In-Year Admissions

So despite applying late, our first choice primary school had several openings in our son's year and he got in!

Secondary school for our daughter, however, is another story.  We listed 3 schools for her, she is 24th, 40th, and 28th on their waiting lists. Just sent in one more to a neighboring borough yesterday.  School starts fairly soon. They have to provide a place somewhere for her, right? And we can appeal?
Would appreciate any insight into this process...

Yes, by law the council does have to find a place for her. That's why it's important to get the appeal started; the committee that oversees that process will have to determine what to offer her.

You would start it now?

Yes, immediately. The panel then has to begin the process of checking if any of the schools have the capacity to take an extra student, or finding the closest school with an opening (which may be under a different education authority.)

Either way, they have to resolve it with a place somewhere for your daughter, and it's best to get that going now.

Thanks for the advice! I thought an appeal was made as to why a child should go to a specific school?

Thanks for the advice! I thought an appeal was made as to why a child should go to a specific school?

That's what we did when faced with a similar circumstance.  We looked on the school website and found some bunkem about how the school was uniquely teaching languages.  Then we wrote an appeal that was filled with just as much gibberish about our kid being bi lingual and our kid had to go to this school because of this. 

Also, my wife kept visiting the office and made sure to make it clear that we cared about it.  Literally, she checked 3 times a week.

I don't know if any of this helped, but our kid did get into the school. 

That's what we did when faced with a similar circumstance.  We looked on the school website and found some bunkem about how the school was uniquely teaching languages.  Then we wrote an appeal that was filled with just as much gibberish about our kid being bi lingual and our kid had to go to this school because of this. 

Also, my wife kept visiting the office and made sure to make it clear that we cared about it.  Literally, she checked 3 times a week.

I don't know if any of this helped, but our kid did get into the school.

Thanks! We are Anglican and our first choice school is C of E.  Also it focuses on the built environment, something that interests our daughter a lot.