Wick Marcross C.I.W. Primary School

When there are more applications than places for 2026-27 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Children with a Local Authority Maintained Individual Development Plan naming the school — Children with a Local Authority Maintained Individual Development Plan, when the school is named as the most appropriate setting will be admitted before applying the oversubscription criteria.
2. 2Looked after / previously looked after children — Children who are currently or have previously been looked after by the Local Authority as set out in The School Admissions (Infant Class Sizes) (Wales) Regulations 2013 and in accordance with section 22 of the Children Act 1989.
3. 3Practising communicants within the Rectorial Benefice — Children whose parents / guardians are practising communicants of the Church in Wales who are in regular attendance at a church within the Rectorial Benefice of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, or whose children regularly attend in the company of others. Clergy references will be used to determine regularity of attendance.
4. 4Community council boundary residence — Children whose parents' guardians live within the community council boundary for Wick and Marcross.
5. 5Sibling at the school — Children who have a sibling* who is a pupil at the school on the date when the applicant child is due to commence school.
6. 6Practising communicants living in the Benefice, attending another parish church — Children whose parents / guardians are practising communicants of the Church in Wales living in the Rectorial Benefice of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast who are in regular attendance at another parish church, or whose children regularly attend another parish church in the company of others.
7. 7Practising communicants living outside the Benefice — Children whose parents / guardians are practising communicants of the Church in Wales living outside the Rectorial Benefice of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast and who are in regular attendance at another parish church, or whose children regularly attend another parish church in the company of others. Clergy references will be used to determine regularity of attendance.
8. 8Members of another faith community — Children whose parents / guardians are active and practising members in another faith community. Reference will be used to determine regularity of attendance.
9. 9Families wishing Church in Wales education, priority by proximity to St James' — Children whose families wish them to be educated in a Church in Wales school. Priority will be given to those whose place of residence* is closest to the school for whom St James' is the closest church.

If two applications tie: Should there be insufficient places to accommodate all applicants who qualify under any one of the categories, places will be considered according to the proximity* that applicants live to the school.

For multiple birth children, when one child (the eldest) would be admitted (for any criteria) and due to oversubscription their sibling/s are not, the siblings would have priority on the waiting list*, for the next available place (unless a child from criteria 1 or 2 was added to the list within this time, who would then take priority). Applications for reception places are made via the Vale of Glamorgan portal in line with published admission dates, then passed to the governing body admissions committee. Late applications will not be considered until offers have been made to those applications made before the deadline, and the parents/carers' responses to those offers have been received. Parents not offered a place have the right to appeal to an independent appeal committee; appeals must reach the Clerk of the Governors within 15 school days of the date of notification of the decision, and will be administered by the Llandaff Diocesan Board of Education according to the Welsh Government's Code of Practice on School Admission Appeals. The school operates a waiting list in line with the oversubscription criteria; children are placed on it in a position reflecting the criteria, with no reference to the date they were placed on the list, and it is maintained until 30th September in the relevant year. 'Regular attendance' is defined as attendance twice monthly. Sibling definitions include brothers/sisters, stepbrothers/stepsisters, and half-brothers/half-sisters or adopted/fostered children permanently resident at the same address.

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.