MILFORD (VA) PRIMARY SCHOOL - Hampshire County Council

MILFORD (VA) PRIMARY SCHOOL
ADMISSIONS POLICY - SEPTEMBER 2012
Written: March 2011
Review date: March 2012
Applications for admissions into the Reception Year Sept. 2012 should be received by midday on 15 th
January 2012, using the County CR2 application form or online by midnight 16 th January 2012. This
should be obtained from your local school (i.e. the one within your home’s catchment area). All
applications will be processed centrally by the Local Authority. For the main admission round, all
preferences will be considered simultaneously and ranked in accordance with admission criteria. If
more than one school can offer a place, the parent’s highest stated preference will be allocated.
All other applicants, other than Reception, should apply directly to Milford School.
In the case of over subscription, priority will be given in the following order. Places for late
applications will be allocated using the same criteria.
1. Children who are in the care of the Local Authority or provided with accommodation by that
authority in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989. (A letter from the
Children’s Services Department confirming the child’s status must be provided.
2. Children who have a serious medical, physical or psychological condition which makes it
essential that they attend this school rather than any other as supported by appropriate medical
or psychological evidence.
N.B. The governors will admit any pupil whose final statement of special educational needs
names the school. Children admitted will count towards the Published Admission Number
3. Children who live in the Church Parish of Milford on Sea (which includes Milford, Everton,
Keyhaven and Lymore*) who at the time of application have a sibling** attending the School
at the time they wish to start School.
* A map showing the boundaries of Milford Parish is available at the school.
** Siblings are defined as children living as brothers and sisters (including step and half
brothers and sisters) in the same family unit.
4. Children who live in the Church Parish of Milford On Sea whose families are involved in the
worship and work of a church who is a member of ‘Churches Together’***, and wish their
children to attend a school with a Christian ethos. A further supplementary information form
will need to be completed in support of your application. This can be obtained from the school.
. *** Member Churches of ‘Churches Together in England’
Antiochian Orthodox Church, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Cherubim and Seraphim Council of Churches, Church of
England, Church of God of Prophecy, Church of Scotland (in England), Congregational Federation, Coptic Orthodox
Church, Council of African and Afro-Caribbean Churches, Council of Oriental Orthodox Christian Churches, Ichthus
Christian Fellowship, Independent Methodist Churches, International Ministerial Council of Great Britain, Joint Council
for Anglo-Caribbean Churches, Lutheran Council of Great Britain, Methodist Church, Moravian Church, New Testament
Assembly, Oecumenical Patriarchate, (Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain) Religious Society of Friends, Roman
Catholic Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Salvation Army, Transatlantic and Pacific Alliance of Churches, United
Reformed Church, Wesleyan Holiness Church.
5. Children who live in the Church Parish of Milford On Sea who live closest to the school
based on a straight line measurement from the front door of the home to the pedestrian
school gate ( or in the case of multi occupancy dwelling, the flat door rather than the
communal entrance to the building).

6. Children living outside the Church Parish of Milford On Sea who will have a sibling attending
the school at the time of application.
7. Children living outside the Church Parish of Milford On Sea whose families are involved in
the worship and work of a church who is a member of ‘Churches Together’***, and wish
their children to attend a school with a Christian ethos. A letter of confirmation of attendance
from the Minister of their church will be required.
8. Children who live outside the Church Parish of Milford On Sea who live closest to the school
based on the measurement of a straight line from the front door of the home to the
pedestrian school gate ( or in the case of multi occupancy dwelling, the flat door rather
than the communal entrance to the building).
If the school is oversubscribed from within any of the above categories, the distance criterion as stated
above will be used to prioritise applications.
The planned admission number for 2012 is 45.
Application
The local authority will consider all applications for a Reception place, received on the correct form at
the school by the 15 th January 2012, or applied online by midnight by 16 th January 2012 and will post
confirmed decisions to parents on Thursday 19 th April 2012.
If you are due to move house, you will be asked to produce a solicitor’s letter or equivalent
evidence.
If you are told that your child can start at Milford CE Primary School, then you will be sent more
information and you will be invited to visit the school prior to your child starting.
Multiple births
If the last pupil to be offered a place within the school’s published admission number (PAN) is a multiple
birth or same cohort sibling, any further same cohort sibling will be admitted, if the parents so wish, even
though this may raise the intake number above the school’s PAN. The PAN will remain unchanged so
that no other pupil will be admitted until a place becomes available within the PAN.
Pupils with statements of special educational needs
The governing body will admit any pupil whose final statement of special educational needs names the
school. This is not an oversubscription criterion. Where possible such children will be admitted within the
PAN.
In-Year Fair Access placements by the local authority
The local authority will ensure that all pupils are placed in schools as quickly as possible. It may therefore
sometimes be necessary for a pupil to be placed by the local authority, or a local placement panel acting
on behalf of the authority, in a particular school even if there is a waiting list for admission. Such
placements will be made in accordance with the provisions of any protocol approved by the Admission
Forum, based on legislation and government guidance. If an admission through Fair Access raises the
number on roll above the PAN, no further pupil will be admitted from the waiting list until a place
becomes available within the PAN.

Starting school
Pupils reach statutory school age at the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday, but, in
Hampshire, most pupils are admitted as rising fives. Parents can request that the date their child is
admitted is deferred until later in the year or until the child reaches compulsory school age. Pupils will
normally be admitted at the start of a school term. Parents can request that their child attends part-time
until the child reaches compulsory school age. Parents of children requiring a Year R place, including
those accessing co-located nursery provision, must make an application. If parents of summer born rising
fives wish to defer their admission until they reach statutory school age, admission will be considered for
Year 1, their appropriate year group.
Admission Appeals
If you are unsuccessful in gaining a place for your child at this school, you will be informed in
writing, be given the reasons and informed of your right to appeal against the decision. Further
information and forms for appealing against the decision will be sent to parents but we would also
encourage you to talk with the head teacher about this or you could also arrange to see a member of
the Governor Admissions Committee if you wish.
Waiting Lists
When all available places have been allocated, the school will operate a waiting list. Parents who wish
their child to be included on the waiting list must inform the school in writing. Any places that
become available will be allocated according to the criteria of admission policy with no account being
taken of the length of time on the waiting list or any priority order expressed as part of the main
admission round.
The waiting list will be reviewed and revised –
‣ Each time a child is added to, or removed from, the waiting list
‣ When a child’s changed circumstances will affect their priority
‣ At the end of each school year, when parents with a child on the waiting list will be contacted
and asked if they wish to remain on the list for the following school year.
Parents may keep their child’s name on the waiting list of as many schools as they wish and for as
long as they wish.
Legislation
This policy takes account of all relevant legislation including the legislation on sex discrimination, race
relations, and disability, together with all relevant regulations and the School Admissions Code (DfE
2010).