St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Morecambe

Postal address Littledale Avenue
Heysham
Morecambe
LA3 2ER
Telephone 01524 851766
Headteacher Mrs C E Hind
Number on roll January 2024 200
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. Baptised Catholic looked after children or children who were 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 Roman Catholic siblings of children at the school who will still be on the school roll at the time of admission.
  3. Baptised Roman Catholic children from the Parish of Blessed John Henry Newman.
  4. Other Baptised Roman Catholic children.
  5. Other looked after children or children who were 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.
  6. Other siblings of children at the school who will still be on the school roll at the time of admission.
  7. Baptised children of other Christian denominations and world faiths.
  8. Other children.

If within any category there are more applicants than places available, priority will be given on the basis of proximity to the school measured by the walking distance along public highways between the front gate of the family home and the main entrance of the school. 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) 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