Bournville Infant School

Admissions policy statement

• Bournville Infant School is a Voluntary Aided School, which has a catchment area and set criteria for entry.
• Any child with an Education and Health Care Plan that names the school will be admitted. This is not an oversubscription criterion.
• If the number of children applying for admission exceeds the number of places available, places will be allocated based on the following order of priority.

Oversubscription Criteria

• Looked after children or children who were previously looked after (including previously looked after children from outside of England)
• Children living in the catchment area who, at the time of admission, have a sibling at the school (Parents should note that Bournville Village Primary School has adopted the Local Authority’s ‘Sibling’ definition). The catchment area can be viewed at the School Office.
• Other children living in the catchment area.
• Children living outside the catchment area who, at the time of admission, have a sibling at Bournville Village Primary School.
• Other children living outside the catchment area.

Waiting list

Following the offer of places, a waiting list will be kept in strict oversubscription criteria order until at least the end of the first academic term. Each added child will require the list to be ranked again in line with the oversubscription criteria.

In Year Applications

• Applications made outside the normal admissions round (in-year admissions) should be made directly to the school. Parents/carers can apply for a place for their child at any time and to any school.
• On receipt of an in-year application, the school will notify the local authority of both the application and its outcome, to allow the local authority to keep up to date with figures on the availability of school places in Birmingham.

Appeals

• Appeals are heard by an Appeal Panel that is independent from the school, the Local Authority prepares and presents any appeals on behalf of the school.
• The statutory limit on class sizes in infant classes restricts the circumstances in which Appeal Panels may uphold an appeal where the admission would exceed the class size limit. Therefore, an Appeal Panel can only uphold an appeal if it is satisfied that.
• Your child would have been offered a place if the published admission arrangements had been applied properly
• Your child would have been offered a place if the arrangements had not been contrary to the school admissions code and the legislation
• The decision was not one a reasonable authority would make in the circumstances of the case.