In Year, KS1 admissions appeal advice please

[Purplefi]

Hoping that someone might be able to give me a bit of advice or been through similar?

We are wanting to appeal for a place for DD, who is currently on the waiting list, however I'm pretty sure from what I've read on here that at the moment we wouldn't win due to class size. She's currently in Year 1 and there is a combined reception, Year 1 class with 15 in each, so total of 30 to 1 teacher.

However Year 2 is taught as a separate year group and therefore ratio is 1 teacher to 15, and obviously it's then Year 3 after, which is then KS2 and I believe has more scope for going over 30.

I'm wondering if it's worth appealing, is the limit on the size set for each year, so they couldn't go over 15 or is it just that class can't go over 30. If we do appeal when to do it, do we have to wait for Year 2 to start and then appeal?

The infant class size regs would apply in this year as you have a class of 30. The likelyhood of success if you are on the waiting list is nil unless you can show that the admission authority made a mistake in giving a place to another pupil when it should have been your DD.
If I read your post correctly the year 2 class only has 15 pupils in it. As such as soon as you get to year 2 it becomes a "normal" admission, when it is about the strength of the school's case not to admit and your daughters case to admit. I am guessing but I assume that the school has a year 3/4 class and a year5/6 class, so the schools case will be about the lack of space etc in those years. They can hardly claim that for a class of 15 unless the room is tiny.
I would be tempted to apply for a place for September start about the middle of June. You will be told no and then ask to go to appeal, which should be by the middle of July, just as the schools break up. Dont appeal to early as the appeal will then be for year 1, when you have little chance of success.
The other thing to note is that you are allowed one appeal per academic year, so if you appeal in June it is one academic year and after September is another academic year! I have no doubt they will tell you that you can only appeal once a year but it is based on academic year

That's great information, thank you so much. It's helped me with ideas of dates to do things if no place becomes available before then. We have been on waiting list for over a year and brother already in the school. Would really like them both in the same place.

Agree with Admission. I would add that you need to make sure you have a decent case with positive reasons as to why your daughter will benefit from going to this school. Just wanting her at the same school as her brother isn't a winning case, I'm afraid, unless the LA's case to refuse admission is so weak that the panel decide that they can accommodate your daughter without problems.

When you do submit your appeal you will get plenty of help here on how to approach the LAs case and what kind of arguments will help your case.