Padiham St Leonard's (Voluntary Aided) Church of England Primary School

Postal address Moor Lane
Padiham
BB12 8HT
Telephone 01282 771470
Headteacher Mrs B Holmes
Number on roll January 2023 337
Admission number 2024/25 45

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)This  includes those 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 who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
  3. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in the life of St Leonard’s Church Padiham or St Margaret's Hapton.
  4. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in the life of a church in full membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance or the North West Partnership or a church that subscribes to the Trinitarian creeds.
  5. Children of staff. Children of staff at Padiham St Leonard's CE VA School who have been employed at the school for the whole of the two years prior to the closing date of applications.
  6. 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 two addresses have the same distance, or the cut-off point is for addresses within the same building, then 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