St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Lancaster

Postal address Bowerham Road
Lancaster
LA1 4HT
Telephone 01524 63934
Headteacher Mrs D Shoulder
Number on roll January 2024 207
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.

If the number of applications for admission exceeds the places available, children will be admitted in the order of priority set out below.

  1. Looked after children or a child who was 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 with a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  3. Baptised Catholic children living in the parishes of St Bernadette’s and SS Thomas and Elizabeth, Thurnham including Galgate.
  4. Baptised Catholic children living outside the parishes.
  5. Other children with a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  6. Other children.

If the number of children in any of the categories 1 – 6 is greater than the places available, applications will be further ranked as follows:

Children living nearest to the school as measured in a straight line (as the crow flies) from the centre point of the home address to the centre point of the school (as determined by the LEA straight line measure). In the event of a tied distance measurement between address points the Local Authority’s system of a random draw will determine which address(es) will receive the offer(s).

Parents who wish their application to this school to be considered against the priority faith criteria should also complete the school’s Supplementary Information Form and return it directly to the school. This form is attached to the admission school’s policy, is available directly from the school and is on the school’s website.

Please return the completed form, together with a copy of your child’s confirmation of Baptism, to the Headteacher, St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School, Bowerham Rd, Lancaster, LA1 4HT.

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