St Margaret Ward Catholic Primary School

Admissions Policy for Reception to Year Six Aged Children
2009/10

St Margaret Ward is a Catholic Primary School under the trusteeship of the Diocese of Shrewsbury. It is maintained by Trafford Education Authority. As a Voluntary Aided School, the Governing Body is the Admissions Authority and is responsible for taking decisions on applications for admissions. For the school’s year commencing September 2009 the Governing Body has set its admissions number at 30.

Admissions to the school will be made by the Governing Body in accordance with the stated parental preference subject to the following set of ADMISSIONS CRITERIA forming a priority order where there are more applications for admissions that the school has places available.

1. Looked after children.
2. Baptised Catholic children from the parish of St Margaret Ward Catholic Primary School.
3. Children who have a brother or a sister at the school at the time of admission.
4. Baptised Catholic children from other parishes.
5. Non Catholic children whose parents wish them to have a Catholic education.

Notes

a) All applicants will be considered at the same time and after the closing date for admissions, which is published in the Trafford Local Authority Admissions Guidelines.
b) All Catholic applicants will be required to produce baptismal
Certificates.
c) It is the duty of governors to comply with class size limits at
Key Stage One.
d) If category (2) is oversubscribed, children who satisfy (2) and (3) will have priority over children who satisfy only (2). subsequently if in this or any other category there are more applications than places available, priority will be given on the basis of distance from home to school, this will be calculated by taking a straight line from home to the school entrance on Hurst Avenue, those living nearer to the school having priority.
e) The Governing Body reserve the right to admit children with proven and exceptional medical and social needs where admission to the school might best help satisfy those exceptional needs, providing that such application is submitted with appropriate evidence or reports from a doctor or social worker. If the school is named in a statement of special educational needs the Governing Body has a duty to admit the child to the school. Where applications are received from Catholic and other children in public care they will respectively be admitted to the school in that priority order and in advance of the outlined order of criteria.
f) Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every case, the child should be living in the same family unit at the same address.
g) Applications for a place at the school outside the normal admissions round will be considered in the light of availability of places. If there are more applicants than places available then the published over subscription criteria will apply.
h) If an application for admission has been turned down by the Governing Body, parents can appeal to an independent Appeals Panel. This appeal must be sent in writing to the Clerk to the Governors at the school within 14 days (10 working days) of refusal. Parents must give reasons for appealing in writing and the decision of the Appeals Panel is binding on the Governors.
i) Parents wishing to apply for a place at St Margaret Ward RC Primary School should fill in a common application form and send it direct to Trafford. Forms can be obtained from www.trafford.gov.uk or School Admissions, Children and Young People's Service, 4th Floor, Waterside House, Sale, M33 7ZF Deadline for return of the form is 6th February 2009. Parents should also fill in separate admission form, which can be obtained from the school office and returned directly to school.

ADMISSION FORM
St. Margaret Ward R.C Primary School
Cherry Lane Sale Cheshire
0161 969 9852

Child’s Surname…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Child’s Forenames ………………………………………………………………………………………

Address ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………

…………………………………………………………………………………………… Post Code …………………

Home Telephone Number …………………………………………………

Date of Birth …………………………………………………..………

Date and Place of Baptism ……………………………………………………………………………………..

Father’s name …………………………………………. Contact Number ……………………………….

Mother’s Name ………………………………………. Contact Number ………………………………..

If you are applying to our school because your child falls in to the criteria, set out in section ‘e’ of our Admissions Policy, please give details of the relevant medical conditions.
(Please state) ………………………………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Names of brothers and sisters in the school ……………………………………..

IT IS VITAL THAT YOU INFORM THE SCHOOL IMMEDIATELY IF YOU CHANGE ADDRESS OR TELEPHONE NUMBER

Signed (Parent/Guardian) ……………………………………………Date……………………………..