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Admissions Policy for
September 2011 Entry

Loreto Grammar School is an 11 – 18 Catholic Secondary School for girls situated in the Diocese of Shrewsbury and under the trusteeship of the Sisters of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sisters of Loreto). It is maintained by Trafford Authority. As a Voluntary Aided School, the Governing Body is the Admissions’ Authority and is responsible for taking decisions on applications for admission. The co-ordination of admissions is undertaken by Trafford Authority. For the school year commencing September 2011, the Governing Body has set its planned admissions number at 150 for each year group, Years 7 – 11.

The Governing Body expects that all students specifically selecting a Catholic education will be fully involved in the ethos and spiritual life of the school, and in achieving the aims set out in its Mission Statement.

ADMISSION TO THE SCHOOL will be made by the Governing Body subject to the following set of ADMISSIONS’ CRITERIA which will form a priority order where there are more applications for admission than the school has places available. In each of the identified criteria, a requirement of applicants is that they have passed the Governors’ Entrance Examination.

Admissions Criteria

1. Baptised Catholic looked after children.

2. Baptised Catholic girls who have sisters* in the school at the time of admission.

3. Baptised Catholic girls who live in a nominated deanery and attend an associated primary school.

4. Other Baptised Catholic girls who live in a nominated deanery.

5. Other Baptised Catholic girls.

6. Other looked after girls.

7. Baptised girls of other denominations.

8. Other Girls.

*As defined by Trafford

Notes

a) The Governors’ Entrance Examination is scheduled for the morning of Saturday, 25th September 2010. It will consist of closed NFER tests in Verbal Reasoning and English plus closed school tests in Creative Writing and Mathematics. No practice papers are available.

b) All Catholic applicants will be required to produce Baptismal Certificates at the time of application to the school.

c) All other baptised applicants will be required to produce Baptismal Certificates at the time of application to the school.

d) If in any category there are more applications than places available, then priority will be given to those girls who achieved the highest marks in the Entrance Examination.

e) Results will be posted on 13th October 2010.

f) For occasional applications received outside the normal admissions round: if there are more applicants than places are available, the published oversubscription criteria will be applied.

g) Offers of places are made on 1st March 2011through Trafford L.A, in accordance with their published timetable. If an application for admission has been turned down by the Governing Body, parents can appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. This appeal must be sent in writing to the Clerk to the Governors at the school within 14 days of refusal (10 working days). The parents must give their reasons for appealing in writing and the decision of the Appeals Panel is binding on the Governors.

h) A list of nominated deaneries is instanced overleaf.

i) Shared Residency. Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the school will apply the definition of shared residency, as defined by Trafford*.