Infant class sizes

[DiscoDaisy]

I keep seeing on here that ics have to be 30 by law.
Are my children just unlucky in that they have never started in the September of each year of infants with 30 in their class?
In the July before breaking up there has been 30 names on the new class lists but 6 weeks later other children have arrived at the school.
By November of the last school year my yr 2 DS was already in a class of 32.
I have had 5 children go through the same infants school and the last 4 have all had this happen in each of the 3 years they have been there.
I'm not begrudging children places at the school but when I see on here the admissions experts saying that classes should not be more than 30 unless in exceptional circumstances it just got me thinking!

Tell me about the bigger classes later on in school years!
My DD was in a class of 39 when she was in year 4 a couple of years ago.
It was one of the reasons we moved her although we were lucky to get a place elsewhere.
Where we live there are 5 infants/primary schools within 7 miles all of which are oversubscribed so anybody moving into the area gets put in the closest school to where they move to. I'm not to sure about appeals although I know of 2 people who won their appeals for the same year group who on the face of it, and going by what the experts say on here, were very lucky to have.

x posted- By the end of the year classes have been sorted to be 30 for the next year but by the september they are over again!
They have to mix year groups every year to come in at 30 per class only for it all to have gone out of the window by the september.

Discodaisy, it sounds like your LA is taking a very liberal view of the In-Year fair access Protocol which is supposed to be used when no schools are available for children moving into the area or have been permanently excluded from another school. They seem to be assuming that they should admit to the catchment school, which is not the usual interpretation of the rules.
The legal requirement is to have only 30 infant children with one school teacher. There is no actual bar on having more than 30 in the class, it is 30 with one school teacher. So unless they are excepted pupils, which they would be under the above protocol, the schools should be employing more school teachers. Which they obviously are not.