My son is 4 and due to start reception this september. There has been a huge thing at his nursery (and the whole local area) as no one got in who already goes there and we are being sent nearly 2 miles away to a terrible school (it's an academy that has been in special measures for over a consistent 10 years), no one who got offered there from my sons school has accepted it. I stupidly followed advice from the admissions team who told me to accept it even though I was appealing the decision. I lost the appeal but decided that it would be better to homeschool my son until he gains a place somewhere else as he is at the top of pretty much all the lists of other local schools. I rang the admissions team to ask how I go about taking him off that school (I assumed as everything else has been done through them that they would be the first to need to know that too) but the lady seemed a bit unhappy that I wanted to take my son out of the offered school when he doesn't have another place and therefore didn't really help and kind of said, "I don't know you need to send it in writing to us and phone the school to ask them". I have emailed both the admissions team and the school to tell them he won't be able to attend, is this enough or is there something else I need to do? (I tired ringing the schoool but they must have left for the day) any advice is great thankyou as this is my only child so never done this before :/ thankyou in advance! :)