Junior school appeal

[MJIM]

Hi
I am appealing my DC junior school place. Im in the process of putting a case together and waiting on a date for the appeal. So daunting, really feeling the pressure to get this right for my DC as its our only shot, the schools waiting list is huge :(
Just wondering if anyone can help with a few questions...

1.We have a supporting GP letter re medical grounds, GP has said he strongly recommends my DC stays with their peers DC is in an infant school now and is transitioning into junior) all DC friends will be going to. Allocated school DC knows no-one. Is this enough for GP to say he strongly supports DC is to stay with peers and not specifically name the school? GP has of course discussed/confirmed DC condition and said it will damage DC mental and physical health if DC is separated.

2.RE stage 1, I'm not sure what we could argue if anything? RE school sizes they are at capacity but i have got a document from the last 3 years to show they have turned over 1 appeal each year and taken PAN from 30 to 31 children, do i have to send a copy of this in and mention it in my appeal statement and submit it with all of my documents GP letters and my statement etc? Or can this just be discussed on the day? Or do the appeal panel have this sort of info anyway? Is there anything i should be preparing or asking/researching re stage 1?
Not sure if i should be addressing stage 1 things just on the day or in my statement?

Also do we get the schools case when we get the appeal date? Do i wait until then to submit my documents?

Lots of tears and sleep are being lost :(

Thanks

Yes you do get the schools case about a week before the appeal date. It will say all sorts of things like the classrooms are too small, the corridors narrow, the hall to small because they have to show prejudice over and above being at PAN. Do not get put off by the school' case it is all usual stuff and appeal panels will have heard it 100s of times before.
If the doctor is strongly recommending that is OK. What you need to do as best you can is establish how many of his cohort are going to the preferred school as that is the other piece of information that the panel will want to go with the doctor's note.
If the appeals were allowed in previous years then the figures will show up on the school' case as they have to disclose the numbers in each class. The panel will ask how they got to 31 but if they under appeal it does not particularly help your case, which is because the panel are told to consider each appeal in their own right. It helps that the school can accommodate 31 in classes without problems but you do not know and neither do the panel know the strength of the case to admit in these cases.

Hi
Thanks for getting back to me.
Great so i do i need to find out which of my DC friends are going to this school? Name them in the statement i put forward? Or can i just say her friendship groups/peers are all transitioning to the said school, then i have GP letter supporting DC needs to stay with her peers? I do know everyone in her class bar 1 student is (who isn't someone my child plays with) Or how many in the whole year group? All of DC friends are going up to the junior school we applied for...from what i know all 90 children bar 4/5 have been given places, the few who haven't aren't my DCs friends and they haven't been offered spaces in the offered school so it will be totally unfamiliar for DC.
Is there anywhere i should request this info re admissions to the junior from infant?
Ok great, i don't have any idea if the admissions has been followed properly with regards to stage 1 so i don't really have a case for that bit other than they have overturned 1 appeal each year and taken PAN to 31 in some classes. I also have the admission numbers for the whole year groups and they are 4/5 over PAN overall but again i dont feel like i know what I'm doing with these figures other than saying they have done it before can they not do it again in these circumstances.
Thanks

Anyone?

No you do not need to name those going to the school, the panel will accept the information at face value.
As the appeal is for year 3, there is no issue over infant class size regulations, so in theory the school can have classes above 30. Because the PAN is 30 they will say they are full at 30 but you already know that appeal panels have admitted to 31 in some classes. You are now saying that you have some other figures, that are 4/5 over PAN overall. I am not sure whether you mean 4/5 pupils across the whole school or the year 3 cohort or just one class. Please could you confirm exactly what information you have for the junior school. You mention 90 pupils at one stage. So is the PAN for the junior school 90?