Nelson St Paul's Church of England Primary School

Postal address Hibson Road
Nelson
BB9 0PY
Telephone 01282 617035
Headteacher Mrs J Wood
Number on roll January 2023 415
Admission number 2024/25 60

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. a) Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children. This criteria also includes looked after children and all previously looked after 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.
    b) Children with special medical or social circumstances affecting the child where these needs can only be   met at this school.
  2. Children with a parent / guardian worshipping at a Church within the Parish of Little Marsden that is in membership of Churches Together in England or the Free Churches Group or is Gospel Mission in Nelson.
  3. Children who have been baptised in the Christian Faith.
  4. Children who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
  5. 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).

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