Introduction
This admissions policy applies to the following schools that have maintained nursery units attached to the schools:
- Weymouth, Bincombe Valley Primary School
- Weymouth, Holy Trinity CE VC Primary School
- Weymouth, Wyke Regis Infant School
The maximum number of children that can be admitted is determined by the individual nursery with regard to staffing and square footage in accordance with national guidance.
Admissions are administered by each individual nursery unit. Applications should be submitted by the adult who has parental responsibility for the child.
Admission to a Nursery Unit does not guarantee admission to the attached school. A separate application must be made for transfer from the Nursery Unit to the School which will be considered in accordance with the LA’s admissions policy for community and voluntary controlled schools.
- Where all parental preference applications for places at the Nursery Unit can be satisfied all children seeking a place will be admitted.
- Where there are too few places available to satisfy all parental preference applications (as measured against the maximum limit identified above), places will be allocated according to the following priority order:
- a “Child in Care” or who was “previously a “Child in Care”
- children who the authority accepts have an exceptional medical or social need and where there is a need for a nursery place at one specific nursery
- children living within the attached school’s catchment area who will have a sibling(s) attending the Nursery Unit at the time of application and admission
- children living within the attached school’s catchment area
- children living outside the attached school’s catchment area and who will have a sibling(s) attending the Nursery Unit at the time of admission
- children of staff with at least two years continuous service at the nursery unit or who have been recruited to a vacancy to meet a demonstrable skills shortage as at the date of application and who still intend to be employed at the Nursery Unit at the time of the child's admission
- all other children living outside the attached school’s catchment area
Please see footnotes section for further details on the above.
Where there are too few places available to satisfy preferences expressed within any of the priority order categories set out above, places will be allocated on the basis of the child’s closeness to the preferred Nursery Unit (defined by straight line measurement using a geographical information based system which identifies the straight line distance between the home address and the school from an easting and northing for the two locations).
In the event that the Governing Body is unable to distinguish between applications despite applying the criteria set out above, lots will be drawn by an independent person (of the Governing Body) to determine the final place(s).