Godinton Primary School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Children in Local Authority Care (LAC) or Previously in Local Authority Care (PLAC/IAPLAC) — A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). The 2021 Code requires 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 to be given equal first priority in admission arrangements, alongside looked after children (LAC) and children who were previously looked after by English local authorities (PLAC). This advice refers to these children as internationally adopted previously looked after children (IAPLAC). All references to previously looked after children within this policy includes IAPLAC.
2. 2Current Family Association (siblings) — Those children who have a brother or sister already at the school. To qualify for this criterion, the brother or sister must still be attending the school when the younger sibling starts. There is no sibling link if the brother or sister is in Year 6 when an application is made, and will subsequently have left the school when the younger sibling joins. In addition, the family must still live at the same address as when the brother/sister was first admitted, or if they have subsequently moved, they must now live within 2 miles of the school (straight line distance) or have moved nearer to the school from where they were living previously. If the family has moved more than 2 miles from the school since the sibling was admitted, the sibling link is deemed to have been broken and will remain broken even if the family subsequently move closer to the school. In this context brother or sister means children living as brother or sister in the same house which is their main residence, including natural brothers and sisters, adopted siblings, stepbrothers and stepsisters and foster brothers and sisters.
3. 3Staff children — Where admission of the child is required to enable the retention of a member of staff to a key position, provided the staff member has been employed at Godinton Primary School for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission is made; and/or where admission of the child is required to allow recruitment of the member of staff to a post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
4. 4Health and Special Access Reasons — This applies to children whose health or physical impairment means they have to go to a particular school because he/she can only move easily around certain kinds of building. A medical practitioner must provide written evidence to support your request. The KCC admissions booklet also provides details with regard to parental health issues and how this impacts on applying for a school place.
5. 5Nearness of the Child's Home to School — Once the other criteria have been taken into consideration, the children are offered places according to who lives closest to the school. We use the distance between the child's permanent home address (defined in KCC's annual admissions prospectus) and the school, measured in a straight line using the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) address point. Distances are measured from a point defined as within the child's home to a point defined as within the school as specified by NLPG. The same address point on the school site is used for everybody.

If two applications tie: Random allocation (names out of a hat) will be used as a tie breaker to decide who has the highest priority for admission in the event that the distance between two children's homes and the school is exactly the same.

Before the application of the oversubscription criteria, children with an Education Health Care Plan which names the school will be admitted, reducing the PAN accordingly. The sibling criterion includes a 2-mile distance qualification for families who have moved since the sibling was admitted.

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.