Enrolling DD at school. How?

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Me, DH and DD are currently living in Belgium, she and I will be returning to the UK next year and DH will follow the year after. while I was in England buying the house we will live in, I went and saw two junior schools and decided on one of them. How do I go about enrolling her there? Will I have to do it in person or can it be done remotely. [clueless]. I know that there will be space for her, the head told me that when I visited.
Thanks in advance.

You need to contact the local LEA, but they probably won't accept your application until you have a UK address, possibly until you have proof of living there.

If you are lucky and moving to a place where there are falling roles, then it should be straight forward. However in a lot of other areas that place may not be there when you apply.

I am assuming you are applying to state schools, if it is private it may be far easier, and you just apply to the school.

Good luck!

You need to phone or email the head and ask the procedure.

I know that all reception places have to be applied for through the LEA now, it may be different if you are applying for another year group - I hope so for your sake as it will be much simpler if you can just do it direct with the school.

LEA stands for 'local education authority' and the Head of the school you have chosen will be able to advise you how to contact them to make the application.

Brilliant, I'll get onto it tomorrow morning. Not sure if there are falling roles, when I visited the head told me there would be two places avaialble in the class. fingers crossed it is still the case. Another fingers crossed that we don't have to prove we are living there. We won't be until July.

All applications - not just those for Reception - have to be made to the LEA. Waiting lists are held in the same priority order as the admissions criteria. If there is a vacancy and nobody on the waiting list, you should get the place, but you do normally have to provide proof of your UK address. It may be that you can be allocated the place, conditional on your providing proof of address when your child starts school. But the difficulty is that if other people are also applying for places there, distance from home to school may be an issue (as it is with all admissions) and so you need to have some address from which the distance can be measured.

Speak to the choice adviser at the LEA.

Okay, will get onto it tomorrow. Crossing fingers that there isn't a sudden influx of 9 year olds to Warrington.