Ladybarn Primary School

Nursery Admissions

Children are eligible to start nursery in the September after their 3rd birthday.

Nursery applications are administered by the school, not the local authority.

At present, all our nursery places start part time and then progress to full time, usually from the 3rd week following admission, as long as the child is ready for a full time place. Currently we do not charge for nursery places, but do ask parents who are entitled to the additional 30 hour funding, to ensure they apply and renew their funding application by the specific Government deadlines.

Our Head of School undertakes our school tours. If you would like to be booked onto a tour of the school, please contact the school office (Tel: 0161 445 4898).

Reception Admissions

All applications for Reception places in Manchester schools are to be submitted via the Local Authority. If you have a nursery place here, you are not guaranteed a Reception place here. This is because nursery education is non-compulsory, and each individual school administers their own nursery. Reception places are compulsory education and the Local Authority/Council administer these.

Application Procedures

All parent/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 parent/carers in writing of the outcome of their application.

These admission arrangements apply to applicants seeking a place in Reception for Cringle Brook Primary, Green End Primary and Ladybarn Primary schools. Applications for admission to the nursery of Ladybarn or Green End will be dealt with by the individual school, not by the LA and therefore 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 does not guarantee admission to the school
• 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.

Oversubscription Criteria

The oversubscription criteria will be applied to all applicants where there are more applicants than places available. All applicants will be placed in a priority order determined by the oversubscription criteria.

Places will be offered to the applicants with the highest priority until all places at the school have been offered, after all children whose Education, Health and Care plan names the school. There are different oversubscription criteria for entry into:

• Reception in September (Primary Admissions Round),
• Reception up to year 6 during the academic year (In Year Admissions).

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. Children who were looked after or in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. 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) A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organization or another professional provider of care;

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.

Notes:

Category 2

• A panel of Local Authority officers will consider Category 2 applications on behalf of the Director of Children’s Services.
• If a parent has chosen a particular school because the child has exceptional social or medical circumstances or the parent is disabled, this should be indicated with the reasons for choosing the school. Parents must also provide a letter from a doctor or social worker as supporting evidence. The LA will then send a category 2 application form allowing the parent to state in full the exceptional social/medical reasons why the child should attend this school.
• If supporting evidence is not supplied with a category 2 application the application will be refused.

Category 3 - Sibling

• A sibling is defined as a brother or sister attending the applied for school when the applicant will take up the place and living at the same address. This includes adopted siblings, stepsiblings and foster children as well as full and half siblings;
• Siblings who are in a nursery class of the primary school will not give the applicant a sibling 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 at any school. 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.

Parents/carers may seek a place for their child outside their normal age group. Where a request is received to admit a child outside their normal age group, the local authority will co-ordinate the request with the school(s) requested and the decisions made.

Appeals Process

The appeals process for children in Reception to Year 6 is managed by Manchester City Council. Please refer to their website for more information. You cannot appeal for a Nursery place.

Manchester School Admissions can be contacted on 0161 245 7166 or by visiting the Manchester City Councils admissions website.