Sandyford 30 31 9 7 Last Child Admitted under Distance Criterion 1.68 47 N/A 30 - CE(A) Primary 60 49 7 8 School Undersubscribed 64 N/A 50 3 Summerbank Primary Academy 60 51 12 14 1 0 11 14 17 18 1.782 77 - 60 - Sutherland Primary Academy 75 54 17 9 School Undersubscribed 80 N/A 54 - The Crescent Academy 90 84 15 20 School Undersubscribed 119 N/A 86 - The Willows Primary 90 90 50 28 2 4 26 26 15 17 0.827 168 - 90 - Waterside Primary 45 48 25 14 0 0 16 14 7 8 0.638 87 1 46 - Weston Heights Infant 75 64 39 14 School Undersubscribed 117 N/A 74 3 Primary Academy 60 53 17 10 School Undersubscribed 80 N/A 58 2

TOTAL NUMBER OF PLACES 3,405 3,315 School is it’s own admissions authority that follows their own admissions policy - Please refer to attached Booklet for Policy breakdown.

Applications open on MONDAY 2 OCTOBER 2017 20. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 21. ------2 3 3 3 3 3 2 10 LA Offers 60 90 31 31 30 45 30 30 60 45 30 65 24 39 28 60 10 45 50 54 86 74 58 49 46 61 62 30 60 61 No. of Children Children Admitted ------1 1 2 0 0 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Upheld Appeals Appeals School oversubscribed on received first preferences 87 77 95 89 78 28 61 79 94 97 47 64 80 80 69 95 47 63 71 34 99 60 92 168 124 124 111 119 117 123 Total Total Applications MONDAY 15 MONDAY 1.68 0.638 1.782 0.827 0.291 0.548 0.781 0.188 1.048 0.371 0.212 2.337 0.649 0.081 0.423 2.556 0.559 (miles) JANUARY 2018 JANUARY Deadline for applications Furthest Furthest Distance Distance Admitted Admitted 8 2 7 18 17 16 Distance 7 7 8 15 17 12 Non- Siblings Catchment + Catchment

26 14 14 10 21 23 Catchment

follows the LA admissions policy

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10 11 24 Siblings Catchment + Catchment School Undersubscribed to those who applied ontime School Undersubscribed to those Last Child Admitted under Distance Criterion 0 4 0 1 0 0 SEN Children Last Child Admitted under Criterion 7 (See policy in Appendix A) 7 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion A) 8 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion A) 8 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion A) Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion 8 (See policy in Appendix A) 8 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion Last Child Admitted under Criterion 5 (See policy in Appendix A) in Appendix under Criterion 5 (See policy Last Child Admitted A) 8 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion A) 6 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion A) 8 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion Last Child Admitted under Criterion 7 (See policy in Appendix A)) 7 (See policy in Appendix Last Child Admitted under Criterion 1 2 0 0 0 1 Care Children in Children 7 8 9 7 8 6 8 8 9 14 10 25 17 14 20 28 14 14 10 15 12 23 27 16 15 16 11 11 15 12 3rd 3rd Prefs 9 9 7 4 43 14 37 22 40 12 17 15 50 25 39 17 42 10 35 19 17 44 24 26 21 13 15 19 20 36 2nd Prefs 9 67 40 34 47 54 31 49 51 54 84 90 48 64 53 67 47 31 49 24 63 32 22 57 63 73 37 30 43 49 1st Prefs 3,315 60 15 45 30 45 45 30 60 60 75 90 90 45 75 60 60 60 30 90 30 60 45 30 60 60 60 30 30 30 30 3,405 Number Published Published Admission Admission Star Academy - Sandyford Stoke Minster CE(A) Primary Summerbank Primary Academy Sutherland Primary Academy Academy The Crescent The Willows Primary Primary Waterside Infant Heights Weston Valley Primary Academy Whitfield NUMBER OF PLACES TOTAL Sandford Hill Sandford Academy Sandon Primary Smallthorne Academy Primary Primary Sneyd Green Academy Catholic St. Augustine’s Catholic Martin’s & St. St. George Academy Catholic Academy St. Gregory’s CE(A) Primary St. John’s Catholic Academy St. Joseph’s CE(A) Primary Hanley St. Luke’s Catholic St. Maria Goretti Academy CE(A) Primary St. Mark’s Catholic Academy - St. Mary’s Norton CE(A) Primary - Tunstall St. Mary’s CE Academy St. Matthew’s CE(C)Primary St. Paul’s Catholic Academy St. Peter’s Catholic Primary St. Teresa’s St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary Catholic Academy St. Wilfrid’s Primary School Primary Academy Saint Nathaniel’s Primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent

Map Primary School Telephone Age* AN NOR ref. Summer 2017

Abbey Hulton Primary Headteacher: Mrs Linda Williams (01782) N3-4 N26 N26 31 School Road, Abbey Hulton, ST2 8BS 235551 P4-11 P30 P195 W: [email protected] Alexandra Infants Acting Executive Headteacher: Mrs Dawn Shaw (01782) N3-4 N39 N39 67 Melville Road, Normacot, ST3 4PZ 235505 I4-7 I60 I148 W: alexinfants.co.uk Alexandra Junior Acting Headteacher: Miss Julie Rowe (01782) 68 J7-11 J60 J220 Meir Road, Normacot, ST3 7JG 235377 W: alexandra-jun.stoke.sch.uk Ash Green Primary† Headteacher: Mrs Ruth Foster (01782) N3-4 N60 N54 59 The Lea, Trentham, ST4 8BX 658977 P4-11 P60 P422 W: ashgreenprimary.co.uk Ball Green Primary† Headteacher: Mr Jonathan Hankey (01782) N3-4 N45 N43 9 Whitfield Road, Ball Green, ST6 8AJ 234811 P4-11 P45 P299 W: ballgreenprimary.co.uk Belgrave St Bartholomew’s Academy Principal: Mrs Lisa Sarikaya (01782) N3-4 N60 N60 65 Sussex Place, Longton, ST3 4TP 235523 P4-11 P60 P426 W: belgraveacademy.org.uk Blurton Primary/The Meadows Primary Academy † Headteacher: Mrs Emma Gater (01782) N3-4 N45 N47 62 Poplar Drive, Blurton, ST3 3AZ 235025 P4-11 P60 P363 W: www.themeadowsprimaryacademy.org.uk Burnwood Community School Headteacher: Mrs Diane Herbert (01782) 8 P4-11 P90 P512 Chell Heath Road, Chell Heath, ST6 7LP 235577 W: burnwoodcommunityschool.co.uk Carmountside Primary Academy Headteacher: Mrs Lisa Challinor (01782) N3-4 N26 N24 23 Woodhead Rd, Abbey Hulton, ST2 8DJ 234676 P4-11 P30 P199 W: carmountsideprimary.org.uk Christ Church CE (C) Primary† Headteacher: Mrs Paula Scattergood (01782) N3-4 N30 N21 48 William Street, Fenton, ST4 2JG 234834 P4-11 P30 P190 W: www.christchurchfenton.co.uk Clarice Cliff Primary † Headteacher: Mrs Diane Broadhurst (01782) N3-4 N60 N56 51 Goldenhill Road, Fenton, ST4 3DP 881480 P4-11 P60 P403 W: [email protected] Eaton Park Academy Principal: Mrs Louise Brammer (01782) N3-4 N60 N60 38 Arbourfield Drive, Bucknall, ST2 9PF 234760 P4-11 P60 P428 W: eatonparkacademy.co.uk Etruscan Primary Executive Headteacher: Mrs Michelle Johnstone (01782) N3-4 N45 N45 33 Dundee Road, Etruria, ST1 4BS 235711 P4-11 P60 P356 W: etruscan.stoke.sch.uk *P = Primary, I = Infant, J = Junior and N = Nursery †Planning to become an academy 22. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 23. N40 N60 N29 N26 N26 N52 N59 N28 N30 N26 N40 N52 I177 I178 J423 P328 P412 P422 P201 P213 P199 P410 P419 P207 P198 P215 NOR Summer 2017 I60 I60 AN P60 P60 P60 P30 P30 P30 P60 P60 P30 P30 P30 N39 N60 N30 N26 N26 N52 N60 N30 N30 N26 N60 N60 J120 I4-7 I4-7 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 Age* J7-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) 233565 234450 234430 234420 234390 234984 235350 234890 234979 957267 234868 235790 235333 234550 Telephone 2 17 35 27 34 40 50 19 22 25 53 49 14 29 ref. Map

Kingsland CE Academy Principal: Mrs Sara Goddard Road, Bucknall, ST2 9AS Werrington kingslandceacademy.co.uk W: Jackfield Infant Acting Executive Headteacher: Mrs Dawn Shaw , ST6 1ET Jackfield Street, jackfield.stoke.sch.uk W: Holden Lane Primary Thomas Headteacher: Miss Clare ST1 6JS Ralph Drive, Sneyd Green, holdenlane-pri.stoke.sch.uk W: Hillside Primary Schonau Headteacher: Mrs Karen ST2 7AS , Field Avenue, www.hillsideprimary.org.uk W: Heron Cross Primary Cross Heron Headteacher: Mrs Dorrie Shenton ST4 4LJ Cross, Heron Road, Grove [email protected] W: Harpfield Primary Academy Woollacott Principle: Mr Richard Hartshill, ST4 6AP Palmers Green, harpfieldprimaryacademy.org.uk W: Hanley St Luke’s CE (A) Primary Hanley St Luke’s Williamson, Headteacher: Mrs Lynne ST1 3QH Road, Hanley, Wellington hanleystlukes.com W: Hamilton Academy Moran Executive Headteacher: Mrs Stephanie Head, ST1 6NW Barthomley Road, Birches hamilton.stoke.sch.uk W: Grove Academy Grove Headteacher: Mrs Nicola McIntyre ST1 2NL Northwood, Street, Turner grovejunior.co.uk W: Greenways Primary Academy Greenways Dean Executive Headteacher: Mrs Christine ST9 9NY Stockton Brook, Nursery Avenue, www.learningvillage.org.uk W: Goldenhill Primary Academy Goldenhill Primary Headteacher: Mr Steven Martin Road, Goldenhill, ST6 4QE Broadfield www.goldenhillprimary.co.uk W: Glebe Academy Oakes-Smith Principal: Mrs Suzanne ST4 3HZ Park Place, Fenton, glebeacademy.co.uk W: Gladstone Primary Academy Gladstone Primary Elaine Preston Headteacher: Mrs ST3 5EW Anchor Road, Longton, gladstone.stoke.sch.uk W: Park Primary Forest Irving Miss Louise Headteacher: ST1 5ED Hanley, Street, Woodall forestpark.org.uk W: Primary School Primary Details of how places were allocated to each school for September 2015 can be found on pages 18–21. allocated to each school for September 2015 can be found on Details of how places were Map Primary School Telephone Age* AN NOR ref. Summer 2017

Maple Court Academy Principal: Mr Jonathan Baddeley (01782) 42 P4-11 P60 P477 Beverley Drive, Bentilee, ST2 OQD 970293 W: [email protected] Mill Hill Primary † Headteacher: Mrs Sharon Bates (01782) N60 N60 7 P4-11 Sunnyside Avenue, Tunstall, ST6 6ED 234466 P60 P460 W: [email protected] Milton Primary Academy Executive Headteacher: Mrs Christine Dean (01782) N3-4 N52 N52 21 Leek Road, Milton, ST2 7AF 234780 P4-11 P60 P359 W: [email protected] Moorpark Junior Headteacher: Mrs Karen Peters Park Road, (01782) 16 J7-11 J60 J233 Burslem, ST6 1EL 234440 W: [email protected] New Ford Primary† Headteacher: Miss Sam Ashley (01782) N3-4 N60 N58 20 Brownley Road, Smallthorne, ST6 1PY 234605 P4-11 P60 P418 W: newford.org.uk Newstead Primary Academy Executive Headteacher: Mrs Helen Stocking (01782) N3-4 N52 N52 60 Waterside Drive, Blurton, ST3 3LQ 235490 P4-11 P60 P283 W: newstead.stoke.sch.uk Northwood Broom Academy Executive Headteacher: Mrs Stephanie Moran (01782) N3-4 N60 N40 30 Keelings Road, Northwood, ST1 6QA 234379 I4-7 I60 I178 W: northwoodbroom.co.uk Norton-le-Moors Primary Academy Headteacher: Mrs Maxine Rizk (01782) N3-4 N26 N26 13 Norton Lane, Norton-in-the-Moors, ST6 8BZ 234792 P4-11 P30 P229 W: norton.stoke.sch.uk Oakhill Primary Headteacher: Mrs Joanna Leach (01782) N3-4 N52 N47 46 Rookery Lane, Oakhill, ST4 5NS 235238 P4-11 P60 P384 W: oakhillprimaryschool.co.uk Our Lady’s Catholic Academy Headteacher: Mrs Karyn Oakley (01782) N3-4 N26 N25 47 Watkin Street, Fenton, ST4 4NP 235385 P4-11 P30 P193 W: ourladysca.org.uk Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy Headteacher: Mrs Debbie Sims (01782) N3-4 N26 N26 32 Abbey Lane, Abbey Hulton, ST2 8AU 234646 P4-11 P30 P206 W: www.ourladyandstbenedict.co.uk Packmoor Ormiston Academy Headteacher: Mrs Sharon May (01782) N3-4 N60 N60 1 Carr Street, Packmoor, ST7 4SP 234544 P4-11 P60 P403 W: packmoorormiston.co.uk Park Hall Academy Principal: Mrs Georgina Frost (01782) N3-4 N60 N60 54 Carberry Way, , ST3 5QU 312384 P4-11 P60 P417 W: www.parkhallacademy.co.uk Priory CE (C) Primary Headteacher: Miss Pam Keen (01782) N3-4 N52 N45 58 Jubilee Road, Trentham, ST4 8EF 233585 P4-11 P60 P399 W: prioryceprimary.org.uk *P = Primary, I = Infant, J = Junior and N = Nursery †Planning to become an academy 24. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 25. P99 N57 N27 N30 N51 N27 N26 N60 N30 N49 N25 N26 P413 P445 P207 P406 P214 P396 P294 P204 P419 P209 P493 P200 P213 NOR Summer 2017 AN P15 P60 P60 P30 P60 P30 P60 P45 P30 P60 P30 P90 P30 P30 N60 N26 N30 N52 N39 N30 N60 N30 N52 N26 N26 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 N3-4 Age* P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 P4-11 (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) (01782) 235337 234820 394890 234384 235340 238889 235393 234737 234411 235781 319097 235265 234460 319504 Telephone 3 10 12 66 28 64 43 39 36 52 70 18 26 69 ref. Map † † St Matthew’s CE Academy St Matthew’s Principal: Mr P Mitchell Road, Rough Close, ST3 7NE stmatthews.stoke.sch.uk W: St Mary’s Catholic Academy St Mary’s Principal: Mr Ian Beardmore Road, Norton, ST6 8EZ Green Ford stmarysstoke.co.uk W: St Mary’s CE (A) Primary St Mary’s Headteacher: Mrs Gill James Ladywell Road, Tunstall, ST6 5DE [email protected] W: St Mark’s CE (A) Primary St Mark’s Executive Headteacher: Mrs Michelle Johnstone Shelton, ST1 4LR Terrace, Wood www.saintmarksprimary.org.uk W: St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy St Maria Goretti Yates Executive Headteacher: Mrs Margaret Road, Bentilee, ST2 0LY Aylesbury stmariagoretti.org.uk W: St Joseph’s Catholic Academy St Joseph’s Principal: Mrs Elizabeth Thomas Mobberley Road, Goldenhill, ST6 5RN www.stjosephscatholicacademy.co.uk W: St John’s CE (A) Primary CE (A) St John’s Headteacher: Mrs Pauline Bloor ST4 6SB Stoke-on-Trent, Wheatly Avenue, stjohns.stoke.sch.uk W: St Gregory’s Catholic Academy Catholic Academy St Gregory’s Yates Executive Headteacher: Mrs Margaret Road, Longton, ST3 2QN Spring Garden saintgregorys.org.uk W: St George and St Martin’s Catholic Academy St George and St Martin’s Principal: Mrs Dawn Farmer Head, ST1 2NQ Birches Boulton Street, sgsmacademy.co.uk W: St Augustine’s Catholic Academy Catholic St Augustine’s Principal Mrs Lisa Machin ST3 7DF Sandon Road, Meir, [email protected] W: Sneyd Green Primary Sneyd Green Headteacher: Mrs Rosina Lee ST6 2NS Sneyd Green, Sneyd Street, sneydgreen.stoke.sch.uk W: Smallthorne Primary Chris Crook Headteacher: Mr Smallthorne, ST6 1PR Chetwynd Street, smallthorneprimary.org.uk W: Sandon Primary Academy Sandon Primary Beckett Principal: Mrs Rachel ST3 7AW Road, Meir, Normacot Grange sandonprimaryacademy.com W: sandonprimaryacademy.com/grange-nursery- W: school.html Sandford Hill Primary Sandford Mr David Wardle Headteacher: ST3 5AQ Longton, Grove, Clayfield sandfordhill.org.uk W: Primary School Primary Map Primary School Telephone Age* AN NOR ref. Summer 2017

Saint Nathaniel’s Academy Principal: Mr Sean Thomson (01782) N3-4 N60 N60 15 Westport Road, Burslem, ST6 4JG 234950 P4-11 P60 P415 W: saintnathaniels.org.uk St Paul’s CE (C) Primary Headteacher: Mrs N Finney (01782) N3-4 N45 N39 63 Byatts Grove, Longton, ST3 2RH 235051 P4-11 P45 P308 W: stpaulsprimaryschool.org.uk St Peter’s Catholic Academy Headteacher: Mrs Rossanna Snee (01782) N3-4 N30 N29 24 Waterloo Road, , ST6 3HL 235040 P4-11 P30 P212 W: [email protected] St Teresa’s Catholic (A) Primary Headteacher: Mr Nathan Price (01782) N3-4 N45 N37 57 Stone Road, , ST4 6SP 235005 P4-11 P45 P312 W: st-teresas.stoke.sch.uk St Thomas Aquinas Catholic (A) Primary Headteacher: Mrs P Bekalo (01782) N3-4 N30 N29 41 North Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7DG 234919 P4-11 P30 P211 W: [email protected] St Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy Headteacher: Mr Mark Barlow (01782) N3-4 N45 N45 11 Queen’s Avenue, Tunstall, ST6 6EE 235676 P4-11 P45 P315 W: st-wilfrid.stoke.sch.uk Star Academy Principal: Miss Nicky Broomhall (01782) N3-4 N30 N28 5 Burnaby Road, Sandyford, ST6 5PT 235055 P4-11 P30 P179 W: staracademy.attrust.org.uk Stoke Minster CE (A) Primary† Headteacher: Mrs Lynne Willis (01782) N3-4 N39 N39 45 Boothen Old Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 4EE 234800 P4-11 P60 P383 W: stokeminster.stoke.sch.uk Summerbank Primary Academy Headteacher: Mr Robert Shenton (01782) N3-4 N52 N49 6 Summerbank Road, Tunstall, ST6 5HA 233611 P4-11 P60 P377 W: summerbank.co.uk Sutherland Primary Academy Head of Academy: Mr Garry Boote (01782) N3-4 N60 N55 61 Beaconsfield Drive, Blurton, ST3 3DY 594133 P4-11 P75 P424 W: [email protected] The Crescent Academy Executive Principal: Mr David Alston (01782) N3-4 N78 N76 71 Pinewood Crescent, Meir, ST3 6HZ 318145 P4-11 P90 P575 W: [email protected] The Willows Primary Headteacher: Mrs Sarah Thursfield (01782) N3-4 N60 N63 44 Greatbatch Avenue, , ST4 7JU 233280 P4-11 P90 P573 W: willowsprimary.com Waterside Primary Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Knowles (01782) N3-4 N45 N42 37 Eastwood Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3JS 234630 P4-11 P45 P303 W: [email protected]. Weston Heights Infant School (01782) Executive Headteacher: Mrs Kathryn Clayton N3-4 N65 N75 55 319607 / West Street, Weston Coyney, ST3 6PT I4-7 I75 I196 W: whinfants.co.uk 596848 *P = Primary, I = Infant, J = Junior and N = Nursery †Planning to become an academy 26. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 27. N52 J220 P313 NOR Summer 2017 AN J75 P60 N52 N3-4 Age* J7-11 P4-11 (01782) (01782) 312112 234570 Telephone 4 56 ref. Map

Oxford Road, Fegg Hayes, ST6 6TD Road, Fegg Hayes, Oxford whitfieldv.org.uk W: Whitfield Valley Primary Academy Whitfield Mrs Helen Stocking Executive Headteacher: Weston Coyney Junior School Coyney Weston Kathryn Clayton Headteacher: Mrs Executive 6NG ST3 Coyney, Drive, Weston Princess westoncoyney-jun.stoke.sch.uk W: Primary School Primary Right of Appeal

Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools impartially applied and the child would have If we are not able to offer your child a place at your been offered a place if the arrangements had preferred school, you may wish to discuss your complied or had been correctly and impartially child’s situation with the Admissions and Transport applied; or Team. They will be pleased to help you. If you c) the decision to refuse admission was not one are still unhappy, you have a right to appeal to an which a reasonable admission authority would Independent Appeals Panel. For some schools you have made in the circumstances of the case. should lodge your appeal through the local authority. For others, you should go direct to the school. The In relation to point b) it is not enough to say that Admissions and Transport Team will be happy to there has been a mistake in implementing the direct you. Their number is on the back page. school’s admission arrangements. The appeal panel can only uphold the appeal in cases where it is If you believe you have the grounds to appeal you clear that the child would have been offered a place must complete an appeal form and return it to the if the admission arrangements had been properly appropriate address given on the appeal form. The implemented or were not contrary to mandatory deadline for Appeals is Friday 18 May 2018. Failure provisions in the School Admissions Code and the to meet this deadline may result in your appeal not SSFA 1998. being heard until September 2018. There are some legal exceptions to the Class Size An appeals form and information is available from the Legislation. These are: Admissions and Transport Team or on the website 1. children admitted outside the normal admissions stoke.gov.uk/education. round with Statements of Special Educational Needs or Education, Health & Care Plan All appeals will be considered by an Appeal Panel specifying a school; constituted in accordance with the provisions of 2. looked after children and previously looked after the School Standards and Framework Act (SSFA) children admitted outside the normal admissions 1998. The Appeal Panel normally consists of three round; independent people. None of them work for the city 3. children admitted, after initial allocations of council or will have been involved with your case. places, because of a procedural error made by The panel is independent of the Admission Authority the admission authority or local authority in the and their decision will be binding on both you and original application process; the Admission Authority. 4. children admitted after an independent appeals panel upholds an appeal; The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) provides 5. children who move into the area outside the an additional, independent source of advice for normal admissions round for whom there is parents unable to secure the place they want for no other available school within reasonable their child. Their website can be found at distance (2 miles – statutory distance); www.ace-ed.org.uk 6. children of UK service personnel admitted outside the normal admissions round; Voluntary Aided Schools 7. children whose twin or sibling from a multiple If you have been refused a place at a church aided birth is admitted otherwise than as an excepted school and you wish to appeal, you should appeal pupil; directly to the school. This can be done by writing 8. children with Special Educational Needs who are to the Chair of Governors, care of the school. If you normally taught in a special educational needs have any difficulties contact the Admissions and unit attached to the school, or registered at a Transport Team for advice. special school, who attend some infant classes within the mainstream school. Class Size Appeals Since September 2001, there are statutory limits on In view of these limitations, parents have a very class sizes. This means that, classes in Key Stage 1 limited chance of success in relation to ‘infant class may not contain more than 30 pupils with a single size’ appeals. Below are the statistics for the last 3 qualified teacher. Because of this, Appeals against academic years. a decision not to admit further pupils into infant classes of 5, 6 and 7 year olds can only be Stoke-on-Trent City Council Appeal Statistics considered on limited grounds. The limited grounds are: Primary Schools 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ Where an appeal panel is satisfied that: (Infant Class Size) 15 16 17 a) the admission of additional children would not Number of appeals heard 105 103 76 breach the infant class size limit; or Number of successful 12 11 26 b) the admissions arrangements did not comply appeals with admissions law or were not correctly and 28. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 29. Where qualification is based on grounds of faith, qualification is based on grounds Where of this the assertion this is determined through the admission application through preference will need to have satisfied the Parents process. faith criterion. For Voluntary admitting body’s schools, the local authority will Controlled to the adherence of the family’s evidence require / denomination of the school; religion site school, the a pupil attends a split Where purposes will be the site for qualification relevant the majority of his/ the pupil spends site where her school week as notified by the school at the beginning of the academic year; both sites a pupil is dual registered, Where will be separately assessed to determine the transport need; of the local authority, in the care For children is placed is deemed the child the school where to school’ in order qualifying to be the ‘nearest of education. the necessary continuity provide as The allocation of school is to be reviewed Plan monitoring. Care regular part of the child’s They must be a Community, Foundation, They must be a Community, school Controlled/Aided Academy or Voluntary unit; or a pupil referral school to the pupil’s It must be the nearest to the education appropriate home that provides (includingage, ability and aptitude of the child pupilany special placement for an excluded school, or of their mainstream the roll who is off by parents a Faith school that has been chosen belief), with places because of a religious available;

Similarly, transport will be considered to provide to provide transport will be considered Similarly, it is necessary as a continuity of education where Children by Vulnerable of other intervention result and Corporate Parenting. • • • • Qualifying Schools Qualifying any schools as for preferences may state Parents Some choices process. part of the admissions transport or subsidised free may appear to trigger to be allocated. However, were transport if a place the “qualifying school” criteriaif they fall outside qualifying nearer suitable places at a are and there does not qualify for transportschool, then the pupil school then from to and assistance. Transport of the parent. becomes the responsibility must satisfy all of the followingQualifying schools criteria: • •

Pupils unable to walk to school because of the route; unsuitability of the only reasonable All those pupils aged 4+ to 8 years if they their nearest than 2 miles from live more qualifying school. The distance is calculated by determining the shortest acceptable walking by an adult (not for a child accompanied route necessarily by road). Pupils unable to walk to school by reason Pupils unable to walk to school by reason the (where of a long- term medical problem a application is accompanied by a letter from to confirm doctor or other medical professional and how these affect the medical circumstances ability to get to school); the child’s Pupils unable to walk to school by reason of a Pupils unable to walk to school by reason (transport temporary mobility/medical problem on a temporary basis); offered

• • • • Free transport will be offered to the following transport will be offered Free categories of young people: Pupils with a Statement of Special EducationalPupils with a Statement of Special covered Plan are Needs or Education, Health & Care by separate policies. Home to School Transport Policy Home to School Transport transport must be of compulsory Pupils seeking free of 4+ and 17 yearsschool age i.e. between the ages and living in the City of Stoke-on-Trent. If your child is not eligible then find out about cycleIf your child is not eligible then find about “Park & Stride” to the school or enquire routes would like you We Once a Week). or “WOW” (Walk as taking to consider these other ways of travel the roads your child to school by car can make and potentiallyoutside the school very unpleasant for all concerned. hazardous Stoke-on-Trent City Council will provide assistance Council will provide City Stoke-on-Trent if school transport arrangements with a pupil’s under our Home to Schoolyou meet the criteria information on travelling more For Policy. Transport visit http://bit.ly/2bOYBMn to school please Where schools are beyond walking distance, you beyond walking are schools Where school transport. free may be entitled to It is the responsibility of parents to ensure that their to ensure of parents It is the responsibility school at the appropriate from get to and child(ren) day. time each Transport Transport for Children with Special Needs Sustainable Travel to School

Children who have a Statement of Special When deciding on which school you want to send Educational Needs or Education, Health & Care Plan your child to, you may wish to think about the and who attend the most appropriate school for journey to school. For example, how far it is, is it their needs, may be provided with assistance with safe, is it a pleasant journey, and so on. their transport requirements. Free transport may be provided at the discretion of the city council. For many children, walking and cycling are excellent ways to travel to school as it helps to keep them For further details please contact the Special Needs fit and healthy and it has the added bonus of Transport Section on 01782 236842. being good for the environment. It is also a lot less stressful, for parents, than driving a car in today’s busy traffic conditions and avoids parking difficulties Applications open on and congestion. What’s more you don’t necessarily have to walk or cycle the same route as you would MONDAY 2 drive to school. OCTOBER 2017 99% of Stoke-on-Trent schools have written a School Travel Plan for their site which aims to improve the way children travel to school. As part of the plans schools have developed improved facilities to help children and adults walk or cycle to school. New footpaths have been provided, road crossings, sheltered waiting areas constructed and lockers provided for children to keep their bags safe.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has invested heavily in schools to encourage a new generation of cyclists. A quarter of schools are now “Bike It” schools which means that they get extra attention with cycle rides, bike related activities and cycle training. Cycle parking has now been provided at over half of Stoke-on-Trent schools and there is now a good network of safe and secure cycle routes. For more information about cycling training contact the Safe & Sustainable Transport Team on 01782 232066.

For more information on The Sustainable Travel to School Strategy please call the Traveline on 0871 200 2233 or the School Travel Plan Officer on 01782 234968.

30. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 31. . www.stoke.gov.uk MONDAY 15 MONDAY JANUARY 2018 JANUARY Deadline for applications Income Support; The guaranteed element of Pension Credit; Income-Based Job-seekers Allowance; Universal Credit; Support Allowance; Employment Income related you do not also (providing Credit Child Tax and have an annual Credit) Tax Working receive income of £16,190 or less (as assessed by HM Revenue and Customs); Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Sex, teenagers and relationships Sex, teenagers and support for alcohol education Drug and young people Anti-social behaviour training Job enterprise and and estate management Tenancy

You will need to make a separate claim for each of will need You can make a claim via your child’s You your children. or you can simply ring on-line, school, local centre, on 01782 236813 for School Meals Team our Free assistance. How to contact us: Phone: 01782 232200 Email: [email protected] 9.00am to 5.00pm from Our helpline is available 9.00am to 4:30pm on Monday to Thursday, at allFriday. An answerphone message is available more can view our web pages for other times. You information for families at • • • • • • • • • • • • Meals School Free meals child will automatically be entitled to free Your 2, as they will be 1 or Year whilst in Reception, Year School Meals by the Universal Infant Free covered However your school will ask you to provision. to confirm and claim form complete a registration on your ownany underlying entitlement, based This is because the school gets circumstances. qualify forextra funding for every child who would School rules for Free a meal, under the standard Meals. School Meals If Free child is eligible to receive Your of any one of the following: in receipt you are

School attendance and other education welfare School attendance and other education welfare issues Domestic violence advice and support development Youth Support for young carers Children’s centres Children’s Family support prevention offending Youth Brokerage – free additional support if you are additional support if you are – free Brokerage that meets the needs struggling to find childcare of your family. Family benefits – information on schemes to help with the cost of childcare. Activities – taking place across Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent Activities – taking place across during school holidays. availability of – types of childcare, Childcare childminders, out-of-school clubs and holiday schemes. Rights and entitlements – your legal and parental Rights and entitlements – your legal and parental or carer. rights as a parent Behavioural issues – tackling issues affecting affecting Behavioural issues – tackling issues your family. provide Signposting – to services which can specialist support and advice.

We can also provide information and connect you to can also provide We support: specialist other services offering • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A wide range of free information, advice and support A wide range of free and of children and carers is available to parents young people in Stoke-on-Trent: Information for families Children without a school place must take Children on a waiting list attending over children precedence another school. In coming to a decision about the child’s placement about the child’s In coming to a decision account of the the local authority will take careful views of the Headteachers and governing bodies In particular of the schools named by the parent. of any genuinethe local authority will take account concerns about a Fair Access admission e.g. in relationships serious breakdown a previous etc. between the family and the school, Fair Access Policy Fair Access to have an In-Year authority is required The local that access to ensure in order Fair Access Protocol who quickly for children to education is secured and that all schools in the cityhave no school place challenging with of children admit their fair share identified as “difficult Once a child is behaviour. will Team and Transport to place”, the Admissions any and his/her school record ask for a copy of placement. to the child’s information relevant Other information Other Complaints Further Help and Information

Although our schools will try to offer your child the The Admissions and Transport Team is the central best possible education, you may at some point feel contact point for parents requiring further help or you wish to make a complaint. information. Our helpline telephone numbers are 01782 234598. If you are concerned about any aspect of your child’s education, you should firstly talk to the The team may also be contacted by writing to the school. Most problems can be sorted out informally. address on the back page. Or you could contact us If you are still unhappy, the local Education Welfare by e-mail on [email protected] Officer will be able to advise you what to do next. Officers will also be pleased to deal with any If you are still concerned, you can contact OfSTED enquiries in person, should you prefer to visit the or, in the case of an academy, the Academies Unit office at the Civic Centre to discuss your concerns. at the Department for Education (DfE). Each faith Contact the Admissions and Transport Team to school has its own complaints policy, a copy of make an appointment on 01782 234598. The offices which is available from the school. are open to the public from 8.45am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 4.30pm on Friday. From here you Education Welfare can obtain information on: • Admissions to schools; The Education Welfare Team works in close • Exclusions; partnership with schools, settings and other • Free school meals; providers of education for children. • Bus passes.

Stoke Education Welfare Officers have many years of experience in various educational settings from primary and secondary education through to Alternate Providers, colleges and Special schools with large networks of contacts from support agencies to enable them to actively signpost, support and advise schools and families.

The team also holds a wealth of expertise with regard to child protection and children missing education. Our involvements with children, young people and their parents include: • Attendance at their place of education; • Achievement and wellbeing at school; • Staying safe and improving social behaviour and preventing bullying; • Supporting registration practise; • Giving advice on School Attendance Law.

32. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 33. Appendix A

Please read and understand the admission There is no guarantee that the same pattern will arrangements for the schools you are repeat in 2018. interested in before completing an Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational application for your child. Need/ Education, Health & Care Plan are considered separately and before everyone else and must be All applications for admission to community, accepted by the school named on their Statement/ voluntary controlled, voluntary aided schools and Plan. They will count towards the school’s admission academies at 4+ are managed by Stoke-on-Trent number. City Council. Preferences made by parents living in Stoke-on-Trent for schools in other local authority If a school has more places than applications, any areas should also be made through the Council. parent that applies must be offered a place. A parent can apply for a place for their child at any If a school has more applications than places, a state-funded school in any area. This is known as school’s admission authority must rank applications the co-ordinated admission scheme. To help this in order against its published oversubscription process applicants are required to fill in a common criteria and send that list back to the local authority application form. This can be done on- line. This means that parents apply to the local authority in How to make an In-Year application which they live for places at their preferred schools. Applications made outside the normal admission Parents are encouraged to express a preference for round (In-Year Admissions) must be made directly at least three schools. to the school. The school will provide an in-year application form for parents to complete. You Other information about how offers were made can also get an application form from the Local for places in September 2017 can be found in the Authority. Please see below the Stoke-on-Trent section which starts on page 18 (‘How places Admissions Policy. were allocated for September 2017’). Admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled nursery settings and primary schools for 2018/19

1. Nursery Provision 3. Other children living within the catchment. 1.1 All but three of the primary schools in Stoke-on- 4. Children living outside the catchment who have Trent have nursery provision attached. In addition, an elder brother or sister at the school who will Stoke-on-Trent has six nursery schools. Children still be attending at the time of admission (or aged three years by 31 August are able to attend a at the linked junior school in the case of infant nursery class or school in September. Attendance at schools). school is not a requirement at this age but is at the 5. Children who live nearest to the school as discretion of parents. determined by a straight line measurement from the child’s home address point to the main 1.2 Oversubscription Criteria entrance of the school. The Local Authority uses Where there are more applications for a nursery a Geographical Information System (GIS) to setting than there are places the following priorities calculate home to school distances. Distances will be used, in order, to allocate places: are calculated on the basis of a straight line 1. Children in the care of the local authority and measurement from the applicant’s home address children who were previously looked after but point, to the point at each school, designated in ceased to be so because they were adopted (or their admissions policy**. Both address points became subject to a child arrangements order or are plotted using the Local Land and Property special guardianship order). Gazetteer (LLPG) and OS Address Point data. 2. Children living within the catchment* who have an elder brother or sister at the school who will still be attending at the time of admission (or at the linked junior school in the case of infant schools).

