primary places

[nesstaylor27]

hi after a bit of advice my daughter missed out on all 4 of our choice schools, after we submitted her form she got diagnosed with a hearing condition and on the advice of her health visitor they wrote a letter along with ourselves, her consultant and nursery teacher requesting she either stays at a current setting or a small school which we did and took to the council. she got allocated a place at a larger school is it worth trying to appeal the choice? last year they heard 79 and upheld 5 i know that they can't have more than 30 a class.

thanks, the ones we choose are small classes of 30-33 depending on school this one has intake of 60 but dont know anything about it other than that so going to phone them after easter hols we did submit a letter explaining all this from the hospital and hv

With an admission number of 60 this will be an ICS appeal if you are in England. I think this will hinge on when you submitted evidence of your daughter's condition and the strength of that evidence. If you submitted it early enough to mean the LA should have taken it into account you may be able to argue that the LA's decision was unreasonable. If it was too late you are relying on getting a sympathetic appeal panel that is willing to bend the rules a bit.

what does ICS mean please?

ICS=infant class size (set at a maximum of 30 by law)

it was submitted in December the schools we wanted had the smaller size as she can't cope in large environments has a condition called hypercausis it took till this term for her to settle into a nursery class of 30 and freaks out when put in with reception class to make a group of 60. trying to work out how to word it on the appeal form thank you all for your help this is so hard to understand

An admission number of 60 does not mean a single class of 60 children. It means two classes of 30 children. They may be in a single large classroom or in two separate classrooms. You need to find out how the offered school is arranged.

On the appeal form you simply state that you submitted evidence in December that your daughter has hypercausis and needs to be in a small school. You believe the LA has acted unreasonably in refusing entry to small schools and allocating a place at a large school.

thank you, i'm going to phone them when there back to go look round