In the event of over-subscription, the following criteria will be applied, in priority order, to determine which

applications will be granted:

Variation to standard reception criteria: infant and primary schools – faith criterion 2025-2026

1. Looked after children and previously looked after children, including those 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.

2. Children who live in the catchment area at the closing date for applications and who, at the time of admission, will have a brother or sister attending the school and children who do not live in the catchment area at the closing date for application and who, at the time of admission, will have a brother or sister attending the school who was displaced as their Nottinghamshire community catchment school was oversubscribed at the national offer day for first admission to school.

3. Other children who live in the catchment area at the closing date for applications.

4. Children who live outside the catchment area and who, at the time of admission, will have a brother or sister attending the school.

5. Children who live outside the catchment area where a parent is involved with St Helen’s Church.

6. Children who live outside the catchment area where a parent is involved with other named Anglican churches or those churches affiliated with Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance.

7. Other children who live outside the catchment area.

Admission to School

First admissions will be as follows: For admission into each school year Trowell C of E Primary will provide for admission of all children in the September following their fourth birthday. Parents can request that the date their child is admitted to the school is deferred until later in the a school year or until the child reaches compulsory school age in that year. Parents may also request that their child attends part time until the child reaches compulsory school age. These admission arrangements constitute admission into school prior to compulsory school age and our policy is subject to parents’ statutory right to defer their child’s admission to compulsory school age.