Appeal failed - now allocated school have changed curriculum

[LivingMyBestLife]

Our appeal for our first choice of school failed, and the school we have been allocated has changed it's curriculum at a very late stage. If I'd know about it earlier I could have used it in the appeal

I know you can only appeal once a year and I doubt this is enough to get the appeal heard again now. Would it be grounds for appeal in a year's time, would a year without this subject go against us then if we did that?

There is another school far, far away that does this subject and has spaces but I'm not sure my child will want to travel that far. Such a pain!

You are arguing for a school, not against a school, so if this subject was important and particularly well taught at your appeal school, that could have been something to use in appeal.

Presuming this is not a core subject (schools can't choose not to do them) but something like Art or Music?
Worth nothing that just because the school covers it doesn't mean they will get many lessons. At my DC's school a variety of subjects is taught but most non core subjects only have 1 lesson a week, sometimes only for a term in the year in KS3. Would be hard to argue that your child was discriminated against for this level of teaching of the subject.

Good point about the core and foundation subjects RedSky, it comes under the 'offer one of these' topics so the school can choose the subject to be studied.

The appeal school taught more than one variation and cycled through them, so my child would have got to do two or three different subjects rather than just one and have a choice for GCSE. The allocated school offer one* and that's it including GCSE so it seems a little early to tie up your choices. It's a late change which has baffled a few people tbh!

*Actually they offer more than one of these subjects but will only let students do one which is chosen by the school before they start. You don't have to do a GCSE in this subject but it's an interest of my child's and we'd never have opted for the school if we had a crystal ball knew that the policy was likely to change after allocation day.

I've not found the secondary school allocation process much fun all the way along tbh, and to have this crop up just when you think nothing else can go wrong is a pain. I don't expect them to change their mind, either we change schools or find some out-of-school provision to keep it up in the meantime. More work for me either way!