Admission to Church schools

Applications for admission to classes at Kindergarten, Pregrade and Year 1 level of Church schools in Malta in 2003 will be received at one centre: the Secretariat for Catholic Education and Culture, Archbishop's Curia, Floriana.

The criteria for entry will remain those established in the past few years: brothers and sisters in the same school, children from Church homes, three children in every class from families with special needs, and the rest by ballot.

According to the system that was introduced in 1995, parents will apply for admission on one single form. On application, parents will indicate their choice of school for their children.

Following the draw by ballot, children will be assigned to schools according to their placing in the ballot, to the available places in each school and to their indicated preference.

Application forms will be available from the Archbishop's Curia as follows: January 13 for Kindergarten - children born in 2000; January 14 for Pregrade - children born in 1999; January 15 for Year One - children born in 1998; from 9 a.m. to noon and from 3 to 5 p.m.

The dates when the duly filled applications have to be returned to the Archbishop's Curia will be announced concurrently with the issuing of the application forms.