Due to a number of families moving out of the area we currently have some in year vacancies.
We would welcome the opportunity to give you a tour of our school and meet our staff and children. Please call our School Office and they will be able to help you. To speak to someone about in year admissions, please call us on 0208 883 6540 or email us at office@stjamesprimaryschool.co.uk .
Dear Prospective Parents and Carers
Welcome to St James CofE Primary School. There are many factors to consider when choosing the right primary school for your child and family and to help you with this important decision we hold a number of open mornings.
These provide you with the opportunity to experience our school and gain an insight of what it will be like for your child come here.
Our school is small and very community focused and all our staff know every child by name. We are proud of and celebrate our diversity and our children understand the importance of being responsible for and needing to make a contribution to our school community, the local community and beyond.
Our setting is unique. We are located in the heart of Muswell Hill right next door to Highgate Woods. We are fortunate to have extensive outdoor facilities including four playgrounds which we use in all areas of learning.
Our teachers are passionate, creative and have high expectations for every child here. When our children leave St James Primary, we ensure that they are well prepared - socially, emotionally, spiritually and academically - for Secondary school and life beyond.
Making An Admissions Application
When making an admissions application to us, you need to consider that in the event of there being more children wanting a Reception place than the number available, the Governors will apply a set of criteria. Historically, at St James CofE Primary, some families have not applied because they thought that the main criteria for our school meant that they had to be Christian to attend. This is not the case. We are a Christian based school and we do have children from families who are Christian and attend Christian churches. But we also have families who follow other faiths and other families who do not follow a faith. If you have any questions regarding our criteria please do contact us and we will be happy to explain things further.
To book a tour please email us at office@stjamesprimaryschool.co.uk or call us on 0208 883 6540. For those who cannot make our open days or if you’d like further information, please drop us a line as we are always happy to help.
Admissions Policy
If you are applying under our church criteria you need to download our Supplementary Form and return it directly to us at school. If you are applying under any other criteria such as 'siblings' or 'distance', you do not need to fill in a Supplementary form.
For any help with admissions, please call our School Office and they will be happy to help.
An overview of our Admissions Policy
St James CofE Primary School offers 30 places in each year group from Reception to Year 6. Children joining in Reception are normally admitted in the Autumn term, in September.
Applying for a place
Parents who would like to apply for a place in our Reception class should complete an online Common Application Form (CAF) from their Local Authority naming St James CofE Primary School. This form needs to be submitted to your local authority by 15th January. (For Haringey residents, this is Haringey Admissions Services).
Legal requirements
We follow the DfE statutory guidance for admissions. The Governing body oversees our admissions process.
In the event of there being more applications for our Reception class than places, in reaching a decision concerning admission of a child to the Reception class, the Governors will apply the following criteria below, which are listed in order of priority.
Looked after or previously looked after children.
Priority will be given to children who are looked after or who have been previously looked, including those children who appear (to the admissions authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order).
Siblings
The term ‘brother or sister’ includes foster brothers and sisters, half brothers and sisters or step brothers and sisters, adopted siblings and other children living permanently at the same ddress. It does not include other relations. The sibling must reside at the same address as the child applying for a place.
Remaining Places
The remaining places will be allocated equally between
If the remainder is an odd number the extra place will go to a faith based placement. If there are insufficient faith based applicants the remaining places will go to community based applicants.
*Faith based applicants allocated in the following order:
Children whose parent(s) or guardians attend church for public worship at least once a month for 12 months. Allocation of places will be ranked with priority given tot hose from St James Church, Muswell Hill, London N10 and then based on distance of church from school.
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