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98 Main Street
Hockwold Cum Wilton, Thetford
IP26 4LP
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School admission policy : 2024/25 (Agreed)
If there are more applications for places than there are
places available, we will give preference to children according to the
following criteria, in this order of priority:
i. Looked after children and all previously looked
after children. Looked after children are children who are either in the care
of a local authority or being provided with accommodation by a local authority
in the exercise of their social services functions, in accordance with section
22 of the Children Act (1989), at the time an application for a place is made.
ii. Siblings of current pupils, who, for the
purposes of this policy, are defined as children living permanently at the same
address as a child already attending the academy and either have one or both
parents in common, are related by a parent’s marriage or civil partnership, are
adopted or fostered by a common parent, or are related children who live at the
same address whose parents live as partners. These conditions must be met at
the time of their admission (including for children in the sixth form).
iii. Children of permanent teaching and support staff
of an ATT academy who have been employed at the academy where the application
for admission is made for 2 years or more at the time of application, or a
member of staff who is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a
demonstrable skill shortage at the same academy.
iv. Other children by distance from the academy,
with priority for admission given to children who live nearest to the academy
as measured using Ordnance Survey data to plot an address (employing the
measuring system used by the local authority in which the academy is situated).
Distances are measured as the crow flies (a straight-line distance) from the
child’s property address point to the academy’s main reception area.
School admission policy : 2025/26 (Agreed)
If there are more applications for places than there are
places available, we will give preference to children according to the
following criteria, in this order of priority:
i. Looked after children and all previously looked
after children. Looked after children are children who are either in the care
of a local authority or being provided with accommodation by a local authority
in the exercise of their social services functions, in accordance with section
22 of the Children Act (1989), at the time an application for a place is made.
ii. Siblings of current pupils, who, for the
purposes of this policy, are defined as children living permanently at the same
address as a child already attending the academy and either have one or both
parents in common, are related by a parent’s marriage or civil partnership, are
adopted or fostered by a common parent, or are related children who live at the
same address whose parents live as partners. These conditions must be met at
the time of their admission (including for children in the sixth form).
iii. Children of permanent teaching and support staff
of an ATT academy who have been employed at the academy where the application
for admission is made for 2 years or more at the time of application, or a
member of staff who is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a
demonstrable skill shortage at the same academy.
iv. Other children by distance from the academy,
with priority for admission given to children who live nearest to the academy
as measured using Ordnance Survey data to plot an address (employing the
measuring system used by the local authority in which the academy is situated).
Distances are measured as the crow flies (a straight-line distance) from the
child’s property address point to the academy’s main reception area.