In Year Admissions

For all In Year Admission enquiries, please send an e-mail to : admissions@loretogrammar.co.uk  

To view our Admissions Policy - 2024 Entry, please click here.

To view Definitions of a Baptised Roman Catholic, please click here.

To view our Parent Information Booklet, please click here

Should you wish to apply for our In Year Entrance Examination during the academic year 2023 - 2024, please send an email to the address shown above.

LATE APPLICATIONS CANNOT BE CONSIDERED.

Priority is given to Catholic girls if a place does become available.

Loreto is currently full in all year groups and if your daughter is successful in our In Year Entrance Examination,  her name can only be placed on our Waiting List.

We do not accept applications from students currently in Year 10 and Year 11.

Date of Examination	Deadline for Registration
Wednesday 8th November 2023 In year EE for current Year 8 and 9 REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED Your daughter's original Baptism Certificate should be sent to Loreto Grammar School at the time you register your daughter for the Entrance Examination. Please also supply a stamped addressed envelope for its return. This then completes the registration process.  Please do not send in your daughter's baptism certificate until you have registered her for the examination.	5th October 2023 10:00am
Wednesday 21st February 2024 In year EE for current Year 7, 8 and 9  Registration form will be live from 8th January 2024 Your daughter's original Baptism Certificate should be sent to Loreto Grammar School at the time you register your daughter for the Entrance Examination. Please also supply a stamped addressed envelope for its return. This then completes the registration process.  Please do not send in your daughter's baptism certificate until you have registered her for the examination.  If your daughter was unsuccessful in the Entrance Examination 2022 for Year 7 entry in September 2023, the earliest date she can sit the Entrance Examination again will be in the summer term when she is in Year 7, ie, April 2024.	26th January 2024 10:00am
Wednesday 10th April 2024 Late Entrance Examination for current Year 6 students   In Year Entrance Examination for current Year 7, 8 and 9 students  Registration form will be live from 1st February 2024. The late test for current Year 6 - see below for format of the examination. This Entrance Examination is for candidates who DID NOT sit the Entrance Examination in September 2023.  See below. If your daughter was unsuccessful in the Entrance Examination 2022 for Year 7 entry in September 2023, the earliest date she can sit the Entrance Examination again will be in the summer term when she is in Year 7, ie, April 2024. In year EE for current Year 7, 8 and 9 - see below for format of the examination. Your daughter's original Baptism Certificate should be sent to Loreto Grammar School at the time you register your daughter for the Entrance Examination. Please also supply a stamped addressed envelope for its return. This then completes the registration process.  Please do not send in your daughter's baptism certificate until you have registered her for the examination.	8th March 2024 10:00am

The format of the Examination for each year group is as follows;

Late test for current Year 6 - The examination will consist of closed GL tests in Verbal Reasoning and English plus closed school tests in Mathematics. Familiarisation papers can be found for the GL Verbal Reasoning paper and GL English paper on our website.  This Late Entrance Examination is NOT for candidates who have sat the Entrance Examination on 23rd September 2023. 

If your daughter was unsuccessful in the Entrance Examination 2023 for Year 7 entry in September 2024, the earliest date she can sit the Entrance Examination again will be in the summer term when she is in Year 7, ie, April 2025.

Paper order and lengths are: 1) Mathematics: 45 minutes 2) Verbal Reasoning – GL: 50 minutes 3) English – GL: 45 minutes

In Year - Current Year 7 - Closed internal English and Mathematics papers - 45-minutes length of each paper.

In Year - Current Year 8 - Closed internal English and Mathematics papers - 45-minutes length of each paper and closed internal MFL (Modern Foreign Language) paper - 30-minutes length. The MFL task should be completed in the language currently being studied. This may be French, German or Spanish.

In Year - Current Year 9 - Closed internal English and Mathematics papers - 45-minutes length of each paper and closed internal MFL (Modern Foreign Language) paper - 30-minutes length. The MFL task should be completed in the language currently being studied. This may be French, German or Spanish.

Please note that dates of the examinations are subject to change.

Loreto is a selective Catholic Grammar School and as such an Entrance Examination needs to be taken. 

Whilst Loreto is happy for your daughter to sit the In Year Entrance Examination, the School is fully over-subscribed in all year groups, and you should be aware that even if successful, we will be unable to offer her a place at Loreto Grammar School and her name will be placed on our Waiting List. 

Please contact the Admissions Team for further information on:

 admissions@loretogrammar.co.uk