To whom it may concern

Re: Consultation on amending the designated area for North Academy’s admissions policy

North Oxfordshire Academy is proposing to change the school’s designated area (or catchment areas as it often referred to). The arrangement currently means the area is in two separate parts; one area serving addresses in and the other a rural area encompassing Bourton, Claydon with Clattercote, , Mollington, and .

This split is historical as previously there were very few residential addresses between the two areas and the school’s admissions policy has not been updated in the year since this changed. We believe it is important for the school to update its designated area to reflect and include these new parts of our community. Our school is built around our community and its families and we would the children most local to us to have the opportunity to attend the school, which is not currently the case in all instances.

Attached you will find a formal consultation document and maps that show the proposed changes. These reflect our proposal to create on single contiguous designated area and correct the anomalies in the split sites we currently have.

We would welcome your comments on these proposed changes. If you wish to do so, please send any comments to [email protected] by 27 January 2021. If adopted, the new designated area will come into effect for those applying for places at the academy for 1 September 2022. This will not impact those pupils wishing to join the school in September 2021.

If you have any questions about the proposal, please do contact me.

Yours sincerely

Alison Merrills Principal

North Oxfordshire Academy Drayton Road Banbury

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