If you are refused a place, the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 gives you the right to appeal against the decision. There is no right of appeal for applications to nursery classes or out of normal age group admissions. The law states that infant class sizes cannot be above 30 pupils, so appeals panels can only allow an additional pupil into Reception in exceptional circumstances, i.e. if they decide that:

• your child would have been offered a place if the admission arrangements had been properly implemented;
• the admission policy for the school was not compliant with the government’s School Admissions Code and this meant that your child was not offered a place; and/or 
• the decision to refuse admission was not one which a reasonable admission authority would have made in the circumstances of the case.

An appeal form can be collected from the School Office or downloaded from here.  We must receive your appeal form by 31 May 2022 at the latest. Failure to appeal by this date may result in your appeal not being heard.

If you decide to appeal, it is vital that you still accept an offer of a place at another school, as there is no guarantee the appeal will succeed. Accepting this place will not prejudice the outcome of your appeal.

Our appeals timetable for 2022/23 is summarised as follows: