Admissions and Waiting List

 

Policy Statement

It is our intention to make our pre-school accessible to children and families from all sections of the local community. We aim to ensure that all sections of our community have access to the setting through open, fair and clearly communicated procedures.

Over subscription Admission Criteria

When the pre-school sessions are running at full capacity a waiting list is held. This is held by the chairman of the pre-school management committee and is run according to several criteria. These are explained below, in order of priority:

a) Living in the catchment area for Guilden Morden primary school with a sibling at the pre-school at the time of admission;

b) Living in the catchment area;

c) Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at the pre-school;

d) Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at Guilden Morden Primary School;

e) Children living outside the catchment area but with a strong familial link to Guilden Morden i.e. parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle living in the catchment area.

f) Children living outside the catchment area.

If there are a number of children on the waiting list other eligibility criteria are then examined: these are time on the waiting list and birth date. Time on the waiting list takes priority over birth date. If two or more children have been on the waiting list for the same amount of time then birth date will be taken into account i.e. an older child takes priority.