Admissions Policy
As a Community School we follow the Norfolk County Council policy for first admission to school which is as follows:
By law children must start statutory education full time at the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday. Where admission is offered prior to compulsory school age, parents may defer their child’s entry to school until later in that year.
For Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools, children born between 1 September and the end of February may start school full time at the beginning of the autumn term before their fifth birthday.
Children born between the 1 March and 31 August may start school part time at the beginning of the autumn term before their fifth birthday and full time at the beginning of the spring term before their fifth birthday.
Langham Village School offers children who will reach their fifth birthday between 1 March and 31 August five part-time sessions each week throughout the autumn term. Our admission policy allows children to start school earlier than the law requires. However the law also allows parents to ask for their child to be admitted but lets them delay the start date until later in the school year.
Your child must start school by the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday and the place must be taken up by the start of the summer term. If you inform us that you wish to delay your child’s entry, the place will be held and will not be offered to another child.
In accordance with the new LEA admission guidelines parents must complete a ‘Common Application Form’ stating three school preferences this is then sent to Norfolk County Council by 31 December. Parents are informed of their selected school towards the end of April 2007.
In the event of the first preference not being available the second then third choices will be offered. This decision lies with the LEA.
In the case of oversubcription the authority will give preference to children living nearest to the school according to the following rules in order of priority:
- Children with a statement of special educational needs naming that school.
- Children in public care who are due to start school and live in the area served by the school.
- Children who are due to start school, living in the area served by the school who have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.
- Children who are due to start school, living in the area served by the school who have a brother or sister attending the adjoining middle/junior school.
- Children who are due to start school, living in the area served by the school with no brother or sister at that school or the adjoining middle/junior school.
- Children who are due to start school, living outside the area served by the school who have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of their admission.
- Children who are due to start school, living outside the area served by the school who have a brother or sister attending the adjoining middle/junior school.
- Children who are due to start school, living outside the area served by the school who have no brother or sister at that school or the adjoining middle/junior school.
