Christ Church CE Primary School

Admission Arrangements

Birmingham Local Authority (community and voluntary controlled infant, primary and secondary schools)

• Any child with an Education, Health and Care Plan is required to be admitted to the school that is named in the plan. This gives such children overall priority for admission to the named school. This is not an oversubscription criterion and applies to all rounds of admission.

Oversubscription criteria

• The local authority is the admission authority for community and voluntary controlled schools. Children are admitted to schools in accordance with parental preference as far as possible. However, where there are more applications than there are places available, places at community and voluntary controlled schools will be offered based on the following order of priority (except those schools set out in paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 below):
• Looked after children or children who were previously looked after (including previously looked after children from outside England).
• Children with a brother or sister already at the school who will still be in attendance at the time the child enters the school, excluding those children attending nursery or a sixth form (and excludes those in year 6 at the time of the application).
• In the case of voluntary controlled Church of England primary schools, children whose parents have made applications on denominational grounds. This will be confirmed by the parent/carer by filling in the supplementary information form and getting section B completed by the Priest/Minister of the relevant church. Details of schools that use denominational criteria can be viewed in section 6.
• Children who live nearest to the school.
• Within each of the categories above, priority is given to those who live nearest to the school, measured in a straight line from the child’s home address to a designated point on the school premises (see 11).
• Admission to a nursery school or nursery class does not give the child any priority or additional right to transfer to the Reception year of the primary or infant school to which the nursery is linked or attached. A separate application must be made.

Oversubscription criteria for Year 2 to Year 3 Transfers

• Looked after or previously looked after children (including previously looked after children from outside England).
• Linked Schools: Children who will be attending the linked Infant School at the time of application and will still be in attendance at the end of Year 2. (A list of linked infant and junior schools is available in the primary prospectus and on the School Admissions webpage.
• Children with a sibling already at the Infant or Junior School who will still be in attendance at the time the child enters the school.
• Children who live nearest to the school.

Within each of the categories above, priority is given to those who live nearest to the school, measured in a straight line from the child’s home address to a designated point on the school premises.

Chilcote Primary, Hall Green Infant and Hall Green Junior schools

• Chilcote Primary, Hall Green Infant and Hall Green Junior schools each have catchment areas. At these schools, the order of priority for admission is as follows:
• Looked after or previously looked after children (including previously looked after children from outside England).
• Children living within the catchment area of the school who will have a sibling in attendance at the school at the time the child enters the school.
• Children living within the catchment area of the school who live nearest to the school.
• Children living outside the catchment area of the school who will have a sibling in attendance at the school at the time the child enters the school.
• Children living outside the catchment area who live nearest to the school.
• Within each of the categories above, priority is given to those who live nearest to the school.

Over-subscription criteria for Year 2 to Year 3 Transfer - Hall Green Junior

• Looked after or previously looked after children (including previously looked after children from outside England).

• Children attending Hall Green Infant School.

• Children who are attending the school at the time of the application and will still be in attendance at the end of Year 2.

Christ Church CE Primary School

Any child whose parent/carer regularly attends the local Church of England Parish Church (Christ Church, Farm Road, B11). Regular is defined as meaning once a month for the twelve-month period prior to the date of the application. This will be confirmed by the parent/carer filling in the supplementary information form and getting section B completed by the local minister.

In the event that during the period specified for attendance the church has been closed for public worship and has not provided alternative premises, the requirements of these admissions arrangements in relation to attendance will only apply to the period when the church or alternative premises have been available for public worship.