Briscoe Lane Academy

Application Procedures

All parents/carers are required to apply to their home LA regardless of where the school/academy they are applying is situated. Manchester residents will apply to Manchester LA. The LA will liaise with other Admissions Authorities in Manchester and other LAs where required. Manchester LA will inform parents/carers in writing of the outcome of their application.

These admission arrangements apply to applicants seeking a place in Reception for the schools listed in appendix 1. Applications for admission to the nursery of a Manchester school/academy will be dealt with by the school/academy, not by the LA. Applicants should apply direct to the school for a nursery place.The LA is obliged to include in these arrangements the following provisions that apply to parent/carers making applications for a place in Reception only:

• The arrangements do not apply to those being admitted for nursery provision including nursery provision delivered in a co-­located children’s centre.
• Parent/carers of children who are admitted for nursery provision must apply for a place at the school/academy if they want their child to transfer to the reception class; Attendance at the nursery or co-located children’s centre does not guarantee admission to the school/academy;
• Parent/carers can request that the date their child is admitted to the school/academy is deferred until later in the school year or until the child reaches compulsory school age in that school year. Where entry is deferred, admission authorities must hold the place for that child and not offer it to another child. The parent would not however be able to defer entry beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday;
• Parents of a summer born child may request that they are admitted out of their normal age group – to reception rather than year 1.
• Parents can request that their child attends part-time until the child reaches compulsory school age.

Primary Admissions Round – Oversubscription Criteria

• Category 1 - children who are looked after by a local authority and children who were previously looked after by a local authority. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order);
• Category 2 - children with exceptional medical/social needs;
• Category 3 - children with a sibling at the school;
• Category 4 – all other children

Within each category applicants, will be prioritised according to the distance between the child’s permanent address and the school. Distance will be measured in a straight line from the centre point of the child’s permanent home address to the centre point of the school as defined by Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG), and using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system, with those living closer to the school receiving higher priority.

In Year Admissions – Oversubscription Criteria

All children whose statement of special educational needs or Education, Health and Care plan names the school must be admitted.

• Category 1 - children who are looked after by a local authority and children who were previously looked after by a local authority. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order);
• Category 2 - children with exceptional medical/social needs;
• Category 3 - children with a sibling at the school
• Category 4 – children who have moved into Manchester and are without an offer of a school place; Category 5 – all other children

Within each category, applicants will be prioritised according to the distance between the child’s permanent address and the school. Distance will be measured in a straight line from the centre point of the child’s permanent home address to the centre point of the school as defined by Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG), and using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system, with those living closer to the school receiving higher priority.

Waiting Lists

Waiting lists will be held in criteria order according to the oversubscription criteria. Waiting lists will not be operated on a “first come, first served” basis. The amount of time an applicant is on a waiting list will not affect their position on it.

For the Primary Admissions Round a waiting list will be held up to the end of the autumn term. At this point applicants will be required to re-apply for the school should they wish to stay on the waiting list.

For In Year applications, waiting lists will be held for the term in which the application was made. At the end of the term all applicants will be removed from all waiting lists. The only exception to this will be if the applicant has not been offered a place. In this circumstance the applicant will be kept on the waiting list for the next term. Details of the waiting list process will be on the application forms and on the offer letters sent to applicants.