* The child’s home address is used to determine the catchment for that property 34. ** See the school’s website for details Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 35. Children living in the catchment* area of the the catchment* area living in Children or sister brother have an older school who (or at at the time of admission attending in the case of infantthe linked junior school schools); area living within the catchment Other children of the school; of the living outside the catchment area Children or sister at the an elder brother school who have of admission (or at the linkedschool at the time case of infant schools); junior school in the to the school as who live nearest Children straight line measurement determined by a point to the main home address the child’s from Authority usesentrance of the school. The Local (GIS) toa Geographical Information System Distancescalculate home to school distances. calculated on the basis of a straight line are home the applicant’s from measurement point, to the point at each school, address Bothdesignated in their admissions policy**. plotted using the Local Land points are address Gazetteer (LLPG) and OS Address and Property Point data. Children cared for by a local authority and a local authority for by cared Children butlooked after previously were who children adopted (or they were be so because ceased to or arrangements order subject to a child became order); special guardianship If priorities have to be decided within any ofIf priorities have to be decided within

2.6 of will be placed in order these categories, children their home to the main priority using distance from by straight entrance of the school as measured put any reasons line. The Council will also consider in support of their preference. by parents forward should be supported with evidence These reasons concern possible. If the reasons the child’s wherever should health or social wellbeing, the evidence by a medical practitioner or other social be provided If the Council considers that professional. care a particular school are for a place at the reasons application it will place the child’s strong, sufficiently at the top of the criterion in which it falls. 2.7 The Council also has to comply with the Infant Class Sizes Regulations which say that infant classes must not exceed 30 pupils. If an infant class is full, a waiting list based on the above criteria will Not be held until the end of that academic year. applicable for Nursery applications or transition from Infant Schools to their linked Junior School. The to one member of ratio for Nursery is 13 children staff. or 2.8 For admission purposes, an older brother sister is defined as a child who lives at the same half brother/ and who is the brother/sister, address or step parent), one common sister (i.e. share marriage) of parent’s by (i.e. related brother/sister It the child for whom the place is being requested. living as partners of parents also includes children living at the same and any child at the address of a Residence Order. under the terms residence 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. Oversubscription Criteria Parents are asked to name three schools, in asked to name three are Parents Attendance at a particular nursery setting will nursery setting at a particular Attendance Where there are more applications for a community applications more are there Where are school than there primary or voluntary controlled places available, the Council will use the following to allocate places: priorities, in order, 2.5 2.4 which they would like their of preference, order child to attend. Admissions authorities have to with their in accordance consider preferences published admissions criteria. They cannot take of is placed in the order the school account of where preferences. Schools have a Pupil Admission Number (PAN) (PAN) 2.3 Schools have a Pupil Admission Number class. the reception including for each year group, is expected to be based upon the school’s The PAN up to but not offered Places will be net capacity. that also require Regulations exceeding the PAN. must have no more and infant classes reception than 30 pupils to each qualified teacher. All applications for admission to community, 2.2 All applications for admission to community, voluntary aided schools and voluntary controlled, Stoke-on- Trent managed by academies at 4+ are living in made by parents City Council. Preferences for schools in other local authority Stoke-on-Trent should also be made through areas co-ordinated the Council. This is known as the applicants help this process admission scheme. To form. to fill in a common application required are This can be done on-line. Admission to primary school is provided for school is provided 2.1 Admission to primary September following their fourth in the all children a place at a a child is offered Where birthday. is entitled to a fulltime place in theschool, that child the child’s September following their fourth birthday; can defer the date their child is admitted parents year but notto the school until later in the school compulsory beyond the point at which they reach of the finalschool age and not beyond the beginning it was made; andterm of the school year for which part- may attend wish, children the parents where not beyond thetime until later in the school year but compulsory school age. point at which they reach 2. Primary Provision As nursery education is not compulsory there is not compulsory there 1.5 As nursery education a place. of against the refusal is no right of appeal will be made to accommodate every effort However, the wishes of parents. not guarantee admission to a reception class at the to a reception admission not guarantee same school. 1.4 Once the class is full a waiting list based on list based a waiting is full the class 1.3 Once of that the end until will be held criteria these year. academic ** See the school’s website for details ** See the school’s * The child’s home address is used to determine the catchment for that property is used to determine home address * The child’s 2.9 Special arrangements will apply if there is space for only one of a set of twins or triplets Applications open on or other multiple birth. In this circumstance the Council will usually admit above the published MONDAY 2 admission number (PAN) unless it is impossible to accommodate siblings in such a way, when the OCTOBER 2017 parents will be asked make a decision on behalf of the family. [Please note that this does not apply to 3.3 Withdrawal of places - once parents have Nursery applications]. been notified of an offer of a school place the Council will withdraw the offer only in exceptional 2.10 Admission outside normal age-group – parents circumstances, such as: may request that places be made available outside 1. Failure to respond to the offer within the the normal age group (e.g., if a child is summer- specified time following a reminder; born, gifted and talented, or has experienced 2. If the offer was made based on fraudulent problems such as ill- health, etc.). A decision will be or misleading information on the application taken by the admission authority on the basis of the form e.g. a false claim to residence within a circumstances of the case and taking account of the catchment area; views of the head teacher of the school concerned. 3. Where a place was offered in error at a school where the Council is not the admissions 2.11 Part-time provision - parents can request that authority. their child takes up the place part-time until the child reaches compulsory school age. 3.4 Copies of school catchment area maps are available from the Local Authority or individual 2.12 Where applicants are unsuccessful in securing schools. a place at their preferred school, an appeal against the decision can be made to an independent 3.5 In-year Admissions – where applications for appeals panel set up by the City Council. [Please places are made outside the normal admissions note that there is no Right of Appeal for Nursery round, these should be made directly to the admissions]. school. The City Council will make appropriate arrangements with schools for data sharing and 3. Additional Notes pupil tracking.

3.1 Pupils with a Plan/Statement are considered 3.6 The Council uses a Geographical Information separately and before everyone else and must be system to calculate home to school distances. accepted by the school named on their Statement This determines co-ordinates of the applicant’s of Special Educational Need/Education, Health & home address using the Local Land and Property Care Plan. They will count towards the school’s Gazetteer (LLPG) and OS Address Point data. admission number. 3.7 Waiting lists will be maintained until the end of 3.2 Late applications will be considered alongside the Autumn Term. A position on a waiting list is not those received by the closing date only in the event fixed and applicants may move up and down the of one of the following: list. Inclusion on the list does not guarantee the 1. the family moved into the area after the deadline ultimate provision of a place at this school. for the receipt of applications; 2. exceptional circumstances, stated in writing with 3.8 The applicant’s home address is the child’s evidence, prevented the form from arriving on along with their parent’s main and genuine place of time; or residence at the time of the allocation of places. 3. an error on the part of the school; or Where a pupil lives with parents with shared 4. the application is received before Own responsibilities, each for part of the week, the home Admission Authority schools have ranked their address will be the one at which the pupil is resident application. Such considerations will be the for the greatest part of the week. Please see page exception rather than the rule. Otherwise late 12 for additional information. applications will be considered at the end of the allocation process. On the following pages are the details for each school within Stoke-on-Trent.

36. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 37. MONDAY 15 MONDAY JANUARY 2018 JANUARY Deadline for applications Eaves Lane, Off Werrington Road, Bucknall, Werrington Eaves Lane, Off ST2 9AS Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234430 Tel: www.kingslandceacademy.co.uk/nursery Goddard Executive Headteacher: Mrs Sara Harrowby Road, Meir, Road, Meir, Harrowby ST3 7AN Stoke-on-Trent 01782 319097 Tel: www.grange-nursery.eschools.co.uk Mrs Rachel Beckett Executive Headteacher: Grange Nursery School Grange Kingsland Nursery School The School admits students from the age of 3+ the age students from The School admits a Nursery place forHow to apply for September 2018 atAn application must be made online or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. The closing date for authority preference applications is 31 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards the age of 3+ The School admits students from How to apply for a Nursery place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. The closing date for authority preference applications is 31 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards

Chell Heath Road, Chell Heath, ST6 6PB Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234416 Tel: www.burnwoodnurseryschool.co.uk Headteacher: Mrs Diane Herbert Burnwood Nursery School Treehouse Children’s Centre, Dawlish Drive, Dawlish Centre, Children’s Treehouse ST2 0HW Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235065 Tel: www.bentileenursery.co.uk [email protected] Juliet Levingstone Headteacher: Miss Bentilee Nursery School Bentilee Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for a Nursery place forHow to apply for a Nursery place September 2018 atAn application must be made online or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. The closing date for authority preference applications is 31 January 2018. Children can also be admitted the day after they are can also be admitted the day after they are Children entitled to two year old years old if they are three after they are funding. If not, they can start the term three. Bentilee nursery school offers part time provision part time provision Bentilee nursery school offers two and half days a week). across (15 hours free can be admitted the term after they are Children entitled to two year old funding. two, if they are The School admits students from the age of 2+ the age students from The School admits Nursery Schools Nursery Admission criteria foundation The Admissions Policy for community, schools is shown trust and voluntary controlled appendix A. the beginning of towards How to apply for a Nursery place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. The closing date for local authority preference applications is 31 January 2018. The School admits students from the age of 3+ The School admits students from Thomas Boughey Nursery School Westfield Nursery School

College Road, Shelton, Queensbury Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DQ Stoke-on-Trent ST3 1QZ Tel: 01782 237125 Tel: 01782 235405 tbns.org.uk www.schoolswire.org/public/westfield1478 Executive Headteacher: Mrs Michelle Johnstone Headteacher: Mrs Lisa Sarikaya The School admits students from the age of 3+ The School admits students from the age of 3+

How to apply for a Nursery place for How to apply for a Nursery place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. The closing date for authority preference form. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2018. applications is 31 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

38. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 39. Whitfield Road, Ball Green, Whitfield Road, Ball Green, ST6 8AJ Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234811 Tel: www.ballgreenprimary.co.uk Interim Headteacher: Mr Jonathan Hankey Ball Green Primary Ball Green The Lea, Trentham, The Lea, Trentham, T ST4 8BX Stoke-on-Trent el: 01782 658977 www.ashgreenprimary.co.uk Ruth Foster Headteacher: Mrs Ash Green Primary Ash Green The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 place forHow to apply for Nursery or Reception September 2018 atAn application must be made online or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference isThe closing date for Nursery applications 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards

Alexandra Infants Melville Road, Normacot, ST3 4PZ Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235505 Tel: www.alexinfants.co.uk Acting Executive Headteacher: Mrs Dawn Shaw School Road, Abbey Hulton,School Road, Abbey ST2 8BS Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235551 Tel: www.abbeyhultonprimary.org.uk Linda Williams Headteacher: Mrs Abbey Hulton Primary Abbey Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the ages of 3-7 Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for Nursery or Reception September 2018 atAn application must be made online or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference isThe closing date for Nursery applications 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Primary Schools Primary The maximum number of children we can accept Belgrave St Bartholomew’s Academy into Nursery and Reception each year is 60. If there are more applicants than places available, the Sussex Place, Longton, Governors, who are the admissions authority for the Academy, will operate the following oversubscription Stoke-on-Trent ST3 4TP criteria: Tel: 01782 235523 www.belgraveacademy.org.uk In order of priority: Principal: Mrs Lisa Sarikaya a) Children who are in the care of a local The School admits students between the ages authority (looked after children) or provided of 3-11 with accommodation by them (Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) and children who How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for were previously looked after but ceased to be September 2018 so because they were adopted (or became An application must be made online at subject to a child arrangements order or special www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local guardianship order), immediately following authority preference form. having been looked after. The closing date for Nursery applications is b) Children who (at the time of application) have 31 January 2018. an elder brother or sister in attendance at the The closing date for Reception applications is Academy and who will still be attending at the Monday 15 January 2018. proposed admission date.

Admission criteria Siblings are considered to be those children who Belgrave St. Bartholomew’s Academy welcomes live at the same address and either: children from all backgrounds, faiths and those of no • Have one or both natural parents in faith. The Governors of the Academy are committed common; to developing an inclusive school that reflects the OR diversity of the local community. Admission to the • Are related by a parent’s marriage or Academy is not dependent on being a member of a related by parents living as partners at particular faith community. this address; OR As well as being an inclusive academy, as a Church • Are adopted or fostered by a common of England school we have a distinctive ethos and parent. character that reflects the teaching of the Bible and OR Christian values. All parents applying for a place • Children not adopted, fostered or related at our Academy are asked to by a parent’s marriage or with one natural respect this ethos and its importance to the school parent in common, who are brought community. It is hoped that all children who attend together as a family by a same sex civil our Church of England Academy will be able to partnership and who are living at the same participate (as appropriate) in the religious life of the address, are also considered to be siblings. school (including collective worship and religious We do not include cousins within our definition education). This does not affect the right of parents of siblings. who are not Christian to apply for a place. Indeed, through our commitment to inclusivity, families from If a child lives with parents with shared other faiths and no faith are warmly welcomed. responsibilities, each for part of the week, the ‘home address’ will be the one at which the child Admissions Process is resident for the greatest part of the school Parents wishing to apply for a place at Belgrave week. Where this is equally shared, the home St. Bartholomew’s Academy can apply online at address will be the one used when applying for www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or complete the child benefit Admission Application Form, which is available from the academy. This should then be returned directly c) Children who are baptised members of a to the academy or to the Local Authority by the Christian Church which in in communion with published closing date. the Church of England. A copy of the baptismal certificate must be provided at the point of The admission of pupils with a statement of Special application. Educational Needs/Education Health Care Plan d) Other students arranged in order of priority (EHCP) are dealt with by a separate procedure. according to how near their home addresses These children will be admitted to the Academy if are to the Academy. Distance is measured by our school is named on the statement/EHCP. This is straight line measurement from the front door a statutory entitlement under S.324 of the Education of the house to the main gate of the school Act 1996. on Sussex Place as measured by the Local Authority geographical information system.

All applications will be ranked against the oversubscription criteria. 40. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 41. MONDAY 15 MONDAY JANUARY 2018 JANUARY Deadline for applications Chell Heath Road, Chell Heath, Road, Chell Chell Heath 7LP ST6 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235577 Tel: www.burnwoodcommunityschool.co.uk Diane Herbert Headteacher: Mrs Carmountside Primary Academy Road, Abbey Hulton, Woodhead ST2 8DJ Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234676 Tel: www.carmountsideprimary.org.uk Headteacher: Mrs Lisa Challinor BurnwoodSchool Community †Planning to become an academy during 2017/18 The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 4-11 Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Reception applications isThe closing date Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards MONDAY 2 MONDAY Applications open on OCTOBER 2017 † Poplar Drive, Blurton, ST3 3AZ Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235025 Tel: www.themeadowsprimaryacademy.org.uk Headteacher: Mrs Emma Gater Blurton Primary / The Meadows Primary Blurton Primary / The Meadows Academy Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Waiting List Waiting List until The Academy will maintain a Waiting for Applications the end of each academic year. List must be made directly inclusion on this Waiting ranked according to the Academy and these will be criteria. to our over-subscription In Year Admissions In Year the other than at groups Admissions into year will be on an in year transfernormal point of entry and the to the Academy directly application form, line with theallocation of places will be made in above oversubscription criteria. Appeals Governors’ the appeal against wish to who Parents to their child, must a place not to offer decision Education Authority writing to the Local do so by & CommitteeCommittee, Democratic Appeals Division, City Democratic Services Support, Civic City of Stoke-on-Trent, Office, Director’s 1HH. ST4 Stoke-on-Trent, Glebe Street, Centre, Appeals Panel must hear theThe Independent and will school days of its receipt appeal within 30 of their decision within 5 working notify parents days. Christ Church CE (C) Primary Eaton Park Academy

William Street, Fenton, Arbourfield Drive, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2JG Stoke-on-Trent ST2 9PF Tel: 01782 234834 Tel: 01782 234760 www.christchurchfenton.co.uk www.eatonparkacademy.co.uk Headteacher: Mrs Paula Scattergood Principal: Mrs Louise Brammer The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 3-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

Clarice Cliff Primary Etruscan Primary

Goldenhill Road, Fenton, Dundee Road, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 3DP Stoke-on-Trent ST1 4BS Tel: 01782 881480 Tel: 01782 235711 [email protected] www.etruscan.stoke.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs Diane Broadhurst Executive Headteacher: Mrs Michelle Johnstone The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 3-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

42. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 43. Goldenhill Primary Academy Goldenhill Primary Academy Road, Goldenhill, Broadfield ST6 4QE Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235790 Tel: www.goldenhillprimary.co.uk Headteacher: Mr Steven Martin Park Place, Fenton,Park Place, 3HZ ST4 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234868 Tel: www.glebeacademy.co.uk Oakes-Smith Principal: Mrs Suzanne Glebe Academy Glebe The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards Gladstone Primary Academy Anchor Road, Longton, ST3 5EW Stoke-on-Trent 01782 957267 Tel: www.gladstone.stoke.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs Elaine Preston Forest Park Primary Park Forest Hanley, Street, Woodall 5ED ST1 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234979 Tel: www.forestpark.org.uk Louise Irving Headteacher: Miss Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Greenways Primary Academy Hanley St Luke’s CE (A) Primary

Nursery Avenue, Stockton Brook, Wellington Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST9 9NY Stoke-on-Trent ST1 3QH Tel: 01782 235333 Tel: 01782 234390 www.greenwaysprimary.co.uk www.hanleystlukes.com Executive Headteacher: Mrs Christine Dean Headteacher: Mrs Lynne Williamson The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 3-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018. Hanley St Luke’s Church of England Aided Primary School uses its own Admissions policy – see below: Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Admission Policy Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Hanley St Luke’s Church of England Aided Primary towards the beginning of appendix A. School welcomes children from all background, faiths and no faith. The Governors of the school are committed to developing an inclusive school Hamilton Academy that reflects the diversity of the local community. Admission to the school is not dependent on being Barthomley Road, , a member of a particular faith community. Stoke-on-Trent ST1 6NW Tel: 01782 234420 As well as being an inclusive neighbourhood www.hamilton.stoke.sch.uk school, as a Church school, Hanley St Luke’s has Executive Headteacher: Mrs Stephanie Moran a distinctive ethos and character that reflects the teachings of Jesus Christ and Christian values. The School admits students between the ages We ask all parents applying for a place here to of 3-7 respect this ethos and its importance to the school community. We expect that all children How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for who come to the school will be able to participate September 2018 (as appropriate) in the religious life of the school An application must be made online at (including collective workshop and religious www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local education). This does not affect the right of parents authority preference form. who are not Christians to apply for a place. Indeed, The closing date for Nursery applications is through our commitment to exclusivity, we actively 31 January 2018. welcome families from other faiths and no faith. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The Governing Body is responsible for the admission of pupils to the School and admits Admission criteria 60 pupils to the Nursery and Reception classes The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation each September. This admission limit has been Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown agreed between the Governing Body and the Local Education Authority and applies to the year 2018. towards the beginning of appendix A. The Governing Body is required to abide by the maximum limits for infant classes (5, 6 and 7 year olds), i.e., 30 pupils per class.

When there are more applications than there are places available, the governors will admit pupils according to the following criteria, applied in the following order of priority:

44. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 45. school, using the Local Authority’s computerised Authority’s the Local using school, to the living closer those with system, measuring the higher priority. school receiving Lists Waiting the in any year held where lists will be Waiting than for places applications more school receives list will places available. The waiting are there after the admission date. Itoperate until a month her child’s to ask for his or parent will be open to any on the waiting list, following anname to be placed unsuccessful application. waiting list will be position on the Children’s with the in accordance determined solely criteria set out above. Where oversubscription they will be allocated toplaces become vacant with the on the waiting list in accordance children oversubscription criteria. Appeals a place for their child not offered who are Parents appealhave the right to appeal to an independent wishing to appeal should obtain an panel. Parents this. The the school and return appeal form from the Clerk to the form/letter should be sent to reach of the school, within 14 days Appeal panel, care the governors’of the date of the letter confirming some appeals a place. Should decision not to offer be unsuccessful, the governing body will not those parents consider further applications from have there within the same academic year unless in theirbeen significant and material changes circumstances. Multiple-birth applications seeking to place are parent(s)/guardian(s) Where separatetwins, triplets etc, they must submit applications for each child. When considering number of siblings, which twins, triplets or larger are there of a multiple birth, where the product are remaining siblings, the spaces for all insufficient to the sibling(s) in order place(s) will be offered may of time of birth and the parent(s)/guardian(s) decide either (a) they will accept the place(s) or (b) to they will decline the place(s) which will be offered the next person(s) in the allocations after the twin/ triplet/multiple birth then the unsuccessful sibling(s) priority on the waiting list, as first will be considered for one term, if a space becomes available and the confirm in writing that this or guardian(s) parents(s) is their wish when accepting the original place(s). Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Plan are Needs or an Education, Health & Care and must be procedure by a separate considered accepted by the school named on their Statement the school’s or Plan. They will count towards the number of This will reduce admission number. places available to other applicants. Any remaining places will be given in order places will be given in order Any remaining of the nearness of the home to the school, along shortest safe walking route measured main gate. the home to the school’s from Children who are themselves, or whose families who are Children faith. committed to another religious are, the faith from evidence will be required Written information using the supplementary leader, form. Children who are themselves, or whose families themselves, or whose who are Children of another worshippers and regular faithful are, by (as recognised Christian denomination and/ in Britain and Ireland Together Churches evidence Alliance). Written or the Evangelical their place ofof the applicants’ commitment to reference) worship (in the form of a minister’s using the supplementary will be required, information form. Children who are themselves, or whose themselves, who are Children worshippers regular faithful and families are, Written of England church. at a Church commitmentevidence of the applicants’ (in the form of ato their place of worship using the will be required, reference) clergy form. supplementary information Children who will have a sibling attending the have a sibling attending who will Children and at the the time of application school at time of admission; Children in public care (looked after children) after children) (looked care in public Children to child/children wish their carer(s) whose School. CEA Primary St Luke’s attend Hanley

Distance by the shortest walking Distance will be measured home door of the child’s the front from route to the main gate of the (including flats) address Sibling half brother or sister, to brother “Sibling” refers step brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, partner or the child of the parent/carer’s or sister, the school place is the child for whom where sought is living in the same family unit at the same as that sibling. address Parents applying for a place on faith grounds on faith grounds applying for a place Parents must complete the supplementary information the school) and form (which can be obtained from the school, signed by an to return this form directly faith leader. appropriate Applications on faith grounds is defined as worshipper” “Faithful and regular worshipping at least twice a month for two years prior to application. Notes Tie-breaker have equal applicants In the event that two or more criteria, theright to a place under any of the above Governing Body will apply the subsequent criteria, to these applicants. of priority, in order 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Hanley St Luke’s Church Of England Aided Primary School

Supplementary Information Form - Application for a place on faith grounds

Full Name of Child: ...... Date of Birth (dd/mm/yy): ......

Name and Address of Church/Place of Worship attended: ...... Post Code:......

How long have you/the child worshipped here? ...... years ...... months

How many times per month (including weekday services) do you worship? ...... x per months

Give details of any involvement in any church/faith activities e.g. youth work, voluntary work, committees, any office or role etc.

If you have moved within the last two years, give details of previous place of worship and length/ frequency of attendance

Name of Minister/Faith Leader of your current place of worship and contact details

Declaration

I certify that these details are, to the best of my knowledge, correct.

Signed Parent/Carer: ...... Date: ......

Signed Minister/Faith Leader: ...... Date: ......

This form must be signed by your faith leader and returned to the Academy by 31st October at the latest.

PLEASE RETURN to: The Headteacher, Hanley St Luke’s CE (A) Primary School, Wellington Road, Hanley Stoke on Trent, ST1 3QH

46. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 47. f is recruited to f is recruited eferably a full certificate employed at the school for two or more more employed at the school for two or foryears at the time at which the application and/oradmission to the school is made, is a fill a vacant post for which there demonstrable skill shortage. wher the member of staf

a. hasbeen e thememberofstaff b. utility bills Other children living outside the catchment area. Other children Children in the care of the local authority and of the local authority in the care Children looked after but previously who were children (or adopted they were ceased to be so because or a child arrangement order became subject to order). special guardianship or sister at who have an elder brother Children time of application and whothe school at the admission. will still be attending at the time of at the school employed of staff Children living within the catchment. Other children Birth certificate - pr NHS r Council tax bill T Passport

any of theseIf priorities have to be decided within of priority will be placed in order categories, children point to the their home address using distance from as Palmers Green, main entrance of the academy on by straight line. measured based on theseOnce the class is full, a waiting list the academiccriteria will be held until the end of year. Attendance at a particular nursery setting will not class at the guarantee admission to a reception same school. is As nursery education is not compulsory there of a place. no right of appeal against the refusal to accommodate will be made every effort However, the wishes of parents. of a place at the Academy Following the offer evidence of will be asked to provide parents/carers residence should main identification and their child’s was obtained it be subsequently found that the offer misleading a fraudulent or intentionally through application, the place will be withdrawn. The forms of identification may include; a) b) c) d) egistration (i.e.lessthansixmonthsold) wo current e) 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. The Academy will consider all applications for applications all will consider Academy The are applications than 30 fewer Where places. all those places to will offer the Academy received, who have applied.students and following of over-subscription, In the event an pupils who have of places to the allocation more are when there or EHCP, SEN Statement places available, places will beapplications than of the following order with in accordance offered priority: Harpfield Primary Academy Primary Harpfield Hartshill, Green, Palmers 6AP ST4 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234984 Tel: www.harpfieldprimaryacademy.org.uk Woollacott Principle: Mr Richard 2. Admission Arrangements – Nursery able to years by 31 August are aged three Children apply for a nursery place for the following Autumn will consist of the statutory provision, This Term. with possible additional hours based upon other criteria. The Academy has an admission number of 30 for the Nursery class. The Academy will admit the admission number of pupils in the relevant applications each year if sufficient age group applications, the more are If there received. are will be applied. oversubscription procedure The Academy will admit children with a Statement The Academy will admit children of Special Educational Need (SEN) / Education the Academy is Plan (EHCP) where Health and Care to named in the Statement/Plan, without reference and this will oversubscription criteria outlined below, available. the number of places reduce Although the Academy is its own Admissions City Council administer the Stoke on Trent Authority, for Nursery and admission process Co-ordinated Reception. 1. Basic principles provisions relevant The Academy will comply with all (the Schoolof the statutory codes of practice the SchoolAdmissions Code of Practice and as they applyAdmissions Appeals Code of Practice) and withat any given time to maintained schools to maintainedthe law on admissions as it applies in the codes to admission schools. Reference to the reference authorities shall be deemed to be Local Governing (The latter Body of the Academy Education Trust is a sub-committee of the Creative of the Board and is the local presence (CET) Board the school community, from with representatives businesses and the local community and regional the Academy will In particular, organisations). Admissions System take part in any Co-ordinated operated by the LA. How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 3. Admission arrangements – Reception claimed or if there is no entitlement to Child Benefit, Full time places in the Foundation 2 (reception) class then the address at which the child is registered with are available in the September of the academic year their GP will be used. Where a child lives for part in which a child becomes five years old. of the week with each parent separately, their main home address will be deemed to be the address at The Academy has a Pupil Admission Number (PAN) which the child lives for 51% or more of their time for the Reception class and places will be offered from Monday to Friday during school term times. up to but not exceeding the PAN. Regulations also Where there is a dispute over which address is the require that Foundation 2 (reception) and infant child’s main home address, the address at which classes must have no more than 30 pupils to each Child Benefit is claimed or if there is no entitlement teacher. to Child Benefit, then the address at which the child is registered with their GP will be deemed to be their In the event of over-subscription, where there are main home address. more applications than there are places available, the following priorities will be used, in order, to Following the offer of a place at the Academy allocate places: parents/carers will be asked to provide evidence of 1. Children in the care of the local authority and their child’s identification and main residence should children who were previously looked after but it be subsequently found that the offer was obtained ceased to be so because they were adopted (or through a fraudulent or intentionally misleading became subject to a child arrangement order or application, the place will be withdrawn. The forms special guardianship order). of identification may include; 2. Children who have an elder brother or sister at f) Birth certificate - preferably a full certificate the school at the time of application and who g) NHS registration will still be attending at the time of admission. h) Council tax bill 3. Children of staff employed at the school i) Two current (i.e. less than six months old) a. where the member of staff has been utility bills employed at the school for two or more j) Passport years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or 4. Distance from the Academy b. the member of staff is recruited to Distance will be measured in a straight line from fill a vacant post for which there is a the child’s home address point to Harpfield Primary demonstrable skill shortage. Academy’s main entrance on Palmers Green, using 4. Other children living within the catchment. the Local Authority’s computerised measuring 5. Other children living outside the catchment area. system.

If priorities have to be decided within any of these categories, children will be placed in order of priority 5. Tie Breaker using distance from their home address point to the As stated above, places will be allocated within main entrance of the academy on Palmers Green, as each priority according to the proximity of the measured by straight line. child’s main home address to the academy. Where distance from the academy is equal for two or more The Academy also has to comply with the “Infant applications, such as in the case of children living in Class Size” regulations which say that infant classes the same block of flats, places will be allocated by must not exceed 30 pupils. If an infant class is full, independently verified random allocation. a waiting list based on the above criteria will be held until the end of the academic year. Parents must ask to be placed on the waiting list of a school or 6. Twins and Children from Multiple Births schools – it will not happen automatically. If places Where a child who is a twin or a child from a multiple become available, they will be offered to children on birth has achieved a place in the usual way, but the waiting list. there are no places remaining to admit their twin or siblings from a multiple birth, the academy will For admission purposes, an older brother or sister admit the twin or siblings from a multiple birth over is defined as a child who lives at the same address and above the academy’s published admission and who is the brother/sister, half-brother/sister (i.e. number (PAN). In those cases, those additional share one common parent), or step brother/sister children admitted over the PAN will be admitted as (i.e. related by parent’s marriage) of the child for “excepted pupils” and will not count towards the whom the place is being requested. It also includes statutory maximum class size. any other child living at the same residence under the terms of a Residence Order.

The applicant’s home address is the child’s along with their parent’s main and genuine place of residence at the time of the allocation of places. This will usually be the address at which Child Benefit is

48. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 49. MONDAY 2 MONDAY Applications open on OCTOBER 2017 Grove Road, Heron Cross, Cross, Heron Road, Grove ST4 4LJ Stoke-on-Trent 01782 233565 Tel: [email protected] Headteacher: Mrs Dorrie Shenton Heron Cross Primary Cross Heron The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards by independently verified random allocation in allocation random verified by independently above. outlined tie breaker the with accordance 10. Appeals achieving an successful in a child is not Where the will be told parents child’s of a place, the offer they and that was refused why admission reason admission to an independent entitled to appeal are a specified amount of timeappeal panel within and of the School Standards under the provisions The academy will provide Framework Act 1998. about the appeals process information to parents with a named contact who the parents and provide they may have about thecan answer any enquiries lodging an appeal must Parents appeals process. of the appeal in writing. set out the grounds panel will be independentThe admission appeal The academy will appoint an of the academy. with theindependent appeals service to deal appealadministrative side of arranging admission hearings for the academy. appeal panelThe determination of the admission with the Schools will be made in accordance will be bindingAdmission Appeals Code 2012 and on all parties.

Where a place becomes vacant in any year group, in any year group, a place becomes vacant Where to the child ranked first the place will be offered two Where on the waiting list for that year group. on the waiting list live an equal children or more they will be jointly the academy, distance from ranked until a place becomes available for one of them. At that time, the place will be allocated A child’s position on the waiting list will be ranked A child’s of priority set with the order solely in accordance with the date that out above, and not in accordance name was added to the waiting list. This the child’s name may go up or down means that the child’s are in ranking on the waiting list, as other children added or removed. Where an application for admission into a different admission into a different an application for Where has been or in-year admission, year group, be asked if they would will unsuccessful, parents name to be added to the waiting like their child’s waiting list will be The list for that year group. maintained until the end of the Summer term. 9. Waiting lists 9. Waiting the academy willOnce all places have been filled, group. maintain a waiting list for each year unsuccessful who are The names of all children will be Year in achieving a place in Reception list until the endautomatically added to the waiting of the academic year. 8. In-year Admissions are in other year groups places for children Where 1 to 6) outside the normal admissions sought (Years the an application form is available from round, andacademy and this should be completed as possible. Allreturned to the academy as early applications for places will be considered current available places are once a week and if sufficient to all applicants. In the case of these will be offered in 3.3 will beoversubscription, the criteria detailed who cannotapplied and details of any applicants will be passedbe accommodated at the academy City Council for placement at an to Stoke on Trent alternative school. The application must be supported by a letterThe application must government (for department relevant the from of Defence, the Foreign example, the Ministry or Government Office and Commonwealth Headquarters) indicating the likelyCommunications ofof the unit or quarters, for the purpose address criteria. oversubscription applying the academy’s Crown Servants Crown for admission an application will treat The academy a family with UK armed forces a from of a child a or from area, academy’s posting to the confirmed overseas to live from returning servant family crown of in the area as if they live area, in the academy’s has not address even if a residential the academy the date of the application. been identified at 7. Children of UK Service Personnel and other and other Personnel of UK Service 7. Children Hillside Primary Jackfield Infant

Field Avenue, Baddeley Green, Jackfield Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent ST2 7AS Stoke-on-Trent ST6 1ET Tel: 01782 235350 Tel: 01782 234450 www.hillsideprimary.org.uk www.jackfield.stoke.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs Karen Schonau Acting Executive Headteacher: Mrs Dawn Shaw The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 3-7

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

Holden Lane Primary Kingsland CE Academy

Ralph Drive, Sneyd Green, Werrington Road, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 6JS Stoke-on-Trent ST2 9AS Tel: 01782 234890 Tel: 01782 234430 www.holdenlane-pri.stoke.sch.uk www.kingslandceacademy.co.uk Headteacher: Miss Clare Thomas Principal: Mrs Sara Goddard The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 4-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is The closing date for Reception applications is 31 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Admission criteria Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation towards the beginning of appendix A. Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A.

50. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 51. Milton Primary Academy Primary Milton Leek Road, Milton, Leek Road, 7AF ST2 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234780 Tel: [email protected] Mrs Christine Dean Executive Headteacher: New Ford Primary New Ford Brownley Road, Smallthorne,Brownley ST6 1PY Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234605 Tel: www.newford.org.uk Headteacher: Miss Sam Ashley The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards Sunnyside Avenue, Tunstall, Tunstall, Sunnyside Avenue, ST6 6ED Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234466 Tel: [email protected] Bates Headteacher: Mrs Sharon Mill Hill Primary Academy Maple Court Academy Court Maple Drive, Bentilee,Beverley 0QD ST2 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 970293 Tel: [email protected] Baddeley Principal: Mr Jonathan Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Reception applications isThe closing date Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 4-11 Newstead Primary Academy Norton-Le-Moors Primary Academy

Waterside Drive, Blurton, Norton Lane, Norton-in-the-Moors, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 3LQ Stoke-on-Trent ST6 8BZ Tel: 01782 235490 Tel: 01782 234792 www.newstead.stoke.sch.uk www.norton.stoke.sch.uk Executive Headteacher: Mrs Helen Stocking Headteacher: Mrs Maxine Rizk The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 3-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

Northwood Broom Academy Oakhill Primary

Keelings Road, Northwood, Rookery Lane, Oakhill, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 6QA Stoke-on-Trent ST4 5NS Tel: 01782 234379 Tel: 01782 235238 www.northwoodbroom.co.uk www.oakhillprimaryschool.co.uk Executive Headteacher: Mrs Stephanie Moran Headteacher: Mrs Joanna Leach The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 3-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

52. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 53. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children living within the Parish of Our Lady and St Benedict. (see Note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children or sister (see Note 4 below) who have a brother below) in the academy at the time of admission (see note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children below) Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children of a local authority (looked- in the care who are with accommodation or provided after children) foster parents) with by them (e.g. children Act 1989) and (Section 22 of the Children looked after (see previously who were children Note 3 below) but ceased to be so because they subject to a residence adopted (or became were order). or special guardianship order (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children living within the Parish of Our Lady and St or sister (see Benedict who have a brother Note 4 below) in the academy at the time of admission

3. 4. 5. 1. 2. Wherever there are more applications than places applications more are there Wherever children to Catholic be given will priority available, criteria the oversubscription with in accordance its conducted by The school is listed below. Church of the Catholic as part of Directors Board and its Articles of Association with in accordance Jesus witness to Our Lord all times to be a seeks at Christ. Catholic a we aim to provide As a Catholic school, pupils. As a Catholic school,education for all our and practice permeate everyCatholic doctrine It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s be fully education of the school’s Catholic character families in the school. All parents supported by all give their full, unreserved expected to therefore are for the aims and ethos of theand positive support the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. has set its admission number of Directors The Board Reception classat 30 pupils to be admitted to the September 2018.in the school year which begins in (See Note 1 below) applications for places than more are there Where will bethe number of places available, places of priority. to the following order according offered the is oversubscription within a category, If there living will give priority to children of Directors Board by the shortestclosest to the school determined distance (see Note 5 below). at theA map of the parish boundary is available school and parish or by post on request. Oversubscription Criteria Abbey Lane, Abbey Hulton,Abbey Lane, 8AU ST2 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234646 Tel: www.ourladyandstbenedict.co.uk Debbie Sims Headteacher: Mrs Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Catholic St Benedict Lady and Our Primary The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school to provide was founded by the Catholic Church families. of Catholic education for children Please note that throughout this policy, the term this policy, Please note that throughout for to any individual with responsibility relates parent a child for whom an application is being made. You will be advised of the outcome of your will be You application on 16th April 2018, or the next working by the local authority on behalf of the school. day, All applications which are submitted on time will be All applications which are after the closing date. at the same time, considered The admissions process for Our Lady and St The admissions process of the Stoke- Benedict Catholic Academy is part admissions Local Authority co-ordinated on-Trent apply for a place at Our Lady and scheme. To the normalSt Benedict Catholic Academy in must be made an application admissions round, using the school admission application process of the local authority in which you live naming Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy on the application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January 2018. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned same date (see Note 2). to the school by the directly Admission policy Academy isOur Lady and St Benedict Catholic Thepart of the Newman Catholic Collegiate. of is the Board admissions authority for the school of the Newman Catholic Collegiate who Directors for admissions to this school. The has responsibility for has delegated responsibility of Directors Board to the process the administration of the admissions and St BenedictAcademy Committee of Our Lady Catholic Academy. How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 6. Non-Catholic children who are in the care of a • Adopted or fostered children local authority (looked-after children) or provided The children must be living permanently in the same with accommodation by them (e.g. children with household foster parents) (Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) and children who were previously looked Note 5 after (see Note 3 below) but ceased to be so Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight because they were adopted (or became subject line measurement from the child’s home address to a residence order or special guardianship point to the front gate of the school. The local order). authority uses a computerised system, which 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or measures all distances in miles. Ordnance Survey sister (see Note 4 below) in the academy at the supply the co-ordinates that are used to plot an time of admission applicant’s home address. 8. Non-Catholic children In a very small number of cases, where the school Note 1 is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) between the applications of those pupils who are Plan that names the academy MUST be admitted. the final qualifiers for a place when applying the This will reduce the number of places available to published admission criteria. other applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, or if Note 2 the distance between the home and the school is In all categories, for a child to be considered as exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception there is no other way of separating the application into the Church will be required. For a definition according to the admissions criteria and to admit of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those both, or all, of the children would cause the who face difficulties in producing written evidence Published Admission Number for the child’s year of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf should contact their Parish Priest. of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the Parents making an application for a Catholic child child to be offered the final place. must complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) which should be returned directly to the school. The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit If you do not provide the information required in twins and all siblings from multiple births where one the Supplementary Information Form and return of the children is the last child ranked within the it by the closing date, together with all supporting school’s published admission number. documentation, this is likely to affect your child’s chance of being offered a place at this school. A child’s home address is considered to be the permanent residence of a child. The address must Note 3 be the child’s only or main residence for the majority A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in of the school week. Documentary evidence may be section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means required. any child who is (a) in the care of the local authority or (b) being provided with accommodation by them If parents have shared responsibilities and a child in the exercise of their social services functions (eg lives with each for part of the week the home children with foster parents) at the time of making address will be the one at which the child is resident the application to the school. A “previously looked for the greatest part of the school week. Where this after child” is a child who immediately moved is equally shared, the home address will be the one on from that status after becoming subject to used when applying for child benefit. an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an address that is subsequently found to be different Note 4 from a child’s normal and permanent home address, For all applicants the definition of a brother or sister then that place is liable to be withdrawn. is: • A brother or sister sharing the same parents • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children share one common parent • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children are related by a parents’ marriage or where they are unrelated but their parents are living as partners.

54. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 55. The Board of Directors will consider requests requests will consider Directors of Board The a class into to be admitted a child for submitted and advise group their normal age outside of before of that request of the outcome parents the into account having taken day, offer national best the child’s by the parents, provided information Teacher. views of the Head and the interests application for the original is refused, If the request the through class will progress the normal age group admissions scheme, Local Authority co-ordinated and the of Directors by the Board be considered of the outcome. advised parents for which group and the year is agreed If the request is a current a place have requested the parents will in the school, then the application year group the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is for a future have requested the parents ie Reception in September 2019, then year group, and the parents the original application is withdrawn application for Reception 2019 must submit a fresh term of 2018.when applications open in the autumn only have the right to Please note that parents of Directors the Board for a place. Where re-apply to consider an application for Reception agrees that application is considered the following year, and parents alongside all other applications received that application onwill be advised of the outcome of for or held No place is reserved day. national offer the child in advance. submitting an application considering are If parents class outside offor their child to be admitted into a recommended it is strongly their normal age group, guidance which can be the DFE that they also read found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 attending currently children Applications from Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy’s Nursery Attendance at Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Nursery does not automatically Academy’s in the guarantee that a place will be offered Reception class of Our Lady and St Benedict must apply for a Parents Catholic Academy. Reception place in exactly the same way as not attending the Nursery. of children parents against the All applications will be considered of Directors oversubscription criteria by the Board of whether the child in the same way regardless does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of application. Applications for children to be admitted into a Applications for children class outside of their normal age group but not insist, request, have the right to Parents for admission to that their child be considered This a class outside of their normal age group. could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted such and talented, has experienced problems as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a child born between 1st April and 31st August. child to be considered who wish for their Parents for admission to a class outside of their normal age for the normal must make an application group must then Parents in the first instance. age group for of Directors the Board to submit a formal request age group for a different the child to be considered should be in the form of class instead. This request a written letter of application outlining the reasons to why they wish for their child to be considered be admitted into a class outside of their normal any supportive evidence and enclosing age group and documentation that they wish to be taken into account as part of that request. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls of a child whose fifth The parent to defer theirduring the summer term who wishes until the beginning of the following admission child’s have begun toacademic year (when the child will need therefore be of compulsory school age) will for a placeto make a separate in-year application class place 1 at the school. Any reception in Year an application made for the following offered will be withdrawn if the 2018/2019 admission round by the first day ofchild does not take up that place the summer term 2019. A child may take up a part-time place until later inA child may take up a part-time place which but not beyond the point at the school year, compulsory school age. they child reached should of a place a parent of the offer Upon receipt that theynotify the school, as soon as possible, entry to the school wish to either defer their child’s or take up a part-time place. A child’s parents may defer the date at which their may defer parents A child’s school age, is admittedchild, below compulsory later in the school year but notto the school, until compulsory at which they reach beyond the point beyond the first day of theschool age and not summer term 2019. Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will in the school, the pupil place is offered a Where up that place, on a full-time basisbe entitled to take following their fourth birthday. in the September School Entry School child is their that ensure by law, must, Parents the from full time education suitable receiving fifth the child’s of the term following beginning to be of will have begun when they birthday, school age. compulsory Appeals In year fair access protocol Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of The Board of Directors of Our Lady and St Benedict the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place Catholic Academy is committed to taking its fair in the school should make that appeal request in share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. the school address. Appeals will be heard by an Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the independent panel. Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested Please note that parents do not have the right under the locally agreed protocol. The Board of to appeal if their request for their children to be Directors has this power, even when admitting admitted to a class outside of their normal year the child would mean exceeding the published group has been refused, but the Board of Directors admission number subject to the infant class size has offered a place in the normal age group instead. exceptions.

Repeat applications Applications other than the normal intake to Any parent can apply for a place for their child at reception class (in-year admissions) any time outside of the normal admissions round. An application can be made for a place for a child Parents do not have the right to a second appeal in at any time outside the normal admission round. respect of the same school for the same academic Applications should be made to the school by year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board contacting the School Business Manager, Our of Directors has accepted a second application from Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy, Abbey the parent because of a significant and material Lane, Abbey Hulton, Stoke on Trent ST2 8AU and change in the circumstances of the parent, child or all families approaching the school will be given an school, but have still refused admission. application form. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published Late applications oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal Late applications will be dealt with in accordance round of admissions, will be applied. with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions scheme. If there are no places available, the child will be added to the waiting list (see above). Waiting list Children who have not been offered a place at Parents will be advised of the outcome of their Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy but application in writing and, where the Board of were offered a school that was ranked as a lower Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, preference on their application form will be added have the right to appeal to an independent appeal to a waiting list. Waiting lists will be maintained until panel. the end of the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be discarded. There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to this school. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on Appendix that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria Definition of a “Baptised Catholic” order. This means that a child’s position on the A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: waiting list could go up or down during the time that • Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) with the be added to the waiting list in accordance with the Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptism of one oversubscription criteria. of the various ritual Churches in communion with the See of Rome. Written evidence of this Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a baptism can be obtained by recourse to the place will eventually become available. It may be Baptismal Registers of the church in which the that those already offered places may accept them, baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, thereby filling all available places. 877 & 878). Children who are the subject of a direction by the Or Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a • Has been validly baptised in a separated school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol ecclesial community and subsequently received take precedence over those on a waiting list. into full communion with the Catholic Church by the Rite of Reception of Baptised Christians into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. Written evidence of their baptism and reception into full communion with the Catholic Church

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No* No* Yes Yes Is the above named child a Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Baptism attached? *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception*A Certificate of Catholic Baptism for the in order is required into the Catholic Church to an priority to give the correct of Directors Board application. evidence of Catholic Baptism to provide Failure the may affect or Reception in the Church name is child’s oversubscription criterion that the placed in. Please note that as well as completing this must Supplementary Application Form, parents Common also complete the Local Authority’s for the application Application Form in order to be complete. This Supplementary Information Form is only for school use and is, in conjunction Application Common with the Local Authority’s to rank of Directors Form, to enable the Board applicants using the published oversubscription criteria: This Supplementary Information Form must be and St Benedict to Our Lady returned directly Catholic Academy at Abbey Lane, Abbey Hulton, 2018. ST2 8AU by 15th January Stoke on Trent Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s Common Application Form. As well as completing this Supplementary Application Form to the school, you MUST and returning it directly Common also complete the local authority’s Application Form otherwise your application will invalid. be deemed incomplete and therefore Child’s Surname ...... Child’s First Name(s) ...... Child’s ...... Address ...... Contact Number ...... box: Please tick the appropriate aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the that It is essential activity. school’s of the aspect fully be education the school’s of character Catholic parents the school. All by all families in supported full, unreserved to give their expected therefore are of the aims and ethos support for the and positive of a parent the right This does not affect school. at the for a place of the faith to apply who is not school. can be obtained by recourse to the Register ofto the Register by recourse be obtained can of a sub-section cases, or in some Receptions, in which the church Registers of the Baptismal place (Cf. Rite of Reception took the Rite of Initiation, 399). Christian The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school to provide was founded by the Catholic Church families. of Catholic education for children than places applications more are there Wherever available, priority will be given to Catholic children criteria with the oversubscription in accordance admission policy. published listed in the school’s of Directors The school is conducted by its Board with in accordance as part of the Catholic Church its Articles of Association and seeks at all times Jesus Christ. As a to be a witness to Our Lord a Catholic Catholic school, we aim to provide education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every Supplementary Information Form Those who would be considered to have good Those who would be considered for not obtaining written evidence would reason the place ofinclude those who cannot contact the or fear, Baptism/Reception due to persecution or and the original records, destruction of the church validly Baptism/Reception was administered where kept. are records where but not in the Parish church may request Governors of Directors and Boards writtenextra supporting evidence when the do not clarify the produced documents that are into the fact that a person was baptised or received the name and address (i.e. where Catholic Church, the certificate or where is not on the of the Church not state whether it is a does name of the Church or not.) Catholic Church Those who would have difficulty obtaining written Those who would have difficulty for aevidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception as Baptised may still be considered good reason, to been referred Catholics but only after they have the Vicartheir parish priest who, after consulting of Baptism/ General, will decide how the question and how written Reception is to be resolved with the in accordance evidence is to be produced law of the Church. Written evidence of baptism evidence Written The GoverningCatholic schools and bodies of will of Catholic Academies Directors of Boards of a Certificate written evidence in the form require of Reception before of Baptism or Certificate places can be considered applications for school “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificatefor categories of is to include: the full name,of Baptism or Reception of Baptism or Reception, anddate of birth, date show name(s). The certificate must also parent(s) kept by the place the records that it is copied from of Baptism or Reception. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school Our Lady’s Catholic Academy was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. Watkin Street, Fenton, Wherever there are more applications than places Stoke-on-Trent ST4 4NP available, priority will be given to Catholic children Tel: 01782 235385 in accordance with the oversubscription criteria www.ourladysca.org.uk listed below. The school is conducted by its Headteacher: Mrs Karyn Oakley Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its Articles of Association and The School admits students between the ages seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus of 3-11 Christ.

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic September 2018 education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, An application must be made online at Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the authority preference form. Catholic character of the school’s education be fully The closing date for Nursery applications is supported by all families in the school. All parents 31 January 2018. are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved The closing date for Reception applications is and positive support for the aims and ethos of the Monday 15 January 2018. school. This does not affect the right of a parent who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the Admission policy school. Our Lady’s Catholic Academy uses its own Admissions policy – see below: The Board of Directors has set its admission number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the class in the school Our Lady’s Catholic Academy is part of the All year which begins in September 2018. (See Note 1 Saints Catholic Collegiate. The admissions authority below) for the school is the Board of Directors of the All Saints Catholic Collegiate who has responsibility for Where there are more applications for places than admissions to this school. The Board of Directors the number of places available, places will be has delegated responsibility for the administration of offered according to the following order of priority. the admissions process to the Academy Committee If there is oversubscription within a category, the of Our Lady’s Catholic Academy. Board of Directors will give priority to children living closest to the school determined by the shortest The admissions process for Our Lady’s Catholic distance (see Note 5 below) Academy is part of the Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. To A map of the parish boundary is available at the apply for a place at Our Lady’s Catholic Academy school and parish or by post on request. in the normal admissions round, an application must be made using the school admission Over-subscription application process of the local authority in which 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) you live naming Our Lady’s Catholic Academy who are looked after or previously looked after on the application form. Applications need to be (see Note 3 below). made by 15th January 2018. A Supplementary 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Information Form (SIF) must also be completed living in the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual and returned directly to the school by the same Succour, Fenton who have a brother or sister date (see Note 2). (see Note 4 below) attending Our Lady’s Catholic Academy at the time of admission. All applications which are submitted on time will be 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) considered at the same time, after the closing date. living in the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Fenton. You will be advised of the outcome of your 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 application on 16th April 2018, or the next working below) who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. below) attending Our Lady’s Catholic Academy at the time of admission. Please note that throughout this policy, the term 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 parent relates to any individual with responsibility for below). a child for whom an application is being made. 6. Non-Catholic children (see Note 2 below) who are looked after or previously looked after (see Note 3 below).

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The member of staff must have been employed must have been of staff The member two or more Catholic Academy for at Our Lady’s of application for admission, oryears at the time to fill a has been recruited the member of staff skill is a demonstrable there vacant post for which shortage. Note 6 straight calculated on the basis of a Distances are home address the child’s from line measurement gate of the school on Watkin point to the pedestrian The local authority uses a computerised Street. all distances in miles. system, which measures that are Survey supply the co-ordinates Ordnance home address. used to plot an applicant’s the school In a very small number of cases, where to decideis oversubscribed, it may not be possible pupils who are between the applications of those applying thethe final qualifiers for a place when published admission criteria. in the children For example, this may occur when or if live at the same address, same year group the school isthe distance between the home and of flats. Ifexactly the same, for example, blocks is no other way of separating the application there to the admissions criteria and to admit according would cause the both, or all, of the children year the child’s Published Admission Number for on behalf to be exceeded, the Local Authority, group will randomly select the of Directors, of the Board the final place. child to be offered possible, admit will, where of Directors The Board one multiple births where twins and all siblings from child ranked within the is the last of the children published admission number. school’s to be the is considered home address A child’s must child. The address of a permanent residence for the majority only or main residence be the child’s of the school week. Documentary evidence may be required. and a child responsibilities have shared If parents lives with each for part of the week the home which the child is resident will be the one at address this school week. Where part of the for the greatest will be the one address the home is equally shared, used when applying for child benefit. on the basis of an If a place in the school is offered found to be different that is subsequently address normal and permanent home address, a child’s from then that place is liable to be withdrawn. • • Note 5 Note or part-time full-time means staff to Reference roles: in the following employed which should be returned directly to the which should be returned directly Adopted or fostered children Adopted or fostered A half-brother or half-sister, where two children two children where or half-sister, A half-brother one common parent share two children where or step-sister, A step-brother marriage or where by a parents’ related are living as are but their parents unrelated they are partners. A brother or sister sharing the same parents or sister sharing A brother Non-Catholic children. Non-Catholic Non-Catholic children who have a brother or brother who have a children Non-Catholic attending Our Lady’s Note 4 below) sister (see time of admission. Academy at the Catholic Children of staff currently employed at Our at employed currently of staff Children note 5 below). (see Academy Catholic Lady’s

The children must be living permanently in the same must be living The children household Note 4 or sister For all applicants the definition of a brother is: Note 3 meaning as inA “looked after child” has the same Act 1989, and means section 22(1) of the Children of the local authority any child who is (a) in the care by them with accommodation or (b) being provided services functions of their social in the exercise at the time of with foster parents) (e.g. children making the application to the school. A “previously looked after child” is a child who immediately after becoming subject that status moved on from or special to an adoption, child arrangement order order. guardianship Parents making an application for a Catholic child Parents Formmust complete a Supplementary Information (SIF) the information school. If you do not provide Information Form in the Supplementary required with alland return it by the closing date, together likely to affect supporting documentation, this is a place at this of being offered chance your child’s school. Note 2 as for a child to be considered In all categories, of Catholic Baptism or intoCatholic, evidence For a definition of a will be required. the Church Those whoBaptised Catholic, see the Appendix. written evidence of in producing face difficulties should contact Catholic Baptism or into the Church their Parish Priest. Note 1 (EHC) with an Education, Health and Care Children the academy MUST be admitted. Plan that names to the number of places available This will reduce This is not an oversubscriptionother applicants. criteria. • • • • 9. 8. 7. School entry The Board of Directors will consider requests Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is submitted for a child to be admitted into a class receiving suitable full time education from the outside of their normal age group and advise beginning of the term following the child’s fifth parents of the outcome of that request before birthday, when they will have begun to be of national offer day, having taken into account the compulsory school age. information provided by the parents, the child’s best interests and the views of the Headteacher. This Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will does not constitute the offer or a place. be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time basis in the September following their fourth birthday. If the request is refused, the original application for the normal age group class will progress through the A child’s parents may defer the date at which their Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme, child, below compulsory school age, is admitted be considered by the Board of Directors and the to the school, until later in the school year but not parents advised of the outcome. beyond the point at which they reach compulsory school age and not beyond the first day of the If the request is agreed and the year group for which summer term 2019. the parents have requested a place is a current year group in the school, then the application will A child may take up a part-time place until later in be considered by the Board of Directors and the the school year, but not beyond the point at which parents advised of the outcome. the child reached compulsory school age. Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should If the request is agreed and the year group for notify the school, as soon as possible, that they which the parents have requested a place is for a wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school future year group, i.e. In September 2019, then the or take up a part-time place. original application is withdrawn and the parents must submit a fresh application for 2019 when The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls applications open in the autumn term of 2018. during the summer term who wishes to defer their Please note that parents only have the right to child’s admission until the beginning of the following re-apply for a place. Where the Board of Directors academic year (when the child will have begun to agrees to consider an application for the following be of compulsory school age) will therefore need year, that application is considered alongside all to make a separate in-year application for a place other applications received and parents will be in Year 1 at the school. Any class place offered advised of the outcome of that application on following an application made for the 2018/2019 national offer day. No place is reserved or held for admission round will be withdrawn if the child does the child in advance. not take up that place by the first day of the summer term 2019. If parents are considering submitting an application for their child to be admitted into a class outside of Applications for children to be admitted into a their normal age group, it is strongly recommended class outside of their normal age group that they also read the DFE guidance which can be Parents have the right to request, but not insist, found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 that their child be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal age group. This Applications from children currently attending could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted Our Lady’s Catholic Academy’s Reception and talented, has experienced problems such Attendance at Our Lady’s Catholic Academy’s as ill health, or that the child is summer born, i.e. Nursery does not automatically guarantee that a a child born between 1st April and 31st August. place will be offered in the Reception class of Our Parents who wish for their child to be considered Lady’s Catholic Academy. Parents must apply for a for admission to a class outside of their normal age place in exactly the same way as parents of children group must make an application for the normal not attending the Nursery. All applications will be age group in the first instance. Parents must then considered against the oversubscription criteria by submit a formal request to the Board of Directors the Board of Directors in the same way regardless for the child to be considered for a different age of whether the child does or does not attend the group class instead. This request should be in the Reception at the time of application. form of a letter of application outlining the reasons why they wish for their child to be considered to Appeals be admitted into a class outside of their normal Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of age group and enclosing any supportive evidence the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place and documentation that they wish to be taken into in the school should make that appeal request in account as part of that request. writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at the school address. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel. 60. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 61. Has been baptised into full communion (Cf.Has been baptised into full communion 837) with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, of one by the Rites of Baptism Catholic Church in communion of the various ritual Churches evidence of this with the See of Rome. Written to the baptism can be obtained by recourse in which the Baptismal Registers of the church baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, 877 & 878). Has been validly baptised in a separated ecclesial community and subsequently with the Catholic into full communion received Christians into by the Rite of Baptised Church the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. baptism and into full evidence of their Written can be communion with the Catholic Church Register of s, or to the obtained by recourse in some cases, a sub-section of the Baptismal which the Rite of took in Registers of the church place (Cf. Rite of Christian Initiation, 399).

Or evidence of baptism Written The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and of Catholic Academies will of Directors Boards written evidence in the form of a Certificate require applications for of Baptism or Certificate of before for categories of school places can be considered “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate of Baptism or • • the child would mean exceeding the published exceeding mean would the child class sizethe infant to subject number admission exceptions. tothe normal intake other than Applications (In-year applications) class reception a child for a place for can be made An application the normal admission round. at any time outside be made to the school byApplications should 235385 on 01782 Secretary contacting the School be the school will and all families approaching places are there form. Where given an application the applications than places, available but more criteria, as set out for thepublished oversubscription of admissions, will be applied. normal round child will be no places available, the are If there added to the waiting list (see above). will be advised of the outcome of their Parents of the Board application in writing and, where their child a place, decision is to refuse Director’s appealhave the right to appeal to an independent panel. admission to the or cost related is no charge There of a child to this school. Appendix Definition of a “baptised catholic” A “Baptised Catholic” is one who:

In year fair access protocol of All Saints Catholic of Directors The Board Collegiate and Academy Committee of Our Lady’s Catholic Academy is committed to taking its fair vulnerable and/or hard who are of children share protocols. to place, as set out in locally agreed the outside the normal admission round Accordingly, to give absolute is empowered of Directors Board is requested admission priority to a child where of The Board protocol. under the locally agreed even when admitting has this power, Directors Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. It may be places may accept them, offered that those already places. filling all available thereby by the the subject of a direction who are Children allocated to a Local Authority to admit or who are the Fair Access Protocol with school in accordance on a waiting list. over those take precedence Waiting lists Waiting a waiting list is not fixed. When position on A child’s applicants ona new child joins the waiting list, all that the to ensure that waiting list will be re-ranked criterialist is always maintained in oversubscription position on the This means that a child’s order. the time thatwaiting list could go up or down during accepted willit is on the list. Any late applications with the be added to the waiting list in accordance oversubscription criteria. Late applications in accordance Late applications will be dealt with admissions co-ordinated with the Local Authority’s scheme. a place at who have not been offered Children a offered Academy but were Catholic Our Lady’s on preference school that was ranked as a lower to a waitingtheir application form will be added lists will be maintained until the end list. Waiting they will beof the academic year 2018/2019 when discarded. Repeat applications at can apply for a place for their child Any parent of the normal admissions round. any time outside appeal in not have the right to a second do Parents the same school for the same academic of respect the Board circumstances, year unless, in exceptional from has accepted a second application of Directors material because of a significant and the parent child or of the parent, change in the circumstances admission. still refused school, but have Please note that parents do not have the right have do not parents note that Please to be children for their request if their to appeal year of their normal to a class outside admitted of Directors but the Board has been refused, group instead. normal age group a place in the has offered is to include: the full name, date of birth, date of Child’s Surname ...... Baptism or, and parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also show that it is copied from the records Child’s First Name(s) ...... kept by the place of Baptism or. Address ...... Those who would have difficulty obtaining written ...... evidence of Catholic Baptism/ for a good reason, may still be considered as Baptised Catholics but ...... only after they have been referred to their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar General, Contact Number ...... will decide how the question of Baptism/ is to be resolved and how written evidence is to be produced in accordance with the law of the Church. Please tick the appropriate box: Is the above named child a Yes No* Those who would be considered to have good Baptised Catholic? reason for not obtaining written evidence would Is the certificate of Catholic Yes No* include those who cannot contact the place of Baptism attached? Baptism/ due to persecution or fear, the destruction of the church and the original records, or where *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or into the Baptism/ was administered validly but not in the Catholic Church is required in order for the Board Parish church where records are kept. of Directors to give the correct priority to an application. Governors and Boards of Directors may request Failure to provide evidence of Catholic Baptism or in extra supporting evidence when the written the Church may affect the oversubscription criterion documents that are produced do not clarify the that the child’s name is placed in. fact that a person was baptised or received into the Catholic Church, (i.e. where the name and address Please note that as well as completing this of the Church is not on the certificate or where the Supplementary Application Form, parents must name of the Church does not state whether it is a also complete the Local Authority’s Common Catholic Church or not.) Application Form in order for the application to be complete. This Supplementary Information Form Supplementary Information Form is only for school use and is, in conjunction with the Local Authority’s Common Application Form, Academy Name: Our Lady’s Catholic Academy to enable the Board of Directors to rank applicants using the published oversubscription criteria: The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide This Supplementary Information Form must be education for children of Catholic families. returned directly to Our Lady’s Catholic Academy at Wherever there are more applications than places Watkin Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 4NP available, priority will be given to Catholic children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed in the school’s published admission policy. The school is conducted by its Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its Articles of Association and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school. All parents are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. This does not affect the right of a parent who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the school.

62. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 63. Saint Nathaniel’s Academy Saint Nathaniel’s Road, Burslem, Westport ST6 4JG Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234950 Tel: www.saintnathaniels.org.uk Principal: Mr Sean Thomson Jubilee Road, Trentham, Trentham, Jubilee Road, 8EF ST4 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 233585 Tel: www.prioryceprimary.org.uk Pam Keen Headteacher: Miss Priory CE (C) Primary CE (C) Priory The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards Park Hall Academy Coyney, Weston Carberry Way, ST3 5QU Stoke-on-Trent 01782 312384 Tel: www.parkhallacademy.co.uk Frost Principal: Mrs Georgina Packmoor Ormiston Academy Ormiston Packmoor Packmoor, Carr Street, 4SP ST7 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234544 Tel: www.packmoorprimary.co.uk May Sharon Headteacher: Mrs Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Sandford Hill Primary Smallthorne Primary

Clayfield Grove, Longton, Chetwynd Street, Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 5AQ Stoke-on-Trent ST6 1PR Tel: 01782 235781 Tel: 01782 235265 sandfordhill.org.uk www.smallthorneprimary.org.uk Headteacher: Mr David Wardle Headteacher: Mr Chris Crook The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 3-11 of 3-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is Monday 15 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Admission criteria Monday 15 January 2018. The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Admission criteria towards the beginning of appendix A. The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A.

Sandon Primary Academy Sneyd Green Primary

Normacot Grange Road, Meir, Sneyd Street, Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 7AW Stoke-on-Trent ST6 2NS Tel: 01782 319097 Tel: 01782 234460 www.sandonprimaryacademy.com www.sneydgreen.stoke.sch.uk Principal: Mrs Rachel Beckett Headteacher: Mrs Rosina Lee The School admits students between the ages The School admits students between the ages of 4-11 of 3-11

How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for Reception applications is The closing date for Nursery applications is Monday 15 January 2018. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Admission criteria Monday 15 January 2018. The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Admission criteria towards the beginning of appendix A. The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A.

64. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 65. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children below). Note 2 below) who (see Non-Catholic children looked after (see looked after or previously are Note 3 below). employed at St currently of staff Children Catholic Academy (see note 5 Augustine’s below). Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children looked after looked after or previously who are (see Note 3 below). (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of St Augustine of Canterbury, sister (see Note 4 or Meir who have a brother Catholic Ac below) attending St Augustine’s (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of St Augustine of Canterbury, Meir. (see Note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children or sister (see Note below) who have a brother Catholic 4 below) attending St Augustine’s Academy at the time of admission.

5. 6. 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. Wherever there are more applications than places applications more are there Wherever children to Catholic be given will priority available, criteria the oversubscription with in accordance its conducted by The school is listed below. Church of the Catholic as part of Directors Board and its Articles of Association with in accordance Jesus witness to Our Lord all times to be a seeks at Christ. Catholic a we aim to provide As a Catholic school, pupils. As a Catholic school,education for all our and practice permeate everyCatholic doctrine It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s be fully education of the school’s Catholic character families in the school. All parents supported by all give their full, unreserved expected to therefore are for the aims and ethos of theand positive support the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. has set its admission number of Directors The Board Reception classat 30 pupils to be admitted to the September 2018.in the school year which begins in (See Note 1 below) applications for places than more are there Where will bethe number of places available, places of priority. to the following order according offered the is oversubscription within a category, If there living will give priority to children of Directors Board by the shortestclosest to the school determined distance (see Note 5 below) at theA map of the parish boundary is available school and parish or by post on request. Oversubscription St Augustine’s Catholic Academy Catholic St Augustine’s Road, Meir, Sandon 7DF ST3 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 319504 Tel: www.staugustinescatholicacademy.org Machin Principal Mrs Lisa All applications which are submitted on time will be All applications which are after the closing date. at the same time, considered advised of the outcome of your will be You application on 16th April 2018, or the next working by the local authority on behalf of the school. day, the term this policy, Please note that throughout for to any individual with responsibility relates parent a child for whom an application is being made. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school to provide was founded by the Catholic Church families. of Catholic education for children The admissions process for St Augustine’s for St Augustine’s The admissions process Catholic Academy is part of the Stoke-on-Trent admissions scheme. Local Authority co-ordinated Catholic apply for a place at St Augustine’s To an round, Academy in the normal admissions application must be made using the school of the local authority admission application process Catholic in which you live naming St Augustine’s Academy on the application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January 2018. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also to the school be completed and returned directly by the same date (see Note 2). Admission criteria Academy is part of the All Catholic St Augustine’s authoritySaints Catholic Collegiate. The admissions of the All of Directors for the school is the Board for responsibility Saints Catholic Collegiate who has of Directors admissions to this school. The Board for the administration of has delegated responsibility to the Academy Committee the admissions process Academy. Catholic of St Augustine’s How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference isThe closing date for Nursery applications 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 8. Non-Catholic children who have a brother Note 5 or sister (see Note 4 below) attending St Reference to staff means full-time or part-time Augustine’s Catholic Academy at the time of employed in the following roles: admission. • Teaching Staff 9. Non-Catholic children. • All other staff employed at the Academy or in contract at the Academy who are not teachers. Note 1 The member of staff must have been employed at Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) St Augustine’s Catholic Academy for two or more Plan that names the academy MUST be admitted. years at the time of application for admission, or This will reduce the number of places available to the member of staff has been recruited to fill a other applicants. This is not an oversubscription vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill criteria. shortage.

Note 2 Note 6 In all categories, for a child to be considered as Distances are calculated on the basis of a Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception straight line measurement from the child’s home into the Church will be required. For a definition address point to the pedestrian gate of the school of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those on Sandon Road. The local authority uses a who face difficulties in producing written evidence computerised system, which measures all distances of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church in miles. Ordnance Survey supply the co-ordinates should contact their Parish Priest. that are used to plot an applicant’s home address. In a very small number of cases, where the school Parents making an application for a Catholic child is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide must complete a Supplementary Information between the applications of those pupils who are Form (SIF) which should be returned directly to the final qualifiers for a place when applying the the school. If you do not provide the information published admission criteria. required in the Supplementary Information Form and return it by the closing date, together with all For example, this may occur when children in the supporting documentation, this is likely to affect same year group live at the same address, or if your child’s chance of being offered a place at this the distance between the home and the school is school. exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If there is no other way of separating the application Note 3 according to the admissions criteria and to admit A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in both, or all, of the children would cause the section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means Published Admission Number for the child’s year any child who is (a) in the care of the local authority group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf or (b) being provided with accommodation by them of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the in the exercise of their social services functions (eg child to be offered the final place. children with foster parents) at the time of making the application to the school. A “previously looked The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit after child” is a child who immediately moved twins and all siblings from multiple births where one on from that status after becoming subject to of the children is the last child ranked within the an adoption, child arrangement order or special school’s published admission number. guardianship order. A child’s home address is considered to be the Note 4 permanent residence of a child. The address must For all applicants the definition of a brother or sister be the child’s only or main residence for the majority is: of the school week. Documentary evidence may be • A brother or sister sharing the same parents required. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children share one common parent If parents have shared responsibilities and a child • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children lives with each for part of the week the home are related by a parents’ marriage or where address will be the one at which the child is resident they are unrelated but their parents are living as for the greatest part of the school week. Where this partners. is equally shared, the home address will be the one • Adopted or fostered children used when applying for child benefit. The children must be living permanently in the same household If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an address that is subsequently found to be different from a child’s normal and permanent home address, then that place is liable to be withdrawn.

66. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 67. The Board of Directors will consider requests requests will consider Directors of Board The a class into to be admitted a child for submitted and advise group their normal age outside of before of that request of the outcome parents the into account having taken day, offer national best the child’s by the parents, provided information This does views of the Principal. and the interests or a place. offer not constitute the application for the original is refused, If the request the through class will progress the normal age group admissions scheme, Local Authority co-ordinated and the of Directors by the Board be considered of the outcome. advised parents for which group and the year is agreed If the request is a current a place have requested the parents in the school, then the application will year group the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is for a future have requested the parents ie Reception in September 2019, then year group, and the parents the original application is withdrawn application for Reception 2019 must submit a fresh term of 2018.when applications open in the autumn only have the right to Please note that parents of Directors the Board for a place. Where re-apply to consider an application for Reception agrees that application is considered the following year, and parents alongside all other applications received that application onwill be advised of the outcome of for or held No place is reserved day. national offer the child in advance. considering submitting an application are If parents for their child to be admitted into a class outside of recommended is strongly it their normal age group, guidance which can be the DFE that they also read found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 attending St currently children Applications from Nursery Catholic Academy’s Augustine’s Catholic Academy’s Attendance at St Augustine’s Nursery does not automatically guarantee that a in the Reception class of St place will be offered must apply Parents Catholic Academy. Augustine’s for a Reception place in exactly the same way not attending the Nursery. of children as parents against the All applications will be considered of Directors oversubscription criteria by the Board of whether the child in the same way regardless does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of application. Applications for children to be admitted into a Applications for children class outside of their normal age group. but not insist, request, have the right to Parents for admission to that their child be considered This a class outside of their normal age group. could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted such and talented, has experienced problems as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a child born between 1st April and 31st August. child to be considered who wish for their Parents for admission to a class outside of their normal age for the normal must make an application group must then Parents in the first instance. age group of Directors the Board to submit a formal request age for a different for the child to be considered should be in the request class instead. This group form of a letter of application outlining the reasons to why they wish for their child to be considered be admitted into a class outside of their normal any supportive evidence and enclosing age group and documentation that they wish to be taken into account as part of that request. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls of a child whose fifth The parent to defer theirduring the summer term who wishes until the beginning of the following admission child’s have begun toacademic year (when the child will need therefore be of compulsory school age) will for a placeto make a separate in-year application class place 1 at the school. Any reception in Year an application made for the following offered will be withdrawn if the 2018/2019 admission round by the first day ofchild does not take up that place the summer term 2019. A child may take up a part-time place until later inA child may take up a part-time place which but not beyond the point at the school year, compulsory school age. they child reached should of a place a parent of the offer Upon receipt that theynotify the school, as soon as possible, entry to the school wish to either defer their child’s or take up a part-time place. Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will in the school, the pupil place is offered a Where up that place, on a full-time basisbe entitled to take following their fourth birthday. in the September the date at which their may defer parents A child’s school age, is admittedchild, below compulsory later in the school year but notto the school, until compulsory at which they reach beyond the point beyond the first day of theschool age and not summer term 2019. School Entry School child is their that ensure by law, must, Parents the from full time education suitable receiving fifth the child’s of the term following beginning to be of will have begun when they birthday, school age. compulsory Appeals Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of Applications open on the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place in the school should make that appeal request in MONDAY 2 writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at OCTOBER 2017 the school address. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel. In Year Fair Access Policy Please note that parents do not have the right The Board of Directors of All Saints Catholic to appeal if their request for their children to be Collegiate and Academy Committee of St admitted to a class outside of their normal year Augustine’s Catholic Academy is committed to group has been refused, but the Board of Directors taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable has offered a place in the normal age group instead. and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal Repeat Applications admission round the Board of Directors is Any parent can apply for a place for their child at empowered to give absolute priority to a child any time outside of the normal admissions round. where admission is requested under the locally Parents do not have the right to a second appeal in agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this respect of the same school for the same academic power, even when admitting the child would mean year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board exceeding the published admission number subject of Directors has accepted a second application from to the infant class size exceptions. the parent because of a significant and material change in the circumstances of the parent, child or Applications other than the normal intake to school, but have still refused admission. Reception Class (in-year applications) An application can be made for a place for a child Late Applications at any time outside the normal admission round. Late applications will be dealt with in accordance Applications should be made to the school by with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions contacting the School Secretary on 01782 319504 scheme. and all families approaching the school will be given an application form. Where there are places Waiting Lists available but more applications than places, the Children who have not been offered a place at St published oversubscription criteria, as set out for the Augustine’s Catholic Academy but were offered a normal round of admissions, will be applied. school that was ranked as a lower preference on If there are no places available, the child will be their application form will be added to a waiting added to the waiting list (see above). list. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end of the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be Parents will be advised of the outcome of their discarded. application in writing and, where the Board of Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When have the right to appeal to an independent appeal a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on panel. that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria There is no charge or cost related to the admission order. This means that a child’s position on the of a child to this school. waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will Deadline for applications be added to the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. MONDAY 15 Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a JANUARY 2018 place will eventually become available. It may be that those already offered places may accept them, thereby filling all available places.

Children who are the subject of a direction by the Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol take precedence over those on a waiting list.

68. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 69.

No* No* Yes Yes Is the above named child a Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Baptism attached? *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception for the in order required is into the Catholic Church priority to an to give the correct of Directors Board application. evidence of Catholic Baptism to provide Failure the may affect or Reception in the Church name is oversubscription criterion that the child’s placed in. Child’s Surname ...... Child’s ...... First Name(s) Child’s ...... Address ...... Contact Number ...... box: Please tick the appropriate documents that are produced do not clarify the do not clarify produced are that documents the into or received baptised was that a person fact and address the name (i.e. where Church, Catholic the or where on the certificate is not of the Church whether it is a does not state the Church name of or not.) Church Catholic Information Form Supplementary Catholic Academy, St Augustine’s Academy Name: Meir school is Catholic. The schoolThe ethos of this to provide Catholic Church was founded by the of Catholic families. education for children applications than places more are there Wherever will be given to Catholic children available, priority with the oversubscription criteria in accordance published admission policy. listed in the school’s of Directors The school is conducted by its Board with in accordance as part of the Catholic Church at all timesits Articles of Association and seeks Jesus Christ. As a to be a witness to Our Lord a Catholic Catholic school, we aim to provide Catholic school,education for all our pupils. As a everyCatholic doctrine and practice permeate It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s All parents supported by all families in the school. expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and ethos of theand positive support for the aims the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. Has been validly baptised in a separatedHas been validly received ecclesial community and subsequently Church into full communion with the Catholic Christiansby the Rite of Reception of Baptised Church. into the Full Communion of the Catholic evidence of their baptism and reception Written Church into full communion with the Catholic to the Register of can be obtained by recourse ofReceptions, or in some cases, a sub-section in which the Baptismal Registers of the church Rite ofthe Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Christian Initiation, 399). Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. baptised into full Has been 837) with the Church, of the Catholic Catechism one of Baptism of by the Rites Church Catholic in communion Churches of the various ritual (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantinewith the See of Rome etc, Cf. Catechism of theRite, Coptic, Syriac, of evidence* Written 1203). Catholic Church, to the be obtained by recourse this baptism can the in which of the church Baptismal Registers (Cf. Code of Canon Law, baptism took place 877 & 878);

Definition of a “baptised catholic” of a “baptised Definition who: Catholic” is one A “Baptised Appendix Those who would be considered to have good Those who would be considered evidence would for not obtaining written reason include those who cannot contact the place of the Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, or and the original records, destruction of the church validly was administered Baptism/Reception where kept. are records where but not in the Parish church may request Governors of Directors and Boards extra supporting evidence when the written Those who would have difficulty obtaining written Those who would have difficulty evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a as Baptised considered may still be good reason, to Catholics but only after they have been referred their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar General, will decide how the question of Baptism/ and how written Reception is to be resolved with the in accordance evidence is to be produced law of the Church. Written evidence of baptism Written The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and of Catholic Academies will of Directors Boards in the form of a Certificate written evidence require before of Baptism or Certificate of Reception be considered applications for school places can A Certificatefor categories of “Baptised Catholics”. the full name,of Baptism or Reception is to include: anddate of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, must also show name(s). The certificate parent(s) kept by the place the records that it is copied from of Baptism or Reception. Or • • Please note that as well as completing this at St George and St Martin in the normal admissions Supplementary Application Form, parents must round, an application must be made using the also complete the Local Authority’s Common school admission application process of the local Application Form in order for the application to be authority in which you live naming St George and St complete. This Supplementary Information Form Martin on the application form. Applications need to is only for school use and is, in conjunction with be made by 15th January 2018. A Supplementary the Local Authority’s Common Application Form, Information Form (SIF) must also be completed and to enable the Board of Directors to rank applicants returned directly to the school by the same date (see using the published oversubscription criteria: Note 2).

This Supplementary Information Form must All applications which are submitted on time will be be returned directly to St Augustine’s Catholic considered at the same time, after the closing date. Academy at Sandon Road, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 7DF by 15th January 2018. You will be advised of the outcome of your application on 16th April 2018, or the next working Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. Common Application Form. As well as completing this Supplementary Application Form Please note that throughout this policy, the term and returning it directly to the school, you MUST parent relates to any individual with responsibility for also complete the local authority’s Common a child for whom an application is being made. Application Form otherwise your application will be deemed incomplete and therefore invalid. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. St George and St Martin’s Catholic Academy Wherever there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to Catholic children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria Boulton Street, Birches Head, listed below. The school is conducted by its Stoke-on-Trent ST1 2NQ Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church Tel: 01782 234384 in accordance with its Articles of Association and www.sgsmacademy.co.uk seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Principal: Mrs Dawn Farmer Christ.

As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic The School admits students between the ages education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, of 3-11 Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for Catholic character of the school’s education be fully September 2018 supported by all families in the school. All parents An application must be made online at are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local and positive support for the aims and ethos of the authority preference form. school. This does not affect the right of a parent The closing date for Nursery applications is who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the 31 January 2018. school. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The Board of Directors has set its admission number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the Reception class Admission criteria in the school year which begins in September 2018. St George and St Martin is part of the Newman (See Note 1 below) Catholic Collegiate. The admissions authority for the school is the Board of Directors of the Newman Where there are more applications for places than Catholic Collegiate who has responsibility for the number of places available, places will be admissions to this school. The Board of Directors offered according to the following order of priority. has delegated responsibility for the administration of If there is oversubscription within a category, the the admissions process to the Academy Committee Board of Directors will give priority to children living of St George and St Martin. closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5 below) The admissions process for St George and St Martin is part of the Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority co- A map of the parish boundary is available at the ordinated admissions scheme. To apply for a place school and parish or by post on request.

70. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 71. A brother or sister sharing the same parents A brother two children where or half-sister, A half-brother common parent one share two children where or step-sister, A step-brother or where marriage by a parents’ related are living as are but their parents unrelated they are partners. children Adopted or fostered

The children must be living permanently in the same must be living permanently in The children household Note 5 calculated on the basis of a straight Distances are home address the child’s from line measurement The local gate of the school. point to the front whichauthority uses a computerised system, Survey all distances in miles. Ordnance measures used to plot an that are supply the co-ordinates home address. applicant’s the school In a very small number of cases, where to decideis oversubscribed, it may not be possible pupils who are between the applications of those applying thethe final qualifiers for a place when published admission criteria. in the children For example, this may occur when or if live at the same address, same year group the school isthe distance between the home and of flats. Ifexactly the same, for example, blocks the application is no other way of separating there criteria and to admit to the admissions according would cause the both, or all, of the children year Published Admission Number for the child’s on behalf Local Authority, to be exceeded, the group will randomly select the of Directors, of the Board place. the final child to be offered possible, admit will, where of Directors The Board one multiple births where twins and all siblings from child ranked within the is the last of the children published admission number. school’s to be the is considered home address A child’s must child. The address of a permanent residence for the majority only or main residence be the child’s of the school week. Documentary evidence may be required. • • • • after child” is a child who immediately movedwho immediately a child child” is after to subject becoming status after that on from or special order child arrangement an adoption, order. guardianship Note 4 or sister of a brother the definition For all applicants is: which should be returned directly to the which should be returned directly Non-Catholic children. Non-Catholic children who are looked after or who are Non-Catholic children looked after (see Note 3 below). previously or who have a brother Non-Catholic children St George sister (see Note 4 below) attending and St Martin at the time of admission. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children below). Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 (see Note children Other Baptised Catholic 4 or sister (see Note a brother below) who have St Martin at the and St George below) attending time of admission. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) children Baptised Catholic and St Martin, of St George living in the parish Heart, Hanley. and Sacred Head Birches Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) (see Note Catholic children Baptised Martin, and St parish of St George living in the Hanley who Heart, Sacred Head and Birches or sister (see Note 3 below) have a brother at the time of and St Martin attending St George admission. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Note 2 (see children Catholic Baptised after looked or previously looked after who are 3 below) (see Note

Note 3 A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in Act 1989, and means section 22(1) of the Children of the local authority any child who is (a) in the care with accommodation by them or (b) being provided services functions (eg of their social in the exercise at the time of making with foster parents) children looked the application to the school. A “previously Parents making an application for a Catholic child making an application Parents must complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) information the school. If you do not provide in the Supplementary Information Form required and return it by the closing date, together with all supporting documentation, this is likely to affect a place at this chance of being offered your child’s school. Note 2 as In all categories, for a child to be considered or ReceptionCatholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism For a definition will be required. into the Church Thoseof a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. written evidence in producing who face difficulties of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church should contact their Parish Priest. Note 1 (EHC) with an Education, Health and Care Children be admitted. Plan that names the academy MUST the number of places available to This will reduce other applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. 8. 6. 7. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Over-subscription If parents have shared responsibilities and a child group must make an application for the normal lives with each for part of the week the home age group in the first instance. Parents must then address will be the one at which the child is resident submit a formal request to the Board of Directors for for the greatest part of the school week. Where this the child to be considered for a different age group is equally shared, the home address will be the one class instead. This request should be in the form of used when applying for child benefit. a written letter of application outlining the reasons why they wish for their child to be considered to If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an be admitted into a class outside of their normal address that is subsequently found to be different age group and enclosing any supportive evidence from a child’s normal and permanent home address, and documentation that they wish to be taken into then that place is liable to be withdrawn. account as part of that request.

School entry The Board of Directors will consider requests Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is submitted for a child to be admitted into a class receiving suitable full time education from the outside of their normal age group and advise beginning of the term following the child’s fifth parents of the outcome of that request before birthday, when they will have begun to be of national offer day, having taken into account the compulsory school age. information provided by the parents, the child’s best interests and the views of the Head Teacher. Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time basis If the request is refused, the original application for in the September following their fourth birthday. the normal age group class will progress through the Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme, A child’s parents may defer the date at which their be considered by the Board of Directors and the child, below compulsory school age, is admitted parents advised of the outcome. to the school, until later in the school year but not beyond the point at which they reach compulsory If the request is agreed and the year group for which school age and not beyond the first day of the the parents have requested a place is a current summer term 2019. year group in the school, then the application will be considered by the Board of Directors and the A child may take up a part-time place until later in parents advised of the outcome. the school year, but not beyond the point at which they child reached compulsory school age. If the request is agreed and the year group for which Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should the parents have requested a place is for a future notify the school, as soon as possible, that they year group, ie Reception in September 2019, then wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school the original application is withdrawn and the parents or take up a part-time place. must submit a fresh application for Reception 2019 when applications open in the autumn term of 2018. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls Please note that parents only have the right to during the summer term who wishes to defer their re-apply for a place. Where the Board of Directors child’s admission until the beginning of the following agrees to consider an application for Reception academic year (when the child will have begun to the following year, that application is considered be of compulsory school age) will therefore need alongside all other applications received and parents to make a separate in-year application for a place will be advised of the outcome of that application on in Year 1 at the school. Any reception class place national offer day. No place is reserved or held for offered following an application made for the the child in advance. 2018/2019 admission round will be withdrawn if the child does not take up that place by the first day of If parents are considering submitting an application the summer term 2019. for their child to be admitted into a class outside of their normal age group, it is strongly recommended Applications for children to be admitted into a that they also read the DFE guidance which can be class outside of their normal age group found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 Parents have the right to request, but not insist, that their child be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal age group. This could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted and talented, has experienced problems such as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a child born between 1st April and 31st August. Parents who wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal age

72. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 73. Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. 837) with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, by the Rites of Baptism of one Catholic Church in communion of the various ritual Churches with the See of Rome (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantine Rite, Coptic, Syriac, etc, Cf. Catechism of the evidence* of 1203). Written Catholic Church, to the this baptism can be obtained by recourse in which the Baptismal Registers of the church baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, 877 & 878);

• Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a that not mean list does the waiting on Inclusion be It may available. become will eventually place may accept them, places offered already that those available places. filling all thereby by the of a direction the subject who are Children allocated to a who are to admit or Local Authority Protocol with the Fair Access school in accordance over those on a waiting list. take precedence protocol In year fair access and St Martin of St George of Directors The Board who of children its fair share is committed to taking as set out in to place, and/or hard vulnerable are outside the Accordingly, protocols. locally agreed of Directors the Board round normal admission a child to give absolute priority to is empowered under the locally admission is requested where has this of Directors The Board protocol. agreed mean even when admitting the child would power, number subjectexceeding the published admission to the infant class size exceptions. intake toApplications other than the normal class (in-year applications) reception place for aAn application can be made for a admissionchild at any time outside the normal Applications should be made to the school round. and allby contacting Mrs Farmer at the school the school will be given an families approaching available places are there application form. Where applications than places, the published but more for the normaloversubscription criteria, as set out of admissions, will be applied. round available, the child will be no places are If there added to the waiting list (see above). the outcome of their will be advised of Parents of the Board application in writing and, where child a place, their decision is to refuse Director’s have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. to the admission or cost related is no charge There of a child to this school. Appendix Definition of a “baptised catholic” A “Baptised Catholic” is one who:

A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When A child’s a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on that the to ensure that waiting list will be re-ranked list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria position on the This means that a child’s order. waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will with the be added to the waiting list in accordance oversubscription criteria. Children who have not been offered a place at St offered who have not been Children a school offered and St Martin but were George on their that was ranked as a lower preference application form will be added to a waiting list. lists will be maintained until the end of Waiting the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be discarded. Waiting lists Waiting Late applications Late applications will be dealt with in accordance admissions co-ordinated with the Local Authority’s scheme. Repeat applications can apply for a place for their child at Any parent round. any time outside of the normal admissions do not have the right to a second appeal in Parents of the same school for the same academic respect the Board year unless, in exceptional circumstances, has accepted a second application from of Directors because of a significant and material the parent child or of the parent, change in the circumstances admission. school, but have still refused Please note that parents do not have the right Please note that parents to be for their children to appeal if their request normal yearadmitted to a class outside of their Directors of but the Board has been refused, group instead. in the normal age group a place has offered Appeals of wish to appeal against the decision who Parents their child a place to refuse of Directors the Board in make that appeal request in the school should at of Directors writing to the Chair of the Board by an Appeals will be heard the school address. independent panel. Applications from children currently attending ST attending currently children from Applications Nursery St Martin and George Nursery and St Martin at St George Attendance will that a place automatically guarantee does not and class of St George in the Reception be offered a Reception must apply for Parents St Martin. of children way as parents exactly the same place in will be All applications Nursery. not attending the by against the oversubscription criteria considered way regardless in the same of Directors the Board does or does not attend theof whether the child of application. Nursery at the time Or Wherever there are more applications than places • Has been validly baptised in a separated available, priority will be given to Catholic children ecclesial community and subsequently received in accordance with the oversubscription criteria into full communion with the Catholic Church listed in the school’s published admission policy. by the Rite of Reception of Baptised Christians The school is conducted by its Board of Directors into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with Written evidence of their baptism and reception its Articles of Association and seeks at all times into full communion with the Catholic Church to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. As a can be obtained by recourse to the Register of Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic Receptions, or in some cases, a sub-section of education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, the Baptismal Registers of the church in which Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every the Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Rite of aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Christian Initiation, 399). Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school. All parents Written evidence of baptism are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and and positive support for the aims and ethos of the Boards of Directors of Catholic Academies will school. This does not affect the right of a parent require written evidence in the form of a Certificate who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the of Baptism or Certificate of Reception before school. applications for school places can be considered for categories of “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate Child’s Surname ...... of Baptism or Reception is to include: the full name, date of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, and Child’s First Name(s) ...... parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also show that it is copied from the records kept by the place Address ...... of Baptism or Reception...... Those who would have difficulty obtaining written ...... evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a good reason, may still be considered as Baptised Contact Number ...... Catholics but only after they have been referred to their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar General, will decide how the question of Baptism/ Please tick the appropriate box: Reception is to be resolved and how written Is the above named child a Yes No* evidence is to be produced in accordance with the Baptised Catholic? law of the Church. Is the certificate of Catholic Yes No* Baptism attached? Those who would be considered to have good reason for not obtaining written evidence would *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception include those who cannot contact the place of into the Catholic Church is required in order for the Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, the Board of Directors to give the correct priority to an destruction of the church and the original records, or application. where Baptism/Reception was administered validly but not in the Parish church where records are kept. Failure to provide evidence of Catholic Baptism Governors and Boards of Directors may request or Reception in the Church may affect the extra supporting evidence when the written oversubscription criterion that the child’s name is documents that are produced do not clarify the placed in. fact that a person was baptised or received into the Catholic Church, (i.e. where the name and address Please note that as well as completing this of the Church is not on the certificate or where the Supplementary Application Form, parents must name of the Church does not state whether it is a also complete the Local Authority’s Common Catholic Church or not.) Application Form in order for the application to be complete. This Supplementary Information Form Supplementary Information Form is only for school use and is, in conjunction with the Local Authority’s Common Application Form, Academy Name: St George and St Martin’s Catholic to enable the Board of Directors to rank applicants Academy using the published oversubscription criteria: The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families.

74. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 75. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children Longton living in the parish of St Gregory’s (see Note 4 below) or sister who have a brother Catholic Academy at the attending St Gregory’s time of admission. (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children Longton. living in the parish of St Gregory’s Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children looked after looked after or previously who are (see Note 3 below).

You will be advised of the outcome of yourthe outcome of be advised will You next working or the 2018, 16th April on application school. on behalf of the local authority by the day, term the this policy, that throughout Please note for with responsibility to any individual relates parent is being made. whom an application a child for school is Catholic. The schoolThe ethos of this to provide Catholic Church was founded by the of Catholic families. education for children applications than places more are there Wherever will be given to Catholic children available, priority with the oversubscription criteria in accordance by its The school is conducted listed below. Church as part of the Catholic Directors of Board and with its Articles of Association in accordance Jesus to Our Lord seeks at all times to be a witness Christ. a Catholic As a Catholic school, we aim to provide Catholic school,education for all our pupils. As a everyCatholic doctrine and practice permeate It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s All parents supported by all families in the school. expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and ethos of theand positive support for the aims the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. has set its admission number of Directors The Board Reception classat 60 pupils to be admitted to the September 2018.in the school year which begins in (See Note 1 below) applications for places than more are there Where the number of places available, places will be of priority. to the following order according offered the within a category, is oversubscription If there living will give priority to children of Directors Board closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5 below) A map of the parish boundary is available at the school and parish or by post on request. Over-subscription 2. 3. 1. Spring Garden Road, Longton, Spring Garden ST3 2QN Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235340 Tel: www.saintgregorys.org.uk Yates Executive Headteacher: Mrs Margaret St Gregory’s Catholic Academy St Gregory’s All applications which are submitted on time will be All applications which are after the closing date. at the same time, considered Admission criteria All Catholic Academy is part of the St Gregory’s authoritySaints Catholic Collegiate. The admissions of the All of Directors for the school is the Board for Saints Catholic Collegiate who has responsibility of Directors admissions to this school. The Board for the administration of has delegated responsibility the Academy Committee to the admissions process Catholic Academy. of St Gregory’s Catholic St Gregory’s for The admissions process Local Academy is part of the Stoke-on-Trent scheme. To admissions Authority co-ordinated Catholic Academy apply for a place at St Gregory’s an application must in the normal admissions round, be made using the school admission application in which you live of the local authority process Catholic Academy on the naming St Gregory’s application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January 2018. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned same date (see Note 2). to the school by the directly How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for Nursery or Reception September 2018 atAn application must be made online or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference isThe closing date for Nursery applications 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s the local authority’s that this is NOT Please note As well as Application Form. Common Supplementary Application Formcompleting this to the school, you MUST directly and returning it Common local authority’s also complete the otherwise your application willApplication Form invalid. and therefore be deemed incomplete This Supplementary Information Form must be Form Information Supplementary This at St Martin and George to St directly returned ST1 Stoke-on-Trent, Head, Birches Street, Boulton January 2018. 2NQ by 15th 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children below) who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 are related by a parents’ marriage or where below) attending St Gregory’s Catholic Academy they are unrelated but their parents are living as at the time of admission. partners. 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 • Adopted or fostered children below). The children must be living permanently in the same 6. Non-Catholic children (see Note 2 below) who household. are looked after or previously looked after (see Note 3 below). Note 5 7. Children of staff currently employed at St Reference to staff means full-time or part-time Gregory’s Catholic Academy (see note 5 below). employed in the following roles: 8. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or • Teaching Staff sister (see Note 4 below) attending St Gregory’s • All other staff employed at the Academy or in Catholic Academy at the time of admission. contract at the Academy who are not teachers. 9. Non-Catholic children. The member of staff must have been employed at St Gregory’s Catholic Academy for two or more Note 1 years at the time of application for admission, or Children with a Statement of Special Educational the member of staff has been recruited to fill a Needs or Education Health and Care (EHC) plan that vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill names the school must be admitted. This will reduce shortage. the number of places available to other applicants. Note 6 Note 2 Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight In all categories, for a child to be considered as line measurement from the child’s home address Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception point to the main pedestrian gate of the school on into the Church will be required. For a definition Spring Garden Road. The local authority uses a of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those computerised system, which measures all distances who face difficulties in producing written evidence in miles. Ordnance Survey supply the co-ordinates of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church that are used to plot an applicant’s home address. should contact their Parish Priest. In a very small number of cases, where the school Parents making an application for a Catholic child is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide must complete a Supplementary Information between the applications of those pupils who are Form (SIF) which should be returned directly to the final qualifiers for a place when applying the the school. If you do not provide the information published admission criteria. required in the Supplementary Information Form and return it by the closing date, together with all For example, this may occur when children in the supporting documentation, this is likely to affect same year group live at the same address, or if your child’s chance of being offered a place at this the distance between the home and the school is school. exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If there is no other way of separating the application Note 3 according to the admissions criteria and to admit A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in both, or all, of the children would cause the section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means Published Admission Number for the child’s year any child who is (a) in the care of the local authority group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf or (b) being provided with accommodation by them of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the in the exercise of their social services functions (eg child to be offered the final place. children with foster parents) at the time of making the application to the school. A “previously looked The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit after child” is a child who immediately moved twins and all siblings from multiple births where one on from that status after becoming subject to of the children is the last child ranked within the an adoption, child arrangement order or special school’s published admission number. guardianship order. A child’s home address is considered to be the Note 4 permanent residence of a child. The address must For all applicants the definition of a brother or sister be the child’s only or main residence for the majority is: of the school week. Documentary evidence may be • A brother or sister sharing the same parents required. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children share one common parent

76. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 77. Parents who wish for their child to be considered considered to be their child wish for who Parents age normal of their outside to a class for admission the normal an application for must make group must then first instance. Parents in the age group of Directors to the Board formal request submit a age different for a to be considered for the child be in the should This request class instead. group application outlining the reasons form of a letter of to their child to be considered why they wish for a class outside of their normalbe admitted into and enclosing any supportive evidence age group that they wish to be taken intoand documentation that request. account as part of requests will consider of Directors The Board to be admitted into a classsubmitted for a child and advise age group outside of their normal before of the outcome of that request parents having taken into account the day, national offer best the child’s by the parents, information provided This and the views of the Head Teacher. interests or a place. does not constitute the offer the original application for is refused, If the request the through class will progress the normal age group admissions scheme, Local Authority co-ordinated the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is a current have requested the parents in the school, then the application will year group the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is for a future have requested the parents ie Reception in September 2019, then year group, the original application is withdrawn and the parents for Reception 2019 application must submit a fresh when applications open in the autumn term of 2018. have the right to only Please note that parents of Directors the Board for a place. Where re-apply for Reception to consider an application agrees that application is considered the following year, and parents alongside all other applications received will be advised of the outcome of that application on or held for No place is reserved day. national offer the child in advance. considering submitting an application are If parents for their child to be admitted into a class outside of recommended is strongly it their normal age group, guidance which can be the DFE that they also read found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 Applying for a place LA form for a place in must apply on the Parents Reception Class. Attendance at a nursery does not automatically guarantee that a place will be offered in main school. Applications for children to be admitted into a Applications for children class outside their normal age group but not insist, request, have the right to Parents for admission to that their child be considered This a class outside of their normal age group. could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted such and talented, has experienced problems as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a child born between 1st April and 31st August. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls fifth of a child whose The parent during the summer term who wishes to defer their admission until the beginning of the following child’s academic year (when the child will have begun to need be of compulsory school age) will therefore to make a separate in-year application for a place class place the school. Any reception 1 at in Year following an application made for the offered will be withdrawn if the 2018/2019 admission round child does not take up that place by the first day of the summer term 2019. A child may take up a part-time place until later inA child may take up a part-time place which but not beyond the point at the school year, compulsory school age. they child reached should of a place a parent of the offer Upon receipt that theynotify the school, as soon as possible, entry to the school wish to either defer their child’s or take up a part-time place. A child’s parents may defer the date at which their may defer the date at which parents A child’s is admittedchild, below compulsory school age, year but notto the school, until later in the school compulsory beyond the point at which they reach day of theschool age and not beyond the first summer term 2019. Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will a place is offered Where a full-time basisbe entitled to take up that place, on birthday. in the September following their fourth School entry that their child is ensure by law, must, Parents the suitable full time education from receiving fifth term following the child’s beginning of the they will have begun to be of when birthday, compulsory school age. If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an on is offered If a place in the school different that is subsequently found to be address home address, normal and permanent a child’s from liable to be withdrawn. then that place is If parents have shared responsibilities and a child responsibilities shared have If parents homeweek the of the for part with each lives child is resident one at which the will be the address this week. Where of the school part for the greatest will be the one the home address shared, is equally benefit. applying for child used when Applications from children currently attending Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a St Gregory’s Catholic Academy’s Nursery place will eventually become available. It may be Attendance at St Gregory’s Catholic Academy’s that those already offered places may accept them, Nursery does not automatically guarantee that a thereby filling all available places. place will be offered in the Reception class of St Gregory’s Catholic Academy. Parents must apply Children who are the subject of a direction by the for a Reception place in exactly the same way Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a as parents of children not attending the Nursery. school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol All applications will be considered against the take precedence over those on a waiting list. oversubscription criteria by the Board of Directors in the same way regardless of whether the child In year fair access policy does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of Catholic Academy is committed to taking its fair application. share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Appeals Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place priority to a child where admission is requested in the school should make that appeal request in under the locally agreed protocol. The Board of writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at Directors has this power, even when admitting the school address. Appeals will be heard by an the child would mean exceeding the published independent panel. admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions. Please note that parents do not have the right to appeal if their request for their children to be Applications other than the normal intake to admitted to a class outside of their normal year reception class (in-year applications) group has been refused, but the Board of Directors An application can be made for a place for a child has offered a place in the normal age group instead. at any time outside the normal admission round. Applications should be made to the school by Repeat applications contacting the School on 01782 235340 and all Any parent can apply for a place for their child at families approaching the school will be given an any time outside of the normal admissions round. application form. Where there are places available Parents do not have the right to a second appeal in but more applications than places, the published respect of the same school for the same academic oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board round of admissions, will be applied. of Directors has accepted a second application from the parent because of a significant and material If there are no places available, the child will be change in the circumstances of the parent, child or added to the waiting list (see above). school, but have still refused admission. Parents will be advised of the outcome of their Late applications application in writing and, where the Board of Late applications will be dealt with in accordance Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions have the right to appeal to an independent appeal scheme. panel.

Waiting lists There is no charge or cost related to the admission Children who have not been offered a place at St of a child to this school. Gregory’s Catholic Academy but were offered a school that was ranked as a lower preference on Appendix their application form will be added to a waiting list. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end Definition of a “baptised catholic” of the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: discarded. • Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) with the A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptism of one a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on of the various ritual Churches in communion that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the with the See of Rome (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantine list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria Rite, Coptic, Syriac, etc, Cf. Catechism of the order. This means that a child’s position on the Catholic Church, 1203). Written evidence* of waiting list could go up or down during the time that this baptism can be obtained by recourse to the it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will Baptismal Registers of the church in which the be added to the waiting list in accordance with the baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, oversubscription criteria. 877 & 878); 78. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 79.

No* No* Yes Yes Is the above named child a Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Baptism attached? *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception for the in order required is into the Catholic Church priority to an to give the correct of Directors Board application. evidence of Catholic Baptism to provide Failure the may affect or Reception in the Church name is oversubscription criterion that the child’s placed in. Please note that as well as completing this must Supplementary Application Form, parents Common also complete the Local Authority’s to be for the application Application Form in order complete. This Supplementary Information Form is only for school use and is, in conjunction with Application Form, Common the Local Authority’s to rank applicants of Directors to enable the Board using the published oversubscription criteria: This Supplementary Information Form must be Academy Catholic to St Gregory’s returned directly Road, Longton ST3 2QN by 15th at Spring Garden January 2018...... Contact Number ...... box: Please tick the appropriate Child’s Surname ...... Child’s ...... First Name(s) Child’s ...... Address ...... Wherever there are more applications than places applications more are there Wherever children to Catholic be given will priority available, criteria the oversubscription with in accordance policy. published admission school’s listed in the of Directors by its Board is conducted The school with in accordance the Catholic Church as part of times and seeks at all of Association its Articles As a Jesus Christ. Our Lord to be a witness to a Catholic we aim to provide Catholic school, pupils. As a Catholic school,education for all our and practice permeate everyCatholic doctrine It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s be fully education of the school’s Catholic character families in the school. All parents supported by all give their full, unreserved expected to therefore are for the aims and ethos of theand positive support parent the right of a not affect school. This does a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. Has been validly baptised in a separated in a baptised been validly Has subsequently received community and ecclesial the Catholic Church with into full communion Baptised Christians of Reception of by the Rite of the Catholic Church. Communion into the Full and reception of their baptism evidence Written with the Catholic Church into full communion of to the Register by recourse can be obtained some cases, a sub-section ofReceptions, or in in which of the church the Baptismal Registers took place (Cf. Rite ofthe Rite of Reception 399). Christian Initiation,

The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school to provide was founded by the Catholic Church families. of Catholic education for children Academy Name: St Gregory’s Catholic Academy Academy Name: St Gregory’s Supplementary Information Form Those who would be considered to have good Those who would be considered evidence would for not obtaining written reason include those who cannot contact the place of the Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, or and the original records, destruction of the church validly was administered Baptism/Reception where kept. are records where but not in the Parish church may request Governors of Directors and Boards extra supporting evidence when the written do not clarify the produced documents that are into the fact that a person was baptised or received the name and address (i.e. where Catholic Church, the certificate or where is not on the of the Church not state whether it is a does name of the Church or not.) Catholic Church Those who would have difficulty obtaining written Those who would have difficulty for aevidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception as Baptised may still be considered good reason, to been referred Catholics but only after they have the Vicartheir parish priest who, after consulting of Baptism/ General, will decide how the question and how written Reception is to be resolved with the in accordance evidence is to be produced law of the Church. Written evidence of baptism Written The GoverningCatholic schools and bodies of will of Catholic Academies Directors of Boards in the form of a Certificate written evidence require before of Baptism or Certificate of Reception be considered applications for school places can A Certificatefor categories of “Baptised Catholics”. the full name,of Baptism or Reception is to include: anddate of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, name(s). The certificate must also show parent(s) place kept by the the records that it is copied from of Baptism or Reception. • Or Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s The Governing Board of each school is responsible Common Application Form. As well as for the admission of pupils to the school and will completing this Supplementary Application Form admit up to the admission limit that has been and returning it directly to the school, you MUST agreed between the Governing Body and the Local also complete the local authority’s Common Authority. Application Form otherwise your application will be deemed incomplete and therefore invalid. The Governing Board is required to abide by the maximum limits for infant classes (5, 6 and 7 year olds) i.e., 30 pupils per class. St John’s CE (A) Primary The school will admit 39 pupils each September to Wheatley Avenue, Nursery. Stoke-on-Trent ST4 6SB Tel: 01782 238889 The school will admit 45 pupils each September to www.stjohns.stoke.sch.uk Reception (60 agreed for September 2012 only). Headteacher: Mrs Pauline Bloor Over-subscription The School admits students between the ages In the event of more applications being received of 3-11 than places available, the following Oversubscription Criteria will be applied: How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 Nursery & Reception Admissions An application must be made online at 1. Children who are in the care of a local authority www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local (looked after children) or provided with authority preference form. accommodation with them (Section 22 of the The closing date for Nursery applications is Children Act 1989) and children who were 31 January 2018. previously looked after but ceased to be so The closing date for Reception applications is because they were adopted (or became subject Monday 15 January 2018. to a residence order or special guardianship order). Admission criteria 2. Children or families who have a serious St John’s CE (A) Primary School uses its own medical, physical or psychological condition Admissions policy – see below: which makes it essential that the child attends the preferred school rather than any other. Statement Appropriate medical or psychological evidence St John’s CE (A) Primary School welcomes must be provided in support. children from all backgrounds, faiths and no faith. 3. Children who have a sibling attending the school The Governors of the schools are committed to at the time of application and at the time of developing an inclusive environment that reflects admission. the diversity of the local community. Admission to 4. Children who are themselves, or whose a Church of England Aided Primary School is not families are, faithful and regular worshippers dependent on being a member of a particular faith at a Church of England parish church. Written community. evidence of the applicant’s commitment to their place of worship will be required using the As well as being an inclusive neighbourhood Supplementary Information Form. school, a Church school has a distinctive ethos 5. Children who are themselves, or whose families and character that reflects the teachings of Jesus are, faithful and regular worshippers of another Christ and Christian values. All parents/carers Christian denomination as recognised by applying for a place at a Church of England Aided Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and/or Primary School are asked to respect this ethos the Evangelical Alliance. Written evidence of the and its importance to the school community in applicant’s commitment to their place of worship which it serves. It is hoped that all children who will be required using the Supplementary attend a Church of England School will be able to Information Form. participate (as appropriate) in the religious life of the 6. Children who are themselves, or whose families school (including collective worship and religious are, committed members of another religious education). This does not affect the right of parents/ faith. Written evidence of the applicant’s carers who are not Christians to apply for a place. commitment to their place of worship will be Indeed, through the commitment to inclusivity, required using the Supplementary Information families from other faiths and no faith are actively Form. welcomed.

