Beckbury Church of England (Controlled) Primary School

Admission Policy

Shropshire County Council, as Local Authority, is the admissions authority for the school. A standard application form and information will be available to parents in early September 2006, whose children are due to commence school in the academic year 2007/2008. All parents will be advised that it is in their own best interests to confirm in writing, using the LA application form, what their preference for a school place is, regardless of whether they opt for their nearest school, or one further away. The forms should be returned by the end of the autumn half term to the parents’ preferred school, which will pass them on to the Admission’s Team in the LA to administer the allocations procedure.

The admissions criteria which will be used to determine the allocation of a school place will be as follows, in order of priority:

a) Exceptional medical grounds relevant to an admission application;

b) Sibling connection with a pupil who will be on the relevant school’s roll in the year in question, and living within the school’s normal attendance area;

c) Children within area but without a sibling connection;

d) Children out of area with a sibling connection;

e) Children out of area without a sibling connection.

Where necessary, in order to determine the allocation of places in schools which may be oversubscribed, the distance between the parents’ normal home address and school will be employed to determine the allocation of places up to the admissions numbers, with those parents living nearest the school being offered places first.

No priority or guarantee of a place at a primary school will be given related to attendance at a nursery located at that school.

The school also has an independent playgroup on site. The playgroup is popular so parents who would like their children to attend need to register their child with Beckbury Acorns Playgroup as early as possible. A place at Beckbury Acorns Playgroup does not guarantee them a place at school.

Admission limits will not be breached by the LEA where to do so would necessitate class sizes in Key Stage One of more than 30 pupils.

The date of admissions to full time primary education in Shropshire is at the beginning of the term in which the child’s fifth birthday falls or at the beginning of the spring term if the child is 5 during the rest of the school year (until 31st August). Children are not allocated a place to commence school any earlier unless there are very exceptional medical or social reasons. Entry to school may be deferred by a maximum of one term within the same academic year. Children are of compulsory school age at the term after their fifth birthday.

Further information will be available in the Parents’ Guide to Education in Shropshire, which is produced by the LEA.

Parents considering sending their children to the school are invited to make an appointment to meet the headteacher and visit the school.

The school's standard admission number for each year group is 8.

01 February 2006