Applications for admission to classes Kindergarten One, Kindergarten Two (Pregrade), and Year 1 level 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 years: brothers and sisters in the same school, children from Church Homes, three children in every class on the criteria of families with special needs, and the rest 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 are those born in 2005;

• in Kindergarten Two (Pregrade) are those born in 2004;

• in Year One are those born in 2003.

The dates and times when the filled applications have to be presented at the Archbishop Curia, will be on the application forms.