AdmissionS ConsultatioN
Our school is currently in the process of consulting regarding some proposed changes to our Admissions Criteria for places at our school. The proposed changes would affect those children applying for a place in our school starting from September 2026 onwards.
The proposed admissions criteria is explained in brief below, please look at the documents for more detail or clarification:
- LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN AND PREVIOUSLY LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN
- CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL MEDICAL OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CHILD WHERE THESE NEEDS CAN ONLY BE MET AT THIS SCHOOL.
- SIBLINGS
- CHILDREN OF STAFF
- CHURCH CRITERIA - children whose parent/guardian regularly worships at St Thomas CE church
- CHURCH CRITERIA - children whose parent/guardian regularly worships at any church
- OTHER CHILDREN - If there are more applicants than places, these applications wil be judged on distance from school in a straight line. Nearer addresses will have priority over more distant ones.
The slight but significant change to our criteria is to take out reference to the parish boundary. This is in part related to the homes which are very close to our school, some even on St Thomas' Road, but many currently feature very low down within the admissions criteria as their homes are not 'officially' in the parish boundary of St Thomas' Church.
Our parish at St Thomas' is a funny shape, with a large area of the parish being in the sea or on the moss area where there arent many homes (at the moment!) We hope these proposed changes will be a positive move for our school and our community members who live around us, enabling them to have better access to our school which is directly in their neighbourhood.
If you have any comments you would wish to share regarding the proposed changes to our Admissions Consultation, please send your comments in to this email address with 'Admissions Consultation' in the subject line: office@st-thomas.lancs.sch.uk These comments will then be considered by our school Governors as part of the process.
Our consultation period began on 29th October 2024 and will run for a period of 6 working weeks, ending on Tuesday 10th December 2024.