Admissions and Prospectus
Please use our enquiry form and select 'school admissions' from the options.
Telephone: 0345 045 1370
With regards to our oversubscription Criteria;
Children who have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names the school will be admitted. NB. Those children with an EHCP that does not name the school will be referred to the Statutory Assessment Team (SAT) to determine an appropriate place.
1. Children in Care (CIC) and Children who were previously in care (CIC) but ceased to be so by reason of adoption, a residence order (now known as a child arrangement order) or special guardianship order and Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceases to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. Children living in the catchment area with a sibling at the school (or partner infant/junior school) at the time of admission;
3. Children living in the catchment area;
4. Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at the school (or partner infant/junior school) at the time of admission;
5. Children of members of staff, providing that they have been employed for a minimum of two years and/or are recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage.
6. Children who live outside the catchment area, but nearest the school as measured by a straight line.
Please see the council pages for more details. (The First Steps book)
Uniform
All pupils at Ely St John's wear the school's uniform. This is primarily emerald and grey.
Overall
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Our branded emerald green school sweatshirts can be purchased from https://www.totalclothing.co.uk/collections (see below for more details)
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Branded cardigans are available to order from the school office.
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The sweatshirts are to be worn with white shirts or white polo shirts and grey or black trousers, shorts, skirts or pinafore dresses.
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An old shirt or apron is needed for art activities.
Summer
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Children may wear sandals with closed toes and white or dark plain socks.
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In summer girls can wear green and white striped or checked dresses. This should be worn with dark shoes and black, grey, brown or dark green tights or socks.
Winter
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The school is on an exposed site so coats should be brought into school as we make the most of being able to go outside in all weathers!
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Make sure your child brings a coat to school and has raincoats and wellies available if wet or snowy.
School PE kit consists of black or green shorts, yellow t-shirt and plimsolls.
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In summer, children need suitable shorts, T-shirts and plimsolls for outdoor activities.
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In the winter tracksuits are allowed and trainers for outdoors.
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Your children should come to school wearing their PE kits on PE days rather than changing clothes during the day
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Long hair must be tied back.
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For swimming, one piece swimming costumes rather than bikinis for girls and trunks rather than long shorts for boys. Goggles are allowed.
Please remember: Label all items of clothing
High heeled or backless shoes or clothing attachments which could cause damage to other children are not appropriate. No make-up should be worn for school. Children with pierced ears should wear studs for school. For safety reasons, no other earrings or jewellery should be worn. We do not allow earrings for PE. If teachers consider it dangerous to do a particular PE activity with earrings in, your child will have to take them out or sit out the activity. Alternatively we would strongly advise you to send your child to school without earrings on regular PE days.
The Friends' of Ely St Johns hold Second Hand Uniform sales periodically throughout the year
Curriculum Overview
At Ely St John's it is exciting and varied. The children spend much time developing their key skills within activities that interest and motivate them. The development of skills is placed into practical, real life and meaningful contexts.
We aim to provide a rich environment for learning both inside and outside our school buildings.
We value the outdoors as a learning resource as much as the classroom and take great pride in our nature garden, allotment, outdoor classroom, Foundation Stage courtyards and other outside areas.
Learning outside the classroom is something which we value highly and are strongly committed to, our garden is used by all year groups and in all areas of the curriculum.
The curriculum is planned yearly to ensure consistency across classes and progression through the years. You will find the overall topic frameworks for each year group and termly topic webs on the year group pages on the school website.