Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School

Postal address	St John's Street Great Harwood Blackburn BB6 7ES
Telephone	01254 885926
Headteacher	Miss T Parker
Number on roll January 2024	159
Admission number 2025/26	25

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. 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 a church in full membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance or the North West Partnership.
4. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a non-Christian faith which is in membership of the UK Interfaith Network.
   The major world faiths are those in membership of the UK Interfaith Network; in addition to Christians, it includes Buddhists, Baha'is, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Zoroastrians. The parent must meet the normal religious obligations of the faith. The governors will request confirmation of this from the relevant member of the clergy or worship leader.
5. Children of staff who have been employed in the school for the whole of the two years prior to the closing date for applications, or where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
   This applies to all staff, full and part time, who are employed by the governing body.
6. Location to school: those living within the ecclesiastical Parish of St Bartholomew and St John, Great Harwood. A map showing the boundaries is available in school.
7.  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