St Peters CofE Primary School

Reception offer day - 16th April

To apply for a Reception place you need to visit www.birmingham.gov and apply now. The closing date for applications is 15th January. All applications need to be made online to admissions. If you have an older child at St Peter's already you will still need to make an application for a place. Also if you have a child attending our Nursery you will need to make an application as attending our Nursery does not guarantee a place at St Peter's If you have received your offer for a place at St. Peter's you need do nothing at present and school will be in contact with you shortly. You only need to contact BCC School Admissions team if you are REFUSING your offer. Deadline to do this is Tuesday 30th April. Do this by emailing BCC.

If you did not receive an offer of a place at your higher preference schools, your child's name will automatically be placed on the waiting lists of these schools. Information on waiting list positions will not be available until 16th May, giving time for related movement and time to generate accurate lists. You can contact school direct after the 6th June for waiting list information. If you wish to make an in-year application for your child to attend St Peter's then please come along to the school office on the infant site and pick up an in-year application form. You will need to provide proof of address (utility bill) and proof of date of birth of your child (birth certificate or passport). If we are unable to offer you a place due to our numbers being at full capacity, we will happily add you to our waiting list. Alternatively you can phone Admissions on 0121-303-1888 for further assistance.

Just a reminder Applications for September opens on Sunday 1st October and need to be submitted to Birmingham City Council by 11.59pm on Monday 15th January.

• In-year-application forms are available from the Infant office, School Admissions and the St Peter's website.
• We will contact you by phone if a position at St Peter's becomes available.
• In Year Applications can be e-mailed to: t.purvis@st-petersce.bham.sch.uk

Please Note All in Year Applications Need to Be Renewed at The Beginning of Every Academic Year - Ie; September - Many thanks.

Admission Policy

• Our admissions process for September admissions is part of the Local Authority coordinated scheme. Applicants must apply to their home Local Authority by the closing date. St Peters CE Primary School admission number for Reception is 60 children. Where the number of applications is lower than the school’s admission number, all applicants will be admitted.
• Birmingham Education Authority policy states that children can be admitted into a Reception Class if they are 4 years old by 31st August of the year in which they are due to start school, and if there is a place available.

Oversubcription Criteria

If the number of applications for a particular year group exceeds the number of places available each application will be given a priority and places will be allocated in the following order:

Priority 1

Children looked after by a Local Authority (in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) at the time of making an application to the school and children who were previously looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a Child Arrangements Order of special Guardianship Order immediately following having been looked after. From September this includes those children who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

Priority 2

Children who live at the same address who have the same parents. Children who live together but have separate parents but are related through marriage or adoption. This includes half-brothers/sisters or step-brothers/sisters. A formal arrangement that gives same-sex couples the same legal status as married couples. The separate children of a couple who live together; or an adopted or fostered brother or sister.

In Year Admissions (Over-subscription Criteria)

• Applications made outside the normal admissions round should be made directly to the school.
• Children can be offered admission to St Peter’s at any time during the academic year if a place becomes available when a child leaves St Peter’s. Our waiting list applications are stored in a file strictly following the admissions criteria. An ‘In Year Application Form’ is to be completed with proof of address and date of birth at the time of the application.
• The school will notify parents of the decision in writing within 15 school days and 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 their area.
• Applications received after Local Authority’s designated closing date for receipt of applications will be deemed to have been made late and will be considered after applications with the same priority that were received on time.
• Waiting lists are produced in strict order of priority, against the over-subscription criteria. Waiting lists are kept until the end of the autumn term in the year of admission. Addition of another child to the waiting list will require the list to be re-ranked.

Appeals

Parents who wish to appeal against a decision of the Governors to refuse their child a place in the school may apply in writing to the Chair of the Governing Board, who is currently Mr Mike Down, via the school office. Appeals will be heard by an Independent Panel.