BroadstoneFirst School

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First School Admissions Policies

• Broadstone First School Admissions Policies
• Parents Guide to Starting First or Primary School 2026
• Parents Guide to Starting Junior or Middle School 2026

If your child has been refused a place to start at your preferred school in September 2025 and you wish to appeal this decision, please contact the Governance Officer, Broadstone First and Middle Schools, g.downing.gov@bmsweb.co.uk expressing your wish to appeal.

Please be aware of the following before contacting us:

General:

• Appeals lodged after these dates will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline or 30 school days of being lodged, whichever is the later date.
• You will receive at least 10 school days’ notice of your appeal hearing date. School days do not include school holidays, inset days, bank holidays or weekends.
• Appeals are heard during the daytime on weekdays and are not normally heard during school holidays. Where there are multiple appeals for places at the same school, the hearings may go over a number of days.
• The school’s case will be made available to parents and Panel members at least 5 school days before the start of the appeal hearing.
• Additional evidence may be submitted up to 5 working days before the hearing.
• Any additional evidence received after this date might not be considered at the appeal hearing. The Appeal Panel must decide whether it should be considered taking into account its significance and the effect of a possible need to adjourn the hearing
• Following the hearing, decision letters will be sent, where possible, within 5 school days of the end of the hearing. During busy periods, such as main entry, full decision letters may take longer than this, so the Clerk will send a brief decision summary email in the interim.
• Appeal hearings for in-year places will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

Late appeals and in-year appeals will be heard in line with the deadlines set out in the School Admission Appeals Code.

Broadstone First School In-Year Applications

In-year Applications are when you wish to move your child from one school to another part way through their time at a school.

Together with other schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and in accordance with statutory requirements, Broadstone First School has agreed to join the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admissions scheme for the entry admission and transfer process for 2025-26. Therefore, the in-year application and allocation process will be handled by the Local Authority.

Full details of the application process, and the main application form, can be found on the BCP website on the link below:-

https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/school-admissions/requesting-a-school-place-during-the-school-year

Appeals against In-Year Applications

If your child has been refused a place at your preferred school and you wish to appeal this decision, please contact the Governance Officer, Broadstone First and Middle Schools, g.downing.gov@bmsweb.co.uk expressing your wish to appeal.