Admission arrangements and transition

Our maximum school roll is 179 pupils. We follow the Local Authority Admission arrangements. The following are key features of the admission policy:

•    parent/carers can express up to three preferences;
•    each community and voluntary controlled school across the authority has a specific catchment area. Parents can determine from the catchment area the school at which their child has priority for admission;
•    priority will be given to local children over siblings who live outside the catchment area;
•    a place will be allocated on the basis of a pupil’s home address.  For a Somerset address to be taken into consideration, children concerned must be resident in Somerset on or before the published closing date.  Where a school is over-subscribed  evidence of house moves will always need to be substantiated by corroborating evidence, such as exchange of contract or letting/tenancy agreement.
•    the over-subscription criteria for all community and voluntary controlled schools support the inclusion of children in the care   of the local authority, children with special educational needs, family church links (should the applicant wish their child to attend a church school) and use a straight line method for measuring distance between the preferred school and home address.

Most of our pupils transfer to Huish Episcopi School Science College. Application forms for choice of secondary schools are given to all pupils at the beginning of Year 6. Parents are informed of the deadline for all applications and will have the opportunity to attend open evenings organised by the secondary schools. Parents are informed of the outcome of the application process during the second half of the Spring Term.