Canon Burrows Church of England Primary School - Voluntary Aided
Admission arrangements - Reception ( September 2010 Intake.)

The Governing Body sets up an Admissions Committee to make all decision about admissions.

• The number of places available will be a maximum of 60.(The Admissions number)
• The governors will not place restriction on admissions to Reception year unless they are advised that applications are likely to exceed the published admissions number.
• In the event of over-subscription the governors will allocate places using the following criteria which are listed in priority order. By law no infant class may contain more than thirty children.
• The criteria need to be read in conjunction with the Guidance Notes.
• This arrangement follows consultation between the Governing Body, the Manchester Diocesan Board of Education, Local Education Authority, and other admission authorities in the area.
• The following over-subscription criteria does not apply when Canon Burrows Church of England Primary School is the named school for children with a statement of special educational need. They will be admitted as top priority.

Last 3 year average (to 2009)

1 Children in Public Care Nil

2 Christ Church Foundation 15

3 Other Anglican Church 5

4 Sibling connection 18

5 Special social needs Nil

6 Churches Together 1

7 All Other Children 21

Children in Public Care
Looked After Children.

Christ Church Foundation
Children of a parent/guardian who worships *regularly at Christ Church, Ashton.
* Regularly means a minimum of 26 attendances in the twelve month period preceding the date that your form has to be signed.. Verified by a signed form from the Vicar or Minister.

Other Anglican Church
Children of a parent/guardian who worships *regularly at other Anglican Church services.
* Regularly means a minimum of 26 attendances in the twelve month period preceding the date that your form has to be signed.. Verified by a signed form from the Vicar or Minister.

Sibling connection
Brother/Sister of children attending the school, living at the same address as the child for whom the application is being made. This includes natural sisters/brothers; half sisters/brothers; step sisters/brothers; sisters/brothers of fostered children, and in each case living at the same address. No sibling priority is given to cousins, regardless of their address or to children in year six who are leaving.

Special Social Needs
Medical/Family Circumstances .Professional written evidence must be provided from a doctor or other agency that he/she has exceptional needs which means that admission to Canon Burrows Church of England Primary School is essential. All information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence. The Governing Body’s Admissions Committee will decide whether to admit a child under this criterion using the evidence provided.

Churches Together
Children of a parent/guardian who worships *regularly at any other church belonging to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or affiliated to Churches Together in Greater Manchester.
* Regularly means a minimum of 26 attendances in the twelve month period preceding the date that your form has to be signed.. Verified by a signed form from the Minister / Pastor

All Other Children

Tie Breaker -
Distance -Where oversubscription occurs in applying criteria, priority will be given to those pupils living nearest the school, as defined by distance. Distance will be measured as a straight line from the child’s home address, using the address point assigned by the National Land and Property Gazetteer, to the main gate to the school property. Measurements will be made using the Local Authority’s school admissions data mapping software, which employs a Geographical Information System based on Ordnance Survey. The address from which distance will be measured will be the permanent residential address, at the time of application, of the parent with whom the child is normally resident. Evidence of proof of address must be provided with the application. In the event of distances being the same for two or more applications, where this distance would be the last place/s to be allocated, a random lottery will be implemented between the applications where the distance is the same. The random lottery will be carried out in a public place and supervised by someone independent of the school. All the names will be entered into a hat and the required number of names will be drawn out.

Guidance Notes:
1. Home Address of pupil - The address used will be the permanent residential address, at the time of application, of the parent with whom the child is normally resident. If the address changes subsequently, the parent should notify the school. Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the home address is the address from which the child travels to school for the majority of school days per week. If the number of days is exactly equal the home address will be that of the parent who receives the Child Benefit
Proof of Address: Applicants must provide TWO from the following list.
+ Mortgage Statement* +Tenancy agreement or letter from landlord* +Council Tax Statement*
+Council Tax Benefit Statement* +TV Licence* +Home contents insurance certificate*
+Buildings insurance certificate*
+Recent utility bill (gas, electricity, water, land-line telephone bill but not a mobile phone bill.**
+Letter from a solicitor confirming exchange of contracts on a house**
* issued within the last 12 months ** issued within the last 3 months.
Governors reserve the right to make enquiries of any relevant third parties.
If a child is cared for on a daily basis at another address, e.g. Child minder or grandparent or another member of the family, this address cannot be considered for the purpose of the admission process.
Where the proposed admission is to coincide with a change of address, independent verification will be sought. Many families have complex child care arrangements, factors such as these are not considered exceptional. Any written evidence in support of the application will be treated in the strictest confidence.
If an address is subsequently proved to be false, then the governors reserve the right to withdraw the offer of a place.

2. Siblings / Multiple births
In cases where twins, triplets, other multiple birth siblings, or other siblings whose date of birth falls within the same academic year, are split when allocations take place, parents will be offered a choice of breaking the sibling link and being offered places at two or more schools or all siblings being offered a place at the same school which may not be a preference school named on the common application form.

3 Non-routine admissions (In-year transfers) - It sometimes happens that a child needs to change school other than at the normal time. With effect from September 2010, Tameside MBC will coordinate all requests for in-year transfers(i.e. those other than at the normal time of admission into Reception for children resident in the Tameside area. This will include requests for places at community, voluntary controlled, voluntary aided, and foundation schools, whether they are in Tameside or in another local authority. Requests for places at this school will be forwarded by Tameside MBC to the governors, and considered by the governing body. .

4 Waiting List - If the school is oversubscribed the waiting list will operate until the end of the autumn term
2010 for those parents who have submitted an appeal or who have opted to go on the list. All pupils on the
waiting list will be ranked according to the oversubscription criteria. Places will be offered, should any
become available, to the highest ranked applications received by the date the place becomes available.
Children who have been referred under the local authority’s Fair Access protocol or who are the subject
of a direction by the local authority to admit must be given precedence over any other children on the
waiting list.

5 Church Attendance. - Please check with your church how attendance is recorded as the Governors may need to verify the information supporting the application. If you attend more than one church you need a form completed for each church attended, signed by the Vicar / Minister or Pastor.