Admission arrangements for St Stephen’s Catholic Primary School for September
Please read this carefully if you have a child born between 1st September and 31st August , and you wish her/him to attend St Stephen’s. Application must be made on the Primary Common Application Form for the Local Authority where your child lives. You should also complete the Supplementary Information Form. Please return the supplementary form to the school once it has been signed by your Parish Priest. You will also need to provide proof of your child’s residence and their baptism certificate. If posting, please include copies, not originals with your posted or e-mailed supplementary form, originals will be verified and checked before admission. The supplementary form can be scanned with copies of the supporting documents and e-mailed to [email protected] Alternatively, the supplementary form and supporting documents can be taken to the school office between the hours.
Originals of all documents will be checked and verified before admission.
Please be aware that priority will be given to practising Catholic families (i.e. attending Mass at least 3 out of 4 Sundays), who live in the Welling Parish. If you regularly attend Mass in another parish or chaplaincy, you should ask that Parish Priest to verify your attendance. As of the 5th June , Pentecost, the Bishops of England and Wales reinstated the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days. Parents applying for a place at St Stephen’s Catholic Primary, under a faith based criteria will need to complete a Supplementary Information Form. Evidence of practice will be measured by frequency of attendance at Mass as validated by either a priest or minister, as was the case prior to 18th March . These arrangements apply to the admissions round for and subsequent rounds.
If there are more applications than places available, we will apply the order of priority to each of the over-subscription criteria in turn. Although we would wish to admit children with siblings in the school, that alone does not guarantee an automatic right of admission.
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