Notes for Ranelagh Parents
Ranelagh School
Are you a Warfield Church parent of a child, or children, in Years 4 or 5?
Thinking of applying for a Ranelagh School place? Did you know that evidence of regular attendance at church services over two years is an important part of a successful application? (The Ranelagh Admissions Policy 2026 is available here.) Membership of the Electoral Roll is no longer a requirement. Here's a pdf document of Ranelagh Outline Information.
Warfield Church has a well-established system for supporting your application by providing evidence of church attendance. We call it the “Ranelagh Passport” and ideally you need to use this system all through Year 4 and Year 5 of your child’s time in primary school. Each time you attend a Sunday morning church service at Warfield you can ask one of our nominated people to stamp your passport for you. These stamps provide the evidence of your attendance.
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Year 4 from September 2025
You will need to come to the church Office where we will issue you with a Year 4 passport which you can get stamped from September onwards.
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Years 5 & 6 from September 2025
The Year 4 & 5 passports in circulation at the moment run from October to September. This is not ideal, and we want to return to a system where the passports run from September to August.
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In Year 5 from September 2025? In August please come to collect a new Year 5 passport, even though your old Year 4 passport won’t yet have run out. We’ll try to make ourselves available at every TOGETHER service in August to help with the changeover.
Then, in September, keep getting stamps in your old Year 4 passport and start getting stamps in your new Year 5 passport. So, during September, get both passports stamped. At the end of September, hand in your completed Year 4 passport and we’ll look after it for you for a year.
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In Year 6 from September 2025? In September, start filling in the paperwork for making an application for a place in Secondary School. You’ll need to fill in the Common Application Form supplied by the Local Authority and the Ranelagh School Supplementary Information Form (SIF) for entry in September 2026. The name of the applicant on the SIF must be the name on the Ranelagh Passport.
Then, at the end of September, as soon as you’ve got all your stamps in your year 5 passport, or early in October, get your SIF and fully stamped Year 5 passport into the Warfield Church Office as soon as you can. We will then process your application.
Alan Ridell
Operations Manager