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A letter from the solicitor confirming exchange A letter from to the relevant of contracts to buy a property application; renting of a confirming the A tenancy agreement relevant to the application; specific property a housing association confirming A letter from will be living at a specific that the parents/carers to the application; or relevant address In the case of UK service personnel and Crown governmentservants, an official letter (MOD, date. FCO or GCHQ) letter declaring a relocation The child lives most of the school week. The child lives most of the school for equal the child lives at each address Where address parts of the school week, then the Child Benefit payments and/or as receiving will be used. determined by a court order

Tie-breaker within any of If the school is oversubscribed from the above criteria or sub-criteria, distance will be used to prioritise applications; applicants living The shortest the school have priority. nearer home door of the child’s the front from walking route to the main gate of the (including flats) address distance. school will measure Casual Admissions For applications submitted for years other than Governing the Board the normal year of entry, will consider all such applications and if the year available, admit the applied for has a place group then the received are applications child. If more oversubscription criteria shall apply. Moving home and UK service personnel and crown and crown Moving home and UK service personnel servants. moves on the future regarding Places can be offered basis of: • • • • • • John’s Church. The ecclesiastical parish is referred is referred parish The ecclesiastical Church. John’s school.’ by the served ‘the area to as live they where is permanent residence The child’s and during school including weekends normally be the week, and should as well as during holidays The permanent address the application. used for one who spend part of their week with of children at different and part with the other, parent/carer which they spend at will be the address addresses, most of their time. Additional Information Home Address the where means the address The home address have parents/carers Where child usually lives. of a child and the child lives residence shared the for part of the week with each parent/carer, to be Governing will take the home address Board at which: the address Children living out of the area served by the of the area living out Children school. Children living in the area served by the school, by the served area in the living Children of the nearnesshome to of the in order given safe along the shortest measured the school, point to address the home from walking route main gate. the school’s

The area served by the school. served by the The area trust deed of 1860, states that the The school’s education for school was established to provide parish of St living in the ecclesiastical children Siblings. half-brother or sister, to brother “Siblings” refers foster sister, or adopted adopted brother or sister, or step sister, step brother or foster sister, brother as siblings in the same living and includes children family unit at the same address. Serious medical, physical or psychological condition. for a child or family a place is requested Where condition, youwho have a serious social or medical must supply supporting independent evidence at reason(s) why the time of application confirming the (A) Primary School is CE attendance at St John’s essential rather than any other school or academy. that must describe the difficulties Parents/Carers would be caused if the child had to attend another medical professional A suitable school or academy. The admissions the evidence. should provide committee of the local Governing will Board and equitable decision and a fair endeavour to reach will consider the evidence carefully. Looked after children or children who were who were or children Looked after children looked after. previously who a priority for children This criterion provides or (b) being of a local authority, the care (a) in are in with accommodation by a local authority provided of the of their social services functions the exercise children Act 1989. It can also be used for Children looked after but immediately previously who were to anafter being looked after became subject order. or special guardianship adoption, residence, under section 46 of is an order An adoption order Act 2002. A residence the Adoption and Children settling the arrangements to be is an order order the child ismade as to the person with whom Act 1989. to live under section 8 of the Children Act 1989 defines a Section 14A of the Children appointing as an order order special guardianship special individuals to be a child’s one or more Applications under this criterion should guardian(s). that the childbe accompanied by evidence to show looked after (eg is looked after or was previously arrangements or a copy of the adoption, child’s order). special guardianship Definitions 8. 7. Who can apply? The waiting list will be reviewed at the school by the Only the parent/carer can apply for a place at a Local Authority/Governing Board: school. A parent/carer is any person has parental • Each time a child is added to, or removed from responsibility for, or is the legal guardian of the child, it; as set out in the Children Act 1989. • When a child’s changed circumstances affect their priority; How to apply • Periodically, when parents/carers with a child You must complete a Local Authority Application on the waiting list will be contacted and asked if Form for your relevant council. they wish to remain on the list for the following school year. Please select from www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions Starting the school in Reception Year Parents/Carers applying for a place on faith grounds St John’s CE(A) Primary School will provide for the must complete the Supplementary Information admission of all children in the September following Form (which can be obtained from the school) and their fourth birthday. Places in the Reception year return this form direct to the school, signed by the will be provided from the beginning of the academic appropriate faith leader. year.

When to apply Compulsory school age and summer born The national closing date for admission application children forms to be received by the local authority will be A child is not required to start school until they published in the Local Authority’s Admission Booklet have reached compulsory age following their fifth on the website for that year. birthday. For summer born children this is almost a full school year after the point at which they could For the normal admissions round, all on time be first admitted to St John’s CE(A) Primary School. preferences will be considered simultaneously and Compulsory school age is set out in section 8 of The ranked in accordance with the admission criteria. Education Act 1996 and The Education Order 1998. A child reaches compulsory school age on the Multiple Births prescribed day following his/her fifth birthday (or on Where parents/carers are seeking to place twins, their fifth birthday if it falls on a prescribed day). The triplets etc they must submit separate applications prescribed days are 31st December, 31st March and for each child. When considering twins, triplets or 31st August. All children born from the beginning of larger numbers of siblings which are the product April to the end of August reach compulsory school of a multiple birth, where there are insufficient age in the September following their fifth birthday. spaces for all siblings, the remaining place(s) will be offered to the sibling(s) in order of time of birth Deferred entry into Reception and the parents/carers may decide whether a) they The parents/carers of summer born children may will accept the place(s) or b) they will decline the choose not to send their child to school until the place(s) which will be offered to the next person(s) September following their fifth birthday and may in the allocations after the twins/triplets/multiple request that they are admitted outside their normal births. If the parents/carers accept the place(s) for age group – to reception rather than year 1. All one or more of the twin/triplets/multiple birth then requests for deferred entry must be sent directly to the unsuccessful sibling(s) will be considered first the school and the Local Authority. priority on the waiting list, for one term, if a space becomes available and the parents/carers confirm Admissions of children outside their normal age in writing that this is their wish when accepting the group original place(s). Parents/Carers may seek a place for their child outside their normal age group, for example, if the Waiting Lists child is gifted and talented or has experienced When all places have been allocated, waiting lists problems such as ill health. All applicants must will be operated by the Local Authority on behalf process the application as part of the main of the school. The school will operate a waiting list admissions round. The Local Authority and until the end of each academic year. Priority will Governing Board will make the decision based on not be given to children based on the date their the circumstances of each case. Parents/Carers do application was received or when their name was not have a right to appeal if they have been offered a added to the waiting list. Looked after children, place and it is not in the year group they would like. previously looked after children and those allocated a place at the school in accordance with a Fair Access Protocol, must take precedence over those on a waiting list.

82. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 83. A Supplementary Information 2018. A Supplementary January 15th and returned be completed also (SIF) must Form date (see Note by the same to the school directly 2). on time will be submitted which are All applications the closing date. same time, after at the considered of your will be advised of the outcome You April 2018, or the next workingapplication on 16th of the school. by the local authority on behalf day, the term this policy, throughout Please note that for responsibility to any individual with relates parent an application is being made. a child for whom school is Catholic. The schoolThe ethos of this to provide was founded by the Catholic Church of Catholic families. education for children applications than places more are there Wherever children available, priority will be given to Catholic with the oversubscription criteria in accordance school is conducted by its The listed below. as part of the Catholic Church of Directors Board with its Articles of Association and in accordance Jesus to Our Lord seeks at all times to be a witness Christ. a Catholic As a Catholic school, we aim to provide Catholic school,education for all our pupils. As a everyCatholic doctrine and practice permeate It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s All parents supported by all families in the school. expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and ethos of theand positive support for the aims the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. has set its admission number of Directors The Board pupils to be admitted to the Reception at 30 (PAN) class in the school year which begins in September 2018. (See Note 1 below) for places than applications more are there Where the number of places available, places will be of priority. to the following order according offered the within a category, is oversubscription If there living will give priority to children of Directors Board closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5 below) A map of the parish boundary is available at the school and parish or by post on request. Mobberley Road, Goldenhill, ST6 5RN Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235393 Tel: www.stjosephscatholicacademy.co.uk Principal: Mrs Elizabeth Thomas St Joseph’s Catholic Academy St Joseph’s The admissions process for St Joseph’s Catholic St Joseph’s for The admissions process Local Academy is part of the Stoke-on-Trent scheme. To admissions Authority co-ordinated Catholic Academy apply for a place at St Joseph’s an application must in the normal admissions round, be made using the school admission application in which you live of the local authority process Catholic Academy on the naming St Joseph’s application form. Applications need to be made by TSt Joseph’s Catholic Academy is part of the TSt Joseph’s Newman Catholic Collegiate. The admissions of Directors authority for the school is the Board of the Newman Catholic Collegiate. who has to this school. The for admissions responsibility for has delegated responsibility of Directors Board to the administration of the admissions process Catholic the Academy Committee of St Joseph’s Academy. Admission criteria Catholic Academy uses its own St Joseph’s Admissions policy – see below. How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for Nursery or Reception September 2018 atAn application must be made online or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference isThe closing date for Nursery applications 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Admission Appeals Admission their for a place not offered who are Parents/Carers to an independent the right to appeal child have wishing to appeal Parents/Carers appeal panel. the school from an appeal form should obtain school. The form/ to the it directly and return Clerk to the the be sent to reach letter should days of the school, within 14 Appeal Panel, care letter confirming the governors’of the date of the a place. Should some appeals decision not to offer the Governing will notbe unsuccessful, Board those parents/ from consider further applications there the same academic year unless within carers and material changes in theirhave been significant circumstances. Oversubscription Criteria Note 4 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) For all applicants the definition of a brother or who are looked after or previously looked after sister is: (see Note 3 below) • A brother or sister sharing the same parents 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children living in the parish of St Joseph’s, Goldenhill share one common parent who have a brother or sister (see Note 3 below) • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children attending St Joseph’s Catholic Academy at the are related by a parents’ marriage or where time of admission. they are unrelated but their parents are living as 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) partners. living in the parish of St Joseph’s, Goldenhill. • Adopted or fostered children 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 The children must be living permanently in the same below) who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 household below) attending St Joseph’s Catholic Academy at the time of admission. Note 5 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight below). line measurement from the child’s home address 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked after or point to the front gate of the school. The local previously looked after (see Note 3 below) authority uses a computerised system, which 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or measures all distances in miles. Ordnance Survey sister (see Note 4 below) attending St Joseph’s supply the co-ordinates that are used to plot an Catholic Academy at the time of admission. applicant’s home address. 8. Non-Catholic children. In a very small number of cases, where the school Note 1 is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) between the applications of those pupils who are Plan that names the academy MUST be admitted. the final qualifiers for a place when applying the This will reduce the number of places available to published admission criteria. other applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, or if Note 2 the distance between the home and the school is In all categories, for a child to be considered as exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception there is no other way of separating the application into the Church will be required. For a definition according to the admissions criteria and to admit of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those both, or all, of the children would cause the who face difficulties in producing written evidence Published Admission Number for the child’s year of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf should contact their Parish Priest. of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the child to be offered the final place. Parents making an application for a Catholic child must complete a Supplementary Information Form The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit (SIF) which should be returned directly to the twins and all siblings from multiple births where one school. If you do not provide the information of the children is the last child ranked within the required in the Supplementary Information Form school’s published admission number. and return it by the closing date, together with all supporting documentation, this is likely to affect A child’s home address is considered to be the your child’s chance of being offered a place at this permanent residence of a child. The address must school. be the child’s only or main residence for the majority of the school week. Documentary evidence may be Note 3 required. A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means If parents have shared responsibilities and a child any child who is (a) in the care of the local authority lives with each for part of the week the home or (b) being provided with accommodation by them address will be the one at which the child is resident in the exercise of their social services functions (eg for the greatest part of the school week. Where this children with foster parents) at the time of making is equally shared, the home address will be the one the application to the school. A “previously looked used when applying for child benefit. after child” is a child who immediately moved on from that status after becoming subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. 84. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 85. be admitted into a class outside of their normal of their outside into a class be admitted evidencesupportive any enclosing and group age into wish to be taken that they and documentation as part of that request. account consider requests will of Directors The Board class admitted into a for a child to be submitted and advise age group outside of their normal before the outcome of that request of parents account the having taken into day, national offer best the child’s by the parents, information provided and the views of the Head Teacher. interests application for the original is refused, If the request the through class will progress the normal age group admissions scheme, Local Authority co-ordinated and the of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is a current have requested the parents in the school, then the application will year group the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is for a future have requested the parents ie Reception in September 2019, then year group, and the parents the original application is withdrawn application for Reception 2019 must submit a fresh term of 2018.when applications open in the autumn only have the right to Please note that parents of Directors the Board for a place. Where re-apply to consider an application for Reception agrees that application is considered the following year, and parents alongside all other applications received that application onwill be advised of the outcome of for or held No place is reserved day. national offer the child in advance. considering submitting an application are If parents for their child to be admitted into a class outside of recommended is strongly it their normal age group, guidance which can be the DFE that they also read found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 attending St currently children Applications from Nursery Catholic Academy’s Joseph’s Catholic Academy’s Attendance at St Joseph’s Nursery does not automatically guarantee that a in the Reception class of St place will be offered must apply Parents Catholic Academy. Joseph’s for a Reception place in exactly the same way not attending the Nursery. of children as parents against the All applications will be considered of Directors oversubscription criteria by the Board of whether the child in the same way regardless does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of application. Applications for children to be admitted into a Applications for children class outside of their normal age group but not insist, request, have the right to Parents for admission to that their child be considered This a class outside of their normal age group. could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted such and talented, has experienced problems as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a child born between 1st April and 31st August. child to be considered who wish for their Parents for admission to a class outside of their normal age for the normal must make an application group must then Parents in the first instance. age group for of Directors the Board to submit a formal request age group for a different the child to be considered should be in the form of class instead. This request a written letter of application outlining the reasons to why they wish for their child to be considered The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls of a child whose fifth The parent to defer theirduring the summer term who wishes until the beginning of the following admission child’s have begun toacademic year (when the child will need therefore be of compulsory school age) will for a placeto make a separate in-year application class place 1 at the school. Any reception in Year following an application made for the offered will be withdrawn if the 2018/2019 admission round child does not take up that place by the first day of the summer term 2019. A child may take up a part-time place until later inA child may take up a part-time place which but not beyond the point at the school year, compulsory school age. they child reached should of a place a parent of the offer Upon receipt that theynotify the school, as soon as possible, entry to the school wish to either defer their child’s or take up a part-time place. A child’s parents may defer the date at which their may defer parents A child’s is admittedchild, below compulsory school age, year but notto the school, until later in the school compulsory beyond the point at which they reach day of theschool age and not beyond the first summer term 2019. Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will in the school, the pupil place is offered a Where up that place, on a full-time basisbe entitled to take following their fourth birthday. in the September School Entry is that their child ensure law, must, by Parents the suitable full time education from receiving fifth term following the child’s beginning of the they will have begun to be of when birthday, age. compulsory school If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an basis on the is offered school in the If a place be different found to is subsequently that address home address, and permanent normal a child’s from be withdrawn. place is liable to then that Appeals Applications other than the normal intake to Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of Reception Class (in-year applications) the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place An application should be made directly to the Board in the school should make that appeal request in of Directors at the academy. writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at the school address. Appeals will be heard by an There is no charge or cost related to the admission independent panel. of a child to this academy.

Please note that parents do not have the right In year fair access protocol to appeal if their request for their children to be The Board of Directors of St Joseph’s Catholic admitted to a class outside of their normal year Academy’s is committed to taking its fair share of group has been refused, but the Board of Directors children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, has offered a place in the normal age group instead. as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Repeat Applications Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a Any parent can apply for a place for their child at child where admission is requested under the locally any time outside of the normal admissions round. agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this Parents do not have the right to a second appeal in power, even when admitting the child would mean respect of the same school for the same academic exceeding the published admission number subject year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board to the infant class size exceptions. of Directors has accepted a second application from the parent because of a significant and material Applications other than the normal intake to change in the circumstances of the parent, child or reception class (in-year admissions) school, but have still refused admission. An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round. Late Applications Applications should be made to the school by Late applications will be dealt with in accordance contacting St Joseph’s Catholic Academy and all with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions families approaching the school will be given an scheme. application form. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published Waiting Lists oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal Children who have not been offered a place at St round of admissions, will be applied. Joseph’s Catholic Academy but were offered a school that was ranked as a lower preference on If there are no places available, the child will be their application form will be added to a waiting added to the waiting list (see above). list. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end of the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be Parents will be advised of the outcome of their discarded. application in writing and, where the Board of Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When have the right to appeal to an independent appeal a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on panel. that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria There is no charge or cost related to the admission order. This means that a child’s position on the of a child to this school. waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with the Applications open on oversubscription criteria. MONDAY 2 Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a OCTOBER 2017 place will eventually become available. It may be that those already offered places may accept them, thereby filling all available places. Children who are the subject of a direction by the Deadline for applications Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol MONDAY 15 take precedence over those on a waiting list. JANUARY 2018

86. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 87.

No* No* Yes Yes Is the above named child a Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Baptism attached? *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception for the in order required is into the Catholic Church priority to an to give the correct of Directors Board application. evidence of Catholic Baptism to provide Failure the may affect or Reception in the Church name is oversubscription criterion that the child’s placed in. Child’s Surname ...... Child’s ...... First Name(s) Child’s ...... Address ...... Contact Number ...... box: Please tick the appropriate documents that are produced do not clarify the do not clarify produced are that documents the into or received baptised was that a person fact and address the name (i.e. where Church, Catholic the or where on the certificate is not of the Church whether it is a does not state the Church name of or not.) Church Catholic Information Form Supplementary Catholic Academy Joseph’s Academy Name:St school is Catholic. The schoolThe ethos of this to provide Catholic Church was founded by the of Catholic families. education for children applications than places more are there Wherever will be given to Catholic children available, priority with the oversubscription criteria in accordance published admission policy. listed in the school’s of Directors The school is conducted by its Board with in accordance as part of the Catholic Church at all timesits Articles of Association and seeks Jesus Christ. As a to be a witness to Our Lord a Catholic Catholic school, we aim to provide Catholic school,education for all our pupils. As a everyCatholic doctrine and practice permeate It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s All parents supported by all families in the school. expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and ethos of theand positive support for the aims the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. Has been validly baptised in a separatedHas been validly received ecclesial community and subsequently Church into full communion with the Catholic Christiansby the Rite of Reception of Baptised Church. into the Full Communion of the Catholic evidence of their baptism and reception Written Church into full communion with the Catholic to the Register of can be obtained by recourse ofReceptions, or in some cases, a sub-section in which the Baptismal Registers of the church Rite ofthe Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Christian Initiation, 399). Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. baptised into full Has been 837) with the Church, of the Catholic Catechism one of Baptism of by the Rites Church Catholic in communion Churches of the various ritual (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantinewith the See of Rome etc, Cf. Catechism of theRite, Coptic, Syriac, of evidence* Written 1203). Catholic Church, to the be obtained by recourse this baptism can the in which of the church Baptismal Registers (Cf. Code of Canon Law, baptism took place 877 & 878);

Those who would be considered to have good Those who would be considered evidence would for not obtaining written reason include those who cannot contact the place of the Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, or and the original records, destruction of the church validly was administered Baptism/Reception where kept. are records where but not in the Parish church may request Governors of Directors and Boards extra supporting evidence when the written Those who would have difficulty obtaining written Those who would have difficulty evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a as Baptised considered may still be good reason, to Catholics but only after they have been referred their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar General, will decide how the question of Baptism/ and how written Reception is to be resolved with the in accordance evidence is to be produced law of the Church. Written evidence of baptism Written The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and of Catholic Academies will of Directors Boards in the form of a Certificate written evidence require before of Baptism or Certificate of Reception be considered applications for school places can A Certificatefor categories of “Baptised Catholics”. the full name,of Baptism or Reception is to include: anddate of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, must also show name(s). The certificate parent(s) kept by the place the records that it is copied from of Baptism or Reception. Or • • Definition of a “baptised catholic” of a “baptised Definition who: Catholic” is one A “Baptised Appendix Please note that as well as completing this The admissions process for St Maria Goretti Supplementary Application Form, parents must Catholic Academy is part of the Stoke-on-Trent also complete the Local Authority’s Common Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. To Application Form in order for the application to be apply for a place at St Maria Goretti Catholic complete. This Supplementary Information Form Academy in the normal admissions round, an is only for school use and is, in conjunction with application must be made using the school the Local Authority’s Common Application Form, admission application process of the local authority to enable the Board of Directors to rank applicants in which you live naming St Maria Goretti Catholic using the published oversubscription criteria: Academy on the application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January 2018. A This Supplementary Information Form must be Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also returned directly to St Joseph’s Catholic Academy be completed and returned directly to the school at Mobberley road, Goldenhill, ST6 5RN by 15th by the same date (see Note 2). January 2018. All applications which are submitted on time will be Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s considered at the same time, after the closing Common Application Form. As well as date. completing this Supplementary Application Form and returning it directly to the school, you MUST You will be advised of the outcome of your also complete the local authority’s Common application on 16th April 2018, or the next working Application Form otherwise your application will day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. be deemed incomplete and therefore invalid. Please note that throughout this policy, the term parent relates to any individual with responsibility for a child for whom an application is being made. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. Wherever Aylesbury Road, Bentilee, there are more applications than places Stoke-on-Trent ST2 0LY available, priority will be given to Catholic children in Tel: 01782 234737 accordance with the oversubscription criteria www.stmariagoretti.org.uk listed below. The school is conducted by its Board Executive Headteacher: Mrs Margaret Yates of Directors as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its Articles of Association and The School admits students between the ages seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus of 3-11 Christ. How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic September 2018 education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, An application must be made online at Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the authority preference form. Catholic character of the school’s education be fully The closing date for Nursery applications is supported by all families in the school. All 31 January 2018. parents are therefore expected to give their full, The closing date for Reception applications is unreserved and positive support for the aims and Monday 15 January 2018. ethos of the school. This does not affect the right of a parent who is not of the faith to apply for a Admission criteria place at the school. St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy uses its own Admissions policy – see below: The Board of Directors has set its admission number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the Reception St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy is part of the All class in the school year which begins in September Saints Catholic Collegiate. The admissions 2018. (See Note 1 below) authority for the school is the Board of Directors of the All Saints Catholic Collegiate who has Where there are more applications for places than responsibility for admissions to this school. The the number of places available, places will be Board of Directors has delegated responsibility for offered according to the following order of priority. the administration of the admissions process to the If there is oversubscription within a category, the Academy Committee of St Maria Goretti Catholic Board of Directors will give priority to children living Academy. closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5 below).

88. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 89. Teaching Staff; Teaching employed at the Academy or in All other staff not teachers. contract at the Academy who are A brother or sister sharing the same parents A brother two children where or half-sister, A half-brother one common parent share two children where or step-sister, A step-brother marriage or by a parents’ related are are but their parents unrelated they are where living as partners. children Adopted or fostered

The member of staff must have been employed The member of staff Catholic Academy for two or at St Maria Goretti years at the time of application for admission, more to fill a has been recruited or the member of staff is a demonstrable skill vacant post for which there shortage. Note 6 on the basis of a straight calculated Distances are home address the child’s from line measurement point to the pedestrian gate of the school on authority uses a Road. The local Aylesbury all distances computerised system, which measures supply the coordinates Survey in miles. Ordnance home address. used to plot an applicant’s that are the school is In a very small number of cases, where oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide between the applications of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a place when applying the published admission criteria. in the For example, this may occur when children or if the same address, live at the same year group distance between the home and the school is exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If the application is no other way of separating there criteria and to admit to the admissions according The children must be living permanently in the same The children household Note 5 means full-time or part-time to staff Reference employed in the following roles: • • • • • • • Note 3 Note in as same meaning has the child” after A “looked and means Act 1989, of the Children section 22(1) local authority of the care who is (a) in the any child by themaccommodation with provided or (b) being functions (eg their social services of in the exercise at the time of parents) with foster children to the school. A “previously making the application is a child who immediately looked after child” subject to that status after becoming moved on from or arrangement order an adoption, child order. special guardianship Note 4 or sister the definition of a brother For all applicants is: be admitted. which should be returned directly to the which should be returned directly Non-Catholic children. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or who have a brother Non-Catholic children St Mariasister (see Note 4 below) attending Catholic Academy at the time of Goretti admission. Children of staff currently employed at St Maria currently of staff Children Catholic Academy (see note 5 below). Goretti Non-Catholic children (see Note 2 below) who Non-Catholic children looked after (see looked after or previously are Note 3 below). Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children below). Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 (see Note children Other Baptised Catholic or sister (see Note a brother below) who have Catholic St Maria Goretti 4 below) attending Academy at the time of admission. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) children Baptised Catholic Bucknall. of St Maria Goretti, living in the parish Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) children Baptised Catholic Bucknall of St Maria Goretti, living in the parish or sister (see Note 4 below) who have a brother at Catholic Academy Goretti attending St Maria the time of admission. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) (see Note Catholic children Baptised after looked or previously looked after who are 3 below). (see Note

Parents making an application for a Catholic child making an application Parents must complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) information the school. If you do not provide in the Supplementary Information Form required and return it by the closing date, together with all supporting documentation, this is likely to affect a place at this chance of being offered your child’s school. Note 2 as In all categories, for a child to be considered Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception For a definition of will be required. into the Church a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those who written evidence of in producing face difficulties Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church should contact their Parish Priest. Note 1 (EHC) with an Education, Health and Care Children Plan that names the academy MUST the number of places available to This will reduce other applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Over-subscription A map of the parish boundary is available at the is available parish boundary of the A map on request. by post or and parish school both, or all, of the children would cause the to be of compulsory school age) will therefore need Published Admission Number for the child’s year to make a separate in-year application for a group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf place in Year 1 at the school. Any reception class of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the place offered following an application made for the child to be offered the final place. 2018/2019 admission round will be withdrawn if the child does not take up that place by the first The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit day of the summer term 2019. twins and all siblings from multiple births where one of the children is the last child ranked within the Applications for children to be admitted into a school’s published admission number. class outside their normal age Group A child’s home address is considered to be the Parents have the right to request, but not insist, that permanent residence of a child. The address must their child be considered for admission to a be the child’s only or main residence for the majority class outside of their normal age group. This could of the school week. Documentary evidence may be the case, for example, if a child is gifted and be required. talented, has experienced problems such as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a child If parents have shared responsibilities and a child born between 1st April and 31st August. Parents lives with each for part of the week the home who wish for their child to be considered for address will be the one at which the child is resident admission to a class outside of their normal age for the greatest part of the school week. group must make an application for the normal age Where this is equally shared, the home address will group in the first instance. Parents must then submit be the one used when applying for child benefit. a formal request to the Board of Directors for the child to be considered for a different age group If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an class instead. This request should be in the form address that is subsequently found to be of a letter of application outlining the reasons why different from a child’s normal and permanent home they wish for their child to be considered to be address, then that place is liable to be admitted into a class outside of their normal age withdrawn. group and enclosing any supportive evidence and documentation that they wish to be taken into School entry account as part of that request. Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is receiving suitable full time education from the The Board of Directors will consider requests beginning of the term following the child’s fifth submitted for a child to be admitted into a class birthday, when they will have begun to be of outside of their normal age group and advise compulsory school age. parents of the outcome of that request before national offer day, having taken into account the Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will information provided by the parents, the child’s best be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time interests and the views of the Head Teacher. This basis in the September following their fourth does not constitute the offer of a place. birthday. A child’s If the request is refused, the original application for parents may defer the date at which their child, the normal age group class will progress through below compulsory school age, is admitted the Local Authority co-ordinated admissions to the school, until later in the school year but not scheme, be considered by the Board of Directors beyond the point at which they reach compulsory and the parents advised of the outcome. school age and not beyond the first day of the If the request is agreed and the year group for which summer term 2019. the parents have requested a place is a current year group in the school, then the application will be A child may take up a part-time place until later in considered by the Board of Directors and the the school year, but not beyond the point at parents advised of the outcome. which they child reached compulsory school age. Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should If the request is agreed and the year group for which notify the school, as soon as possible, that they the parents have requested a place is for a wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school future year group, ie Reception in September 2019, or take up a part-time place. then the original application is withdrawn and the parents must submit a fresh application for The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls during Reception 2019 when applications open in the the summer term who wishes to defer their autumn term of 2018. Please note that parents only child’s admission until the beginning of the following have the right to re-apply for a place. Where academic year (when the child will have begun the Board of Directors agrees to consider an

90. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 91. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end of the end of until the be maintained lists will Waiting be they will when 2018/2019 year academic discarded. When list is not fixed. on a waiting position A child’s list, all applicants joins the waiting a new child that to ensure re-ranked list will be on that waiting maintained in oversubscription the list is always position on means that a child’s This criteria order. go up or down during the the waiting list could list. Any late applicationstime that it is on the added to the waiting list in accepted will be with the oversubscription criteria. accordance list does not mean that aInclusion on the waiting become available. It may be place will eventually places may accept them, offered that those already filling all available places. thereby by the the subject of a direction who are Children allocated to a Local Authority to admit or who are with the Fair Access Protocol school in accordance over those on a waiting list. take precedence In year fair access policy of All Saints Catholic of Directors The Board of St MariaCollegiate and Academy Committee Catholic Academy is committed to taking Goretti and/or vulnerable who are of children its fair share protocols. to place, as set out in locally agreed hard the round outside the normal admission Accordingly, to give absolute is empowered of Directors Board admission is requested priority to a child where of The Board protocol. under the locally agreed even when admitting the has this power, Directors child would mean exceeding the published infant class size admission number subject to the exceptions. Applications other than the normal intake to applications) class (in-year reception An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round. Applications should be made to the school by on 01782 234737 contacting the School Secretary the school will be given and all families approaching places are there an application form. Where than places, the applications available but more published oversubscription criteria, as set out for will be applied. of admissions, the normal round no places available, the child will be are If there added to the waiting list (see above). the outcome of their will be advised of Parents of the Board application in writing and, where child a place, their decision is to refuse Director’s have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. to the admission or cost related is no charge There of a child to this school. Waiting lists Waiting a place at St offered who have not been Children a offered Catholic Academy but were Maria Goretti on school that was ranked as a lower preference their application form will be added to a waiting list. Late applications Late applications will be dealt with in accordance admissions co-ordinated with the Local Authority’s scheme. Repeat applications a place for their child at can apply for Any parent any time outside of the normal admissions round. to a second appeal in do not have the right Parents for the same academic of the same school respect the Board year unless, in exceptional circumstances, a second application from has accepted of Directors and material because of a significant the parent child or of the parent, change in the circumstances admission. school, but have still refused Please note that parents do not have the right to Please note that parents to be for their children appeal if their request normal yearadmitted to a class outside of their of Directors but the Board has been refused, group instead. a place in the normal age group has offered Appeals who wish to appeal against the decision of Parents a their child to refuse of Directors the Board appeal request place in the school should make that of Directors in writing to the Chair of the Board by an be heard Appeals will at the school address. independent panel. Applications from children currently attending currently children Applications from Nursery Catholic Academy’s St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy’s Maria Goretti Attendance at St automatically guarantee that a Nursery does not in the Reception class of St place will be offered must Parents Catholic Academy. Maria Goretti the same wayapply for a Reception place in exactly not attending the Nursery. of children as parents against the All applications will be considered in of Directors oversubscription criteria by the Board of whether the child does the same way regardless the time of or does not attend the Nursery at application. If parents are considering submitting an application considering submitting are If parents admitted into a class outside for their child to be it is strongly group, of their normal age the DFE guidance that they also read recommended at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 which can be found application for Reception the following year, that year, following the Reception for application other all alongside considered is application will be advised and parents received applications offer on national of that application of the outcome in held for the child or is reserved No place day. advance. Appendix Governors and Boards of Directors may request extra supporting evidence when the written Definition of a “baptised catholic” documents that are produced do not clarify the fact A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: that a person was baptised or received into the • Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. Catholic Church, (i.e. where the name and address Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) with the of the Church is not on the certificate or where Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptism of one the name of the Church does not state whether it is of the various ritual Churches in communion a Catholic Church or not.) with the See of Rome (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantine Rite, Coptic, Syriac, etc, Cf. Catechism of the Supplementary Information Form Catholic Church, 1203). Written evidence* of this baptism can be obtained by recourse to the Academy Name:St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy Baptismal Registers of the church in which the baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school 877 & 878); was founded by the Catholic Church to provide Or education for children of Catholic families. • Has been validly baptised in a separated Wherever there are more applications than places ecclesial community and subsequently received available, priority will be given to Catholic children into full communion with the Catholic Church in accordance with the oversubscription criteria by the Rite of Reception of Baptised Christians listed in the school’s published admission policy. into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. The school is conducted by its Board of Directors as Written evidence of their baptism and reception part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its into full communion with the Catholic Church Articles of Association and seeks at all times to be can be obtained by recourse to the Register of a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. As a Catholic Receptions, or in some cases, a sub-section of school, we aim to provide a Catholic education the Baptismal Registers of the church in which for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, Catholic the Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Rite of doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of Christian Initiation, 399). the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully Written evidence of baptism supported by all families in the school. All parents The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved Boards of Directors of Catholic Academies will and positive support for the aims and ethos of the require written evidence in the form of a Certificate school. This does not affect the right of a parent of Baptism or Certificate of Reception before who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the applications for school places can be considered for school. categories of “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate of Baptism or Reception is to include: the full name, Child’s Surname ...... date of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, and parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also show Child’s First Name(s) ...... that it is copied from the records kept by the place of Baptism or Reception. Address ...... Those who would have difficulty obtaining written evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a ...... good reason, may still be considered as Baptised Catholics but only after they have been referred to Contact Number ...... their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar General, will decide how the question of Baptism/Reception is to be resolved and how Please tick the appropriate box: written evidence is to be produced in accordance Is the above named child a Yes No* with the law of the Church. Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Yes No* Those who would be considered to have good Baptism attached? reason for not obtaining written evidence would include those who cannot contact the place of *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, the into the Catholic Church is required in order for the destruction of the church and the original records, or Board of Directors to give the correct priority to an where Baptism/Reception was administered application. Failure to provide evidence of Catholic validly but not in the Parish church where records Baptism or Reception in the Church may affect the are kept. oversubscription criterion that the child’s name is placed in.

92. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 93. Children who are themselves, or whose families who are Children of another religious committed members are, from be required evidence will faith. Written using the Supplementary the faith leader, Information Form. Children who have a sibling attending the Children at the timeschool at the time of application and of admission. themselves, or whose families who are Children worshippers 2 at a faithful and regular are, parish church. of England Church Church evidence of the applicants commitment Written of ato their place of worship (in the form using the will be required, reference) clergy Supplementary Information form. themselves, or whose families who are Children worshippers of another faithfully and regular are, by Christian denomination (as recognised and/ in Britain and Ireland Together Churches evidence or the Evangelical Alliance). Written of the applicants’ commitment to their place of reference) worship (in the form of a minister’s Supplementary using the will be required, of Church Information Form. (NB: St Mark’s England (A) Primary prioritises applicants who within church of England worship at a Church the Parish of Hanley above other applicants under this criterion). medical or social with known special Children evidence should supporting needs. Written a be supplied, at the time of applications, from social such as a doctor, professional, relevant worker or educational psychologist. Children in care (looked after children) whose after children) (looked in care Children to attend St wish their child/children carer(s) of England (A) Primary School. Church Mark’s

6. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. Pupils will normally be admitted to reception in to reception admitted be will normally Pupils they which year in academic of the the September 5 years old. become any specific facilities does not have The school with particular learningfor pupils needs and there with physical for pupils no specific facilities are is on two levels howeverdisabilities. The school be accessed without steps.all lower levels can arise the school would be able toShould the need pupil with a physical disability onaccommodate a school will As far as possible the the lower floor. to pupils with disabilities have access that ensure as other pupils.the same opportunities to abide by the is required The Federation Board infant classes (5, 6 and 7 yearmaximum limits for pupils per class. olds). This limit is a maximum of 30 are applications than there more are When there will admit places available, the Federation Board of in order to the following criteria, pupils according priority: St Mark’s CE (A) Primary St Mark’s Shelton, Terrace, Wood ST1 4LR Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234411 Tel: www.stmarksprimary.org.uk Johnstone Executive Headteacher: Mrs Michelle This admission limit has been agreed between the This admission limit has been agreed Local Authority. and the Federation Board The planned admission number is 60 pupils to this applies to the year each year and reception 2018-2019. Statement for the is responsible The Federation Board of England Church admission of pupils to St Mark’s (Aided) Primary School. Admission policy CE (A) Primary uses its own Admissions St Mark’s policy – see below: How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for Nursery or Reception September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 4-11 Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s this is NOT the local authority’s Please note that as Common Application Form. As well Application Formcompleting this Supplementary you MUST to the school, and returning it directly Common also complete the local authority’s application willApplication Form otherwise your invalid. be deemed incomplete and therefore This Supplementary Information Form is only for Form is only Information This Supplementary in conjunction with the Localschool use and is, to enable Common Application Form, Authority’s using the to rank applicants of Directors the Board criteria: published oversubscription Information Form must beThis Supplementary Catholic to St Maria Goretti returned directly Road, Bucknall, Stoke-on- Academy at Aylesbury 2018. by 15th January ST2 0LY Trent, Please note that as well as completing this as completing as well note that Please must parents Form, Application Supplementary Common Authority’s the Local also complete to be for the application Form in order Application complete. 7. Any remaining places will be given in order of for requesting an appeal. This letter should reach nearness of the home (determined by the door the school within 14 days of the date of the letter at the postal address) to the school, measured confirming the Federations Board decision not to along the shortest safe walking route to the offer a place. school’s main pupil gate on the walkway off Wood Terrace. (This will be determined by local Should some appeals be unsuccessful, the authority software) governing body will not consider further applications from those parents within the same academic year In the event that two or more applicants have equal unless there have been significant and material right to a place under any of the above criteria, the changes in their circumstances. Federation Board will apply subsequent criteria, in order of priority, to these applicants. St Mary’s Catholic Academy Where parents/carers are seeking places for siblings who are the product of a multiple birth eg twins, Ford Green Road, Norton, triplets they must submit separate applications Stoke-on-Trent ST6 8EZ for each child. If a situation arises where there are Tel: 01782 234820 insufficient places for all siblings, the remaining www.stmarysstoke.co.uk places will be offered in order of the time of birth. Principal: Mr Ian Beardmore The parents would then need to decide whether to The School admits students between the ages a) accept the place(s) or b) decline the place(s). If of 3-11 the place is declined then it will then be offered to the next person in the allocation after the children How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for of multiple birth. If the parents accept the place September 2018 then the unsuccessful sibling will be considered first An application must be made online at priority on the waiting list should a place becomes www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local available. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is Admissions Procedures 31 January 2018. The school will use the Local Authority co- The closing date for Reception applications is ordinated scheme for admissions and timetable Monday 15 January 2018. for admissions. Following submissions of forms to the LA the school will consider each applicant who Admission criteria has named the school as a choice on the form in St. Mary’s Catholic Academy is part of the Newman accordance with the admissions criteria. Catholic Collegiate. The admissions authority for the school is the Board of Directors of the Newman Casual admissions Catholic Collegiate who has responsibility for The school will use the Local Authority’s co- admissions to this school. The Board of Directors ordinated admission arrangements relating to has delegated responsibility for the administration of applications submitted for years older than the the admissions process to the Academy Committee normal year of entry. The school will consider of St. Mary’s Catholic Academy. such applications and if there is a place available in the year group applied for then the child will be The admissions process for St. Mary’s Catholic admitted. If more applications are received than Academy is part of the Stoke-on-Trent Local there are places available then the admission criteria Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. To above will apply. apply for a place at St. Mary’s Catholic Academy in the normal admissions round, an application must Waiting lists be made using the school admission application Waiting lists will be held for places, this will operate process of the local authority in which you live for a term after the admissions date. Positions naming St. Mary’s Catholic Academy on the on the waiting list will be determined with the application form. Applications need to be made by admissions criteria above. Where places become 15th January 2018. A Supplementary Information vacant they will be allocated in accordance with the Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned criteria. directly to the school by the same date (see Note 2). Appeals Parents of children not offered a place for their child All applications which are submitted on time will be have the right to appeal. Initially parents wishing to considered at the same time, after the closing date. appeal should write to the Chair of the Federation Board c/o the school stating that they wish to appeal for a place at the school and their reasons

94. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 95. A brother or sister sharing the same parents or sister sharing A brother two children where or half-sister, A half-brother one common parent share two children where or step-sister, A step-brother marriage or where by a parents’ related are living as are but their parents unrelated they are partners. children Adopted or fostered Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 (see Catholic children Other Baptised below). or looked after who are children Non-Catholic 3 below) after (see Note looked previously or brother who have a children Non-Catholic below) attending St. Mary’s sister (see Note 4 at the time of admission. Catholic Academy Non-Catholic children. below) attending St. Mary’s Catholic Academy at Academy Catholic St. Mary’s attending below) of admission. the time

The children must be living permanently in the same must be living The children household Note 1 (EHC) with an Education, Health and Care Children the academy MUST be admitted. Plan that names to the number of places available This will reduce This is not an oversubscriptionother applicants. criteria. Note 2 as In all categories, for a child to be considered or ReceptionCatholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism For a definition will be required. into the Church Thoseof a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. written evidence in producing who face difficulties into the Church of Catholic Baptism or Reception should contact their Parish Priest. making an application for a Catholic child Parents Formmust complete a Supplementary Information to the school. (SIF) which should be returned directly in the information required If you do not provide and returnthe Supplementary Information Form all supportingit by the closing date, together with your child’s documentation, this is likely to affect a place at this school. chance of being offered Note 3 meaning as inA “looked after child” has the same Act 1989, and means section 22(1) of the Children of the local authority any child who is (a) in the care with accommodation by them or (b) being provided services functions (eg of their social in the exercise at the time of making with foster parents) children looked the application to the school. A “previously after child” is a child who immediately moved subject to that status after becoming on from or special an adoption, child arrangement order order. guardianship Note 4 or sister For all applicants the definition of a brother is: • • • • 5. 6. 7. 8. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children or sister (see Note 4 below) who have a brother Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of Norton-le-Moors. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of Norton-le-Moors who have 3 below) attending or sister (see Note a brother Catholic Academy at the time of St. Mary’s admission. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Baptised Catholic children looked after looked after or previously who are (see Note 3 below)

4. 3. 2. 1. Over-subscription A map of the parish boundary is available at the school and parish or by post on request. Where there are more applications for places than more are there Where the number of places available, places will be of priority. to the following order according offered the within a category, is oversubscription If there living will give priority to children of Directors Board closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5 below) The Board of Directors has set its admission number of Directors The Board Reception class (at 30 pupils to be admitted to the year which begins26 into the Nursery) in the school in September 2018. (See Note 1 below) As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic As a Catholic school, we aim to provide Catholic school,education for all our pupils. As a everyCatholic doctrine and practice permeate It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s All parents supported by all families in the school. expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and ethos of theand positive support for the aims the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The schoolThe ethos of this to provide Catholic Church was founded by the of Catholic families. education for children applications than places more are there Wherever will be given to Catholic children available, priority with the oversubscription criteria in accordance by its The school is conducted listed below. Church as part of the Catholic Directors of Board and with its Articles of Association in accordance Jesus to Our Lord seeks at all times to be a witness Christ. Please note that throughout this policy, the term the this policy, that throughout Please note for with responsibility to any individual relates parent is being made. whom an application a child for You will be advised of the outcome of yourthe outcome of be advised will You next working or the 2018, 16th April on application school. on behalf of the local authority by the day, Note 5 to the school, until later in the school year but not Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight beyond the point at which they reach compulsory line measurement from the child’s home address school age and not beyond the first day of the point to the front gate of the school. The local summer term 2019. authority uses a computerised system, which measures all distances in miles. Ordnance Survey A child may take up a part-time place until later in supply the co-ordinates that are used to plot an the school year, but not beyond the point at which applicant’s home address. they child reached compulsory school age. Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should In a very small number of cases, where the school notify the school, as soon as possible, that they is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school between the applications of those pupils who are or take up a part-time place. the final qualifiers for a place when applying the published admission criteria. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls For example, this may occur when children in the during the summer term who wishes to defer their same year group live at the same address, or if child’s admission until the beginning of the following the distance between the home and the school is academic year (when the child will have begun to exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If be of compulsory school age) will therefore need there is no other way of separating the application to make a separate in-year application for a place according to the admissions criteria and to admit in Year 1 at the school. Any reception class place both, or all, of the children would cause the offered following an application made for the Published Admission Number for the child’s year 2018/2019 admission round will be withdrawn if the group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf child does not take up that place by the first day of of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the the summer term 2019. child to be offered the final place. Applications for children to be admitted into a The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit class outside of their normal age group twins and all siblings from multiple births where one Parents have the right to request, but not insist, of the children is the last child ranked within the that their child be considered for admission to school’s published admission number. a class outside of their normal age group. This could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted A child’s home address is considered to be the and talented, has experienced problems such permanent residence of a child. The address must as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie be the child’s only or main residence for the majority a child born between 1st April and 31st August. of the school week. Documentary evidence may be Parents who wish for their child to be considered required. for admission to a class outside of their normal age If parents have shared responsibilities and a child group must make an application for the normal lives with each for part of the week the home age group in the first instance. Parents must then address will be the one at which the child is resident submit a formal request to the Board of Directors for for the greatest part of the school week. Where this the child to be considered for a different age group is equally shared, the home address will be the one class instead. This request should be in the form of used when applying for child benefit. a written letter of application outlining the reasons why they wish for their child to be considered to If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an be admitted into a class outside of their normal address that is subsequently found to be different age group and enclosing any supportive evidence from a child’s normal and permanent home address, and documentation that they wish to be taken into then that place is liable to be withdrawn. account as part of that request.

School entry The Board of Directors will consider requests Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is submitted for a child to be admitted into a class receiving suitable full time education from the outside of their normal age group and advise beginning of the term following the child’s fifth parents of the outcome of that request before birthday, when they will have begun to be of national offer day, having taken into account the compulsory school age. information provided by the parents, the child’s best interests and the views of the Head Teacher. Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time basis If the request is refused, the original application for in the September following their fourth birthday. the normal age group class will progress through the Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme, A child’s parents may defer the date at which their be considered by the Board of Directors and the child, below compulsory school age, is admitted parents advised of the outcome.

96. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 97. year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board Board the circumstances, in exceptional unless, year from application a second accepted has of Directors and material of a significant because the parent child or parent, of the the circumstances change in admission. have still refused school, but Late applications will be dealt with in accordance Late applications admissions co-ordinated with the Local Authority’s scheme. lists Waiting Children who have not been offered a place at a place who have not been offered Children a offered Catholic Academy but were St. Mary’s on as a lower preference school that was ranked will be added to a waitingtheir application form end lists will be maintained until the list. Waiting they will beof the academic year 2018/2019 when discarded. a waiting list is not fixed. When position on A child’s applicants ona new child joins the waiting list, all that the to ensure that waiting list will be re-ranked criterialist is always maintained in oversubscription position on the This means that a child’s order. the time thatwaiting list could go up or down during accepted willit is on the list. Any late applications with the be added to the waiting list in accordance oversubscription criteria. mean that aInclusion on the waiting list does not It may beplace will eventually become available. them, places may accept offered that those already filling all available places. thereby by the the subject of a direction who are Children allocated to a Local Authority to admit or who are with the Fair Access Protocol school in accordance over those on a waiting list. take precedence In year fair access protocol Catholic of St. Mary’s of Directors The Board of Academy is committed to taking its fair share to place, vulnerable and/or hard who are children Accordingly, protocols. as set out in locally agreed of the Board outside the normal admission round to give absolute priority to a is empowered Directors under the locally requested admission is child where has this of Directors The Board protocol. agreed even when admitting the child would mean power, exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions. Applications other than the normal intake to applications) class (in-year reception An application can be made for a place for a child at any time outside the normal admission round. Applications should be made to the school by School Business contacting Mrs Lorraine Murphy, the school Manager and all families approaching are there will be given an application form. Where applications than places, places available but more Repeat applications a place for their child at can apply for Any parent any time outside of the normal admissions round. to a second appeal in do not have the right Parents for the same academic of the same school respect Please note that parents do not have the right do Please note that parents to be their children for to appeal if their request admitted to a class outside of their normal year of Directors but the Board has been refused, group instead. a place in the normal age group has offered Appeals against the decision of who wish to appeal Parents their child a place to refuse of Directors the Board in in the school should make that appeal request at of Directors writing to the Chair of the Board by an will be heard Appeals the school address. independent panel. Applications from children currently attending St. attending currently children Applications from Nursery Catholic Academy’s Mary’s Catholic Academy’s Attendance at St. Mary’s that aNursery does not automatically guarantee in the Reception class of St. place will be offered must apply Parents Catholic Academy. Mary’s same wayfor a Reception place in exactly the not attending the Nursery. of children as parents against the All applications will be considered of Directors oversubscription criteria by the Board of whether the child in the same way regardless does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of application. If parents are considering submitting an application considering are If parents class outside offor their child to be admitted into a recommended it is strongly their normal age group, the DFE guidance which can be that they also read found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 If the request is agreed and the year group for which the year group and is agreed If the request is for a future a place have requested the parents then ie Reception in September 2019, year group, is withdrawn and the parents the original application 2019 application for Reception must submit a fresh open in the autumn term of 2018.when applications to only have the right parents Please note that of Directors the Board for a place. Where re-apply consider an application for Reception to agrees is considered that application the following year, and parents applications received alongside all other that application onwill be advised of the outcome of for or held No place is reserved day. national offer the child in advance. If the request is agreed and the year group for which for year group and the is agreed request If the a current place is a requested have the parents application will school, then the in the year group and the of Directors the Board by be considered the outcome. advised of parents the published oversubscription criteria, as set out for Written evidence of baptism the normal round of admissions, will be applied. The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and Boards of Directors of Catholic Academies will If there are no places available, the child will be require written evidence in the form of a Certificate added to the waiting list (see above). of Baptism or Certificate of Reception before applications for school places can be considered Parents will be advised of the outcome of their for categories of “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate application in writing and, where the Board of of Baptism or Reception is to include: the full name, Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, date of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, and have the right to appeal to an independent appeal parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also show panel. that it is copied from the records kept by the place of Baptism or Reception. There is no charge or cost related to the admission of a child to this school. Those who would have difficulty obtaining written evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a Appendix good reason, may still be considered as Baptised Catholics but only after they have been referred to Definition of a “baptised catholic” their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: General, will decide how the question of Baptism/ • Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. Reception is to be resolved and how written Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) with the evidence is to be produced in accordance with the Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptism of one law of the Church. of the various ritual Churches in communion with the See of Rome (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantine Those who would be considered to have good Rite, Coptic, Syriac, etc, Cf. Catechism of the reason for not obtaining written evidence would Catholic Church, 1203). Written evidence* of include those who cannot contact the place of this baptism can be obtained by recourse to the Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, the Baptismal Registers of the church in which the destruction of the church and the original records, or baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, where Baptism/Reception was administered validly 877 & 878); but not in the Parish church where records are kept. Or Governors and Boards of Directors may request • Has been validly baptised in a separated extra supporting evidence when the written ecclesial community and subsequently received documents that are produced do not clarify the into full communion with the Catholic Church fact that a person was baptised or received into the by the Rite of Reception of Baptised Christians Catholic Church, (i.e. where the name and address into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. of the Church is not on the certificate or where the Written evidence of their baptism and reception name of the Church does not state whether it is a into full communion with the Catholic Church Catholic Church or not.) can be obtained by recourse to the Register of Receptions, or in some cases, a sub-section of the Baptismal Registers of the church in which the Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Rite of Christian Initiation, 399).

98. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 99. Ladywell Road, Tunstall, Ladywell Road, Tunstall, ST6 5DE Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235337 Tel: [email protected] Headteacher: Mrs Gill James St Mary’s CE (A) Primary St Mary’s The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 place forHow to apply for Nursery or Reception September 2018 atAn application must be made online or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference isThe closing date for Nursery applications 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. Admission policy CE (A) Primary uses its own Admissions St Mary’s policy – see below. Statement Primary Schools of England Aided The Church faiths backgrounds, all from welcome children and no faith. The Governors of the schools are committed to developing an inclusive environment of the local community. the diversity that reflects England Aided Primary of Admission to a Church School is not dependent on being a member of a particular faith community. As well as being an inclusive neighbourhood school, a distinctive ethos and school we have as a Church the teachings of Jesus Christ character that reflects applying for a place and Christian values. All parents Primary School are of England Aided at a Church and its importance to this ethos asked to respect It is hoped that all children the school community. School will be able of England who attend a Church life of in the religious to participate (as appropriate) the school (including collective worship and religious the Local Authority’s Common Application Form, Application Common Authority’s the Local applicants to rank Directors of Board the to enable criteria: published oversubscription using the be Form must Information This Supplementary Academy Catholic to St. Mary’s directly returned Stoke-on- Road, Noorton-le-Moors, Green at Ford 2018. 8EZ by 15th January ST6 Trent this is NOT the local authority’s Please note that Form. As well asCommon Application Supplementary Application Formcompleting this to the school, you MUST directly and returning it Common local authority’s also complete the otherwise your application willApplication Form invalid. and therefore be deemed incomplete

No* No* Yes Yes Is the above named child a Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Baptism attached? Please note that as well as completing this must Supplementary Application Form, parents Common also complete the Local Authority’s to be for the application Application Form in order complete. This Supplementary Information Form is only for school use and is, in conjunction with Failure to provide evidence of Catholic Baptism to provide Failure the may affect or Reception in the Church name is oversubscription criterion that the child’s placed in. *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception for the in order required is into the Catholic Church priority to an to give the correct of Directors Board application. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school of this school is The ethos to provide Church by the Catholic was founded families. of Catholic for children education applications than places more are there Wherever will be given to Catholic children available, priority with the oversubscription criteria in accordance published admission policy. listed in the school’s of Directors by its Board The school is conducted with in accordance Church as part of the Catholic and seeks at all timesits Articles of Association As a Jesus Christ. Our Lord to be a witness to a Catholic we aim to provide Catholic school, pupils. As a Catholic school,education for all our everyCatholic doctrine and practice permeate It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s All parents supported by all families in the school. expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and ethos of theand positive support for the aims the right of a parent school. This does not affect a place at thewho is not of the faith to apply for school. Academy Name: St Mary’s Catholic Academy Catholic Name: St Mary’s Academy Supplementary Information Form Information Supplementary Please tick the appropriate box: Please tick the appropriate Contact Number ...... Child’s First Name(s) ...... First Name(s) Child’s ...... Address ...... Child’s Surname ...... Child’s education). This does not affect the right of parents 7. Any remaining places will be determined by who are not Christian to apply for a place. Indeed, the shortest straight line distance from the through the commitment to inclusivity, families from home address to the school’s gate in Watergate other faiths and no faith are actively welcomed. Street using the Local Authority’s computerised system. The Governing Body of each school is responsible for the admission of pupils to the school and will Tie-breaker admit up to the admission limit that has been In the event that two or more applicants have an agreed between the Governing Body and the Local equal right to a place under any of the above criteria, Authority. The Governing Body is required to abide the Governing Body will apply the subsequent by the maximum limits for infant classes (5,6 and 7 criteria, in order of priority, to these applicants. year olds) i.e., 30 pupils per class. Notes The school will admit 60 pupils each September to Parents/Carers applying for a place on faith grounds Nursery must complete the Supplementary Information Form (which can be obtained from the school) and The school will admit 60 pupils each September to return this form direct to the school, signed by the Reception appropriate faith leader.

Oversubscription Criteria Siblings In the event of more applications being received “Siblings” refers to brother or sister, half brother or than places available, the following Oversubscription sister, adopted brother or sister, or the child of the Criteria will be applied: parents/carers partner where the child for whom the school place is sought is living in the same family Nursery & Reception Admissions unit at the same address as that sibling. 1. Children who are in the care of a local authority (looked after children) or provided with Distance accommodation with them (Section 22 of the Distance will be measured by the shortest straight Children Act 1989) and children who were line from the home address (including flats) to the previously looked after but ceased to be so school’s main gate using the Local Authority’s because they were adopted (or became subject computerised system. with those living closer to the to a residence order or special guardianship school receiving the higher priority. order). 2. Children who have a sibling attending (this Waiting Lists: does not include a sibling in Nursery) or Waiting Lists will be held where in any year the parent employed by the school at the time of school receives more applications for places than application and at the time of admission. there are places available. It will be open to any 3. Baptised Christian children. A certificate must parent/carer to ask for his or her child’s name to be be provided. placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful 4. Children who are themselves, or whose families application. Children’s position on the waiting list are, faithful and regular worshippers at a Church will be determined solely in accordance with the of England parish church. Written evidence of oversubscription criteria set out above. Where the applicants’ commitment to their place of places become vacant they will be allocated to worship (in the form of a clergy reference) will be children on the waiting list in accordance with the required, using the Supplementary Information oversubscription criteria. Form. 5. Children who are themselves, or whose families Appeals are, faithful and regular worshippers of another Parents/Carers who are not offered a place for their Christian denomination (as recognised by child have the right to appeal to an independent Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and/ appeal panel. Parents/Carers wishing to appeal or the Evangelical Alliance). Written evidence should obtain an appeal form from the school and of the applicants’ commitment to their place of return this. The form/letter should be sent to reach worship (in the form of a minister’s reference) the Clerk to the Appeal panel, care of the School, will be required, using the Supplementary within 21 days of the date of the letter confirming Information Form. the governors’ decision not to offer a place. Should 6. Children who are themselves, or whose families some appeals be unsuccessful, the governing body are, committed members of another religious will not consider further applications from those faith. Written evidence will be required from parents/carers within the same academic year the faith leader, using the Supplementary unless there have been significant and material Information Form. changes in their circumstances.

100. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 101. children in public care (looked after children) (looked after children) in public care children to attend child/children wish their whose carer(s) of England Academy. Church St. Matthew’s attending the who will have a sibling children school at the time of application and at the time of admission; themselves, or whose families who are children worshippers at a Church faithful and regular are, evidence of Written of England parish church. the applicants’ commitment to their place of will be reference) worship (in the form of a clergy using the Supplementary Information required, Form. themselves, or whose families who are children worshippers of another faithful and regular are, by Christian denomination (as recognised and/ in Britain and Ireland Together Churches evidence or the Evangelical Alliance). Written of the applicants’ commitment to their place of reference) worship (in the form of a minister’s Supplementary using the will be required, Information Form.

1. 2. 3. 4. St Matthew’s Church of England Academy England of Church St Matthew’s faiths all backgrounds, from children welcomes The Governorsand no faith. school are of the an inclusive school to developing committed community. diversity of the local the that reflects on being not dependent to the school is Admission faith community. of a particular a member an inclusive neighbourhood school,As well as being has a distinctive school St. Matthew’s as a Church the teachings that reflects ethos and character ask all Christian values. We of Jesus Christ and this to respect for a place here applying parents to the school community. ethos and its importance who come to the school hope that all children We in the (as appropriate) will be able to participate life of the school (including collective religious education). This does not worship and religious to not Christians who are the rights of parents affect our commitment apply for a place. Indeed, through welcome families from we actively to inclusivity, other faiths and no faith. for theThe Governing Body is responsible and admits 15admission of pupils to the School class each September. pupils to the reception between the This admission limit has been agreed Governing Body and the Local Education Authority and applies to the year 2018/19. abide by the to The Governing Body is required (5, 6 and 7 yearmaximum limits for infant classes olds), i.e., 30 pupils per class. are applications than there more are When there places available, the governors will admit pupils to the following criteria, applied in the according of priority: following order Lightwood Road, Rough Close, ST3 7NE Stoke-on-Trent 01782 394890 Tel: www.stmatthews.stoke.sch.uk Principal: Mr P Mitchell St Matthew’s CE Academy CE St Matthew’s Admission policy CE Academy uses its own Admissions St Matthew’s policy – see below: How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the ages of 4-11 Special arrangements will apply if there is space for there Special arrangements will apply if or other multipleonly one of a set of twins or triplets the school will usually birth. In this circumstance number (PAN) admit above the published admission siblings inunless it is impossible to accommodate make a will be asked the parents when such a way, decision on behalf of the family. Deferred places – Children usually start school in the usually places – Children Deferred Parents September following their fourth birthday. a place at school before offered who are of children allowed to of compulsory school age are they are entry until later in the school year. defer their child’s place at a school may apply for a deferred Parents year at 4+ them a place in the reception offering in the same way as all other and they will be treated the place will be held but a applicants. On request, cannot defer entry beyond the beginning of parent nor beyond birthday, fifth the term after the child’s applicationthe academic year for which the original was accepted. Additional Notes of Special Educational NeedPupils with a Statement everyone else separately and before considered are by the school named on theirand must be accepted the school’s will count towards Statement. They admission number. In-Year Admissions In-Year normal intake than for other All applications an In-Year through should be made (September) the from can be obtained Form, which Transfer must transfer to. This you want to school which current of the child’s by the headteacher be signed are new school you returned to the school and requesting. 5. children with known special medical or social Children’s position on the waiting list will be needs. Written supporting evidence should determined solely in accordance with the be supplied, at the time of application, from a oversubscription criteria set out above. Where relevant professional, such as a doctor, social places become vacant they will be allocated to worker or educational psychologist. children on the waiting list in accordance with the 6. children who are themselves, or whose families oversubscription criteria. are, committed members of another religious faith. Written evidence will be required from (v) Appeals the faith leader, using the Supplementary Parents who are not offered a place for their child Information Form. have the right to appeal to an independent appeal 7. any remaining places will be given in order of the panel. Parents wishing to appeal should obtain an nearness of the home to the school, measured appeal form from the School and return this. The along shortest safe walking route from the home form/letter should be sent to reach the Clerk to the to the schools main gate. Appeal panel, care of the School, within 14 days of the date of the letter confirming the governors’ Tie-breaker decision not to offer a place. Should some appeals In the event that two or more applicants have be unsuccessful, the governing body will not equal right to a place under the above criteria, the consider further applications from those parents Governing Body will apply subsequent criteria, in within the same academic year unless there have order of priority, to these applicants. been significant and material changes in their circumstances. Notes (i) Applications on faith grounds (vi) Multiple-birth applications “Faithful and regular worshipper” is defined as Where parent(s)/guardian(s) are seeking to place worshipping at least twice a month for two years twins, triplets etc, they must submit separate prior to application. applications for each child. When considering twins, triplets or larger number of siblings, which Parents applying for a place on faith grounds must are the product of a multiple birth, where there are complete the Supplementary Information Form insufficient spaces for all siblings, the remaining (which can be obtained from the School) and return place(s) will be offered to the sibling(s) in order this form direct to the School, signed by the of time of birth and the parent(s)/guardian(s) may appropriate faith leader. decide either (a) they will accept the place(s) or (b) they will decline the place(s) which will be offered to (ii) Siblings the next person(s) in the allocation after the twins/ “Sibling” refers to brother or sister, half brother triplets/multiple births. If the parent(s) or guardian(s) or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother accept the place(s) for one or more twin/triplet/ or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner multiple birth then the unsuccessful sibling(s) will be where the child for whom the school place is sought considered as first priority on the waiting list, for one is living in the same family unit at the same address term, if a space becomes available and the parent(s) as that sibling. or guardian(s) confirm in writing that this is their wish when accepting the original place(s). (iii) Distance Distance will be measured by the shortest walking route from the front door of the child’s home address (including flats) to the main gate of the school, using the Local Authorities computerised measuring system, with those living closer to the school receiving the higher priority.

(iv) Waiting Lists Waiting lists will be held where in any year the school receives more applications for places than there are available. The waiting list will operate until a month after the admission date. It will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application.

102. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 103. The admissions process for St Peter’s Catholic Peter’s for St process admissions The Local Stoke-on-Trent of the is part Academy scheme. To admissions co-ordinated Authority in Catholic Academy a place at St Peter’s apply for application must an admissions round, the normal admission application using the school be made you live authority in which of the local process on the Catholic Academy naming St Peter’s Applications need to be made byapplication form. A Supplementary Information15th January 2018. be completed and returnedForm (SIF) must also Note 2). the school by the same date (see to directly will be submitted on time are All applications which date. at the same time, after the closing considered of your will be advised of the outcome You the next workingapplication on 16th April 2018, or on behalf of the school. by the local authority day, the term this policy, Please note that throughout for any individual with responsibility to relates parent being made. a child for whom an application is The schoolThe ethos of this school is Catholic. to provide was founded by the Catholic Church of Catholic families. education for children applications than places more are there Wherever children available, priority will be given to Catholic with the oversubscription criteria in accordance school is conducted by it’s The listed below. as part of the Catholic Church of Directors Board with its Articles of Association and in accordance Jesus to Our Lord seeks at all times to be a witness Christ. a Catholic As a Catholic school, we aim to provide Catholic school,education for all our pupils. As a Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every essential that the It is activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s supported by all families in the school. All parents expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and positive support for the aims and ethos of the the right of a parent school. This does not affect who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the school. has set its admission number of Directors The Board at 30 pupils to be admitted to the Reception class in the school year which begins in September 2018. (See Note 1 below) for places than applications more are there Where the number of places available, places will be of priority. to the following order according offered the within a category, is oversubscription If there living will give priority to children of Directors Board closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5 below) Waterloo Road, Cobridge, Road, Waterloo ST6 3HL Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235040 Tel: www.st-peters-catholic.stoke.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs Rossanna Snee St Peter’s Catholic Academy St Peter’s St Paul’s CE (C) Primary CE St Paul’s Longton, Byatts Grove, 2RH ST3 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235051 Tel: www.stpaulsprimaryschool.org.uk N Finney Headteacher: Mrs Admission criteria Catholic Academy is part of the Newman St Peter’s Catholic Collegiate. The admissions authority for of the Newman Directors of the school is the Board for Catholic Collegiate who has responsibility of Directors admissions to this school. The Board for the administration of has delegated responsibility the Academy Committee to the admissions process Catholic Academy. of St Peter’s How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 A map of the parish boundary is available at the Note 3 school and parish or by post on request. A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means Over-subscription any child who is (a) in the care of the local authority 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) or (b) being provided with accommodation by them who are looked after or previously looked after in the exercise of their social services functions (eg (see Note 3 below) children with foster parents) at the time of making 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) the application to the school. A “previously looked living in the parish of St Peter’s Cobridge, after child” is a child who immediately moved Sacred Heart Haley and that part of St Joseph’s on from that status after becoming subject to Burslem, who have a brother or sister (see Note an adoption, child arrangement order or special 3 below) attending St Peter’s Catholic Academy guardianship order. at the time of admission. 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Note 4 living in the parish of St Peter’s Cobridge, For all applicants the definition of a brother or Sacred Heart Haley and that part of St Joseph’s sister is: Burslem. • A brother or sister sharing the same parents 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children below) who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 share one common parent below) attending St Peter’s Catholic Academy at • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children the time of admission. are related by a parents’ marriage or where 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 they are unrelated but their parents are living as below). partners. 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked after or • Adopted or fostered children previously looked after (see Note 3 below) The children must be living permanently in the same 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or household sister (see Note 4 below) attending St Peter’s Catholic Academy at the time of admission. Note 5 8. Non-Catholic children. Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight line measurement from the child’s home address Note 1 point to the main front gate of the school. The Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) local authority uses a computerised system, which Plan that names the academy MUST be admitted. measures all distances in miles. Ordnance Survey This will reduce the number of places available to supply the co-ordinates that are used to plot an other applicants. This is not an oversubscription applicant’s home address. criteria. In a very small number of cases, where the school Note 2 is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide In all categories, for a child to be considered as between the applications of those pupils who are Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception the final qualifiers for a place when applying the into the Church will be required. For a definition published admission criteria. of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those For example, this may occur when children in the who face difficulties in producing written evidence same year group live at the same address, or if of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church the distance between the home and the school is should contact their Parish Priest. exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If there is no other way of separating the application Parents making an application for a Catholic child according to the admissions criteria and to admit must complete a Supplementary Information Form both, or all, of the children would cause the (SIF) which should be returned directly to the Published Admission Number for the child’s year school. If you do not provide the information group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf required in the Supplementary Information Form of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the and return it by the closing date, together with all child to be offered the final place. supporting documentation, this is likely to affect your child’s chance of being offered a place at this The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit school. twins and all siblings from multiple births where one of the children is the last child ranked within the school’s published admission number.

104. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 105. could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted if a child example, case, for be the could such problems has experienced talented, and is summer born, or that the child as ill health, ie a child born April and 31st August. between 1st be considered for their child to who wish Parents age of their normal to a class outside for admission the normal an application for must make group then must in the first instance. Parents age group for of Directors to the Board submit a formal request age group for a different the child to be considered form of should be in the request class instead. This application outlining the reasons a written letter of to their child to be considered why they wish for a class outside of their normalbe admitted into and enclosing any supportive evidence age group that they wish to be taken intoand documentation that request. account as part of will consider requests of Directors The Board into a classsubmitted for a child to be admitted and advise outside of their normal age group before of the outcome of that request parents having taken into account the day, national offer best the child’s by the parents, information provided and the views of the Head Teacher. interests the original application for is refused, If the request the through class will progress the normal age group admissions scheme, Local Authority co-ordinated the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is a current have requested the parents in the school, then the application will year group the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is for a future have requested the parents in September 2019, then ie Reception year group, the original application is withdrawn and the parents for Reception 2019 application must submit a fresh when applications open in the autumn term of 2018. have the right to only Please note that parents of Directors the Board for a place. Where re-apply for Reception to consider an application agrees that application is considered the following year, and parents alongside all other applications received will be advised of the outcome of that application on or held for No place is reserved day. national offer the child in advance. considering submitting an application are If parents for their child to be admitted into a class outside of recommended is strongly it their normal age group, guidance which can be the DFE that they also read found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 Applications for children to be admitted into a Applications for children class outside of their normal age group but not insist, request, have the right to IParents for admission to that their child be considered This a class outside of their normal age group. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls fifth of a child whose The parent during the summer term who wishes to defer their admission until the beginning of the following child’s academic year (when the child will have begun to need be of compulsory school age) will therefore to make a separate in-year application for a place class place the school. Any reception 1 at in Year following an application made for the offered will be withdrawn if the 2018/2019 admission round child does not take up that place by the first day of the summer term 2019. A child may take up a part-time place until later inA child may take up a part-time place which but not beyond the point at the school year, school age. compulsory they child reached should of a place a parent of the offer Upon receipt notify the school, as soon as possible, that they entry to the school wish to either defer their child’s or take up a part-time place. A child’s parents may defer the date at which their may defer the date at which parents A child’s is admittedchild, below compulsory school age, year but notto the school, until later in the school compulsory beyond the point at which they reach day of theschool age and not beyond the first summer term 2019. Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will a place is offered Where a full-time basisbe entitled to take up that place, on birthday. in the September following their fourth School entry that their child is ensure must, by law, Parents the suitable full time education from receiving fifth child’s beginning of the term following the when they will have begun to be of birthday, compulsory school age. If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an on is offered If a place in the school different that is subsequently found to be address home address, normal and permanent a child’s from liable to be withdrawn. then that place is If parents have shared responsibilities and a child responsibilities have shared If parents part of the week the homelives with each for is resident will be the one at which the child address this part of the school week. Where for the greatest the one will be the home address is equally shared, for child benefit. used when applying A child’s home address is considered to be the to is considered address home A child’s must The address of a child. residence permanent for the majority residence only or main be the child’s may be evidence week. Documentary of the school required. Applications from children currently attending St Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a Peter’s Catholic Academy’s Nursery place will eventually become available. It may be Attendance at St Peter’s Catholic Academy’s that those already offered places may accept them, Nursery does not automatically guarantee that a thereby filling all available places. place will be offered in the Reception class of St Children who are the subject of a direction by the Peter’s Catholic Academy. Parents must apply Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a for a Reception place in exactly the same way school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol as parents of children not attending the Nursery. take precedence over those on a waiting list. All applications will be considered against the oversubscription criteria by the Board of Directors In year fair access protocol in the same way regardless of whether the child The Board of Directors of St Peter’s Catholic does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of Academy is committed to taking its fair share of application. children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, Appeals outside the normal admission round the Board of Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place child where admission is requested under the locally in the school should make that appeal request in agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at power, even when admitting the child would mean the school address. Appeals will be heard by an exceeding the published admission number subject independent panel. to the infant class size exceptions.

