If you would like to enquire about a place for your child at our school please contact Mrs Hopes on 01933 678714 who will be happy to help.  Alternatively you can contact Northamptonshire County Council on 01604 236236 asking for ‘School Admissions’ or read the information on www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

 

Admissions Policy

Oakway Infant School is classed as a Community Infant School – Urban.  The school will follow the Local Authority policy when admitting children into the school.

 

Oakway Infant School’s Published Admissions Number is 75 which means we have the capacity to admit 75 children in any one year group.  We would have to accept up to the maximum class size of 30 should any parents/carers be successful at appealing.

 

Enrolment

In the academic year (September to July) a child is 5 years of age they are entitled to a school place on the September prior to their fifth birthday.  However parents reserve the right to delay entry until that date.  After this date parents are enforced by statute to enrol their child at a school of their choice.

 

Parental choice dictates that providing the school has free places a pupil can be admitted. 

 

Copies of ‘Applying for a Primary School Place in Northamptonshire Information for Parents Booklet and paper preference forms can be collected from any primary school within the county from September onwards. Parents may like to give their details to a school beforehand. However, that this does not guarantee a place at the school and it is the parent’s responsibility to ensure an application is completed and sent to the Local Authority.  Our school admissions officer will support parents in completing the application form.

 

Admissions Criteria

If we receive more applications than places available (Pupil Admissions Number) the following admissions criteria are used to decide whom the places are offered:

 

Following the allocation of places to pupils who have a statement of special educational needs which names the school as appropriate provision, priority will be given in the following order:

 

i)                    Children in public care

ii)                  Pupils with an older brother or sister continuing at the school or the linked junior school at the time of admission of the younger child

iii)                Pupils who live closer to the preferred school than any other school

iv)                Other pupils

 

If the admission number is exceeded within criterion (iii) priority will be given to those who live furthest from the nearest alternative school.  If the admission number is exceeded within any other criterion priority will be given to those who live closest to the school.

 

 

Appeals

Parents may appeal if they have been refused a place. The responsibility for appeals rests with Northamptonshire County Council.

Parents must submit their appeal within 14 days of receiving notification that their preferred school application was unsuccessful.

Parents may appeal for a place at more than one school. Parents do not need to contact the school where the child has been allocated a place.

Parents will be invited to attend an appeal hearing where an independent appeal panel will look at the case. After all the appeals have been heard for the school, the parents will receive a letter within 7 days explaining the outcome of the appeal.

Appeals are heard by an Independent Appeal Panel consisting of three members. No member of the panel may be influenced or lobbied by Councillors, Local Politicians, nor any person employed by the County Council.

A decision by an appeal committee whether or not to offer a school place is binding on the County Council and the School.

If the appeal for a Northamptonshire community school is unsuccessful, the parents may not appeal for the same school within the same academic year unless there has been a significant material change in their circumstances.