Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Thornton Cleveleys

Postal address Heys Street
Thornton Cleveleys
FY5 4HL
Telephone 01253 82392
Headteacher Mr P Eaton
Number on roll January 2023 190
Admission number 2024/25 30

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 a result of being adopted.
  2. Baptised Catholic Children, whose parents/guardians are practicing Catholics residing in the parishes of Sacred Heart.
  3. Baptised Catholic Children with siblings already in school.
  4. Baptised Catholic Children.
  5. 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 a result of being adopted.
  6. Baptised Christian children whose parents practice their faith.
  7. Children of families of other faiths who seek a Catholic Education for their child.
  8. Siblings of other children on roll in school.
  9. All other children.

If the number of children in any of the categories 1 – 9 is greater than the places available, applications will be further ranked: -

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) receives the offers(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