Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Primary School, Brierfield

Postal address Halifax Road
Brierfield
BB9 5BL
Telephone 01282 613709
Headteacher Mrs M T Lyle
Number on roll January 2023 114
Admission number 2024/25 30 Temporary increase

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 children who were 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 result of being adopted.
  2. Baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and resident in the former parish of Holy Trinity.
  3. Baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in the former parish of Holy Trinity Brierfield.
  4. Other baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and are resident in another parish.
  5. Other baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in another parish.
  6. Other looked after children or children who were 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 result of being adopted.
  7. Children who are worshipping in a Church in membership of the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.
  8. Children who are worshipping in a Church in membership of the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.
  9. Children for whom the Governors accept that there are exceptionally strong medical, social, or welfare reasons, which are directly relevant to the school concerned.
  10. Other children with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.
  11. Other children.

If it is not possible to offer places for all applications within any criterion above, priority will be given to those living closest to the school measured by a straight line measurement (radial) between the applicant’s home address points and the address point of the school (co-ordinates provided by ordnance survey data). If the Local Authority is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (eg. Siblings, those living the same distance from home to school, or families residing in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw.