I appreciate this subject has probably been discussed a million times before but I was wondering (hoping) if anyone has a winning experience of this situation. I'll begin at the beginning........
In 2010 we moved house midway through my son's reception year. We applied to the local school and told they were full so applied to the next and were told the same then began to panic!! I contacted the LEA who advised us to apply at the local Catholic school (we're not Catholic) which was the nearest school to our house. We applied and he was accepted and all was well.
My daughter is due to start in Sept 2013 and we have been informed that she cannot go to the same school as my son. We initially assumed this was based on her not being Catholic however we've now been informed its to do with the dreaded infact class size prejudice and we have an appeal in July.
I've read all of the information about there only being certain ways you can get through an appeal but we believe we have strong grounds in certain areas including :
- Why allow one child to attend and not the other?
- Knowing that there is already as KS1 class at the school that contains 34 children, 4 of which were accepted on appeal??
Anyone else experienced any similar issues??