Trinity Church of England/Methodist Buckshaw Village

Postal address	Unity Place Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7HZ
Telephone	01772 624416
Headteacher	Mrs J R Wright
Number on roll January 2024	614
Admission number 2025/26	90

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 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 whose parents live within the Buckshaw village estate (proof of address will be required):
   (a) Children who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission;
   (b) Other children.
3. Children whose parents live outside the Buckshaw village estate:
   (a) Children who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission;
   (b) 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).

Important - please note:

For reception intakes applying to the second site (Brookwood Way), where there are more applicants than available places, the distance tie-break will measure from home address to the nearest of the two school sites

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