Currently, Lionel Walden Primary School has seven classes which are organised as follows:-
Reception Class - Year 1 Class - Year 2 Class - Year 3 Class - Year 4 Class - Year 5 Class - Year 6 Class
The school’s published admission number (PAN), from September 2015, is 30. Children who have their fourth birthday by 31st August are able to start in the Foundation Stage (Reception) in September of that year. The application process opens in the October/November of the preceding year through Cambridgeshire County Council.
Please find below a link to the Admissions Department at Cambridgeshire County Council where you can apply for a place at Lionel Walden for your child enrol at the start of the next academic year in September (see below for In-Year Applications):-
The following oversubscriptions criteria are adhered to:-
Children who have a statement of Special Educational Need (SEN)/Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names the school will be admitted. Those children with a statement of SEN/EHCP that does not name the school will be referred to the Statutory Assessment Team (SAT) to determine an appropriate place.
1. Children in Care, also known as Looked After Children (LAC), and children who were previously Looked After but ceased to be so by reason of adoption, or residence order (now known as a child arrangement order) or special guardianship order.
2. Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and cease to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
3. Children living in the catchment area with a sibling at the school at the time of admission.
4. Children living in the catchment area.
5. Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at the school at the time of admission.
6. Children of members of staff, providing that they have been employed for a minimum of two years and/or are recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable shortage.
7. Children who live outside the catchment area, but nearest the school as measured by a straight line.
In cases of equal merit in each set of criteria, priority is given to children living nearest to the school as measured by a straight line.
In-Year Applications
An in-year admission is when you are applying for a school place outside of the ‘normal admissions rounds’.
- An in-year admission could be a move between Cambridgeshire schools, or a move to a Cambridgeshire school from a school in a different county or country.
- To apply for a place at a school outside of Cambridgeshire you will need to apply to the local authority of the new school.
Please visit the Cambridgeshire County Council website to make an application: click here
Admission Appeals
Cambridgeshire County Council administer admissions appeals on behalf of all maintained schools, including academies. All appeals are held in accordance with the Department for Education's School Admissions Code and the School Admissions Appeal Code. The purpose of these codes is to ensure that the admission appeal panel is independent and that appeals are conducted in a fair, transparent and lawful way.
You can find a link to the appeals page here
For further information, please contact Mrs Salisbury in the School Office