St Gregory ’ s Catholic Primary School
Woodfield Road , Ealing W5 1SL 020 8997 7550 admin @ st-gregorys . ealing . sch . uk www . st-gregorys . ealing . sch . uk
Nursery : Yes l Breakfast club : Yes l Afterschool club : Yes
DfE No : 307 / 3506 Type of school : Voluntary aided Headteacher : Margaret Kolanowska Age range : 3-11 Planned admission number at 4 years : 60
Admissions criteria
The criteria listed below have been summarised ; the full admissions policy and regulations can be found on the school ’ s website : www . st-gregorys . ealing . sch . uk
Where the number of applications is greater than the planned admission number , applications will be considered against the criteria set out below .
After the allocation of children with an EHC plan , the admission criteria will be applied in the following order of priority :
1 . Catholic Looked After children and Catholic children who have been adopted ( or made subject to child arrangements orders or special guardianship orders ) immediately following having been looked after . Including Catholic children who appear ( to the admission authority ) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted .
2 . Baptised Catholic children who are resident in the parish of St Benedict at time of application ( according to attached map ). N . B . Equal consideration will be given to baptised children with a Certificate of Catholic Practice , who are resident in the parish of St Benedict ’ s , but who regularly worship at their own Catholic National Church , ( e . g . Italian , Polish etc .,) or their own Eastern Rite Uniate Catholic Church .
3 . Baptised Catholic children who are resident outside the parish of St Benedict . 4 . Other Catholic children . 5 . Other looked after children and children who have been adopted ( or made subject to child arrangements orders or special guardianship orders ) immediately having been looked after . Including children who appear ( to the admission authority ) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted .
6 . Children of Catechumens and baptised children of the Eastern Christian Churches .
7 . Christians of other Christian denominations whose application is supported by a letter from their minister / faith leader confirming membership of the faith community .
8 . Children of other faiths whose application is supported by a letter from their minister / faith leader confirming membership of the faith community .
9 . Any other children .
Sibling priority Attendance of a sibling at the school at the time of application . ( Not including the Nursery ). ( Sibling is defined as : brother / sister / half brother / half sister and in every case the child should be living in the same family unit at the same address .) The sibling priority rule applies within each of the oversubscription criteria .
Tie break Where the offer of a place to all the applicants in any of the categories listed would lead to over subscription , places up to the stated number will be offered to those living nearest to the school , measured ‘ by a straight line ’, measurements are provided by the London Borough of Ealing for Reception Classes . In the event of a tie-break situation , this will be decided by random allocation and will take place in the presence of an independent witness .
Multiple applications Where the final place in the Reception classes is offered to a child who has other siblings applying for a place in the same Reception classes , these siblings will also be admitted .
Supplementary information form ( SIF ) Applicants should complete St . Gregory ’ s Supplementary Information Form ( SIF ) which is supplied in the application pack . The Supplementary Information Form ( SIF ) is available from the school or the local authority and should be completed and returned to the school by the closing date . If you do not complete and submit the SIF by the closing date , the governing body may be unable to consider your application fully .
Catholic Catholic means a member of a Church in full communion with the See of Rome . This includes the Eastern Catholic Churches . This will be evidenced by a Certificate of Baptism in a Catholic church or a Certificate of Reception into full communion of the Catholic Church . For the purposes of this policy this includes a looked after child in the process of adoption and living with a Catholic family , where a letter from a priest demonstrates that the child would have been baptised were it not for his / her status as a looked after child .
For a child to be treated as Catholic , evidence of Catholic baptism or reception in the Catholic Church will be required . Those who have difficulty obtaining written evidence of baptism should contact their parish priest who , after consulting with the diocese 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 .
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