Entrance Examination:

Loreto Grammar School's Entrance Examination 2024 will take place on Friday, 20th September 2024 for entry into Year 7 in September 2025.

All results for the Entrance Examination 2024 were sent via email on 23rd October 2024. Further information can be found in the Parent Information Booklet 2024.

Places are offered by the 'home' authority on behalf of the Governing Body on 1st March 2025. Your 'home' authority is the local authority in which you live.

If your daughter did not sit the Entrance Examination 2024 in September 2024, she is welcome to sit our Late Entrance Examination in April 2025. As per our Admissions Policy, if your daughter is successful in the Late Entrance Examination, her name can only be placed on our Waiting List. For further information regarding the Late Entrance Examination, please click here.

If your daughter was unsuccessful in the Entrance Examination 2024, the earliest date she can sit the Entrance Examination again will be in the summer term when she is in Year 7, ie, April 2026.

Baptism Certificates (if applicable):

To view Definitions of a Baptised Roman Catholic, please click here.

Please send your daughter's original Baptism Certificate to:   

Admissions Team, Loreto Grammar School, Dunham Road, Altrincham WA14 4AH

The Baptism Certificate, if applicable, should be sent at the time you register your daughter for the Entrance Examination and NO LATER THAN 31st July 2024. 

Please DO NOT send in your daughter's Baptism Certificate until you  have registered her for the Entrance Examination. This then completes the registration process. 

You should also send a stamped addressed envelope for its return.  Please ensure you use the correct postage on all your correspondence. 

Due to the number of Baptism Certificates being received, this process may take up to 2 weeks.  

Familiarisation Materials for the Entrance Examination

Here are some familiarisation materials provided by GL Assessment:

• Verbal reasoning parent's guide including answers
• Verbal reasoning paper 1 and Answer sheet
• Verbal reasoning paper 2 and Answer sheet
• Verbal reasoning paper 3 and Answer sheet
• English parent's guide including answers
• English paper 1 and Answer sheet
• English paper 2 and Answer sheet

In addition, GL Assessment provide papers which you can purchase:

Verbal reasoning practice papers 

English practice papers

 

Admissions Policy - 2025 entry