Address:
Cavendish Road
Salford
M7 4WP
Telephone: 0161 792 4595
Email: stphilips.rcprimaryschool@salford.gov.uk
Headteacher: Ms R McNamara
School type: Voluntary aided
Total number of places for nursery: This school manages its own nursery admissions. Please contact the school directly for further details
Total number of places for reception: 45
Total applications received by offer day for reception: 72
Breakdown of reception offers at offer day (17 April 2023): All applicants in categories 1-7 to a distance of 0.645 miles
Total numbers of reception offers made (including alternative offers): 47
Total reception vacancies: 0
St. Philip’s is a Roman Catholic Primary school provided by the Diocese of Salford and is maintained by the Salford Education Authority as a Voluntary Aided school. The school’s Governing Body is the Admissions Authority and is responsible for taking decisions on applications and admissions. For the school year commencing September 2024, the governing Body has set its planned admissions number at 45.
The school’s role is to participate in the mission of the Catholic Church by providing a curriculum, including Catholic religious education and worship, which will help children to grow in their understanding of the Good News and in the practice of their faith. The school will help the children develop fully as human beings and prepare them to undertake their responsibilities as Catholics in society. The school requires all parents applying for a place here to understand and respect this ethos and its importance to the school community. This does not affect the rights of parents who are not of the Catholic faith to apply for a place here.
Admissions to the school will be determined by the governing board. Parents must complete a Local Authority Preference Form or apply online via the website. Due to the location of the school, parents must apply though the local authority in which they reside. If you wish to have your application considered against the school's religious criteria then you must ALSO complete the supplementary form which is available online from the relevant local authority.
Governing boards are obliged to admit a child with an Educational, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), which names the school within it.
If there are fewer than 45 applications, all applicants will be offered places. If there are more applications than the number of places available, the following oversubscription criteria will be applied:
a. A Looked After Child is a child who is (a) in the care of a Local Authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a Local Authority in the exercise of their Social Services functions (under section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989. A previously Looked After Child is one who immediately moved on from that status after becoming subject to an adoption, residence or special guardianship order.
b. For a child to be considered as a Catholic evidence of a Catholic Baptism or reception into the Catholic Church is required. Written evidence of reception into the Catholic Church can be obtained by referring to the Register of Receptions, or in some cases a sub-section of the Baptismal Registers of the Church in which the Rite of Reception took place. If, for example, a child has been baptised in the Church of England and the parents are subsequently admitted to the Catholic Church through the RCIA programme, the child must also be admitted to the Church by the Rite of Reception.
The governing board will require written evidence in the form of a Certificate of Reception before applications for school places can be considered for categories of ‘Baptised Catholics’. A Certificate of Reception is to include full name, date of birth, date of reception and parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also show that it is copied from the records kept by the place of reception.
Those who have difficulty obtaining written evidence of baptism for a good reason, may still be considered as baptised Catholics but only after they have been referred to the parish priest who, after consulting with the Director of Education or officers of the DDFE will decide how the question of baptism is to be resolved and how written evidence is to be produced in accordance with the law of the Church.
c. Home Address is considered to be the address where the child normally lives. Where care is split and a child moves between two addresses, the household in receipt of the child benefit would normally be the address used but the admission authority body reserves the right to request other evidence as fit the individual circumstance. Applicants should not state the address of another relative or person who has daily care of the child.
d. If it is not possible to offer places for all applicant within criteria 2, priority will first be given to those families within the parish who already have a sibling within the school at the point of admission. Priority will then be given to those living closest to the school. Distance will be measured in a straight line using LLPG (Local Land and Property Gazetteer) information to measure the distance between the address point (including flats) of the child’s home address and the centre of the school in miles.
e. ‘Sibling’ is defined in these arrangements as full, half or stepbrothers and sisters, adopted and foster brothers and sisters who are living at the same address and are part of the same family unit. This does not include cousins or other family relationships.
f. If it is not possible to offer places for all applicants within criteria 4, priority will first be given to baptised Roman Catholic children of staff members who have worked in the school for at least the two years prior to the proposed date of admission.
g. A waiting list for children who have not been offered a place will be kept and will be ranked according to the admission criteria. The waiting list does not consider the date the application was received or the length of time a child's name has been on the waiting list. This means that a child's position on the list may change if another applicant is refused a place and their child has higher priority in the admissions criteria. This waiting list will be kept open for the first term of each school year.
h. For ‘In Year’ applications received outside the normal admissions round, if places are available they will be offered to those who apply. If there are places available but more applicants than places then the published oversubscription criteria will be applied.
i. If an application for admission has been turned down by the Governing Board, parents may appeal to an independent appeals panel. Parents must be allowed at least twenty school days from the date of notification that their application was unsuccessful to submit that appeal. Parents must give reasons for appealing in writing and the decision of the appeals panel is binding on the governors.
j. The Governing Body reserve the right to admit children with proven exceptional medical and social needs where admission to the school might best help satisfy those exceptional needs, providing that such application is submitted with appropriate evidence from a doctor or social worker.
k. If it is not possible to offer places for all applicants within criteria 7, priority will first be given to the children of staff members who have worked in the school for at least the two years prior to the proposed date of admission and to those applicants who have a sibling already attending the school.
l. The governing board reserve the right to withdraw the offer of a school place where false evidence is received in relation to the application.
m. It is the duty of governors to comply with regulations on class size limits for children aged between rising five and seven. The governing board may exceed the regulations for twins and children from multiple births where one of the children is the 30th child admitted. This also applies to in-year applicants who are looked after/previously looked after children of UK service personnel or children who move into the area for whom there is no other school available within a reasonable distance.
n. If a child is a “summer born child”, parents may request that the date their child is admitted to school is deferred to later in the school year. However, the child must start school before the end of that school year. If a parent wishes their child to be educated out of their normal school year (kept back a year), they must discuss this with the school before applying. However, the final decision on this rests with the Headteacher.
o. parents may request that their child attend school part-time until he/she reaches his/her fifth birthday.