The appeal is over!

After all my worrying, I was told today that the appeal is over and that the child concerned has a place at another school locally. Hooray, hooray. What a good result all around - the child has, apparently, been at said school for a while and is very happy there. Despite all the problems Mum was envisaging with getting him to and from school, it seems that she is coping. I am so plesaed, as I really thought we were going to lose this one and it would have had big consequences for next year.

I have to say that limiting schools to a maximum of 30 per infant class is a good move, but it really does cause problems if a child moves into the area. If the child loses an appeal, then the consequences are that they have to go to a school further away with the issues that brings regarding transport and visiting friends etc. And if the school loses the appeal, it means that they have to either employ another teacher and find another classroom or that they have to go to mixed year groups.

And certainly locally we are going to find this more and more of a problem - all of the local schools are full, all have good reputations, and houses are springing up all over the place. We'll see next year, but I suspect we will have a fair few appeals for Year Reception places next summer.