'As it is the parents who have given life to their children, on them lays the gravest obligation to educate the family. They must be recognised as being primarily and pricipally responsible for their education.'

 

Second Vatican Council:

Gravissimum Educationis

28th October 1965

 

ST MARY'S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

ADMISSION INFORMATION 2023-2024

Admissions 2023-2024

Admission Appeals 2023-2024

Diocese of Westminster Primary SIF for 2023-2024

 

ADMISSION INFORMATION 2024-2025

Admissions 2024-2025

Admission Appeals 2024-2025

Diocese of Westminster Primary SIF for 2024-2025

 

ADMISSION INFORMATION 2025-2026

Admissions 2025-2026

Admission Appeals 2025-2026

Diocese of Westminster Primary SIF for 2025-2026

 

OTHER INFORMATION

Certificate of Catholic Practice (link)

Admission to Nursery Booklet 2023

Applying for Primary Schools in Enfield- Admission Criteria 2023

Admission to Primary - Information for Parents Booklet 2024

Your Guide to Secondary Schools Booklet 2024

Moving On To Secondary School September 2024

Choosing a Catholic Secondary School 2024

Step by step guide to applying online 2024

Medical Priority Guidance and Application Form for Children for Admission in September 2024 

Secondary Transfer Previous Allocations Breakdown 2023

Our Catholic Schools

 

Link to Enfield School Admissions' Service:

https://new.enfield.gov.uk/services/children-and-education/school-admissions-and-information/admissions-applications/

 

St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to Catholic children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is conducted by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its trust deed and instrument of government, and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ.

As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school. We therefore hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. This does not affect the right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a place at the school in accordance with the admission arrangements.

The governing body is the admissions authority and has responsibility for admissions to this school. The local authority undertakes the co-ordination of admission arrangements during the normal admission round. The governing body has set its admission number at 60 pupils to be admitted to the reception year in the school year which begins in September, 2023.

The governing body will, where logistically possible, admit twins and all siblings from multiple births where one of the children is the last child ranked within the school’s Published Admissions Number (“PAN”).

 

Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan or a Statement of Special Educational Needs (see note 1)

The admission of pupils with a Statement of Educational Needs or an Education, Health and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education, Health and Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. Where this takes place before the allocation of places under these arrangements this will reduce the number of places available to other children.

 

Oversubscription Criteria

Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority.

1. Catholic looked after and previously looked after children. (see notes 2&3)

2. Catholic children who are resident in the parish of Mary, Mother of God, Ponders End. (see notes 3&11)

3. Other baptised Catholic children for whom St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School is the nearest Catholic school. (see notes 3&11)

4. Other Catholic children. (see note 3)

5. Other looked after and previously looked after children. (see note 2)

6. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church. (see notes 4&5)

7. Children of other Christian denominations whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion. (see note 6)

8. Children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader. (see note 7)

9. Any other children.

 

 

Within each of the categories listed above, the following provisions will be applied in the following order.

1. Where evidence is provided at the time of application of an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child which can most appropriately be met at this school, the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made. (see note 10)            

 

2. The attendance of a brother or sister at the school at the time of enrolment will increase the priority of an application within each category so that the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made after children in (i) above (see note 8).        

 

Tie Break

Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of the sub-categories listed above would still lead to oversubscription, the places up to the admission number will be offered to those living nearest to the school as measured in a straight line from the applicant’s home to the school as measured by the Local Authority (LA). If two or more applications are received from the same block of flats, the applicant with the lower door number will be classed as nearest and offered a place because they are likely to be closer to the ground floor and, therefore, the school. In the event of distances being the same for two or more children where this would determine the last place to be allocated, random allocation will be carried out by the local authority’s computerised allocation system.

 

Application Procedures and Timetable

To apply for a place at this school in the normal admission round, you must complete a Common Application Form available from the local authority in which you live. You are also requested to complete the Supplementary Information Form (SIF) attached to this policy if you wish to apply under oversubscription criteria 1 to 4 or 6 to 8. The Supplementary Information Form should be returned to the school together with all other relevant paperwork by the 15^th January 2023.

You will be advised of the outcome of your application on 16^th April or the next working day, by the local authority on our behalf. If you are unsuccessful (unless your child gained a place at a school you ranked higher) you will be informed of the reasons, related to the oversubscription criteria listed above, and you have the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel.

 

If you do not provide the information required in the SIF and return it by the closing date, together with all supporting documentation, your child will not be placed in criteria 1 to 4 or 6 to 8, and this is likely to affect your child’s chance of being offered a place.

All applications which are submitted on time will be considered at the same time and after the closing date for admissions which is 15^th January 2023.