Admissions to Watling Meadows Primary School are managed by Warwickshire County Council. Parents and carers should apply for a place through the local authority admissions process.

We recommend that Watling Meadows is listed as one of your preferred schools when applying.

For full details, including application deadlines, oversubscription criteria and appeals processes, please visit:

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/admissions

If you have any questions or would like support with your application, please contact the school directly.

The academy trust will admit any pupil with an Education, Health and Care plan which names the school. Please note that this may reduce the number of places available. Priority will then be given to children who meet the criteria set out below, in order.

1. Looked after children and previously looked after children.

2. Children eligible for the Early Years Pupil Premium, Pupil Premium or Service Premium at the time of making the application, with no more than 14% of the places available to be allocated under this criterion on National Offer Day.

3.Children who are currently, or have been at any point since birth, subject to a Child in Need Plan or a Child Protection Plan, with no more than 9% of the places available to be allocated under this category

4. Children who live in the school’s catchment area (priority area), in the order set out below:

a) Siblings of pupils attending the school at the point the application is received.

b) Other children living in the priority area.

Children living on the boundary line will be considered to live in the priority area. The priority area is shown in the map at the end of this policy and described there.

5. Children living outside the priority area who have a sibling at the school at the time of admission.

6. Children of any staff living outside of the priority area and who have been employed for two or more years at the Trust at the time the application is received, and/or those recruited to meet a demonstrable skills shortage.

7.Other children living outside the priority area.

The northern boundary extends from the Callendar Farm development and follows the Warwickshire County boundary to The Long Shoot (included).

The south-eastern boundary continues south on The Long Shoot to Hinckley Road (excluded). 

The south-western boundary then follows, Greendale Road, including Haweswater Grove, Skeggles Close, Crummock Avenue, through Buttermere Park to Pallett Drive (excluded).

The north-western boundary follows Midsummer Road and Bassett Close to the Callendar Farm development.