YSGOL GYNRADD PENYRHEOL
PENYRHEOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Putting Children First
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Admission Policy
2011 - 2012
Date of Review: January 2012 Signature: A J Williams
Date of Review: ______Signature: ______
Date of Review: ______Signature: ______
ADMISSIONS POLICY
Children admitted into School from other Schools
When a child is admitted into Penyrheol Primary School during the school year, the following procedures are undertaken:-
· Local Authority guidance on admission arrangements and schedule of admission arrangement dates reviewed annually (see Appendix 4-5)
· Parents/carers will receive a copy of the school Prospectus and Home School Agreement (included individual pupil reading records).
· Parent/carer will be required to complete an admission form including Authorised Collection from School form, Safe Use of Images Consent form and Request for Administration of Medicines form (see Appendix 1-3)
· Parent/carer and child will attend an admission meeting with the headteacher where key information can be shared re Additional Learning Needs, health, behaviour and any other needs.
· When possible, the child will be given a ‘taster/induction’ morning or afternoon before attending school full time.
· Records from previous school will be requested including confidential history i.e. social services/child protection/multi agency involvement.
Appendix 1
YSGOL GYNRADD PENYRHEOL
PENYRHEOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Putting Children First
Plant yn Gyntaf
Headteacher: Frampton Road
MRS A J WILLIAMS Penyrheol
B.Ed, NPQH Gorseinon
SWANSEA SA4 4LY
04 January 2012
REQUEST FOR SCHOOL TO ADMINISTER MEDICATION
The school will not give your child medication unless you complete and sign this form, and the Headteacher has agreed that staff can administer the medication.
DETAILS OF PUPIL
Surname ______
Forename(s) ______
Address ______
Condition or illness:
______
M/F ______Date of Birth ______Class ______
MEDICATION
Name/type of Medication (as described on the container)
For how long will your child take this medication ______
Date dispensed: ______
Dosage & Method ______
Timing ______
Special Precautions ______
Side Effects ______
Self Administration: ______
Procedures to take in an emergency:
______
Contact Details:
Name: ______
Phone No: ______(Home)
______(Work)
______(Mobile)
Relationship: ______
Address: ______
I understand that I must deliver the medicine personally to (agreed member of staff) and accept that this is a service which the school is not obliged to undertake.
Date: ______Signature(s) ______
______
Relationship to Pupil: ______
Appendix 2
YSGOL GYNRADD PENYRHEOL
PENYRHEOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Putting Children First
Plant yn Gyntaf
Headteacher: Frampton Road
MRS A J WILLIAMS Penyrheol
B.Ed, NPQH Gorseinon
SWANSEA SA4 4LY
Dear Parent
COLLECTION OF CHILDREN FROM SCHOOL – NAMED PEOPLE
Please help us to ensure the safety of your child by filling in the details on the form. The form is about who is allowed to pick your child up from school, or whether your child can go home on their own.
These details are important, please think carefully when completing the form. Please contact the school if you are not sure how to complete the form.
The reasons we need you to fill in this form:
§ The safety of your child at our school is our most important responsibility and filling in this form will help us do this part of our job even better.
§ Sometimes parents will want to take children’s friends home to play with them and we need to know whether they are allowed to go.
§ Sometimes relationships within families break down and either Mum or Dad needs to take sole responsibility for the child. We need to know if the other partner has the legal right to pick the child up from school.
Names of people who collect your child from school:
§ Please put relationship to family (e.g. friend of family, mother’s brother, grandfather, etc.). It would help us if you include their telephone number but you do not have to. The people you name will have to either carry identity or be introduced to the class teacher beforehand.
This form is important, please fill it in and return it to the class teacher
Thank you for your help in this.
Yours sincerely
A J WILLIAMS
HEADTEACHER
YSGOL GYNRADD PENYRHEOL
PENYRHEOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Putting Children First
Plant yn Gyntaf
COLLECTION OF CHILDREN FROM SCHOOL – NAMED PEOPLE
My child’s name is: ______
My child’s date of birth is: ______
My child is allowed to be collected from school by:
Full Name / Male/Female / Relationship to
Family / Telephone No.
Please ü boxes as appropriate
My child can be released to an adult they recognise and trust
I may change who picks my child up by telephoning the school
I will write to the school to make any changes
My child can be released at the end of the day to find their own way home.
Signature of parent/guardian: ______
Today’s Date: ______
Appendix 3
YSGOL GYNRADD PENYRHEOL
PENYRHEOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Putting Children First
Plant yn Gyntaf
Photographic Consent Form
To Name of the child’s parent or guardian:Name of Child:
School: / Penyrheol Primary School
Occasionally, we may take photographs of the children at our school. We may use these images in our school’s prospectus or in other printed publications that we produce, as well as on our website. We may also make video or webcam recordings for school-to-school conferences, monitoring or other educational use.
From time to time, our school may be visited by the media who will take photographs or film footage of a visiting dignitary or other high profile event Pupils will often appear in these images, which may appear in local or national newspapers, or on televised news programmes.
To comply with the Data Protection Act 1988, we need your permission before we can photograph or make any recordings of your child. Please answer the questions below, then sign and date the form where shown and return the completed form to the school.
Please Circleyour answer
May we use your child’s photograph in the school Prospectus and other printed publications that we produce for promotional purposes? / YES/NO
May we use your child’s image on our website? / YES/NO
May we record your child’s image on video or Webcam? / YES/NO
Are you happy for your child to appear in the media? / YES/NO
Please note that websites can be viewed throughout the world and not just in the United Kingdom where UK law applies.
