I need help writing a decent "Placing Request" letter

[Lauren1975]

Hi

I have just met with my son's nursery school in relation to this transition to primary 1.

In the past month our family have moved just outside (by one mile) the catchment area for the nursery and primary school and as a result I need to write a "Placing Request" letter to the head teacher.

My main reasons for wanting to keep him at this school are:

1. their results in the curriculum for excellence
2. their proximity between our new family home and his grandparents (his carers when my husband and I work)
3. the supportive staff to bother my son and my family.

Does anyone have any experience of writing this type of letter and the content that should go into it ... or any templates??

many thanks

I had no idea that you could write letters like this. Surely to be done fairly they have to take pupils in order of distance and that most families have very similar reasons to you for wanting to get a space?

Also - One miles seems a long way, not "just outside" the catchment, if it is a particualry desirable school. Round here the best 2 schools (primary) catchments areas are 0.2 miles and 0.3 miles as the crow flies.

I'm surprised too. I think here, that the heads don't know who they're getting until the admissions team have sorted it.
I could have misunderstood myself though.

Personally, I have to say that I think it's very unfair, if it is indeed an oversubscribed school.

The place you take, if they give you one due to the "placing request reasons" could have gone to a family who live much closer. Resulting in them having a longer travel to the school their dc is allocated.

Why can't your dc go to your nearest primary.

Nursery friends very rarely stay friends later into life anyway. Most recpetion kids only know one or two or no kids at all when they start, they make friends so quickly, that's not a worry.