Admissions

• Important notes when completing your application
  • Please be sure to check all the details you enter on your form are correct, including the details of any older siblings that will attend Cardinal Hume in September 2023.
  • You must complete the ‘Faith details’ section of the form. If your child is baptised/christened you will be asked to provide evidence of this.  If this applies to your child you should complete our Supplementary Information Form and send this in direct to Cardinal Hume Catholic School.
  • If you change address during anytime during the application process, particularly if your child is offered a place it is important that you notify the school and the local authority.

More Information

• Waiting Lists

  If your child is unsuccessful in gaining a place at Cardinal Hume Catholic School, you may request that your child is placed onto the schools waiting list, which will be maintained according to the schools admissions criteria.

  Children will be grouped according to the published criterion.  The length of time someone has been on the waiting list will not be taken into account for the purpose of the allocation of places.  The school will continue to maintain the waiting list during the corresponding school year and outside the normal year of entry.

  Each time a place (or places) becomes available at the school while a child is on the waiting list then a new round of electronic random allocation will take place within each category to determine a child’s position.

• In-Year Transfers

  Anybody wishing to apply to Cardinal Hume Catholic School for a place outside of the normal admission round will need to do so by contacting the school admissions team at Gateshead Council.

  https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/2799/In-year-transfers

• Fair Access Panel

  It is a matter of Law that all Local Authorities should have a Fair Access Panel whose remit is to allocate children to a school who do not already have a school place.  This will include pupils who have been previously excluded from another school, or have just moved into the area and have been unable to secure a place by applying directly to a school.

  https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/3851/Fair-Access-Process

  For further information about the Fair Access Panel please click here.

• Sixth Form Admissions

  For information on Sixth Form and how to apply click here
  https://www.cardinalhume.com/sixth-form/

• Appeals

  An Appeal can only be made after you have received written confirmation refusing your child a place at your preferred school.

  If you wish to appeal against the decision you should contact the school direct to request a ‘Notice of Appeal’ form.  Once completed this should be returned to school before the date shown below.

  Appeals are administered on our behalf by Gateshead Council, who will make contact with you directly shortly after submitting your appeal to school.  They will make arrangements for your Appeal to be heard.  The Appeal Hearings will be heard at Gateshead Council offices.

• In Year Appeals

  Appeals resulting from in year admission applications will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

  Click here for further advice on Appeals.

  For further information or to speak to school direct please contact:

  The School Admissions Team,
  Cardinal Hume Catholic School
  Old Durham Road
  Gateshead
  Tyne and Wear
  NE9 6RZ.
  Tel: 0191 487 7638

  Email: admissions@chs.bwcet.com

• Supplementary Information Form

  Families applying to Cardinal Hume Catholic School where a faith criterion will form part of the application should complete a Supplementary Information Form and return to the school by Friday 9 December 2022 to admissions@chs.bwcet.com or via post to Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Old Durham Road, Gateshead NE9 6RZ

  Cardinal Hume Supplementary Info Form 23-24