Our family recently moved house. We had become overcrowded and we're in need of an extra bedroom. In September we were offered a house in a village next to where we had been living. Our new address has a school right around the corner, so we decided to enquire. We were told our eldest child would get a place straight away but we would need to appeal for our younger child who is in year 1. At the time I told the school I would leave it but they were very keen for me to look around and said appealing is a simple process. After looking at the school I felt it would benefit the family to go ahead with the move. The childrens current head teacher aggredo with us, even though he said he'd be sorry to see the children go. However tomorrow is the appeal and I am not happy with the comments that some of the school has made against us, one comment was that we moved to the area for a bigger house and the house we have now is still small. They have also stated that we have moved just to be closer to the school because it has become popular. Another statement is that there are 128 places at the school and 114 are filled. They've also said that we haven't made a formal application for our eldest child (which I haven't made because 1. I've been told it wouldn't add any weight to our case. 2. It actually caused her a lot of anxiety thinking she would have to move alone. 3. If she did move school and my other child didn't it would make things even more complicated.) I feel stressed about it all because when we went round the head teacher said he was confident we had a good enough case to win. Where as the head at our current school said the statements were unreasonable and they only ever go with the fact it would take the class size over 30. I just don't know what to do and obviously tomorrow I don't want to come over annoyed. Has anyone else had to sit and appeal before?
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