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St Gregory’s Catholic
Primary School
Woodfield Road, Ealing W5 1SL
020 8997 7550
[email protected]
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: 90
Admissions 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.
The below criteria has been summarised, for the full admissions
policy and arrangements please visit the school 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.
2. Baptised Catholic children with a Certificate of Catholic
Practice 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 with a Certificate of Catholic
Practice 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.
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.
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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.
Certificate of Catholic practice (CCP)
Applicants applying under criteria 2 and 3 must submit a
certificate of Catholic practice by the closing date. ‘Certificate
of Catholic Practice’ means a certificate issued by the family’s
parish priest (or the priest in charge of the church where the
family attends Mass) in the form laid down by the Bishops’
Conference of England and Wales. It will be issued if the
priest is satisfied that at least one Catholic parent or carer
(along with the child, if he or she is over seven years old) have
(except when it was impossible to do so) attended Mass on
Sundays and holy days of obligation for at least five years (or,
in the case of the child, since the age of seven, if shorter). It
will also be issued when the practice has been continuous
since being received into the Church if that occurred less
than five years ago. It is expected that most Certificates will
be issued on the basis of attendance. A Certificate may also
be issued by the priest when attendance is interrupted by
exceptional circumstances which excuse from the obligation to
attend on that occasion or occasions. Further details of these
circumstances can be found in the guidance issued to priests
http://rcdow.org.uk/education/governors/admissions/