I'm from Scotland and have only just realised how different school applications are here compared to England.
(Not sure how it works in NI or Wales).
Here, you just apply to your local school approx five months before the August they're due to start and you're pretty much guaranteed a place. If there's a lot of pupils, then a new class is formed/new teacher hired. I think there were three primary one classes at my dd's schoola few years ago because of the huge number of new starts.
However, i've noticed that around this time of year, parenting forums and chat shows (Wright stuff etc) is always full of discussions about school admissions and appeals.
I've read somewhere that one mother has just found out her son hasn't gotten into the same school as her daughter. So she has to drop off her children at two different schools each day. How is this allowed?
I've heard another parent say their child has been given a place at a school which is the tenth furthest primary school from them and will take fifty minutes to travel there each day. No school transport is offered. Again, how is this allowed? How is someone supposed to afford that bus fare each day?
Also, is reception just the same as the Scottish primary one? Or is it the same as nursery?
Here, you get into nursery at 3 then start full time school (primary one)the August after your fourth brithday (if you're 4 before Feb of that year).
So where would reception fit in?
Sorry for all the questions! Just something i've always been curious about so thought i'd ask.
AIBU?
To be really confused by the English schooling system (getting into a school an hour away; appealing places etc) and ask for someone to explain it to me?
MumfordandDaughter · 17/04/2013 14:18
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