Please note that the conditions for use of these photographs are on the back of this form.
I have read and understood the conditions of use on the back of this form
Parent’s or Guardian’s signature ______Date:______
Name (capitals): ______
YSGOL GYNRADD PENYRHEOL
PENYRHEOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Putting Children First
Plant yn Gyntaf
Conditions of Use
The form is valid for *two years from the date of signing /*for this project only. The consent will automatically expire after this time.
We will not re-use any images *after this time / *after the project is completed.
We will not include details or full names (which means first name and surname) of any child or adult in an image on video, on our website, or in printed publications, without good reason. For example, we may include the full name of a competition prize winner if we have their consent. However, we will not include the full name of a model used in promotional literature.
We will not include personal e-mail or postal addresses, or telephone or fax numbers on video or on our website or in printed publications.
If we use images of individual pupils, we will not use the name of that child in the accompanying text or photo caption without good reason. And if a pupil is named in the text, we will not use a photograph of that child to accompany the article without good reason. For example, we may include a picture and full name of a competition prize winner if we have their consent. However, we will not include a picture and full name of a model used in promotional literature.
We may use group or class images with very general labels, such as ‘a science lesson’ or ‘making Christmas decorations’
We will only use images of pupils who are suitably dressed, to reduce the risk of such images being used inappropriately.
*Please delete the option that does not apply.
Appendix 4
ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS 2011/2012 (Infant, Junior, Primary)
Initial Placement, Parental Preference and Transfer Requests
The Local Authority, the LA, is the admitting authority for all community schools in the area.
Admission to Infant, Junior and Primary Community Schools
Each child about to commence full time education or transfer between an infant and junior school will be invited to apply for a place at the catchment school maintained by the LA.
Parents can either apply in writing for a place at the catchment school or express a preference for a placement at an alternative school. Requests for a preferred placement will be granted unless to do so would:
· prejudice the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources, and
· for voluntary aided schools, be incompatible with the admission arrangement agreed between the Governing Body and the LA.
Those parents who express a preference in writing for a place at any school will be given priority over those who have not.
(a) Admission Limits – Community Schools
All schools must admit up to their Admission Number in the year of entry (ie. Reception in Infant and Primary schools and Year 3 in the following Junior schools – Brynhyfryd; Clydach; Gorseinon; Pentrepoeth and Tregwyr). In the year of entry a child will be refused a place once the Admission Number has been reached. Parents who are refused a place at the school must be given right of appeal.
The Admission Number applies to all year groups.
(b) Admission Criteria – Community Schools
If more applications have been received for any school than there are places available, the following order of priority will apply:
1. Children who are in the care of the Local Authority (LAC).
2. Children who live within the school’s defined catchment area. If there are more applications than places, the places will be allocated in distance order with those living nearest (shortest available walking route) receiving priority*.
3. Children who have a brother or sister attending the school at the date of their admission.** If there are more applications than places, the places will be allocated in distance order with those living nearest (shortest available walking route) receiving priority*.
4. For entry to a community junior school, children attending a designated partner infant school but who live outside the catchment area of that school. If there are more applications than places, the places will be allocated in distance order with those living nearest (shortest available walking route) receiving priority*.
5. Other children for whom a place has been requested for whom criteria 1 to 4 above do not apply. If there are more applications than places, the places will be allocated in distance order with those living nearest (shortest available walking route) receiving priority*
*The measurements will be taken from outside the entrance to the property (house or flat) to the nearest official school entrance. A computer programme is used when undertaking the measurement.
**A brother or sister will be defined as a natural or legally adopted child of either parent living at the same address. In any circumstances in which there is one place available and the next eligible children are twins/triplets then the LEA will admit both/all children.
*Note that schools have a duty to admit children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs who have been placed in a school by the LA and these pupils are counted towards the number admitted up to the Admission Number unless they are placed in a Special Teaching facility with planned places.
Requests for admission to voluntary aided schools will be determined by reference to admission criteria set by the Governing Body. (The Governing Bodies of Voluntary Aided Schools are responsible for determining their own admission arrangements).
Requests for children to transfer between schools at periods other than the normal transfer age will be determined by applying the above admission criteria.
The LA will not provide transport or make any contribution towards transport costs for children admitted from outside the school’s defined catchment area. However, if the catchment area school is full in the year group, transport will be provided to the next nearest school with room if that school is more than 2 miles from home.
(c) Admission Procedures – Community Schools
Parents will be asked to apply in writing, for a place for their child at the catchment school or to state a preference for an alternative placement using the Admissions form.
Parents who wish to express a preference for an alternative placement should apply to the preferred school using the admissions application form.
Parents should complete one form only.
Requests for admission will be granted provided there are places available. Where admission requests exceed the number of places available, as determined by the published Admission Number, applications will be allocated by applying the LA’s admission criteria.
Children attending the nursery class of a school and living outside the defined catchment area will not have an automatic right of admission to full time education at the same school. Parents will need to apply for a place along with other applicants.
Although the LA permits pupils to start Reception full time at the start of the year in which they become five, the law does not require a child to start school until the start of term following the child’s fifth birthday. Therefore, if the parent of a Reception child wishes to defer entry until later in the school year a place must be allocated to this child and this place is not available to be offered to another child. Entry cannot however be deferred beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday nor beyond the academic year for which the original application was accepted.