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Old Hall Road
Little Plumstead
Norwich
Norfolk
NR13 5FA
| NOR May 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Yr R | 21 |
| Yr 1 | 30 |
| Yr 2 | 31 |
| Yr 3 | 30 |
| Yr 4 | 26 |
| Yr 5 | 29 |
| Yr 6 | 21 |
| Total | 188 |
School admission policy : 2025/26 (Agreed)
The school is a Voluntary Aided Church of England primary school in the catchment area of Great and Little Plumstead, Thorpe End and Witton. Children attend between the ages of four and eleven years. At the age of eleven, children transfer mainly to Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form.
All children whose statement of special educational needs (SEN) or education, health and care (EHC) plan names the school will be admitted before any other places are allocated.
Children will be admitted in the following order of priority:
1. All children who are looked after and previously looked after children (which includes adopted children, child arrangement orders and special guardianship) as designated by the local authority.
2. Those living within the catchment area and who have a brother or sister already at the school.
3. Those living within the catchment area.
4. Those who have a brother or sister already at the school.
5. Those whose parents are regular attendees (at least once a month) of a church. (Governors will seek a reference to this effect from the church’s minister, a sample of the request form can be found on the school website).
6. All other children who do not fall within the above criteria.
As the admission authority, the Governing Body of Little Plumstead CE VA Primary School will consider a request for children to be educated out of their chronological age group in accordance with the statutory School Admissions Code.
If all children within any of the above rules cannot be offered a place, the highest priority will be given to children living nearest to the school within that rule. To determine who lives nearest, distance will be measured on a straight line 'crow fly' basis, using Ordnance Survey data. The address will be measured from the post office address point on the property. In the unlikely event that distance does not separate the final two or more pupils seeking the last remaining place, a random allocation will be used to determine who is offered the final place.
School admission policy : 2026/27 (Agreed)
A child who has an Education Health and Care Plan naming the school or academy is required to be admitted.
Where the Academy is oversubscribed (there are more applicants than places available) places will be allocated in accordance with the following criteria and in the following order of priority.
1. Looked after children (children in care) and all previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. Siblings of children already at the school living in the catchment area
3. Residence within the catchment area of the school
4. Siblings of children already at the school living out of catchment
5. Children living out of the catchment area who have a faith and / or whose parents are committed Church members and wish them to receive an education in a school with a Church of England foundation
6. Children of staff where: a) a member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made and/or b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post where there is a demonstrable skill shortage
7. Children who live outside the area served by the school who attend a school within St Benet’s MAT at the opening date of the admissions round.
8. Resident out of the catchment area of the school.
In the event of the having to use a tie-break to distinguish between two or more applications of equal strength, the child living the shortest distance from home to school in a straight line as the crow flies route should have priority