St Mary's and St Peter's Church of England 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. 1Looked after and previously looked after children — Places will be offered firstly to 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 91 including those 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. 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). Applications made under this criterion must be accompanied by details of circumstance and professionally supported evidence.
2. 2Exceptional medical or social need — Children who have an exceptional medical or social need requiring attendance at St Mary’s and St Peter’s rather than any other school. Such needs must be supported, at the time of application, by reports or letters from suitable professionals such as GPs, consultants or social workers. Circumstances cannot be taken into account unless information is provided at the time of application and failure to provide such information at that stage may therefore affect whether or not the children are allocated places at this school. All information submitted will be regarded as confidential.
3. 3Siblings — Children who have siblings (by which is meant full, step, half and adopted siblings living in the same household) at this school in Reception to Year 6 at the point of admission.
4. 4Children of staff — Staff members who have been employed at the school for two years or more years at the time of application and will continue to be employed at the school at the point of admission or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5. 5Foundation and open places — The remaining places will be allocated with 50% allocated to foundation places and 50% allocated to open places, with the following order of preference given in each category. Foundation places (50%) I. Children whose parent(s) are regular worshipping members of one of the sponsoring Church of England parishes. They must also live within the boundaries of one of the sponsoring parishes.

Summary of the school's oversubscription criteria for 2027/28 entry as printed by Achieving for Children in Richmond's schools brochure 2027 (the governing body/trust is responsible for the wording; read the full determined policy on the school's website). II. Children whose parent(s) are regular worshipping members of a church within Churches Together in Teddington (or whose church is a member of the Evangelical Alliance where the church is situated within the boundaries of one of the sponsoring parishes) and who live within the boundaries of one of the sponsoring parishes. III. Children whose parent(s) are regular worshipping members of a church within Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and the Evangelical Alliance and who live within the boundaries of one of the sponsoring parishes. IV. In the event that during the period specified for attendance at worship the church has been closed for public worship and has not provided alternative premises for that worship, the requirements of these admissions arrangements in relation to attendance will only apply to the period when the church or alternative premises have been available for public worship. Open places (50%) Children living closest to the preferred school are measured by the shortest route by road or maintained footpath, from the Ordnance Survey grid reference point within the property, to the nearest pedestrian school gate. Accessibility of private or public transport will not be considered. All distances will be measured using a computerised geographical information system (GIS). Notes: The sponsoring parishes are St Mary with St Alban and St Peter and St Paul and for the purpose of admissions St Michael and St George. The definition ‘regular worshipping members’ in the foundation place allocation (5.1, 5.2 and 5.3) requires the parents) or carers to demonstrate a regular commitment to the appropriate church. This involves regular attendance at worship, at least twice a month for two years immediately prior to the application deadline. If parent(s) have transferred from another church, they must include a signed letter from the parish priest or minister of religion of that church, verifying that they have been attending the church at least twice a month from the period 15 January 2019 to the date when they moved churches. They must also complete the supplementary information form and have their regular attendance verified by the appropriate parish priest or minister of religion of the current place of worship. In the event of oversubscription in the Foundation places criteria (5.1, 5.2 and 5.3), places will be allocated within that category using the distance criteria (5.4). Children who have applied under the foundation places criteria but do not meet these criteria will automatically be considered under the open places criteria. If there are more applicants within each criterion, distance from home to school will be used as a tie-breaker and will be measured using the computerised geographical information system. The distance from home to school, criterion, is used as a ‘tie-breaker’ if there are more applications than places available under any higher criteria. For applicants from the same block of flats, or who live the same distance from the school, random selection by the drawing of lots is used as a final tie-breaker. This will be carried out by an officer or governor in the presence of an independent witness. If the tie breaker is between twins or multiple births the school will accommodate the remaining brothers or sisters. If either category of foundation and open places are undersubscribed, the remaining places will be allocated to the other category. An indicative map of Parish boundaries and the churches in Churches Together in Teddington and the Evangelical Alliance can be found on the school website. Parish boundaries can be found at A Church near you this website will provide a google map. Member churches of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland membership can be found at Churches together in Britain and Ireland. Members churches of the Evangelical Alliance can be found at Find a church. The supplementary form to apply for denominational priority is available on the school website.

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.