Admissions
Applying for a school place for September 2019?
For admissions for September or during the school year please contact our school office.
If your child is due to start school September 2019 (or even 2020) as a Foundation Stage pupil, please contact the school, we would love to show you round. Alternatively please come to our Open Morning or Afternoon on Wednesday 10th October from 9.30am to 11am or 1.30pm to 3pm. No need to book - just turn up!
Closing date for applications for September 2019 is 5pm 15th January 2019.
The timetable for admissions appeals is as follows:
April 16th 2019 – Notification of school allocations
May 16th 2019 - Deadline for returning Notice of Appeal Forms to Peterborough Diocese
July 18th 2019 – Appeals heard by this date
For Northamptonshire's Admission Policy please visit:
http://www3.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/children-families-education/schools-and-education/school-admissions/Pages/default.aspx#_ga=1.17993081.116977678.1472732390
Children with SEND follow the same procedure as other pupils applying for places at the school. However, if additional staff, resource, support or changes to the fabric of the school are needed for the child to access the full curriculum, then these additions will need to be in place before the child is admitted.
Contact school admissions
Online:
- Email us admissions@northamptonshire.gov.uk
Telephone:
- 0300 126 1000
Write to:
NCC Admissions Team,
One Angel Square,Angel Street,
Northampton.
NN1 1ED.
Towcester CE Primary School
DfE: 928 3515
Primary Schools (Urban, with linked area) Generic Group A
Proposed Admission Arrangements 2019
Oversubscription Criteria
Places will be allocated to pupils who have an EHC plan that names the school as appropriate provision. When there are more applications for places than there are places available, priority will be given in the following order:
i. Children in public care or previously in public care but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence/child arrangements order or special guardianship order.
ii. Pupils with a sibling at the school at the time of admission of the younger child. Siblings are a brother or sister living at the same address as the applicant (within a family unit) including adopted children, step-brothers, step-sisters and children in foster care.
iii. Pupils who live closer to the school than any other school.
iv. Other pupils.
Tiebreaker
If the admission number is exceeded within criterion (iii) priority will be given to those who live further from the nearest alternative school. If the admission number is exceeded within any other criterion, priority will be given to those who live closest to the school.
The distance used in a ‘tiebreaker’ for any oversubscribed criterion will be a straight line distance from the address point of the child’s home to the address point of the school. Distances will be determined by the Local Authority measured on a straight line basis using a geographical information system.
Where it is necessary to choose between two or more applicants with a criterion for a final place, the tiebreaker will be distance, with the child who resides the nearest to Towcester CE Primary School being given the place. Where there is more than one applicant at the relevant distance, then the tiebreaker will be random allocation. The random allocation process will be independently supervised.
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