Applications for admission to classes at Kindergarten One, Kindergarten Two (Pre-grade), and Year 1 levels of Church schools in Malta in 2008, will be received at one centre – the Secretariat for Catholic Education, 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 chosen 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 on the website of the Archdiocese, www.maltadiocese.org (click the button marked Education), from 3 to 13 January.

Children applying for entry: in Kindergarten One should be those born in 2005; in Kindergarten Two (Pre-grade) those born in 2004 and in Year One those born in 2003.

The dates and times when the duly filled applications will have to be presented at the Archbishop’s Curia are given in the application forms.