Notes for Ranelagh Parents
Ranelagh School
Are you a Warfield Church parent of a child, or children, in Years 3, 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 2027 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, and your good attendance will help you in your application. The passports run from September through to the following August, and you need to come to the church office to get one.
You need to be on our list of members before we can give you a passport. We would love you to join one of our Sunday morning congregations and become a member, so do please come to St Andrew's, St Michael's or Whitegrove School and join in. When you're there, fill in one of our yellow "Tell Me More" forms and I can add your name to the membership list.
Office Hours
Alan is generally in the office from Monday to Thursday, and you are welcome to come at any time from 8am to 5pm. But, please, phone before you come to make sure someone will be in the office to see you. 01344 886900
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Year 4 from September 2026
(So, coming to the end of Year 3 in July 2026.)
You will need to come to the church office in late July or in August so we can issue you with a Year 4 passport which you can get stamped from September onwards.
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Year 5 from September 2026
(Coming to the end of Year 4 in July 2026.)
Towards the end of August please come to the church office to collect a new Year 5 passport, and hand in your completed Year 4 passport which we will look after for a year.
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Year 6 from September 2026
(Coming to the end of Year 5 in July 2026.)
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 2027. Here is a link to the SIF. The name of the applicant on the SIF must be the name on the Ranelagh Passport.
Then, bring your SIF and fully stamped Year 5 passport into the church office as soon as you can. We will then process your application.
Alan Ridell
Operations Manager
operations@warfield.org.uk