Please note that parents do not have the right Applications other than the normal intake to to appeal if their request for their children to be reception class (In-year applications) admitted to a class outside of their normal year An application can be made for a place for a child group has been refused, but the Board of Directors at any time outside the normal admission round. has offered a place in the normal age group instead. Applications should be made to the school by contacting the school office on 01782 235040 and Repeat applications all families approaching the school will be given an Any parent can apply for a place for their child at application form. Where there are places available any time outside of the normal admissions round. but more applications than places, the published Parents do not have the right to a second appeal in oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal respect of the same school for the same academic round of admissions, will be applied. year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board of Directors has accepted a second application from If there are no places available, the child will be the parent because of a significant and material added to the waiting list (see above). change in the circumstances of the parent, child or school, but have still refused admission. Parents will be advised of the outcome of their application in writing and, where the Board of Late applications Directors decision is to refuse their child a place, Late applications will be dealt with in accordance have the right to appeal to an independent appeal with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions panel. scheme. There is no charge or cost related to the admission Waiting list of a child to this school. Children who have not been offered a place at St Peter’s Catholic Academy but were offered a Appendix school that was ranked as a lower preference on their application form will be added to a waiting Definition of a “baptised catholic” list. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: of the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be • Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. discarded. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) with the Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptism of one A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When of the various ritual Churches in communion a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on with the See of Rome (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantine that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the Rite, Coptic, Syriac, etc, Cf. Catechism of the list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria Catholic Church, 1203). Written evidence* of order. This means that a child’s position on the this baptism can be obtained by recourse to the waiting list could go up or down during the time that Baptismal Registers of the church in which the it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, be added to the waiting list in accordance with the 877 & 878); oversubscription criteria. 106. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions

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No* No* Yes Yes Is the above named child a Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Baptism attached? *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception for the in order required is into the Catholic Church priority to an to give the correct of Directors Board application. evidence of Catholic Baptism to provide Failure the may affect or Reception in the Church name is oversubscription criterion that the child’s placed in. Please note that as well as completing this must Supplementary Application Form, parents Common also complete the Local Authority’s to be for the application Application Form in order complete. This Supplementary Information Form is only for school use and is, in conjunction with Application Form, Common the Local Authority’s to rank applicants of Directors to enable the Board using the published oversubscription criteria: This Supplementary Information Form must be at St Peter’s office to the school returned directly Catholic Academy by 15th January 2018. Contact Number ...... box: Please tick the appropriate Child’s Surname ...... Child’s ...... First Name(s) Child’s ...... Address ...... available, priority will be given to Catholic children children to Catholic be given will priority available, criteria oversubscription with the in accordance policy. published admission school’s listed in the of Directors by its Board is conducted The school with in accordance the Catholic Church as part of times and seeks at all of Association its Articles Christ. As a Jesus to Our Lord to be a witness a Catholic we aim to provide Catholic school, pupils. As a Catholic school,education for all our and practice permeate everyCatholic doctrine It is essential that the activity. aspect of the school’s be fully education of the school’s Catholic character families in the school. All parents supported by all give their full, unreserved expected to therefore are for the aims and ethos of theand positive support parent the right of a not affect school. This does faith to apply for a place at thewho is not of the school. Has been validly baptised in a separated in a baptised been validly Has subsequently received community and ecclesial the Catholic Church with into full communion Baptised Christians of Reception of by the Rite of the Catholic Church. Communion into the Full and reception of their baptism evidence Written with the Catholic Church into full communion of to the Register by recourse can be obtained some cases, a sub-section ofReceptions, or in in which of the church the Baptismal Registers took place (Cf. Rite ofthe Rite of Reception 399). Christian Initiation,

The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school to provide was founded by the Catholic Church families. of Catholic education for children than places applications more are there Wherever Academy Name: St Peter’s Catholic Academy Academy Name: St Peter’s Supplementary Information Form Those who would be considered to have good Those who would be considered evidence would for not obtaining written reason include those who cannot contact the place of the Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, or and the original records, destruction of the church validly was administered Baptism/Reception where kept. are records where but not in the Parish church may request Governors of Directors and Boards extra supporting evidence when the written do not clarify the produced documents that are into the fact that a person was baptised or received the name and address (i.e. where Catholic Church, the certificate or where is not on the of the Church not state whether it is a does name of the Church or not.) Catholic Church Those who would have difficulty obtaining written Those who would have difficulty for aevidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception as Baptised may still be considered good reason, to been referred Catholics but only after they have the Vicartheir parish priest who, after consulting of Baptism/ General, will decide how the question and how written Reception is to be resolved with the in accordance evidence is to be produced law of the Church. Written evidence of baptism Written The GoverningCatholic schools and bodies of will of Catholic Academies Directors of Boards in the form of a Certificate written evidence require before of Baptism or Certificate of Reception be considered applications for school places can A Certificatefor categories of “Baptised Catholics”. the full name,of Baptism or Reception is to include: anddate of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, name(s). The certificate must also show parent(s) place kept by the the records that it is copied from of Baptism or Reception. • Or Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s 2018. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) Common Application Form. As well as must also be completed and returned directly to completing this Supplementary Application Form the school by the same date (see Note 2). and returning it directly to the school, you MUST also complete the local authority’s Common All applications which are submitted on time will be Application Form otherwise your application will considered at the same time, after the closing date. be deemed incomplete and therefore invalid. You will be advised of the outcome of your application on 16th April 2018, or the next working St Teresa’s Catholic Academy day, by the local authority on behalf of the school.

Stone Road, Trent Vale, Please note that throughout this policy, the term Stoke-on-Trent ST4 6SP parent relates to any individual with responsibility for Tel: 01782 235005 a child for whom an application is being made. www.st-teresas.stoke.sch.uk Headteacher: Mr Nathan Price The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide The School admits students between the ages education for children of Catholic families. of 3-11 Wherever there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to Catholic children How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for in accordance with the oversubscription criteria September 2018 listed below. The school is conducted by its An application must be made online at Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local in accordance with its Articles of Association and authority preference form. seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus The closing date for Nursery applications is Christ. 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic Monday 15 January 2018. education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every Admission policy aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the St Teresa’s Catholic Academy uses its own Catholic character of the school’s education be fully Admissions policy – see below: supported by all families in the school. All parents are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved This academy is part of the Christ the King Catholic and positive support for the aims and ethos of the Collegiate MAC. school. This does not affect the right of a parent who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the The admissions process is part of the Stoke-on- school. Trent LA co-ordinated scheme. The Board of Directors has set its admission number Statement at 45 pupils to be admitted to the Reception class St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School is part of the in the school year which begins in September 2018. Christ the King Catholic Collegiate. The admissions (See Note 1 below) authority for the school is the Board of Directors of the Christ the King Catholic Collegiate who has Where there are more applications for places than responsibility for admissions to this school. The the number of places available, places will be Board of Directors has delegated responsibility for offered according to the following order of priority. the administration of the admissions process to the If there is oversubscription within a category, the Academy Committee of St Teresa’s Catholic Primary Board of Directors will give priority to children living School. closest to the school determined by the shortest

distance (see Note 5 below) The admissions process for St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School is part of the Stoke-on-Trent Local A map of the parish boundary is available at the Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. To school and parish or by post on request. apply for a place at St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School in the normal admissions round, an application must be made using the school admission application process of the local authority in which you live naming St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School on the application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January

108. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 109. A brother or sister sharing the same parents A brother two children where or half-sister, A half-brother common parent one share two children where or step-sister, A step-brother or where marriage by a parents’ related are living as are but their parents unrelated they are partners. children Adopted or fostered

The children must be living permanently in the same must be living permanently in The children household. Note 5 calculated on the basis of a straight Distances are home address the child’s from line measurement The local gate of the school. point to the front whichauthority uses a computerised system, Survey all distances in miles. Ordnance measures used to plot an that are supply the co-ordinates home address. applicant’s the school In a very small number of cases, where to decideis oversubscribed, it may not be possible pupils who are between the applications of those applying thethe final qualifiers for a place when published admission criteria. in the children For example, this may occur when or if live at the same address, same year group the school isthe distance between the home and of flats. Ifexactly the same, for example, blocks is no other way of separating the application there criteria and to admit to the admissions according would cause the both, or all, of the children year Published Admission Number for the child’s on behalf Local Authority, to be exceeded, the group will randomly select the of Directors, of the Board place. the final child to be offered possible, admit will, where of Directors The Board one multiple births where twins and all siblings from child ranked within the is the last of the children published admission number. school’s to be the is considered home address A child’s must child. The address of a permanent residence for the majority only or main residence be the child’s of the school week. Documentary evidence may be required. and a child responsibilities have shared If parents lives with each for part of the week the home which the child is resident will be the one at address this school week. Where part of the for the greatest will be the one address the home is equally shared, used when applying for child benefit. • • • • after child” is a child who immediately movedwho immediately a child child” is after to subject becoming status after that on from or special order child arrangement an adoption, order. guardianship Note 4 or sister of a brother the definition For all applicants is: Non-Catholic children. Non-Catholic children who are looked after or who are Non-Catholic children looked after (see Note 3 below) previously who have a brother Non-Catholic children Stor sister (see Note 4 below) attending Catholic Primary School at the time of Teresa’s admission. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children below). Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 (see Note children Other Baptised Catholic or sister (see Note a brother below) who have Primary Catholic St Teresa’s 4 below) attending of admission. School at the time Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) children Baptised Catholic of the Child of St Teresa living in the parish Vale. Jesus, Trent Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 (see Note Catholic children Baptised of the of St Teresa in the parish below) living have a brother who Vale Trent Child Jesus, 3 below) attending Stor sister (see Note the time of Catholic Primary School at Teresa’s admission. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Note 2 (see children Catholic Baptised after looked or previously looked after who are 3 below) (see Note

Oversubscription Note 3 A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in Act 1989, and means section 22(1) of the Children of the local authority any child who is (a) in the care with accommodation by them or (b) being provided services functions (eg of their social in the exercise at the time of making with foster parents) children looked the application to the school. A “previously Parents making an application for a Catholic child making an application Parents must complete a Supplementary Information to Form (SIF) which should be returned directly information the the school. If you do not provide in the Supplementary Information Form required and return it by the closing date, together with all supporting documentation, this is likely to affect a place at this chance of being offered your child’s school. Note 2 as In all categories, for a child to be considered or ReceptionCatholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism For a definition will be required. into the Church of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those written evidence in producing who face difficulties of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church should contact their Parish Priest. Note 1 (EHC) with an Education, Health and Care Children be admitted.Plan that names the academy MUST the number of places available to This will reduce other applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. 8. 6. 7. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an the child’s best interests and the views of the head address that is subsequently found to be different teacher. from a child’s normal and permanent home address, then that place is liable to be withdrawn. If parents are considering submitting an application for their child to be admitted into a class outside of School Entry their normal age group, it is strong recommended Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is that they also read the DFE guidance which can be receiving suitable full time education from the found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 beginning of the term following the child’s fifth birthday, when they will have begun to be of Applications from children currently attending compulsory school age. St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School’s Nursery Attendance at St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School’s Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will Nursery does not automatically guarantee that a be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time basis place will be offered in the Reception class of St in the September following their fourth birthday. Teresa’s Catholic Primary School. Parents must apply for a Reception place in exactly the same way A child’s parents may defer the date at which their as parents of children not attending the Nursery. child, below compulsory school age, is admitted All applications will be considered against the to the school, until later in the school year but not oversubscription criteria by the Board of Directors beyond the point at which they reach compulsory in the same way regardless of whether the child school age and not beyond the first day of the does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of summer term 2019. application.

A child may take up a part-time place until later in Appeals the school year, but not beyond the point at which Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of they child reached compulsory school age. the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should in the school should make that appeal request in notify the school, as soon as possible, that they writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school the school address. Appeals will be heard by an or take up a part-time place. independent panel.

The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls Please note that parents do not have the right during the summer term who wishes to defer their to appeal if their request for their children to be child’s admission until the beginning of the following admitted to a class outside of their normal year academic year (when the child will have begun to group has been refused, but the Board of Directors be of compulsory school age) will therefore need has offered a place in the normal age group instead. to make a separate in-year application for a place in Year 1 at the school. Any reception class place Repeat applications offered following an application made for the Any parent can apply for a place for their child at 2018/2019 admission round will be withdrawn if the any time outside of the normal admissions round. child does not take up that place by the first day of Parents do not have the right to a second appeal in the summer term 2019. respect of the same school for the same academic year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board Applications for children to be admitted into a of Directors has accepted a second application from class outside of their normal age group the parent because of a significant and material If parents wish for their child to be considered change in the circumstances of the parent, child or for admission to a class outside of their normal school, but have still refused admission. age group, they must make an application for the normal age group in the first instance. Parents Late applications must then submit a formal request to the Board of Late applications will be dealt with in accordance Directors. This request should be in the form of a with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions written letter of application outlining the reasons scheme. why you wish for your child to be considered to be admitted into a class outside of their normal Waiting lists age group and enclosing any supportive evidence Children who have not been offered a place at St and documentation that you wish to be taken Teresa’s Catholic Primary School but were offered into account as part of that request. The Board a school that was ranked as a lower preference on of Directors will consider requests submitted and their application form will be added to a waiting advise the parents of the outcome of that request list. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end before the national offer day, having taken into of the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be account the information provided by the parents, discarded.

110. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 111. Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. baptised into full Has been 837) with the Church, of the Catholic Catechism one of Baptism of by the Rites Church Catholic in communion Churches of the various ritual (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantinewith the See of Rome etc, Cf. Catechism of theRite, Coptic, Syriac, of evidence* Written 1203). Catholic Church, to the be obtained by recourse this baptism can the in which of the church Baptismal Registers (Cf. Code of Canon Law, baptism took place 877 & 878); baptised in a separatedHas been validly received ecclesial community and subsequently Church into full communion with the Catholic Christiansby the Rite of Reception of Baptised Church. into the Full Communion of the Catholic evidence of their baptism and reception Written Church into full communion with the Catholic to the Register of can be obtained by recourse ofReceptions, or in some cases, a sub-section in which the Baptismal Registers of the church Rite ofthe Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Christian Initiation, 399).

Or evidence of baptism Written The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and of Catholic Academies will of Directors Boards in the form of a Certificate written evidence require before of Baptism or Certificate of Reception be considered applications for school places can A Certificatefor categories of “Baptised Catholics”. the full name,of Baptism or Reception is to include: anddate of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, must also show name(s). The certificate parent(s) kept by the place the records that it is copied from of Baptism or Reception. obtaining written Those who would have difficulty evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a as Baptised considered may still be good reason, to Catholics but only after they have been referred their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar General, will decide how the question of Baptism/ and how written Reception is to be resolved with the in accordance evidence is to be produced law of the Church. to have good Those who would be considered evidence would for not obtaining written reason include those who cannot contact the place of the Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, or and the original records, destruction of the church validly was administered Baptism/Reception where kept. are records where but not in the Parish church may request Governors of Directors and Boards extra supporting evidence when the written • • Appendix catholic” of a “baptised Definition who: Catholic” is one A “Baptised There is no charge or cost related to the admission or cost related is no charge There of a child to this school. Parents will be advised of the outcome of their will be advised of Parents of the Board application in writing and, where child a place, their decision is to refuse Director’s have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. If there are no places available, the child will be are If there added to the waiting list (see above). Applications other than the normal intake toApplications other than the normal class (in-year applications) reception place for aAn application can be made for a admissionchild at any time outside the normal Applications should be made to the school round. and all by contacting Mrs Roscilli (school office) school will be given an the families approaching places available are there application form. Where places, the published applications than but more oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal be applied. of admissions, will round Children who are the subject of a direction by the direction the subject of a who are Children to a allocated admit or who are Local Authority to with the Fair Access Protocol school in accordance over those on a waiting list. take precedence In year fair access protocol Catholic of St Teresa’s of Directors The Board its fair share Primary School is committed to taking to place, vulnerable and/or hard who are of children Accordingly, protocols. as set out in locally agreed of the Board outside the normal admission round to give absolute priority to a is empowered Directors under the locally admission is requested child where has this of Directors The Board protocol. agreed mean even when admitting the child would power, number subjectexceeding the published admission to the infant class size exceptions. Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that aInclusion on the waiting become available. It may beplace will eventually places may accept them, offered that those already all available places. filling thereby A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When fixed. list is not waiting on a position A child’s on all applicants waiting list, the child joins a new that the ensure to list will be re-ranked that waiting criteria oversubscription maintained in list is always on the position means that a child’s This order. time that down during the could go up or waiting list will accepted list. Any late applications it is on the with the list in accordance be added to the waiting criteria. oversubscription documents that are produced do not clarify the Please note that as well as completing this fact that a person was baptised or received into the Supplementary Application Form, parents must Catholic Church, (i.e. where the name and address also complete the Local Authority’s Common of the Church is not on the certificate or where the Application Form in order for the application to be name of the Church does not state whether it is a complete. This Supplementary Information Form Catholic Church or not.) is only for school use and is, in conjunction with the Local Authority’s Common Application Form, Supplementary Information Form to enable the Board of Directors to rank applicants using the published oversubscription criteria: Academy Name: St. Teresa’s Catholic Primary This Supplementary Information Form must be School returned directly to St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School at Stone Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent, The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school ST4 6SP by 15th January 2018. was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s Wherever there are more applications than places Common Application Form. As well as available, priority will be given to Catholic children completing this Supplementary Application Form in accordance with the oversubscription criteria and returning it directly to the school, you MUST listed in the school’s published admission policy. also complete the local authority’s Common The school is conducted by its Board of Directors Application Form otherwise your application will as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with be deemed incomplete and therefore invalid. its Articles of Association and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Academy education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every North Street, aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7DG Catholic character of the school’s education be fully Tel: 01782 234919 supported by all families in the school. All parents [email protected] are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved Headteacher: Mrs P Bekalo and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. This does not affect the right of a parent The School admits students between the ages who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the of 3-11 school. How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for Child’s Surname ...... September 2018 An application must be made online at Child’s First Name(s) ...... www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. Address ...... The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018...... The closing date for Reception applications is ...... Monday 15 January 2018.

Contact Number ...... Admission criteria St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Academy uses its own Admissions policy – see below: Please tick the appropriate box: Is the above named child a Yes No* St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School is Baptised Catholic? part of the Christ the King Catholic Collegiate MAC. The admissions authority for the school Is the certificate of Catholic Yes No* is the Board of Directors of the Christ the King Baptism attached? Catholic Collegiate MAC who has responsibility for admissions to this school. The Board of Directors *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception has delegated responsibility for the administration of into the Catholic Church is required in order for the the admissions process to the Academy Committee Board of Directors to give the correct priority to an of St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School. application. The admissions process for St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School is part of the Stoke-on- Failure to provide evidence of Catholic Baptism Trent Local Authority co-ordinated admissions or Reception in the Church may affect the scheme. To apply for a place at St Thomas oversubscription criterion that the child’s name is placed in. 112. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 113. which should be returned directly to the which should be returned directly Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) (see Note Catholic children Baptised Lady of the Angels parish of Our living in the or have a brother in Chains who and St. Peter below) attending St Thomassister (see Note 4 Primary School at the time ofAquinas Catholic admission. (see Note 2 below) children Baptised Catholic of Our Lady of the Angels andliving in the parish St. Peter in Chains. 2 (see Note children Other Baptised Catholic 4 or sister (see Note a brother below) who have St Thomas Aquinas Catholicbelow) attending the time of admission. Primary School at (see note 2 Other Baptised Catholic children below). looked after or who are Non-Catholic children looked after (see Note 3 below) previously or who have a brother Non-Catholic children St Thomassister (see Note 4 below) attending at the time ofAquinas Catholic Primary School admission. Non-Catholic children. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Note 2 (see children Catholic Baptised after looked or previously looked after who are 3 below) (see Note

Note 1 (EHC) with an Education, Health and Care Children be admitted. Plan that names the academy MUST the number of places available to This will reduce other applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. Note 2 as In all categories, for a child to be considered or ReceptionCatholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism For a definition will be required. into the Church of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those written evidence in producing who face difficulties of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church should contact their Parish Priest. for a Catholic child making an application Parents must complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) information the school. If you do not provide in the Supplementary Information Form required and return it by the closing date, together with all supporting documentation, this is likely to affect a place at this chance of being offered your child’s school. Note 3 A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in Act 1989, and means section 22(1) of the Children of the local authority any child who is (a) in the care accommodation by them with or (b) being provided services functions (eg of their social in the exercise at the time of making with foster parents) children looked the application to the school. A “previously 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. Over-subscription A map of the parish boundary is available at the school and parish or by post on request. Where there are more applications for places than applications more are there Where the number of places available, places will be of priority. to the following order according offered the within a category, is oversubscription If there living will give priority to children of Directors Board closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5 below) The Board of Directors has set its admission number of Directors The Board at 30 pupils to be admitted to the Reception class in the school year which begins in September 2018. (See Note 1 below) As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic As a Catholic school, we aim to provide Catholic school,education for all our pupils. As a everyCatholic doctrine and practice permeate that the It is essential activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s supported by all families in the school. All parents expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and positive support for the aims and ethos of the the right of a parent school. This does not affect who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the school. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The schoolThe ethos of this school is Catholic. to provide was founded by the Catholic Church of Catholic families. education for children applications than places more are there Wherever children available, priority will be given to Catholic with the oversubscription criteria in accordance school is conducted by its The listed below. as part of the Catholic Church of Directors Board with its Articles of Association and in accordance Jesus to Our Lord seeks at all times to be a witness Christ. Please note that throughout this policy, the term this policy, Please note that throughout for any individual with responsibility to relates parent being made. a child for whom an application is You will be advised of the outcome of your will be advised of the outcome You April 2018, or the next workingapplication on 16th of the school. by the local authority on behalf day, All applications which are submitted on time will be submitted on time are All applications which date. at the same time, after the closing considered Aquinas Catholic Primary School in the normal in the School Primary Catholic Aquinas be made must application an round, admissions application process school admission using the St you live naming authority in which of the local on the Primary School Aquinas Catholic Thomas made by need to be form. Applications application Information 2018. A Supplementary 15th January also be completed and returnedForm (SIF) must (see Noteto the school by the same date directly 2). after child” is a child who immediately moved If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an on from that status after becoming subject to address that is subsequently found to be different an adoption, child arrangement order or special from a child’s normal and permanent home address, guardianship order. then that place is liable to be withdrawn.

Note 4 School entry For all applicants the definition of a brother or sister Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is is: receiving suitable full time education from the • A brother or sister sharing the same parents beginning of the term following the child’s fifth • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children birthday, when they will have begun to be of share one common parent compulsory school age. • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children are related by a parents’ marriage or where Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will they are unrelated but their parents are living as be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time basis partners. in the September following their fourth birthday. • Adopted or fostered children The children must be living permanently in the same A child’s parents may defer the date at which their household. child, below compulsory school age, is admitted to the school, until later in the school year but not Note 5 beyond the point at which they reach compulsory Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight school age and not beyond the first day of the line measurement from the child’s home address summer term 2019. point to the front gate of the school. The local authority uses a computerised system, which A child may take up a part-time place until later in measures all distances in miles. Ordnance Survey the school year, but not beyond the point at which supply the co-ordinates that are used to plot an they child reached compulsory school age. applicant’s home address. Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should notify the school, as soon as possible, that they In a very small number of cases, where the school wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible to decide or take up a part-time place. between the applications of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a place when applying the The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls published admission criteria. during the summer term who wishes to defer their For example, this may occur when children in the child’s admission until the beginning of the following same year group live at the same address, or if academic year (when the child will have begun to the distance between the home and the school is be of compulsory school age) will therefore need exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If to make a separate in-year application for a place there is no other way of separating the application in Year 1 at the school. Any reception class place according to the admissions criteria and to admit offered following an application made for the both, or all, of the children would cause the 2018/2019 admission round will be withdrawn if the Published Admission Number for the child’s year child does not take up that place by the first day of group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf the summer term 2019. of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the child to be offered the final place. Applications for children to be admitted into a class outside of their normal age group The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit Parents have the right to request, but not insist, twins and all siblings from multiple births where one that their child be considered for admission to of the children is the last child ranked within the a class outside of their normal age group. This school’s published admission number. could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted and talented, has experienced problems such A child’s home address is considered to be the as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie permanent residence of a child. The address must a child born between 1st April and 31st August. be the child’s only or main residence for the majority Parents who wish for their child to be considered of the school week. Documentary evidence may be for admission to a class outside of their normal age required. group must make an application for the normal age group in the first instance. Parents must then If parents have shared responsibilities and a child submit a formal request to the Board of Directors for lives with each for part of the week the home the child to be considered for a different age group address will be the one at which the child is resident class instead. This request should be in the form of for the greatest part of the school week. Where this a written letter of application outlining the reasons is equally shared, the home address will be the one why they wish for their child to be considered to used when applying for child benefit. 114. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 115. Appeals of decision the appeal against wish to who Parents child a place their refuse to of Directors the Board in that appeal request should make in the school at Directors of Board the Chair of the writing to by an be heard Appeals will address. the school panel. independent do not have the right parents Please note that to be for their children request to appeal if their outside of their normal yearadmitted to a class of Directors but the Board been refused, has group instead. age group a place in the normal has offered Repeat applications at can apply for a place for their child Any parent of the normal admissions round. any time outside do not have the right to a second appeal in Parents of the same school for the same academic respect the Board year unless, in exceptional circumstances, has accepted a second application from of Directors because of a significant and material the parent child or of the parent, change in the circumstances admission. school, but have still refused Late applications in accordance Late applications will be dealt with admissions co-ordinated with the Local Authority’s scheme. lists Waiting a place at who have not been offered Children School butSt Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary a lower a school that was ranked as offered were application form will be added on their preference maintained until lists will be to a waiting list. Waiting when theythe end of the academic year 2018/2019 will be discarded. position on a waiting list is not fixed. When A child’s a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on that the to ensure that waiting list will be re-ranked list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria position on the This means that a child’s order. waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will with the be added to the waiting list in accordance oversubscription criteria. Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. It may be places may accept them, offered that those already places. filling all available thereby by the the subject of a direction who are Children allocated to a Local Authority to admit or who are the Fair Access Protocol with school in accordance on a waiting list. over those take precedence Applications from children currently attending currently children Applications from St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School’s Nursery Attendance at St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary Nursery does not automatically guarantee School’s in the Reception class that a place will be offered of St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School . Reception place in exactly must apply for a Parents not attending of children the same way as parents All applications will be considered the Nursery. against the oversubscription criteria by the Board of whether regardless in the same way of Directors the child does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of application. If parents are considering submitting an application are If parents for their child to be admitted into a class outside of recommended is strongly it their normal age group, guidance which can be the DFE that they also read found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 If the request is agreed and the year group for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is for a future have requested the parents ie Reception in September 2019, then year group, and the parents the original application is withdrawn application for Reception 2019 must submit a fresh term of 2018.when applications open in the autumn only have the right to Please note that parents of Directors the Board for a place. Where re-apply to consider an application for Reception agrees that application is considered the following year, and parents alongside all other applications received that application onwill be advised of the outcome of for or held No place is reserved day. national offer the child in advance. If the request is agreed and the year group for which and the year group is agreed If the request a place is a current have requested the parents in the school, then the application will year group the and of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents If the request is refused, the original application for the original is refused, If the request the through class will progress the normal age group admissions scheme, Local Authority co-ordinated and the of Directors by the Board be considered advised of the outcome. parents The Board of Directors will consider requests consider requests will of Directors The Board class admitted into a for a child to be submitted and advise age group outside of their normal before the outcome of that request of parents account the having taken into day, national offer best the child’s by the parents, information provided and the views of the Head Teacher. interests be admitted into a class outside of their normal of their outside into a class be admitted evidencesupportive any enclosing and group age into wish to be taken that they and documentation as part of that request. account In year fair access protocol can be obtained by recourse to the Register of The Board of Directors of St Thomas Aquinas Receptions, or in some cases, a sub-section of Catholic Primary School is committed to taking the Baptismal Registers of the church in which its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or the Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Rite of hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Christian Initiation, 399). Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute Written evidence of baptism priority to a child where admission is requested The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and under the locally agreed protocol. The Board of Boards of Directors of Catholic Academies will Directors has this power, even when admitting require written evidence in the form of a Certificate the child would mean exceeding the published of Baptism or Certificate of Reception before admission number subject to the infant class size applications for school places can be considered exceptions. for categories of “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate of Baptism or Reception is to include: the full name, Applications other than the normal intake to date of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, and reception class (in-year applications) parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also show An application can be made for a place for a child that it is copied from the records kept by the place at any time outside the normal admission round. of Baptism or Reception. Applications should be made to the school by contacting the school office on 01782 234919 and Those who would have difficulty obtaining written all families approaching the school will be given an evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a application form. Where there are places available good reason, may still be considered as Baptised but more applications than places, the published Catholics but only after they have been referred to oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar round of admissions, will be applied. General, will decide how the question of Baptism/ Reception is to be resolved and how written If there are no places available, the child will be evidence is to be produced in accordance with the added to the waiting list (see above). law of the Church.

Parents will be advised of the outcome of their Those who would be considered to have good application in writing and, where the Board of reason for not obtaining written evidence would Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, include those who cannot contact the place of have the right to appeal to an independent appeal Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, the panel. destruction of the church and the original records, or where Baptism/Reception was administered validly There is no charge or cost related to the admission but not in the Parish church where records are kept. of a child to this school. Governors and Boards of Directors may request extra supporting evidence when the written Appendix documents that are produced do not clarify the fact that a person was baptised or received into the Definition of a “baptised catholic” Catholic Church, (i.e. where the name and address A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: of the Church is not on the certificate or where the • Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. name of the Church does not state whether it is a Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) with the Catholic Church or not.) Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptism of one of the various ritual Churches in communion Supplementary Information Form with the See of Rome (i.e. Latin Rite, Byzantine Rite, Coptic, Syriac, etc, Cf. Catechism of the Academy Name: St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Catholic Church, 1203). Written evidence* of Academy this baptism can be obtained by recourse to the Baptismal Registers of the church in which the The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, was founded by the Catholic Church to provide 877 & 878); education for children of Catholic families. Or Wherever there are more applications than places • Has been validly baptised in a separated available, priority will be given to Catholic children ecclesial community and subsequently received in accordance with the oversubscription criteria into full communion with the Catholic Church listed in the school’s published admission policy. by the Rite of Reception of Baptised Christians The school is conducted by its Board of Directors into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with Written evidence of their baptism and reception its Articles of Association and seeks at all times into full communion with the Catholic Church to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. As a

116. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 117. Queen’s Avenue, Tunstall, Tunstall, Avenue, Queen’s 6EE ST6 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 235676 Tel: www.st-wilfrid.stoke.sch.uk Mark Barlow Headteacher: Mr St Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy Catholic St Wilfrid’s The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Academy is part of the Newman Catholic St Wilfrid’s Catholic Catholic Collegiate MAC. St Wilfrid’s policy –Academy uses its own Admissions see below: Academy is part of the Catholic St. Wilfrid’s admissionsNewman Catholic Collegiate. The of Directors authority for the school is the Board who hasof the Newman Catholic Collegiate for admissions to this school. The responsibility for has delegated responsibility of Directors Board to process the administration of the admissions Catholic the Academy Committee of St. Wilfrid’s Academy. Catholic for St. Wilfrid’s The admissions process Local Academy is part of the Stoke-on-Trent scheme. To admissions Authority co-ordinated Catholic Academy apply for a place at St. Wilfrid’s an application in the normal admissions round, must be made using the school admission local authority in which of the application process Catholic Academy you live naming St. Wilfrid’s on the application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January 2018. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also be completed to the school by the same and returned directly date (see Note 2). submitted on time will be All applications which are after the closing date. at the same time, considered advised of the outcome of your will be You application on 16th April 2018, or the next working by the local authority on behalf of the school. day, the term this policy, Please note that throughout for to any individual with responsibility relates parent a child for whom an application is being made.

No* No* Yes Yes Is the above named child a Baptised Catholic? Is the certificate of Catholic Baptism attached? Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s Common Application Form. As well as completing this Supplementary Application Form to the school, you MUST and returning it directly Common also complete the local authority’s Application Form otherwise your application will invalid. be deemed incomplete and therefore Please note that as well as completing this must Supplementary Application Form, parents Common also complete the Local Authority’s to be for the application Application Form in order complete. This Supplementary Information Form is only for school use and is, in conjunction with Application Form, Common the Local Authority’s to rank applicants of Directors to enable the Board using the published oversubscription criteria: This Supplementary Information Form must be Aquinas Catholic to St Thomas returned directly ST4 Stoke-on-Trent, Primary School at North Street, 7DG by 15th January 2018. Failure to provide evidence of Catholic Baptism to provide Failure the may affect or Reception in the Church name is oversubscription criterion that the child’s placed in. *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception*A Certificate of Catholic Baptism for the in order is required into the Catholic Church to an priority to give the correct of Directors Board application. Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic to provide we aim school, Catholic school, a Catholic As all our pupils. for education permeate everydoctrine and practice Catholic that the It is essential activity. the school’s aspect of be fully education school’s character of the Catholic parents the school. All by all families in supported full, unreserved to give their expected therefore are for the aims and ethos of theand positive support parent the right of a not affect school. This does faith to apply for a place at thewho is not of the here. school.for a place Please tick the appropriate box: Please tick the appropriate ...... Contact Number ...... Address ...... Address ...... Child’s First Name(s) ...... Child’s Child’s Surname ...... Child’s The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or was founded by the Catholic Church to provide sister (see Note 4 below) attending St. Wilfrid’s education for children of Catholic families. Catholic Academy at the time of admission. Wherever there are more applications than places 8. Non-Catholic children. available, priority will be given to Catholic children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria Note 1 listed below. The school is conducted by its Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church Plan that names the academy MUST be admitted. in accordance with its Articles of Association and This will reduce the number of places available to seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus other applicants. This is not an oversubscription Christ. criteria.

