Muschamp Primary School has nursery provision on the same site. However, attendance in the nursery does not give priority for a place in the Reception class of that school, and a separate application must be made. Children will be eligible for consideration for entry to nursery from the term after their third birthday.
Muschamp Primary school will offer full time education to children from the September before the fifth birthday. Parents can defer the date their child is admitted to school until later in the school year but not beyond the point at which they reach compulsory school age or, for children born between 1 April and 31 August, not beyond the beginning of the final term of the school year for which the offer was made. Where parents wish, children may attend part-time until later in the school year but not beyond the point at which they reach compulsory school age.
Where the child is attending the school nursery or co-located children’s centre, a separate application must be made for entry into Reception Class. Places are allocated according to the admissions criteria shown below; no automatic entry or priority is given to children attending the school nursery or co-located children’s centre.
Children are educated in school with others of their age group. However, parents may request that their child is exceptionally admitted outside their age group. The school will decide whether or not the individual child’s circumstances make this appropriate, taking into account of the child’s individual needs and abilities and considering which year group these needs can best be met. Such requests will only be agreed in exceptional circumstances.
Teachers are skilled at differentiating the curriculum to meet a diverse range of needs. Before deciding to apply to submit a request, parents should visit the school. The teachers will be able to explain the provision on offer to children in the year of entry, how it is tailored to meet the Muschamp Primary School Admission Arrangements needs of all pupils and how the needs of these pupils will continue to be met as they move up through the school. They may also be able to allay any concerns the parent may have.
Decisions will be made on the basis of the circumstances of each case and in the best interests of the child concerned. This will include taking account of the parent’s views; information about the child’s academic, social and emotional development; where relevant, their medical history and the views of a medical professional; whether they have previously been educated out of their normal age group; and whether they may naturally have fallen into a lower age group if it were not for being born prematurely.
All requests should include recent professional evidence of the child’s circumstances which make education outside the age group necessary. Evidence must be of the individual child’s need, rather than general factors which relate to a wider group of children born at a similar time.
Parents requesting delayed entry to Reception should submit an application for the child’s actual age group before the relevant closing date. The request for later admission should accompany the application. This enables the application to be processed and a school place secured in the child’s actual age group if the request is refused. Decisions on these cases will consider if it is in the child’s best interests to join Reception or Year 1 at statutory school age. Parents will be informed of the outcome of their request prior to offer day.
Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every case, who is living as part of the same family unit at the same address, Monday to Friday. Siblings in Year 6 at the time of an application to start Reception in September will not qualify as a sibling. Pupils in the SEN base provision within the school will qualify as siblings to those applying for mainstream provision.
Where there are more applicants than places available, waiting lists will operate for each year group according to the oversubscription criteria shown above and without regard to the date the application was received or when a child’s name was added to the waiting list.
Waiting lists for entry to Reception in September will be maintained strictly in accordance with the admissions criteria for the school until the last day of the Autumn term. Parents wishing to remain on the waiting list after this date must write to the school by 31 December, stating their wish and providing their child’s name, date of birth and the name of their current school.
Applications for Reception from 1 September and for other year groups will be considered through the mid-term admission process. For mid-term applications, children with an Education, Health & Care Plan, those to be admitted through the borough’s Fair Access Protocol, looked after children and previously looked after children will take priority over children on a waiting list. Waiting lists are then held according to the remaining admissions criteria for the school.
Mid-term waiting lists will be reviewed at the end of each academic year; Parents wishing to remain on the waiting list after this time must write to the school by the end of July, stating their wish and providing their child’s name, date of birth and the name of their current school. Children applying for nursery who are not offered a place will be automatically added to that school’s waiting list. Nursery waiting lists will be reviewed before being carried forward to the academic year, to confirm which autumn and spring born children wish to be considered for a place in the next academic year.
Applicants who are not offered a place will be given a right of appeal for all schools of a higher preference than the school offered. Outcome letters will give details of how to lodge an appeal. There is no right of appeal against a decision not to offer a nursery place.
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