2023‑2024

APPLICATIONS- FIRST CRITERIA: MAINSTREAM AND SERIOUS CASES

Children from Church Homes/ Children of Employees in the Same School/ Siblings/ Transfers, Exempted from attendance/Children from Church Schools without Continuity and Children of Employees in Another School and Social Cases of children under Care Order living in the same house and one of them attending a Church School. (Paragraph 1a-1ġ & 2i)

• Online on https://church.mt/applications
  from Thursday 24 November to Thursday 1 December 2022
• Those who require assistance to apply online may phone on 7999 0224,
  7951 5491 and 7786 5241 between 8:00a.m and 2:00 p.m from Thursday 24 November to Thursday 1 December 2022
• Applications cannot be downloaded.

LATE APPLICATIONS MAINSTREM AND SERIOUS CASE

Late Applications of Criteria 1 (Paragraph 1a-1ġ)

• Online on https://church.mt/applications
  From Friday 9 December to Thursday 15 December, 2022
• In case of difficulty during the filling of the application online, one can phone on 7999 0224, 7951 5491 and 778 65241 between 8:00 a.m and 2:00 p.m. from Friday 9 December to Thursday 15 December 2022

INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTS REQUIRED:

This information will be required while filling the online application:

Child’s name and surname, Child’s ID Card Number, Child’s Date of birth, Child’s gender, Address, Locality and Post Code, Home telephone number, Mother’s name and surname, Mother’s ID Card Number, Mother’s mobile phone, Father’s name and surname, Father’s ID Card Number, Father’s mobile phone, Mother and Father’s email address.

Documents to be uploaded with the application:

a. Catholics and other Christians are to present the Baptism Certificate.

b. Abstract of Birth Certificate from the Public Registry.

c. Foreigners who do not have a Maltese Identity Card are required to write their passport number and upload a copy of their passport details instead of the identity card.

d. A photo of the applicant.

e. When applying, parents or guardians will be asked to agree to The Declaration re Data Protection and Privacy. This Declaration may be viewed and/or downloaded from www.church.mt. Parents or guardian will be asked to indicate whether they would like to be notified or not if the Board needs to contact the school of their child.

f. The Declaration Educational Programme, filled by the Head of School. Indicating whether the student is mainstream, has access arrangements or is supported by an LSE. or has started the process for statementing.

This Declaration may be downloaded from here

In certain circumstances the Educational Programme Declaration may be sent later. In this case the applicant needs to indicate whether the student is mainstream, has access arrangements or is supported by an LSE. or has started the process for statementing.  If there is a discrepancy between the parents’ declaration and that of the Head of School, the Admissions Board will consider the indications by the Head of School and chances available according to the parents’ indication may be forfeited if they have already occurred.

The Educational Programme Declaration signed by the Head of School needs to be sent to Admissions Office not later than a week after the School Registration, for the application to be valid. If this is not submitted, then the registration will be invalid.

This Declaration is not applicable for Kinder 1.

ġ.   The application by one parent, or a representative of the parents, indicates that the parents agree about the application.

g.    In the case of separated parents when the Courts have decided that the care and custody is joint and both parents have legal rights re the education of their children, both parents need to indicate their consent. In such cases, the relative and most recent legal document that defines the children’s custody and educational responsibility is to be presented. The application is invalid if one parent disagrees or is uninformed and has not given his/ her consent.

Other Documents required when applying with the following criteria:

għ.   If applying according to the Criterion for Children from Church Homes:

A Declaration on the appropriate form signed by the Director of the Home to show that the child is a resident in the Church Home. This Declaration is to be made on the same day of the application. The preferred choice of school is also to be indicated.

The Declaration may be downloaded from here

h.      If applying according to the Siblings Criterion:

i.   The Birth Certificate from the Public Registry of the other sibling/s already attending a Church School.

ii.  A photocopy of the identity cards of both parents;

iii. In the case of adopted or fostered children, a certificate from the Agency concerned declaring the adoption or the fostering of the child is also required.

iv. When applying according to paragraphs 1ċ ii,iii and iv, custody documents AND a Declaration under oath in front of a notary (paragraph 1ċ) are also required.

ħ.        One needs to attached these documents according to the case:

i. A written explanation about the case

ii. Relevant certificates including the end-of-year result if available

iii. The Statement of Needs issued by the Statementing Moderating Panel and IEP

iv. When the case has not been concluded with the Statementing Moderating Panel of the Department of Education, a copy of the application to the Statementing Board, or a report by an educational psychologist detailing the needs of the boy/girl, is to be presented

v. The Statement of Needs, for applicants whose statementing is in process, has to be forwarded to the Admissions Office once this is received from the Statementing Board.

vi. The application for the request of the removal for the support of an L.S.E.

vii. Applications with a Statement of Needs that reads “Leaner needs are to be met by Class Teacher” are to present the Statement of Needs and the most recent psycho- educational report.

viii. Social Cases of children under Care Order who live in the same house need to present the Declaration signed by the Director of the Residential Home.

 i.  Applications who have allergies and / or might need to use an Epi-Pen need to present     the latest medical documents accordingly.

 j.  Documents which are not submitted with the application need to be submitted online on this link: https://knisja.mt/forms/cs-missing-documents/

Unless indicated otherwise, all documents for First Criteria applications has to be submitted by the 31st January 2023 and all documents for Third Criteria has to be submitted by the 31st March 2023. In case these are not sent, the application will be invalid.