Oversubscription Criteria

When allocating a place at Fairfields Nursery we follow a criteria which is set out below.  Please note the criteria does not include when you registered.

Should all of the places be taken up before your child's allocation date, we will write to you sooner.  If the school receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate until the end of the end of the academic year. This will be maintained by the School Office 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. The waiting list will be
reordered in accordance with the oversubscription criteria whenever anyone is added to or
leaves the waiting list.

Criteria - Oversubscription criteria

When the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care plan naming the school, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria set out below, in priority order:

1. Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order.
2. A sibling at the school who is on roll at the school at the time of admission and the place of residence is within catchment of the school.
3. The child's place of residence is within catchment area of the school and there is no sibling on roll at the school.
4. There is already a sibling at the school who is expected to be on roll at the school at the time of admission and the place of residence is outside of the catchment area.
5. Children of staff at the school. Priority will be given to children of staff in either or both of the following circumstances:
a) where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years, at the time of which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or
b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a
demonstrable skill shortage.

6. Other.