Borough of Telford & Wrekin

Guidance notes - infant/junior transfer 2008-2009

 

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 2008, 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 30 November 2007 .

Forms are available either from your child's current school or directly from the Admissions Team.

You can also apply online by clicking on the following link:
junior online application form

Your online application form must be submitted by 30 November 2007 .

 

For admission to Junior Schools priority is given to children who have attended the linked infant school. So, 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 in the school's defined attendance area; and then

 

b) those children who have exceptional health reasons where there is written medical evidence that admission to the school is essential for their medical well being; and then

 

c) those children 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

 

d) other children who live in the school's defined attendance area; and then

 

3

 

a) children who live outside the school's attendance area on health grounds where there is written medical evidence that admission to the school is essential for the medical well being of the child; and then

 

b) children who live outside the school's defined attendance area and who will have on the day of admission a brother(s) or 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 outside the school's defined attendance area.

 

If there are insufficient places for all children in categories 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b or 3c, places will be allocated on the basis of relative proximity and ease of access to the school, as measured by the straight line distance between home and school, using Telford & Wrekin's Geographical Information 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 and junior schools in Telford & Wrekin where the above rules apply are:

 

Donnington Wood Infant/Donnington Wood Junior

Dothill Infant/Dothill 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.

 

You will hear whether your application has been successful in March 2008. If it has been unsuccessful you 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.



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