Boldmere School

Admissions

• Nursery registrations should be made with Boldmere Infant and Nursery School. Application forms are available from the school office or to download from the school website. Children are eligible to start Nursery in the September following their third birthday. In such cases where our Nursery places are not filled, there will be further intakes in January/April, for those children who became three during the Autumn/Spring term.
• For January/April intakes, priority is given to the eldest children (not sibling priority) at the time of offering a place. When children are admitted in the January/April following their third birthday, they will continue in Nursery for a further year (ie for a total of 5/4 terms) until eligible for admission to Reception class.
• Admission criteria, including Morning or afternoon preferences is detailed in Appendix 1.
• Full time places (30 hours) are offered where eligibility criteria is met. In such cases, a weekly charge for wrap around care is required as part of the contract between school and parents.
• If your child attends our nursery class, this does not mean that he or she will automatically get a place in our infant school. Parents with children in the nursery class must apply for a Reception year place at the school in the same way as other parents.

How to apply for Reception class

• It is not possible to predict precise distances for the next year of entry and there is no guarantee of a place based on previous year’s distances.
• By law, parents must ensure that their children are receiving suitable full-time education at the beginning of the term after their fifth birthday. However, in Birmingham, children are admitted to the Reception year in the September at the start of the academic year in which they reach five years of age. The Local Authority offers Reception places on an agreed date in the Spring term.

Transfer from Year 2 to Year 3 class

• Transfers from Year 2 to Year 3 (Infant to Junior School) are managed by the Local Authority.
• Parents with a child attending Boldmere Infant and Nursery School in Year 2 are required by the Local Authority to complete a Local Authority Preference Form to request a Year 3 place at Boldmere Junior School, or any other primary school. Parents will be given guidance on this process by the schools.

How to make an in-year application

• Applications made outside the normal admissions round (In-Year Admission) must be made directly to the school concerned.
• Parents must complete an Application for a Change of School (In Year) form. Section 4 of this form must be completed by the Headteacher of the child’s current or 4 most recent school, before the form is passed to the preferred school and if no places are available, the child’s name is added to the waiting list. They will remain on the waiting list until the end of the current academic year.

Transfer from Year 6 to Secondary School

• In the summer term a year prior to children transferring to secondary education, parents of Year 5 children will be invited by the Local Authority to apply for their child to be admitted to any Birmingham LA maintained secondary school or Academy. Parents may express up to six school preferences.
• Applications to sit any selective or assessment tests should be made on separate forms.
• Further guidance on this process will be given by Boldmere Junior School and the Local Authority.

Appeals

• Appeals are administered by the Local Authority for this school.
• Parents/carers who wish to appeal against the decision to refuse their child admission should visit www.birmingham.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Waiting lists

• If the school is over subscribed in any year group, names of all unsuccessful applicants will be placed on a waiting list. The list will operate in accordance with the oversubscription criteria defined above. This will be maintained by the school and following an unsuccessful application, the applicant will be informed if they have been placed on the waiting list.
• Waiting lists will not be fixed following the offer of places. They are subject to change. This means that a child’s waiting list position during the year may move up or down.
• Any applicants will be added to the school’s waiting list in accordance with the order of priority for offering places.
• Waiting lists will be maintained until the end of each academic year. Parents must re-apply for a place if they wish to remain on the waiting list for a subsequent year. Further information is available on the Birmingham City Council website, Primary school admissions.