Admissions
Admissions
Pebsham Primary Academy is part of The Kemnal Academies Trust and has Academy status. Therefore the Academy Trust is the admission authority for the school.
Admission Number
There is no proposed change to the admission number. The Governors intend to admit a maximum of 30 pupils to Reception Year in September 2024.
Application process for children entering Reception
Applications, for the September 2024 intake (Academic year 2024/25) should be made using the East Sussex County Council’s application procedure. Parents can apply online at www.eastsussex.gov.uk. The closing date for Reception Year applications is 15 January 2024.
Late Applications
Any application that arrives after the closing date of 15th January 2024 for entry in September 2024 will be dealt with after the main allocations have been made. These late applications will be placed on the waiting list for the Reception Class. At this point the oversubscription criterion (see below) applies and the child at the top of the waiting list will be offered a place should one become available.
Oversubscription Criteria
If there are more applications than places available, the criteria below will be used to determine which children are offered the available places, and will be applied in the following order of priority:
Looked After Children and Adopted Children.
Looked After and adopted children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following being looked after, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted
Children who will have a brother or sister at the school at the time of admission.
Children are siblings if they are full, half/step, adoptive or foster brother or sister living in the same household.
Children who have siblings attending Glyne Gap School
Children are siblings if they are full, half, adoptive or foster brother or sister living in the same household who will be attending Glyne Gap School at the date of the applicant’s entry to Pebsham Primary Academy in Years R – 6 of the Academy.
Currently employed staff’s children
Currently employed staff’s children, if they are full, half/step, adoptive or foster children, living in the same household as the member of staff.
Other children
Tiebreaker
In the event of a tie-break, the child living closest to the academy will be given priority for admission. Distance is measured from the child’s home to the front gates of the academy in a straight line.
In-Year applications 2020/21 and for children starting school in Reception during the school year 2021/22
In-Year applications 2021/22 and for children starting school in Reception during the school year 2022/23
In-Year applications 2022/23 and for children starting school in Reception during the school year 2023-2024
In-Year applications 2023/24 and for children starting school in Reception during the school year 2024-2025
In-Year applications 2024/25 and for children starting school in Reception during the school year 2025-2026
Waiting Lists
The Academy will operate a waiting list for each year group. Where in any year the Academy receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate until the end of the first term after the academic year has commenced. This will be maintained by the Academy and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application.
Children’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria.
In Year applications
Application for a place in the school during the academic year may be made directly to the school or through East Sussex County Council’s application process available at www.eastsussex.gov.uk.
Appeals
Where the Academy is unable to offer a place because the Academy is oversubscribed, parents have the right to appeal to an independent admission appeal panel.
Your appeal will be heard at what is called a Hearing, within a time scale of 40 school days from 15th May 2024. It is likely to be heard by Thursday 18th July 2024.
All other appeals known as ‘in-year’ admissions and those for Year R submitted after 17th May 2024 will be heard within 30 school working days of submitting the request.
Your appeal request should state your reasons for your request and any additional information/documentation/appendices should be submitted five days before the Hearing to allow time for it to be copied and distributed to all the interested parties. At least 10 working days before your appeal, unless you choose to waive this right, you will be sent detailed information regarding the process and also the date and names of the independent panel members who will hear the appeal.
The school is unable to guarantee that any original work/evidence/folders, submitted as part of the appeal, will be returned. Appellants may wish to submit copies in advance and then take important original documents verifying evidence to the appeal.
If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the school office.