Admissions
Applying for a School Place at our Infant School
Lancashire County Council co-ordinates our admissions.
You are welcome to put your child's name down on our admissions list and to book a tour of the school at any time. This does not guarantee a place at our school, no matter how early you do this. However, it means that you are "in the loop" and will receive the admissions paperwork from the local authority.
In the November before your child is ready to come to school, you will receive an information pack and application form from the local authority. It is on this form that you indicate the school you would like your child to attend. This form must be returned to the local authority by the specified date.
You will be informed of your child's allocated place in April. The Published Admissions Number (PAN) for the school is 70 pupils. This means we have 70 places available every year at the school.
If you are offered a place at Leyland Infant Methodist school, we will write to you and ask you to accept the place. A parents meeting will be held at the school to present you with further information about your child starting school and give you the opportunity to ask questions.
There is also the opportunity for a home visit where we can meet you and your child in your home setting. This is a time when you can ask any further questions you may have about starting school.
Detailed information is available on their website:
Starting primary school (reception) - Lancashire County Council
email: southadmissions@lancashire.gov.uk
Tel: 01772 532109
Write to:
South Area Education Office
PO Box 100
Pupil Access Team
Lancashire County Council
County Hall
Fishergate Hill
Preston PR1 0LD
You can Apply online for a school place
Key Dates for Admissions
Admissions for 2024/2025
Admissions for 2025/2026
For further details with regards the admission arrangements for our school, including waiting lists, in-year admissions, admissions of children of outside their normal age group and the appeal process, please see the Admission Policy.
Applying for a School Place at our Junior School
The children at our Infant school will automatically transfer to the Junior School at the end of the Infants (Year 2). Parents do not need to apply for a place at the Junior School. If, however, there are more applicants for Year 3 than available places (and anybody may apply for a Year 3 place, including new to area families), then a formal admission round will take place using the determined admission criteria
In-Year Admissions
Please contact the school to see if there is a place available so if required a visit to the school can be made as well.
If there is place for your child and you request this place, the school will send you a form to complete to accept the place.
Please note the place cannot be reserved and will only be confirmed on completion of the acceptance form.
Further Information
For further information about our school and new starter information, please visit the page on website by using the Parent tab and the first item on the drop down menu is all about our new starters.
Determined admission arrangements for 2025-26
Applying for a School Place at our Junior School
The children at our Infant school will automatically transfer to the Junior School at the end of the Infants (Year 2). Parents do not need to apply for a place at the Junior School. If, however, there are more applicants for Year 3 than available places (and anybody may apply for a Year 3 place, including new to area families), then a formal admission round will take place using the determined admission criteria
If your child was born between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018 and is in their final year at infant school, they will need to transfer to junior school in September 2025.
Applying for a School Place at our Infant School
Leyland Methodist infant School is part of the Epworth Education Trust. As an academy we are required to set and publish our own admission criteria.
Admission applications are managed through the Lancashire County Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme and are in line with the Lancashire County Admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools.
If your child was born between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018 and is in their final year at infant school, they will need to transfer to junior school in September 2025.
School admissions - Lancashire County Council
Infant school Admission number 70
When a school is oversubscribed on parental preferences, then the following priorities apply in order:
1. Looked after children or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order or those children who appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted, then
2. Children for whom the Local Authority accepts that there are exceptional medical, social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned (see note (i) below, then
3. Children with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, (see note (iii) below), then
4. Remaining places are allocated according to where a child lives. Those living nearest to the preferred school by a straight line (radial) measure will have priority, (see note (v) below).
Notes
Tie-Breaker
Where there are more children in one particular criterion than the number of places available, places will be allocated to the children who live nearest to the school. The distance will be measured in a straight line from the child’s home address to a central point at the school using a Geographical Information System (GIS) which is based on ordnance survey.
If we offer the last place available at a school to one of twins (or triplets, or so on), our policy is to admit the other twin or triplets too.
Occasionally, the distance from home to school is the same for more than one child (for example, if more than one child lives in the same block of flats). In these cases we will use a system to randomly pick who will be offered a place.
Child’s Home Address
The home address used for school admission purposes is the address where the child is residing at the time of both application and admission. Where an application includes more than one address due to shared parental responsibility, we will use the address where the child resides for most of the school week (where they usually or mainly sleep between Monday and Friday).
Parents and carers are required to submit full details with supporting information to enable us to determine which address to use for the purpose of admission.
Where parents provide evidence that the child resides equally at both addresses during the school week, and we are unable to reach a decision based on the information received, parents will be asked of the mutually agreed address to be used for the purpose of school admissions.
Applications for school places which are received late will not necessarily be dealt with at the same time as those received by the set deadline. The reasons for a late application may be requested and where these are not exceptional, the relevant admission criteria will be initially applied to all others received on time. The late application will be dealt with after this process. Application forms received after the published closing date, will only be considered at that time if the following conditions apply:
These may include:
a) parents moving into the County after the closing date
b) parent/carer illness which required hospitalisation for the major part of the period between the publication of the composite prospectus and the closing date for applications
For admission procedures to be fair it is important that all the information you provide is accurate. If we find that any information provided by parents is misleading or fraudulent, we reserve the right to withdraw any offer of a school place.
Where the final place to be allocated within the Published Admission Number would separate children of multiple births a place(s) will also normally be offered to the other child / children.
Waiting Lists
The Local Authority will keep waiting lists for all Lancashire primary schools until 31 August 2025. These are kept in priority order using the school's published admission criteria. From 1 September 2025, waiting lists will be transferred to and retained by individual admission authorities (the Local authority for community and voluntary controlled schools and own admission authority schools will each retain their own list). To comply with the School Admissions Code the waiting lists must be retained until at least 31 December 2025
Admissions of children of outside their normal age group
Parents may seek a place for their child outside of their normal age group, for example, to a higher year group if the child is gifted and talented or to a lower year group if the child has experienced problems such as ill health or has special needs not covered by an Education Health and care plan.
If parents wish to request that their child be educated outside the normal age group they need to gain approval from the admission authority of the school. For further information on applying for admission of children outside their normal age group, please see the following link:
Deferred Entry
Parents can request that the date their child is admitted to the school is deferred until later in the school year or until the child reaches compulsory school age in that school year. Where entry is deferred, the place will be held open and not offered to another child. Parents cannot defer entry beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, nor beyond the academic year for which the original application was accepted.
Part-time Attendance
Parents can request that their child attends part-time until the child reaches compulsory school age.
In-Year Admissions
Please contact the school to see if there is a place available so if required a visit to the school can be made as well.
If there is place for your child and you request this place, the school will send you a form to complete to accept the place.
Please note the place cannot be reserved and will only be confirmed on completion of the acceptance form.
Admissions Appeals
Parents have the right to appeal an admission authority decision. Details for appeal are available on the Lancashire County council website, including the date by which the appeal must be submitted and the timetables for organising and hearing admission appeals.
Link to appeals: School appeals - Lancashire County Council
Within God’s love for everyone, Our school family is committed to serve by:
- celebrating everyone’s unique God-given talents;
- giving the best of ourselves for all the world;
- doing all the good we can together.