Admissions

Admissions 2025-26


Admission to Reception Class - Application Process


Please read our 2025-26 Determined Admissions Criteria, found HERE.


As well as applying directly through Essex County Council, your application must include the following (where applicable):


  • A copy of your child's Birth Certificate.


  • A copy of your child's Baptismal Certificate.


  • A certificate of Catholic Practice. (This will come from the Parish Priest. Please keep a look out for the dates the Priest will sign these forms, published in the Church newsletter.)


  • A Supplementary Information Form (SIF), available HERE.


These four documents MUST be supplied directly to the school by the closing date for admissions. It is your responsibility to ensure your application is complete and correct and submitted on time. Any incomplete application may alter its classification within the school's published admissions criteria.


These four documents must be submitted to the school IN ADDITION to your main application which must be made directly to Essex County Council. 


Primary Schools Brochure 2025-26 Admissions & Appeals Timetable 2025-26 Admissions Appeals Guide


To visit the Essex County Council admissions section please click HERE.




Admissions 2026-27


Determined Admissions Criteria 2026-27



Mid-Year or In-Year Applications


Applications for school places outside the normal admissions round


All mid-year applications should be made directly to the school, using the mid-year application form available below. Mid-year applications (sometimes called in-year applications) are any application for a school place made to a year group, apart from September admissions to Reception (primary and infant schools).


For applications into existing year groups, a place will be offered according to published admission criteria and waiting list when the number of pupils in the relevant year group is below the admission number for that year group.

 

Please note: if a mid-year application is received during a school holiday period, we will respond as soon as possible when the school reopens.


For any questions regarding admission to our school, please call and speak to Mrs Kelly, our Admissions Officer on (01206) 865722, or she can be contacted on office@st-thomasmores.essex.sch.uk.


Mid-Year Application Form