As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic Note 2 education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, In all categories, for a child to be considered as Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or Reception aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the into the Church will be required. For a definition Catholic character of the school’s education be fully of a Baptised Catholic, see the Appendix. Those supported by all families in the school. All parents who face difficulties in producing written evidence are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved of Catholic Baptism or Reception into the Church and positive support for the aims and ethos of the should contact their Parish Priest. school. This does not affect the right of a parent who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the Parents making an application for a Catholic child school. must complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) which should be returned directly to the The Board of Directors has set its admission number school. If you do not provide the information at 45 pupils to be admitted to the Reception class required in the Supplementary Information Form in the school year which begins in September 2018. and return it by the closing date, together with all (See Note 1 below) supporting documentation, this is likely to affect your child’s chance of being offered a place at this Where there are more applications for places than school. the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority. Note 3 If there is oversubscription within a category, the A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in Board of Directors will give priority to children living section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and means closest to the school determined by the shortest any child who is (a) in the care of the local authority distance (see Note 5 below) or (b) being provided with accommodation by them in the exercise of their social services functions (eg A map of the parish boundary is available at the children with foster parents) at the time of making school and parish or by post on request. the application to the school. A “previously looked after child” is a child who immediately moved Oversubscription on from that status after becoming subject to 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) an adoption, child arrangement order or special who are looked after or previously looked after guardianship order. (see Note 3 below) 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) Note 4 living in the parish of St. Wilfrid’s Catholic For all applicants the definition of a brother or sister Academy who have a brother or sister (see is: Note 3 below) attending St. Wilfrid’s Catholic • A brother or sister sharing the same parents Academy at the time of admission. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two children 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) share one common parent living in the parish of Sacred Heart, Tunstall, St. • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children Bernadette’s, Fegg Hayes and that part of St. are related by a parents’ marriage or where Joseph’s, Burslem appertaining to the school. they are unrelated but their parents are living as 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 partners. below) who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 • Adopted or fostered children below) attending St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy The children must be living permanently in the same at the time of admission. household 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 below). 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked after or previously looked after (see Note 3 below)

118. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 119. A child’s parents may defer the date at which their date at defer the may parents A child’s admitted age, is school compulsory below child, but not the school year until later in to the school, compulsory they reach point at which beyond the the the first day of and not beyond school age term 2019. summer up a part-time place until later inA child may take the point at which but not beyond the school year, compulsory school age. they child reached should a parent of a place of the offer Upon receipt as soon as possible, that theynotify the school, to the school entry their child’s wish to either defer place. or take up a part-time birthday falls of a child whose fifth The parent term who wishes to defer theirduring the summer until the beginning of the following admission child’s have begun toacademic year (when the child will need therefore be of compulsory school age) will for a placeto make a separate in-year application class place 1 at the school. Any reception in Year an application made for the following offered will be withdrawn if the 2018/2019 admission round by the first day ofchild does not take up that place the summer term 2019. to be admitted into a Applications for children group class outside of their normal age but not insist, have the right to request, Parents for admission to that their child be considered This group. a class outside of their normal age a child is giftedcould be the case, for example, if such and talented, has experienced problems born,as ill health, or that the child is summer ie a child born 31st August. between 1st April and who wish for their child to be considered Parents their normal agefor admission to a class outside of for the normal must make an application group must then Parents in the first instance. age group for of Directors the Board to submit a formal request age group for a different the child to be considered should be in the form of class instead. This request a written letter of application outlining the reasons to why they wish for their child to be considered be admitted into a class outside of their normal any supportive evidence and enclosing age group and documentation that they wish to be taken into account as part of that request. will consider requests of Directors The Board submitted for a child to be admitted into a class and advise outside of their normal age group before that request of the outcome of parents having taken into account the day, national offer best the child’s parents, by the information provided the Head Teacher. and the views of interests the original application for is refused, If the request the through class will progress the normal age group admissions scheme, Local Authority co-ordinated Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil will in a place is offered Where be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time basis in the September following their fourth birthday. School entry that their child is ensure must, by law, Parents the education from suitable full time receiving fifth beginning of the term following the child’s begun to be of when they will have birthday, compulsory school age. If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an If a place in the school is offered found to be different that is subsequently address normal and permanent home address, a child’s from then that place is liable to be withdrawn. If parents have shared responsibilities and a child responsibilities have shared If parents lives with each for part of the week the home which the child is resident will be the one at address this school week. Where part of the for the greatest will be the one address the home is equally shared, used when applying for child benefit. A child’s home address is considered to be the is considered home address A child’s must of a child. The address permanent residence majority for the or main residence only be the child’s evidence may beof the school week. Documentary required. The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit possible, will, where of Directors The Board one multiple births where twins and all siblings from within the is the last child ranked of the children admission number. published school’s For example, this may occur when children in the may occur when children For example, this or if live at the same address, same year group the school isthe distance between the home and of flats. Ifexactly the same, for example, blocks is no other way of separating the application there to the admissions criteria and to admit according would cause the both, or all, of the children year the child’s Published Admission Number for on behalf to be exceeded, the Local Authority, group will randomly select the of Directors, of the Board the final place. child to be offered In a very small number of cases, where the school the of cases, where In a very small number it may not be possible to decideis oversubscribed, of those pupils who are between the applications for a place when applying thethe final qualifiers criteria.published admission Note 5 Note of a straight basis on the calculated are Distances address home child’s the from line measurement is situated school which gate of the front point to the uses a The local authority Avenue. on Queens distances all measures system, which computerised the co-ordinates Survey supply Ordnance in miles. home address. to plot an applicant’s used that are be considered by the Board of Directors and the Parents do not have the right to a second appeal in parents advised of the outcome. respect of the same school for the same academic year unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Board If the request is agreed and the year group for which of Directors has accepted a second application from the parents have requested a place is a current the parent because of a significant and material year group in the school, then the application will change in the circumstances of the parent, child or be considered by the Board of Directors and the school, but have still refused admission. parents advised of the outcome. Late applications If the request is agreed and the year group for which Late applications will be dealt with in accordance the parents have requested a place is for a future with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions year group, ie Reception in September 2019, then scheme. the original application is withdrawn and the parents must submit a fresh application for Reception 2019 Waiting list when applications open in the autumn term of 2018. Children who have not been offered a place at Please note that parents only have the right to St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy but were offered a re-apply for a place. Where the Board of Directors school that was ranked as a lower preference on agrees to consider an application for Reception their application form will be added to a waiting the following year, that application is considered list. Waiting lists will be maintained until the end alongside all other applications received and parents of the academic year 2018/2019 when they will be will be advised of the outcome of that application on discarded. national offer day. No place is reserved or held for the child in advance. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. When a new child joins the waiting list, all applicants on If parents are considering submitting an application that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the for their child to be admitted into a class outside of list is always maintained in oversubscription criteria their normal age group, it is strongly recommended order. This means that a child’s position on the that they also read the DFE guidance which can be waiting list could go up or down during the time that found at: http://bit.ly/RmM4A2 it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with the Applications from children currently attending oversubscription criteria. St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy’s Nursery Attendance at St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy’s Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a Nursery does not automatically guarantee that a place will eventually become available. It may be place will be offered in the Reception class of St. that those already offered places may accept them, Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy. Parents must apply thereby filling all available places. for a Reception place in exactly the same way as parents of children not attending the Nursery. Children who are the subject of a direction by the All applications will be considered against the Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a oversubscription criteria by the Board of Directors school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol in the same way regardless of whether the child take precedence over those on a waiting list. does or does not attend the Nursery at the time of application. In year fair access protocol The Board of Directors of St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Appeals Academy is committed to taking its fair share of Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, the Board of Directors to refuse their child a place as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, in the school should make that appeal request in outside the normal admission round the Board of writing to the Chair of the Board of Directors at Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a the school address. Appeals will be heard by an child where admission is requested under the locally independent panel. agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean Please note that parents do not have the right exceeding the published admission number subject to appeal if their request for their children to be to the infant class size exceptions. admitted to a class outside of their normal year group has been refused, but the Board of Directors has offered a place in the normal age group instead.

Repeat applications Any parent can apply for a place for their child at any time outside of the normal admissions round.

120. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 121. date of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, and or Reception, Baptism date of of birth, date also show must certificate The name(s). parent(s) by the place kept the records copied from that it is or Reception. of Baptism obtaining written would have difficulty Those who a for of Catholic Baptism/Reception evidence as Baptised may still be considered good reason, to after they have been referred Catholics but only who, after consulting the Vicartheir parish priest how the question of Baptism/ General, will decide and how written resolved Reception is to be with the in accordance produced evidence is to be law of the Church. to have good be considered Those who would would not obtaining written evidence for reason the place ofinclude those who cannot contact the or fear, Baptism/Reception due to persecution or and the original records, destruction of the church validly Baptism/Reception was administered where kept. are records where but not in the Parish church may request Governors of Directors and Boards writtenextra supporting evidence when the do not clarify the produced documents that are into the received fact that a person was baptised or the name and address (i.e. where Catholic Church, the is not on the certificate or where of the Church does not state whether it is a name of the Church or not.) Catholic Church Supplementary Information Form Catholic Academy Academy Name: St Wilfrid’s The schoolThe ethos of this school is Catholic. to provide was founded by the Catholic Church of Catholic families. education for children than places applications more are there Wherever available, priority will be given to Catholic children criteria with the oversubscription in accordance admission policy. published listed in the school’s of Directors The school is conducted by its Board with in accordance as part of the Catholic Church its Articles of Association and seeks at all times Jesus Christ. As a to be a witness to Our Lord a Catholic Catholic school, we aim to provide education for all our pupils. As a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every essential that the It is activity. aspect of the school’s education be fully Catholic character of the school’s supported by all families in the school. All parents expected to give their full, unreserved therefore are and positive support for the aims and ethos of the the right of a parent school. This does not affect who is not of the faith to apply for a place at the school. Has been validly baptised in a separated ecclesial community and subsequently received into full communion with the Catholic Church by the Rite of Reception of Baptised Christians into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. baptism and reception evidence of their Written into full communion with the Catholic Church to the Register of can be obtained by recourse Receptions, or in some cases, a sub-section of in which the Baptismal Registers of the church the Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Rite of Christian Initiation, 399). Has been baptised into full communion (Cf.Has been baptised into full communion 837) with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, of one by the Rites of Baptism Catholic Church in communion of the various ritual Churches Byzantinewith the See of Rome (i.e. Latin Rite, of theRite, Coptic, Syriac, etc, Cf. Catechism evidence* of 1203). Written Catholic Church, to the this baptism can be obtained by recourse in which the Baptismal Registers of the church Law, baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon 877 & 878);

Written evidence of baptism Written The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and of Catholic Academies will of Directors Boards written evidence in the form of a Certificate require of Baptism or Certificate of Reception before applications for school places can be considered for categories of “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate of Baptism or Reception is to include: the full name, Or • • Definition of a “baptised catholic” A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: Appendix There is no charge or cost related to the admission to the or cost related is no charge There of a child to this school. Parents will be advised of the outcome of their be advised of the outcome of will Parents of the Board and, where application in writing their child a place, decision is to refuse Director’s appealhave the right to appeal to an independent panel. If there are no places available, the child will be no places available, the are If there list (see above). added to the waiting Applications other than the normal intake tonormal the other than Applications applications) (in-year class reception a child for a place for can be made An application round. admission outside the normal at any time by to the school should be made Applications 235676 and on 01782 the school office contacting will be given an the school approaching all families places available are there Where application form. applications than places, the published but more criteria, as set out for the normaloversubscription admissions, will be applied. of round Child’s Surname ...... STAR Academy Child’s First Name(s) ...... Burnaby Road, Sandyford, Address ...... Stoke-on-Trent ST6 5PT ...... Tel: 01782 235055 www.staracademy.attrust.org.uk ...... Principal: Miss Nicky Broomhall Contact Number ...... The School admits students between the ages of 3-11

Please tick the appropriate box: How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for Is the above named child a Yes No* September 2018 Baptised Catholic? An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local Is the certificate of Catholic Yes No* authority preference form. Baptism attached? The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. *A Certificate of Catholic Baptism or Reception The closing date for Reception applications is into the Catholic Church is required in order for the Monday 15 January 2018. Board of Directors to give the correct priority to an application. Admission Policy STAR Academy uses its own multi-academy Failure to provide evidence of Catholic Baptism admissions policy – see below: or Reception in the Church may affect the oversubscription criterion that the child’s name is Please note that information relating to year 3, 7 placed in. and 12 do not apply to STAR Academy.

Please note that as well as completing this 1. Introduction Supplementary Application Form, parents must 1.1. Academy Transformation Trust is the also complete the Local Authority’s Common admissions authority for its academies. The Application Form in order for the application to be Board of Academy Transformation Trust has complete. This Supplementary Information Form delegated to the Local Governing Body of the is only for school use and is, in conjunction with academy the decisions about which children to the Local Authority’s Common Application Form, admit, within the parameters of this policy. to enable the Board of Directors to rank applicants using the published oversubscription criteria: 1.2. This policy relates to the School Admissions This Supplementary Information Form must be Code 2014, School Admission Appeals Code returned directly to St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Academy at 2012, the Equality Act 2010 (also see our Equalities Queens Avenue, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 6EE Policy), Human Rights Act 1998 and the School by 15th January 2018. Standards Framework Act 1998 and any regulations thereunder. Please note that this is NOT the local authority’s Common Application Form. As well as 1.3. All children whose statement of special completing this Supplementary Application Form educational needs or education health and care plan and returning it directly to the school, you MUST names the academy must be admitted (paragraph also complete the local authority’s Common 1.6 of the School Admissions Code, December Application Form otherwise your application will 2014). For information on our SEN local offer, visit be deemed incomplete and therefore invalid. the academy website.

1.4. Where fewer applications are received than the number of places available for a relevant age group (normal age that pupils are admitted to the academy) then all applicants will be offered a place.

1.5. Where there are more applications than places for a relevant age group then the oversubscription criteria shall be used to determine which children are offered a place.

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Academic Entry requirements to 6th forms (See Academic Entry requirements paragraph 11.4) who have a statement of Special Children HealthEducational Needs or an Education, plan which names the school must and Care a place at that school. (See by law be offered paragraph 11.5)

6 Application of the Oversubscription Criteria the application form will given on 6.1. The address be used to assess whether another child attending The the academy is living at the same address. the addresses to will be compared address child’s held in the academy records. the application form given on 6.2. The address will be used to assess the straight line distance point and the address property between the child’s for the site where point address property academy’s based. be they will predominantly that have parents a child lives with 6.3. Where for the child, the “address” responsibility shared home which the child as the shall be considered the school week. for the majority of resides or quartering area 6.4. The unit postal address when “address” will be used as the address of UK service children considering applications from personnel against the oversubscription criteria, is accompanied by an the application providing 1. 2. 5 Oversubscription Criteria 5 Oversubscription places than for applications more are If there 5.1 to we will give preference places available, are there rules in this order to the following according children of priority looked previously and all after children 5.2. Looked but after, looked who were (children after children or adopted they were ceased to be so because or a child arrangements order became subject to immediately following order, special guardianship section with after) in accordance having been looked Act 1989. 22 of the Children’s for the purposes of this policy5.3. Siblings; which at the living permanently as: children defined are at as a child attending the academy same address in the children the time of their admission (including 6th Form) the academy, by distance from 5.4. Other children children with priority for admission given to to the academy as measured who live nearest Survey data to plot an address. using Ordnance the from flies’ ‘as the crow measured Distances are point address property main entrance of the child’s the site point on address property to the academy’s be based the child will predominantly where Exceptions 15 January for Reception and Year 3 15 January for Reception and Year 31 October for Year 7 and Year 12 7 and Year 31 October for Year

4 How many pupils will be admitted? 4.1. Each academy has set the number of pupils that will be admitted during the normal admissions Published Admissions this number is the round, Number (PAN). for an 4.2. If the number of applications received academy exceeds the admission number then the oversubscription criteria will be used to determine a place. allocated which pupils are 4.3. The admission numbers for our academies are listed in appendix 2. 3 In-Year Admissions 3 In-Year admissions occur when an application 3.1. In-Year for admission is made outside the normal should be made Applications admissions round. application form, or on your home Local Authority’s using the LA online system (if available). Please do the return of completed for not do both. Addresses in appendix 1. copy forms can be found hard 2.4. Any application submitted later than the2.4. Any application submitted later year must becommencement of the academic (please seesubmitted as an in-year admission section 3). (other groups 2.5. For admission into all other year please seethan shown in 2.2) or after the deadline section 3 below. after the deadline will 2.3. Applications received be as late applications and will therefore be treated home with the relevant in accordance considered your scheme (see co-ordinated Local Authority’s website for details). home Local Authority’s • • 2. How to apply 2. How theplace during for a applying If you are 2.1. to start at (application round normal admissions other children when in the age group the academy 11.1, 11.2, (see paragraphs normally admitted are use then you should 11.6 for exceptions)) 11.3 and by Form (CAF) provided Application the Common Authority (the Local Authority foryour home Local in which you live). Not all Local Authorities the area many application form as a CAF and to the refer online. You the option to apply providing now are home for your application process should check the of this policy For the purposes Local Authority. to as CAF will be referred the application process submission. for applications during the normal2.2. The deadline is: admissions round Assignment Order that declares a relocation date 9.2. The waiting list for the normal admissions year and the address. group (relevant age group) will be cleared at the end of the first week of the Spring term each year. 6.5. We will accept changes to the address up to The waiting list for all remaining year groups will be the point of allocation (CAF submission) deadline. cleared at the end of June each year. If you would like your child to remain on the waiting list you will 6.6. If following the application of oversubscription need to reapply for a place at the academy. criteria two or more applicants cannot be separated for the final place at an academy then random 9.3. Children are ranked on the waiting list in order allocation will be used to determine the priority for of the oversubscription criteria above. that place; except in the case where the applicants that cannot be separated live at the same address, 9.4. Children allocated a place at the academy in in which case the academy should admit them all. accordance with the Fair Access Protocol will take Where random allocation is used, the names of the priority over children on the waiting list. applicants will be entered into a hat and a name will be selected from the hat by someone independent 9.5. The Fair Access Protocol is an agreement of the academy. that allows hard to place children, for example those that have been permanently excluded, to be 7 When do I find out if my child has been offered given a place before any oversubscription criteria a place? are applied and before anyone is considered from 7.1. If you have applied using the CAF and your the waiting list. Such children are shared out to application was submitted by the deadline you make sure no one school has to take too many of will receive notification from your Local Authority these children. As a Trust we are committed to advising you of the school your child has been participating in the Fair Access Protocol. allocated. Notifications are issued on: 10 Appeals 7.2. 1 March or next working day for Year 7 and 10.1. Appeals should be submitted directly to Year 12 Academy Transformation Trust on the appeals form in appendix 3. 7.3. 16 April or next working day for Reception and Year 3 10.2. For applications made on the CAF during the normal admissions round the deadline for submitting 7.4. For late applications made using the CAF you an appeal is: will receive a notification from the Local Authority • 16 April or next working day for applications to advising you of the school your child has been join Year 7 or Year 12 allocated on a date in line with the Local Authority • 20 May or next working day for applications to policy on late applications. join Reception or Year 3

7.5. The academy is unable to comment on your 10.3. For all other applications the deadline for application prior to the above dates. submitting an appeal is 20 school days from the date of your notification letter. 7.6. Once a place has been allocated at the academy, you will be contacted by the academy 10.4. Once you have submitted your appeals form regarding the induction process. we will acknowledge receipt of the form within 5 school days. The appeals hearing will take place 8 What happens if I have not been allocated prior to the end of a place? the school/academic year (or within 30 school days 8.1. If your child has not been allocated a place for in-year admissions). You will receive at least 10 at one of our academies then their name will be school days’ notice of the appeals hearing date and added to our waiting list. If a place at the academy additional information will be provided at this time. becomes available children will be admitted from the waiting list. 10.5. If you miss the deadline for lodging an appeal, where possible we will try to hear your appeal 8.2. You also have the right to appeal the decision. within the same timeframe as if it had been on time. However if this is not possible it will be heard at a 9 Waiting Lists later date. 9.1. The academy will maintain a waiting list for each year group. Children are only added to the 10.6. Appeals will be heard by an Independent waiting list following an application to join the Appeals Panel and conducted in accordance with academy. the School Admission Appeals Code 2012.

124. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 125. Boothen Old Road,Boothen 4EE ST4 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234800 Tel: www.stokeminster.stoke.sch.uk Willis Lynne Headteacher: Mrs Stoke Minster CE (A) Primary CE Minster Stoke The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Reception applications isThe closing date Monday 15 January 2018. Admission policy its ownStoke Minster CE (A) Primary uses Admissions policy – see below: Statement Primary of England Aided Stoke Minster Church all backgrounds, from School welcomes children faiths and no faith. The Governors of the School committed to developing an inclusive school are the diversity of the local community. that reflects on beingAdmission to the school is not dependent a member of a particular faith community. school,As well as being an inclusive neighbourhood school Stoke Minster has a distinctive as a Church the teachings of ethos and character that reflects ask all parents We Jesus Christ and Christian values. this ethos and to respect applying for a place here hope We its importance to the school community. to the school will be able who come that all children life of in the religious to participate (as appropriate) the school (including collective worship and religious the right of parents education). This does not affect apply for a place. Indeed, not Christians to who are we actively to inclusivity, our commitment through faiths and no faith. other welcome families from The Governing for the Body is responsible admission of pupils to the School and admits 60 This September. each pupils to the reception between the admission limit has been agreed Governing Body and the Local Authority and applies to the year 2018. to abide by the The Governing Body is required maximum limits for infant classes (5, 6 and 7 year olds), i.e., 30 pupils per class.

11.3. Applications for Year 12 can be made using 12 can be made 11.3. Applications for Year to apply you also have the option the CAF; however, to apply For details on how to the academy. directly you should contact the Head of 6th Form. directly on meeting11.4. Entry to 6th Form is dependent courses,chosen your for requirements academic the the relevant details of which can be obtained from criteria will only be The oversubscription academy. the academicapplied to those applicants meeting applicants more are there where requirements, than places. meeting the requirements Needs andStatements of Special Educational Plans Education Health and Care whose statement of special 11.5. All children educational needs or education health and care plan names the academy will be admitted. These of the irrespective will be admitted children the number of pupils in the academy and before applied. oversubscription criteria are Applications for admission outside a child’s normal age group will normally be 11.6. It is expected that children year group. educated within their chronological can make a request or carers parents However, to the academy in writing for a place outside their need to include, where This will normal age group. The academy any supporting evidence. relevant, trust will make decisions on the basis of the and in the best interests of each case circumstances of the child concerned in line with the School Admissions Code. This will take into account the views of the Principal. The academy trust will write the outcome including the with or carer to the parent is refused, If the request for the decision. reasons details of how to complain to the academy will be given. 11.2. If your child is due to finish Infant School and11.2. If your child Year to attend a school where you would like them then in the academy, year group 3 is not the lowest on your CAFyou should list the Primary Academy as if you hadand the application will be assessed 3).made an in-year application (see paragraph 12 Applications for Year 11.1. The academy will make arrangements for arrangements academy will make 11.1. The to be at the academy allocated a place all children can request You in September full-time. admitted academy admitted to the your child is that the date year or that in the academic until later is deferred the academy part time until theyyour child attends child must be school age. Your compulsory reach the academy in the final term of thein attendance at which the original application wasacademic year for accepted. 3 Year Applications for 11 Exceptions for Reception Applications When there are more applications than there are also attached). Please return this form direct to the places available, the governors will admit pupils School, signed by an appropriate faith leader. according to the following criteria, applied in the following order of priority: (ii) Siblings 1. children who are in the care of a local “Sibling” refers to brother or sister, half brother authority (looked after children) or provided or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother with accommodation by them (Section 22 of or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner the Children Act 1989) and children who were where the child for whom the school place is sought previously looked after but ceased to be so is living in the same family unit at the same address because they were adopted (or became subject as that sibling. to a residence order or special guardianship. 2. children who will have a sibling attending the (iii) Distance school at the time of application and at the time Distance will be measured by nearness of the of admission. home to the school as determined by a straight line 3. children who are themselves, or whose families measurement from the child’s home address point are, faithful and regular worshippers at a Church to the main single gate entrance of the school, with of England parish church. Written evidence of those living closer to the school receiving the higher the applicants’ commitment to their place of priority. worship (in the form of a clergy reference) will be required, using the Supplementary Information (iv) Waiting Lists Form attached. Waiting lists will be held where in any year the 4. children who are themselves, or whose families school receives more applications for places than are, faithful and regular worshippers of another there are places available. The waiting list will Christian denomination (as recognised by operate throughout the academic year. It will be Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and/ open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s or the Evangelical Alliance). Written evidence name to be placed on the waiting list, following an of the applicants’ commitment to their place of unsuccessful application. worship (in the form of a minister’s reference) will be required, using the Supplementary Children’s position on the waiting list will be Information Form attached. determined solely in accordance with the 5. children with known special medical or social oversubscription criteria set out above. Where needs. Written supporting evidence should places become vacant they will be allocated to be supplied, at the time of application, from a children on the waiting list in accordance with the relevant professional, such as a doctor, social oversubscription criteria. worker or educational psychologist. 6. children who are themselves, or whose families (v) Appeals are, committed members of another religious Parents who are not offered a place for their child faith. Written evidence will be required from have the right to appeal to an independent appeal the faith leader, using the Supplementary panel. Parents wishing to appeal should obtain an Information Form attached. appeal form from the School and return this. The 7. any remaining places will be given in order of form/letter should be sent to reach the Clerk to the the nearness of the home to the school, using a Appeal panel, care of the School, within 14 days straight line distance measurement. (See below of the date of the letter confirming the governors’ NOTES section (iii)) decision not to offer a place. Should some appeals be unsuccessful, the governing body will not Tie-breaker consider further applications from those parents In the event that two or more applicants have equal within the same academic year unless there have right to a place under any of the above criteria, the been significant and material changes in their Governing Body will apply the subsequent criteria, circumstances. in order of priority, to these applicants. (vi) Multiple-birth applications Where parent(s)/guardian(s) are seeking to place Notes twins, triplets etc, they must submit separate (i) Applications on faith grounds applications for each child. When considering “Faithful and regular worshipper” is defined as twins, triplets or larger number of siblings, which are worshipping at least twice a month for two years the product of a multiple birth, the Local Authority prior to application. will usually ask that we admit above the published admission number (PAN) where there are insufficient Parents applying for a place on faith grounds must spaces for all siblings. If this is not possible the complete the Supplementary Information Form remaining place(s) will be offered to the sibling(s) in (which can be obtained from the School and is

126. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 127. guardian(s) accept the place(s) for one or more twin/ or more for one place(s) the accept guardian(s) sibling(s) the unsuccessful birth then triplet/multiple on the waiting list, as first priority will be considered or and the parent(s) becomes available if a space this is their wish in writing that confirm guardian(s) place(s). the original when accepting order of time of birth and the parent(s)/guardian(s) parent(s)/guardian(s) and the of birth of time order the place(s) accept they will (a) decide either may be place(s) which will will decline the or (b) they after in the allocation the next person(s) to offered or births. If the parent(s) the twins/triplets/multiple Stoke Minster Church Of England Aided Primary School

Supplementary Information Form - Application for a place on faith grounds

Full Name of Child: ...... Date of Birth (dd/mm/yy): ......

Name and Address of Church/Place of Worship attended: ...... Post Code:......

How long have you/the child worshipped here? ...... years ...... months

How many times per month (including weekday services) do you worship? ...... x per months

Give details of any involvement in any church/faith activities e.g. youth work, voluntary work, committees, any office or role etc.

If you have moved within the last two years, give details of previous place of worship and length/ frequency of attendance

Name of Minister/Faith Leader of your current place of worship and contact details

Declaration

I certify that these details are, to the best of my knowledge, correct.

Signed Parent/Carer: ...... Date: ......

Signed Minister/Faith Leader: ...... Date: ......

This form must be signed by your faith leader and returned to the Academy by 31st October at the latest.

PLEASE RETURN to: The Headteacher, Stoke Minster C.E.(A) Primary School, Boothen Old Road, Stoke, Stoke on Trent. Staffs. ST4 4EE.

128. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 129. Children with a Statement of Special Educational Children Plan which Needs/Education & Health Care names Sutherland Primary Academy who live in Sutherland Primary Those children who will have a area catchment Academy’s time of thesibling attending the school at the admission (including half/ proposed applicant’s or sisters and step/adopted/foster brothers living at the same who are any other children as part of the same family unit) address but catchment area living within the Children attending Sutherland without a sibling currently Primary Academy Sutherland Primary who live outside Children who will have a catchment area Academy’s sibling attending the school at the time of the (This includes admission. proposed applicant’s or sisters and half/step/adopted/foster brothers living at the same who are any other children, family unit). as part of the same address working at Sutherland Primary of staff Children Academy to Sutherland Primary who live nearest Children as determined by a straight line from Academy, to the main entrance of home address the child’s the school as calculated by the Local Authority’s Geographical Information System. Classes in FS2 (R) will be no more than 30 will be no more Classes in FS2 (R) account the government’s pupils, taking into (unless Sutherland is directed Class Size Pledge Size Pledge by the Localto exceed the Class Authority) per not exceed 30 children Classes in KS1 may the Class Size Pledge (Y1/ class because of the to exceed is directed Y2) (unless Sutherland Class Size Pledge by the Local Authority) who in care or those recently in Care Children may have been adopted

Please note that all criteria apply at the point of allocation of places at the academy. Admissions to the school will be made by theAdmissions to the school will be made Local listed on the All preferences Governing Body. on an Form will be considered Authority Preference applications for more are there equal basis. Where available, theadmissions than the school has places criteria will be used: following over-subscription 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. • • 1. Sutherland is a Primary Academy. The Governing The Academy. a Primary is Sutherland is responsible and Authority is the Admissions Body for admissions. decisions on applications for taking is of admissions arrangements The co-ordination For the school’s by the Local Authority. undertaken 2018, the Governing September year commencing Admission that the Published agreed Body has for pupils of for pupils is 75 places Number (PAN) age (R-Y6=75: N=60) appropriate Sutherland Primary Academy Beaconsfield Drive, Blurton, ST3 3DY Stoke-on-Trent 01782 594133 Tel: www.sutherlandprimary.co.uk Head of Academy: Mr Garry Boote Summerbank Primary Academy Primary Summerbank Road, Tunstall, Summerbank 5HA ST6 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 233611 Tel: www.summerbank.co.uk Robert Shenton Headteacher: Mr The Academy’s Admissions Arrangements are Admissions Arrangements are The Academy’s with statutory annually in accordance reviewed and guidance. In light of the review requirements these arrangements may subsequently change. a copy of the The Academy will give parents at the time of registering Admissions Policy current Primary in a place at Sutherland an interest or of prospective It is the responsibility Academy. updated copies of the to request parents interested Admissions Policy The school’s admissions policy. is displayed in the school entrance/main reception and on its web site. area How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 The criteria used to determine admission refer in Nursery Admissions for the foreseeable future every case to the child’s home address. This means Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority will fund 15 hours the address where the child normally lives on a full- per week for Nursery aged children. time basis, not the address of any child-minder or Sutherland Primary Academy will fund a further relative. In the case of parents who are separated 15 hours per week, making it possible for children and where childcare arrangements are shared attending Sutherland Nursery to have a full time between two addresses we use, as a tie breaker, the place, which is 30 hours each week, as it has been parent who claims the child benefit. the past.

We assume that applicants will always give (There may be changes to this provision from the Sutherland Primary Academy the correct factual Local Authority in the near future but 30 hours will information when applying for a school place. remain the entitlement for all children, free of charge) Applicants should be aware that any school place that has been offered on the basis of false All children aged 3 and 4 years are entitled to information may be withdrawn. Where an offer is receive 15 hours of early education for 38 weeks withdrawn on the basis of misleading information, each year, term time only. the application must be considered again and the Right of Appeal can be offered. It is important that a separate application is made for every child for admission into FS2 (Reception) Applicants will be asked to provide evidence of their class. Attendance at the FS1 (Nursery) class is no correct postal address, e.g. child benefit statement guarantee that a place will be available in FS2 in addition to their Birth Certificate. The governing (Reception). body will accept as evidence of removal into the area proof of exchange of contracts relating to the Annexe 1 Catchment area purchase of a property within the catchment area The catchment area of Sutherland Primary Academy or a copy of a signed rental agreement (minimum remains the same as it has been in the past: 6 months). The governing body retains the right The Beaconsfield Estate, The Seddon’s Estate, to check on occupancy arrangements and their Drubbery Lane/Maythorne areas as far as Trentham decision on such matters is final. Road. A map is available on our website/from the school. What we mean by sibling a child who is living at the same address as their parent(s)/legal carer(s), as part of a family unit. The Crescent Academy

For admission purposes, an older brother or sister Pinewood Crescent, Meir, is defined as a child who lives at the same address Stoke-on-Trent ST3 6HZ and who is the brother/sister, half-brother/sister (i.e. Tel: 01782 318145 share one common parent), or step brother/sister www.thecrescentacademy.com (i.e. related by parent’s marriage) of the child for Executive Principal: Mr David Alston whom the place is being requested. It also includes any other child living at the same residence under The School admits students between the ages the terms of a Residence Order. of 3-11

In any case of two siblings (who are not twins) How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for requiring places in the same academic year group September 2018 and Sutherland Primary Academy only having one An application must be made online at place available, in that year group, the available www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local place will be offered to the eldest child. authority preference form. The closing date for Nursery applications is Unsuccessful applicants have a statutory right of 31 January 2018. appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Sutherland Primary Academy does not consider repeat applications within the same academic year Admission criteria unless there have been significant and/or material The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation changes in the circumstances of the parent, child or Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown school relevant to the application (see DfE School towards the beginning of appendix A. Admission Appeals Code of Practice).

130. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 131. Oxford Road, Fegg Hayes, Road, Oxford ST6 6TD Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234570 Tel: www.whitfieldv.org.uk StockingExecutive Headteacher: Mrs Helen West Street, Weston Coyney, Coyney, Weston Street, West 6PT ST3 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 319607 Tel: www.whinfants.co.uk – Mrs Kathryn Clayton Executive Headteacher Whitfield Valley Primary Academy Whitfield Weston Heights Infant School Infant Heights Weston The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-7 Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards Eastwood Road, ST1 3JS Stoke-on-Trent 01782 234630 Tel: www.waterside.stoke.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Knowles Waterside Primary Waterside The Willows Primary Willows The Penkhull, Avenue, Greatbatch 7JU ST4 Stoke-on-Trent 01782 233280 Tel: www.willowsprimary.com Sarah Thursfield Headteacher: Mrs Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust appendix A. the beginning of towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place for September 2018 An application must be made online at or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference The closing date for Nursery applications is 31 January 2018. The closing date for Reception applications is Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits students between of 3-11 Admission criteria Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, schools is shown Controlled and Voluntary Trust the beginning of appendix A. towards How to apply for Nursery or Reception place forHow to apply for September 2018 be made online atAn application must or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions form. authority preference for Nursery applications isThe closing date 31 January 2018. applications isThe closing date for Reception Monday 15 January 2018. The School admits students between the agesThe School admits of 3-11 Junior schools in Stoke-on-Trent

Please note that a separate application must be made for any transfer from Infant to Junior school. Applications for transition from Infant Schools to their linked Junior School requires only a single preference.

Alexandra Junior School Moorpark Junior School

Meir Road, Normacot, Park Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 7JG Stoke-on-Trent ST6 1EL Tel: 01782 235377 Tel: 01782 234440 www.alexandra-jun.stoke.sch.uk [email protected] Acting Headteacher: Miss Julie Rowe Headteacher: Mrs Karen Peters The School admits students between the ages of The School admits students between the ages of 7-11 7-11

How to apply for a junior school place for How to apply for a junior school place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for junior applications is The closing date for junior applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

Grove Academy Weston Coyney Junior School

Turner Street, Northwood, Princess Drive, Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 2NL Stoke-on-Trent ST3 6NG Tel: 01782 234550 Tel: 01782 312112 www.grovejunior.co.uk www.westoncoyney-jun.stoke.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs Nicola McIntyre Executive Headteacher: Mrs Kathryn Clayton The School admits students between the ages of The School admits students between the ages of 7-11 7-11

How to apply for a junior school place for How to apply for a junior school place for September 2018 September 2018 An application must be made online at An application must be made online at www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions or by using the local authority preference form. authority preference form. The closing date for junior applications is The closing date for junior applications is Monday 15 January 2018. Monday 15 January 2018.

Admission criteria Admission criteria The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation The Admissions Policy for Community, Foundation Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown Trust and Voluntary Controlled schools is shown towards the beginning of appendix A. towards the beginning of appendix A.

132. Apply on-line for school places stoke.gov.uk/admissions 133. Useful contact details Children and Family Services Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HH

Admissions and Transport Helpline 01782 234598 In Year Admissions 01782 237856 Education Welfare 01782 235355 SEND Information Advice and Support Service 01782 234701 (SENDIASS) Free School Meals 01782 236813 Vulnerable Children and Corporate Parenting Hanley Area Office 01782 235100

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