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How to
apply
If your child is already attending an infant or
primary school and you wish to apply for a place at a junior school
for the year starting in September 2009, then you will need to
complete a silver application form and return to either your
preferred junior school or directly to the Admissions Team,
Children and Young People, PO Box 440, Civic Offices, Telford, TF3
4WF. This must be done by 19 December
2008.
Forms are available either from your child's current school or
directly from the Admissions Team.
You can also apply online by following the link on
www.telford.gov.uk/admissions.
Allocation of
places
For admission to junior schools priority is
given to children who have attended the linked infant school. Thus,
if a junior school has more applications than places available,
places will be allocated up to the admission number in the
following priority order:
1 Those children who are in public
care looked after by Telford & Wrekin or any other local
authority; and then
2 Those children who have attended
the linked infant school in Year 2.
If places are unavailable for all of
these children, places will be given first to:
a) children who live within the
school's defined attendance area; and have exceptional health
reasons where there is written medical evidence that admission to
the school is essential for their medical well being; and then
b) those children who live within
the school's defined attendance area and will have on the day of
admission a brother(s), sister(s), step brother(s), step sister(s),
half brother(s) or half sister(s) living as a family at the same
address and who attend the school; and then
c) other children who live in the
school's defined attendance area; and then
d) children who live outside the
school's defined attendance area on health grounds where there is
written medical evidence that admission to the school is essential
for their medical well being; and then and then
e) children who live outside the
school's defined attendance and who will have on the day of
admission a brother(s), sister(s), step brother(s), step sister(s),
half brother(s) or half sister(s) living as a family at the same
address and who attend the school; and then
f) other children who live outside
the school's defined attendance area.
If there are insufficient places for
all children in any one category places will be allocated on the
basis of relative proximity to the school, as measured by the
straight line distance with those children closest to the school
having priority. Distances are measured using the Council's
computerised mapping system.
Any places which remain available
will then be allocated to children who have not been attending the
linked infant school in Year 2 in the priority order as detailed
above.
Linked infant/junior
schools
Linked infant and junior schools in
Telford & Wrekin where the above rules apply are:
Donnington Wood Infant, Donnington
Wood Junior
Hollinswood Infant, Hollinswood
Junior
Madeley Infant, John Fletcher
Junior
Newport Infant, Newport Junior
William Reynolds Infant, William
Reynolds Junior
Wrockwardine Wood Infant,
Wrockwardine Wood Junior
Church Aston Infant School does not
have a linked Junior School. Most Year 2 pupils transfer to
Moorfield Primary School. Moorfield has 17 additional places in
Year 3 and their Key Stage 2 admissions policy gives a priority to
children who have attended Church Aston Infant School. Parents of
Year 2 children attending Church Aston Infant School may however
express a preference for a school or schools other than Moorfield
if they so wish. Moorfield's full admission policy is available
from the school.
The admission of children with a
Statement of Special Educational Needs will be in accordance with
parental preference as far as possible and will be agreed between
the parent, school and LA.
It is important that you let the
Admissions Team know if you move house during the allocation
procedure.
If your home address is near a boundary line shown on the maps in
the Primary Information booklet please contact the Admissions Team
to confirm which is your designated school.
Allocation letters will be posted to your home address on 23 March
2009. If your application is not successful you will have the same
options of review and appeal open to you as described on page 7
sections 2.2 to 2.5 of the information for parents' booklet which
is available at
www.telford.gov.uk/admissions
or from the admissions team on (01952)
380904. |