St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Medlar-with-Wesham

Postal address	Garstang Road North Wesham Preston PR4 3HA
Telephone	01772 683009
Headteacher	Mrs Louise Freeman
Number on roll January 2024	95
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. Baptised Roman Catholic children who are looked after by the Local Authority and Roman Catholic adopted children who were previously looked after, including those 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 Roman Catholic children residing in the Parish of St Joseph’s Wesham as it existed prior to amalgamation with the Parish of St. John the Evangelist (The Willows) Kirkham to become the Parish of the Holy Cross (on 21st July 2013).
3. Baptised Roman Catholic siblings of existing pupils at the time of admission.
4. Baptised Roman Catholic children from the remaining part of the Parish of The Holy Cross.
5. Baptised Roman Catholic children with a specific educational, medical, social or emotional school which is relevant to the school and whose application is supported in writing by an appropriate authority (e.g. doctor or social worker).
6. Other Baptised Roman Catholic children resident outside the Parish of The Holy Cross.
7. Non-Roman Catholic Looked After children and Non-Roman Catholic adopted children who were previously looked after, including those children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
8. Siblings of existing pupils.
9. 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 the cut off point is for addresses within the same building, then the single measure between address points will apply and 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