{"id":3163,"date":"2018-12-12T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:20:28","slug":"applying-to-catholic-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/12\/applying-to-catholic-primary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying to Catholic Primary Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are applying to a Catholic primary school you will need to\u00a0download from the school website what is called a \u2018SIF\u2019, which\u00a0stands for Supplementary Information Form. This needs to be\u00a0signed by a priest, attesting that your child is baptised and that\u00a0your family comes to Mass. Please leave these at the presbytery\u00a0for me &#8211; I sign them before the cut off date in January and send or\u00a0take them direct to the school.<\/p>\n<p>To help us in this process you also need to complete an internal\u00a0Pre-reference form. These are in the porch. Again, when you\u00a0have completed it please leave it for me at the presbytery. It\u00a0doesn\u2019t go to the school; it is simply to give us the information we\u00a0need. Please don\u2019t give us originals of documents such as\u00a0baptism, birth or marriage certificates as getting them returned to\u00a0you is a time-consuming exercise. If there are any problems with\u00a0your application we will contact you. Even if you know one of the\u00a0other clergy better, we have for many years run a system where I\u00a0deal with all the applications, so material should be left for me\u00a0rather than my colleagues.<br \/>\n<em>Fr Ashley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are applying to a Catholic primary school you will need to\u00a0download from the school website what is called a \u2018SIF\u2019, which\u00a0stands for Supplementary Information Form. This needs to be\u00a0signed by a priest, attesting that your child is baptised and that\u00a0your family comes to Mass. Please leave these at the presbytery\u00a0for me &#8211; I sign them before the cut off date in January and send or\u00a0take them direct to the school. To help us in this process you also need to complete an internal\u00a0Pre-reference form. These are in the porch. Again, when you\u00a0have completed it please leave it for me at the presbytery. It\u00a0doesn\u2019t go to the school; it is simply to give us the information we\u00a0need. Please don\u2019t give us originals of documents such as\u00a0baptism, birth or marriage certificates as getting them returned to\u00a0you is a time-consuming exercise. If there are any problems with\u00a0your application we will contact you. Even if you know one of the\u00a0other clergy better, we have for many years run a system where I\u00a0deal with all the applications, so material should be left for me\u00a0rather than my colleagues. Fr Ashley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}