Consultation on Admissions arrangements for the academic year 2025/26
The Governing Body of All Souls Catholic Primary School are publicly consulting on proposed changes to their admissions arrangements for 2025/26.
The consultation period is running for six school weeks, commencing on Monday 13th November 2023 and ending on Sunday 24th December 2023.
A copy of the draft policy can be obtained either from this link or by contacting the school admin team (02476 675 836 / [email protected]) or via the QR code below:
Any comments regarding the admissions policy or proposed changes should be submitted to the school business manager, Linsey Rae either via email ([email protected]) or post (All Souls Catholic Primary School, Abercorn Road, Coventry, CV5 8ED).
A summary of the proposed changes to the existing policy, for the academic year 2025/26 are as follows:
- The inclusion of two addition oversubscription criteria (criteria 5 and 9 in the draft policy) as highlighted below
Oversubscription Criteria
- Baptised Catholic children who are looked after or previously looked after (See Note 3 below).
- Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of The Precious Blood and All Souls who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
- Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of The Precious Blood and All Souls
- Other Baptised Catholic children who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
- Other baptised Catholic children of a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School (see Note 6 below).
- Other Baptised Catholic children.
- Non-Catholic children who are looked after or previously looked after.
- Non-Catholic children who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
- Non-Catholic children of a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School (see Note 6 below)
- Non-Catholic children.
- The inclusion of a note (note 6) which defines ‘a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School’ as follows:
“… a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School is defined as an individual who has been employed by All Souls Catholic Primary School for two or more years prior to the application being submitted or where the staff member has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.”
We shared a prayer service to thank God for all the wonderful things He made. We made pictures using the leaves and twigs we found. We sang Happy birthday to our friend. Thank you for our sweets!
A huge thank you to all of our wonderful TAs for being incredible!
We are so very lucky to have you x
The Nursery children have really surprised us with how well they are settling in. They are confident to move around the setting and choose activities. They are beginning to make friends. Below are a few photographs of their first week.
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Welcome back to all our children and families.
We are so excited to welcome all our children and families to back to school for the new academic year. We look forward to hearing all about your summer break and the memories made as well as welcoming our new starters in Nursery and Reception and their families who are joining the All All Souls community this year.
We are confident that 2023-24 will be another fantastic year here at All Souls where we are determined that all our children thrive and make the absolute most progress – academically, personally and spiritually – that they possibly can.
We can’t wait to see those smiling faces on the gate in the morning!
With love,
The All Souls’ Team
What a wonderful term and fantastic year!
Our last week was filled with excitement and fun as we celebrated – the wedding! The children were beautifully dressed and our wedding party took all their roles seriously. The blushing bride and a very proud father of the bride walked up the aisle to ‘Here comes the bride’. The best man looked after the ring, the groom was nervous and the priest was very reverent. The bridesmaids looked wonderful with their bouquets! After walking out to the wedding march, the party began! Everyone enjoyed themselves with nibbles and cake and dancing!
Myself and Mrs McCloskey are so very proud of all the Nursery children and how they have grown, progressed and achieved. They have grown their wings and are ready to fly onto new things – Reception! We know that they are all more than ready to take on new challenges.
We would like to thank the parents for all the support this year and also to thank you for all the kind words, cards and gifts (although not needed!)
We wish our Nursery all the very best as they move onto Reception, wherever they may go. Well Done Nursery – Keep shining bright!
After an amazing full week of learning we finished (almost) our week by having a fantastic day at Wonderland.
Alice met us at the gates and was our personal guide throughout Wonderland all day.
We had so many things to see and do! We saw the fairy village, Snow Whites house & the Wicked Witch, The Three Bears and Goldilocks, the Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, Hansel & Gretels’ Sweet house, Humpty Dumpty, the giant from Jack & the Beanstalk, the Troll, Dinosaurs and so much more!
The children (& some of the adults!) had the opportunity to go on the rides – some of the rides were a bit scary – I had to close my eyes as our brave children went round and round!
Next week we will be celebrating the highlight of the year – the wedding!! On Wednesday we ask for our children to come in their best clothes.
Just one more week of Nursery left – We will miss our grown-up Nursery children when the time comes to say goodbye!
Had an amazing week of learning, (more counting, more traditional tales, learning full, empty & half-full) which was topped off by a fantastic Sports Day!
The children have practised so hard for this day and I’m sure you would agree with us that the children showed their abilities with confidence. We were all so very proud of them.
It was lovely to see all our parents, grandparents and other family members. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thank you for all your support!
This week in Nursery we have been practicing our counting to 10 and back again. The children have been recognising and counting all the numerals and we have also started to count objects to 10 as well.
During PE we have been practicing our races – a Teddy Bears picnic, a balancing race and a running race. Remember its our Sports Day next Friday 7th July at 10am. We hope you can make it.
We have been painting lots of lovely traditional tale characters again…this week it was Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf!
Our topic of Special celebrations in RE was started off by talking about all the different celebrations we may have with our families, at school or in church. We’re building up to a fabulous event at the end of the year…the wedding!
We finished our week by finding out all about capacity…when is a jug or cup full, half full or empty – the children really impressed us with the knowledge they already had!
