Balderstone St Leonard's Church of England Primary School

Postal address	Commons Lane Balderstone Nr Blackburn BB2 7LL
Telephone	01254 769150
Headteacher	Miss V Gow
Number on roll January 2024	98
Admission number 2025/26	15

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) Children in public care 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. a. Children whose parents live within the ecclesiastical parish of Balderstone, Osbaldeston and in the part of the hamlet known as Mellor Brook, who worship regularly at Balderstone St Leonard’s church. Church attendance includes Forest Church & All-Age Worship.
   b. Children whose parents live within the ecclesiastical parish of Balderstone, Osbaldeston and in the part of the hamlet known as Mellor Brook, who worship regularly at a church that is a member of Churches Together in England or Evangelical Alliance.
   c. Children whose parents live within the ecclesiastical parish of Balderstone, Osbaldeston and in the part of the hamlet known as Mellor Brook.
3. Children who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
4. a. Children whose parents live outside the ecclesiastical parish of Balderstone, Osbaldeston and in the part of the hamlet known as Mellor Brook, who worship regularly at Balderstone St Leonard’s church. Church attendance includes Forest Church & All-Age Worship.
   b. Children whose parents live outside the ecclesiastical parish of Balderstone, Osbaldeston and in the part of the hamlet known as Mellor Brook, who worship regularly at a church that is a member of Churches Together in England or Evangelical Alliance.
5. Other children

The section of Mellor Brook which is specified as our catchment area is defined as the area bounded by Branch Road and Mellor parish boundary, ending at the junction of Branch Road and Preston New Road. A map is available in school.

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