Ds has recently been offered a place at a popular local catholic primary school for this coming September.
We are not Catholic and the school seem to think it is a rare 'low birth rate' year for the area.
It is noted in the current admissions document that for the past five years the school has not offered a place to anyone below category 4 in the admissions criteria (enclosed) so it is indeed a rare occurrence.
We are definitely accepting the place for ds but I have a question about our younger child...
I fully admit that I am getting ahead of myself as dd is currently 10 months, an end of August baby and would be due to start reception in September 2019
So, because of the fact there haven't been any non-Catholics in the school for so long, they evidently haven't found it necessary to address the issue of non-Catholic siblings in the admissions policy. My question is, do you think this gives more or less flexibility for 'discretion'..?
Before you think I'm asking something that I'm not, I fully accept that it is most likely that the school will admit Catholic children ahead of a non-Catholic sibling and I have taken the decision to send ds there despite this fact.
My question is, do you think there is any likelihood of a non-Catholic sibling being considered below category 4 in the enclosed admissions document? Should I expect them to refer to non-Catholic siblings in documents in future years? Is there any point in becoming particularly active in the PTA etc (though I plan to anyway) in order to show I fully support the Catholic ethos of the school?
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Future sibling admissions point for rare non-Catholic in Catholic primary school
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ag123 · 14/07/2016 20:27
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