The school had been told by the OSA that it could no longer use attendance in the nursery or family synagogue membership to give priority for reception places.
This meant five out of 30 nursery children would lose their priority for places in reception next autumn.
The governors said: “We would now like to close this difficult chapter and focus on the business of educating our children.”
But according to the OSA, the school had until next April to amend its policy. If Clore Shalom had waited until spring, its new policy would not have applied until September 2014, thus sparing the nursery children affected this year.
The DfE confirmed that the school had chosen to apply the policy immediately: “The decision to implement admissions policy in this way was down to the governing body of Clore Shalom and we only have limited powers to intervene.”