ADMISSIONS POLICY:

Full details of the LEA admissions policy are available in the "Primary Education in Wirral: General School Information Booklet". The LEA Policy on admissions is upheld within the school as we are a "controlled" school. Voluntary Controlled Schools usually have their own catchment areas. Christ Church has a scheme of priorities of admission if the school is over-subscribed. Details are available from the school or from the Pupil Services Department (Tel. 666 2121).

Admission to the nursery does not guarantee admission to the school. Children are admitted to Nursery usually for one year and have to be three years old before they qualify for a place. The Compulsory school age attendance is 5 years old. Admissions takes place in September. Those children whose fifth birthday occurs between March and August are entitled to part-time places until Christmas, after which they begin full-time education.
Parents need to complete admission forms and are requested to sign our Home/School Agreement. They are also issued with a School Prospectus. Visits to school prior to admissions are arranged for early years pupils and by request for older children changing schools.

Mural produced by the schoolchildren of Christ Church Primary School

ATTENDANCE:

Children are urged to attend school regularly and punctually except during sickness. A weekly percentage attendance is read out on Monday morning for each class during assembly and a shield awarded to the highest. Certificates will be awarded to those children with full attendance. Records are kept of those children that are absent without authorisation..

"An unauthorised absence means 'an occasion on which the pupil is recorded as absent without authority pursuant to the pupil' Registration Regulations 1956." (i.e. pupils who are absent without the parents permission or parents not sending children in with a letter to confirm illness or authorisation).

		The total number of pupils (including part time) in 2001 was 308.
		The percentage of the total number of authorised absences was 5.3%%.
		The percentage of the total number of unauthorised absences was 1.2%.
		The percentage of the total number of attendances was 93.9%.

SCHOOL ORGANISATION:

The Nursery and Reception classes are now contained within a Foundation Unit. The Nursery class provides 52 places on a part-time basis. Pupils are offered places according to the directives issued by Wirral Education Committee and normally have one year in Nursery before starting the Reception class. At the end of the Reception year, children enter Year 1. Each September they move to the next year group and after completing Year 6 they transfer to a Secondary school.  All classes are mixed ability. 

In year six we employ a setting system which relates directly to previous assessment data kept on every child. 

WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS:

		Reception to Year 2 - 22.5 hours per week exclusive of breaks and assemblies.
		Year 3 to Year 6 - 23.5 hours per week exclusive of breaks and assemblies.

THE SCHOOL DAY:

  CLASS INFORMATION  

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If you would prefer a paper copy then please contact the school secretary, who will be able to assist you.