So, unfortunately, my son didn't get a yr3 place at our very oversubscribed junior school. We're planning to appeal and although the admissions team have been really helpful in explaining the process, when I asked what sort of docs/argument should I put forward to argue our case, all they could say was whatever you feel is necessary.
Our main reason for wanting this school is its pastoral care and academic reputation, in particular its maths provision as our son is already accessing the yr5 and 6 curriculum - the school he's been offered is an academy that only opened in September with only a yr3 intake so would we be able to argue that the provision for yr5/6 curriculum at that school is not there/untested, thus being detrimental to our son? Other than the fact that it is our catchment school and he won't know anyone at the allocated school, we don't have much else to back our case, and I'm not sure these would hold much weight either.
As it stands we are 14th on the waiting list, but as our favoured school has a PAN of 180, how many children are likely to win an appeal, especially as it isn't subject to infant class size?
Sorry, this has ended up an essay x