If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of our admission arrangements below.
Admission Arrangements
Places at Havelock Infant and Havelock Junior School are allocated by North Northamptonshire County Council. All information and oversubscription criteria are detailed in the Pathfinder Schools admission policy, this also details the appeal procedure and the oversubscription criteria for the school.
Please follow the links below to request an in year school place or to apply for a new Reception or Secondary school place or if your child has special educational needs or disabilities:
To request an in year school place
Applying for a Primary school place for September 2024
The application process closes on January 15th 2024
Follow the link above for information on how to make a late application.
Applying for a Secondary school place for September 2024
The application process closed on October 31st 2023.
Follow the link above for information on how to make a late application.
School admissions arrangements for children with SEND
Havelock Infant School
Oversubscription Criteria
In the event of oversubscription for places, the following criteria will be applied:
The published total admission number for the school is 270. For each reception intake from September, the admission number is 90.
Places will be allocated to pupils who have a statement of SEN or an EHC Plan that names the school as the appropriate provision. When there are more applications for places than there are places available, priority will be given in the following order:
- Looked After Children and all previously Looked After Children (see paragraph 6.1 of the school's Admissions Policy for the definition of ‘Looked After Children’).
- Children with a sibling link (see paragraph 6.3 of the school's Admissions Policy for the definition of ‘sibling’) continuing at the school or the linked Junior School at the time of the admission of the younger child.
- Children who live closer to the preferred school than any other school
- Other children.
Distance Tiebreaker
If the admission number is exceeded within criterion 3, priority will be given to those who live furthest from the nearest alternative school .
If the admission number is exceeded within any other criterion, priority will be given to those who live closest to the school.
Measurements are carried out on a straight line basis from the child’s home address to the address point of the school.
In the case where multiple applications for the same shared dwelling occurs (eg. Flats), a randomiser will be used to decide the priority in which the pupils within the shared dwelling are selected in the event of a tie. The random allocation process will be subject to independent verification.
Havelock Junior School
Oversubscription Criteria
In the event of oversubscription for places, the following criteria will be applied:
The published total admission number for the school is 360. For each Year 3 intake from September, the admission number is 90.
Places will be allocated to pupils who have a statement of SEN or an EHC Plan that names the school as the appropriate provision. When there are more applications for places than there are places available, priority will be given in the following order:
- Looked After Children and all previously Looked After Children (see paragraph 6.1 of the school's Admissions Policy for definition of ‘Looked After Children’).
- Children with a sibling link (see paragraph 6.3 of the school's Admission Policy for definition of ‘sibling’) continuing at the school at the time of the admission of the younger child.
- Children who attended Havelock Infant School.
- Children who live closer to the preferred school than any other school.
- Other children.
Distance Tiebreaker
If the admission number is exceeded within criterion 4, priority will be given to those who live furthest from the nearest alternative school.
If the admission number is exceeded within any other criterion, priority will be given to those who live closest to the school.
Measurements are carried out on a straight line basis from the child’s home address to the address point of the school.
In the case where multiple applications for the same shared dwelling occurs (eg. Flats), a randomiser will be used to decide the priority in which the pupils within the shared dwelling are selected in the event of a tie. The random allocation process will be subject to independent verification.
Appeals Process
If you have applied and been refused a place at our school (in any year group), you are entitled to appeal against that decision.
Appeals for Havelock Infant School and Havelock Junior School are administered by Northamptonshire County Council Admissions Team. For more information on the process please see:https://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/children-families-education/schools-and-education/school-admissions/school-appeals