Admissions

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If you are interested in your child joining the college, please contact us to discuss what we have to offer and to arrange a visit.

Main Reception telephone number: 01752 779051

Email address: mailbox@stbonifaces.com

Once you decide you would like a place you must make a formal application. A fresh application must be made for children who are not moving on from our Year 11 to Post-16 education in Year 12 here. 

How to apply 

Most children join our college at the normal round, the main intake into school from the start of September in Reception / Year 7. As a parent, you can apply for a place to the Local Authority.  There are different options for parents of children starting school in Reception. This includes part-time education and deferring or delaying admission until later in the Reception year or, for children with birthdays in the summer term, to the following September. Come and talk to us if you are considering this.  Do come and talk with us if you are interested in a place in a different year group for any reason.  

For questions about your child joining the school or the admissions process in general, please do not hesitate to contact the school direct or contact Plymouth CAST by email to Rose Colpus-Fricker (Chief Operating Officer) admin@plymouthcast.org.uk

If you are interested in your child joining the school/college/academy in-year (once the academic year has started), you can apply for a place through the relevant Local Authority.  Applications for transfer into Years 12 and 13 are made direct to our sixth form, either by a parent or the young person themselves. Our application form is below. We have a closing date for the main intake into Year 12 although applications can still be made afterwards.

There is a right of appeal and to a place on a waiting list for places where an application is refused.  

Admission Arrangements 

• Parent Privacy Notice   
• Student Privacy Notice 

Plymouth CAST is the admissions authority for our school. It has responsibility for the admissions policies and decisions on applications for admission. We have an admissions policy for each academic year, and they will be published on this page when they are proposed for consultation and after they have been determined annually. They are written to comply with the School Admissions Code 2021 and School Admissions Appeals Code 2022.  

 Our Admissions Policies 

You can find our admissions policies below – we review the school policy annually and may make changes if we feel this would be in the best interests of the school and our community. Each academic year has its own policy document, with details about how to apply for a place in school.

School admissions policy 2022-23 

• The following amendments were made in August 2021 to the determined policy for 2022-23 to comply with the revised School Admissions Code 2021: priority for children adopted from state care outside England was added to oversubscription criterion 1; wording added to reflect that decisions on in-year admissions must be sent to a parent within 15 school days; provision added for Hard to Place children; advice added regarding applications for overseas children. 

Please find our Admission Information below related to the following application circumstances:

• If you are applying to St Boniface for a place for your Son to start in September 2023
• If your Son is already attending a secondary school but you would like to apply to St boniface for a place in Years 7-11 during the academic year 2022-23

If you would like to apply for a place in NDSBC Sixth, our joint 6th Form, for September 2023 or if you are already in Year 12 or 13 and would like to apply then please go to the NDSBC Sixth page.

 Admissions Criteria

The full policy is listed below under Admission Information below.    Here is the school’s admissions categories in brief:

A child with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or Statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN) which names the school will be admitted.

2022-23

1. Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order and children who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.
2. Priority will next be given to children based on their exceptional medical or social needs or those of their parents.
3. Priority will next be given to children who are Baptised Catholic.
4. Priority will next be given to children who are siblings of pupils on roll at this school.
5. Priority will next be given to children who have attended one of Plymouth CAST’s Catholic Primary schools
6. Priority will next be given to children of other Christian denominations whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion.
7. Priority will next be given to children of other faiths10 whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader.
8. Priority will next be given to children of members of staff who have been employed at this school for more than two years or recruited within the past two years to fill a vacancy for which there was a skills shortage.
9. Priority will next be given to other children.

2023-24

1. Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order including those who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. Priority will next be given to children based on their exceptional medical or social needs or those of their parents.
3. Priority will next be given to children who are Baptised Catholic. 
4. Priority will next be given to children who are siblings of pupils on roll at this school.
5. Priority will next be given to children who are members of other Christian denominations, who regularly attend a Christian church or whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion.
6. Priority will next be given to children of members of staff who have been employed at this school for more than two years or recruited within the past two years to fill a vacancy for which there was a skills shortage. 
7. Priority will next be given to other children.

How to apply for a place: If your application is on faith grounds, don’t forget to send us your Supplementary Information Form that will allow us to rank your application.  Some applicants forget to do this and without this form we cannot rank your form in accordance with our Admissions Policy. This may result in a lower position on the ranked list than your daughter is entitled to.

The deadline for returning the Supplementary Information Form to us is 31st October every year.

School admissions policy 2023-24 

See our determined policy below.  If you have any comments regarding the policy, you can contact us at admin@plymouthcast.org.uk

School admissions policy 2024-25 

Supplementary Information Forms