St Michael and St John's Roman Catholic Primary School, Clitheroe

Summary of policy

This is a voluntary aided school – please contact the school for full admission details. To apply for a place at this school, please apply online and use the supplementary information form available from the school.

1. Baptised Catholic Looked after children or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order or those children who appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

2. Baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.

3. Baptised Roman Catholic children in the Parish of Our Lady of the Valley. Please see details below.

4. Baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in the Parish of Our Lady of the Valley as shown in the details below.

5. Other Baptised Roman Catholic children resident in another Parish.                

6. Other looked after children or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order or those children who appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

7. 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 an application is submitted with evidence from sources deemed appropriate by the applicant. These may include a doctor, health visitor or social services.     

8. Other children with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.

9. Other children.

Where there are more applicants for the available places within a category, then the distance between the Ordnance Survey address points for the school and the home measured in a straight line will be used as the final determining factor, nearer addresses having priority over more distant ones.  This address point is within the body of the property and usually located at its centre. Where the cut-off point is for addresses within the same building, then the single measure between address points will apply and the Local Authority's system of a random draw will determine which address(es) receive the offer(s).

GEOGRAPHICAL PRIORITY AREA

Parish of Our Lady of the Valley, specifically in the catchment area from the point where Ogden Clough meets Ribble Valley and Pendle district boundary, N by that boundary to the diocesan boundary at Helliwell Wood OS833428 NW by the diocesan boundary across Twiston Moor to the start of Ings Brook W by this brook via Clough Head, Ings End OS815447 to its confluence with Swanside Beck OS785454 and by Smithies Brook to Smithies Bridge on the A59. (Former boundary between St Hubert and St Michael and St John) by River Ribble point opposite the confluence of Pig Hill Brook OS723394 SE by a straight line to the junction of the A671 and the A59T and by a second straight line to the 315 trig point near Jeppe Knave Grave OS762380 and by a straight line the point where Ogden Clough meets River Valley and Pendle District boundary.

Definitions

Definitions of the following terms are available and apply except where individual arrangements spell out a different definition.

• Distance

• Parents / family members

• Medical/social/welfare

• Looked after children and previously looked after children