Great Eccleston Copp Church of England Primary School

Postal address Copp Lane
Great Eccleston
Preston
PR3 0ZN
Telephone 01995 670969
Headteacher Mrs A Loughran
Number on roll January 2024 167
Admission number 2025/26 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. (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 who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
  3. Children of staff who have, (1) been employed at Great Eccleston Church of England Primary School for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, or (2) have been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. 
  4. Children whose parents live within the ecclesiastical parish of St. Anne’s Church, Copp (comprising Great Eccleston, Elswick and Little Eccleston with Larbreck) 
    a. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping at St. Anne's Church, Copp  
    b. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a church in membership of Churches Together in England.
    c. Children that have attended the school's pre-school (Copp Cadets) for a minimum of three terms 
    d. Other children.
  5. Children whose parents/guardians live outside the ecclesiastical parish of St. Anne's Church, Copp (comprising Great Eccleston, Elswick and Little Eccleston with Larbreck)
    a. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping at St. Anne's Church,
    b. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a church in membership of Churches Together in England. 
    c. Children that have attended the school's pre-school (Copp Cadets) for a minimum of three terms 
    d. Other children. 

 A map showing the boundaries is available in school.

Tie break

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