Admissions to County and Voluntary Controlled Schools will be determined on the basis of a catchment area.

Children are admitted into the Foundation Stage at the beginning of the academic year in which they are five.

Children leave Russell Lower School at the end of the school year in which they are nine.

The reception class has a once a year admission policy for 4+ children which is in the second week of term following Home Visits

TRANSFER TO MIDDLE SCHOOL

Early in the year in which transfer is due to take place, the Area Education Officer writes on behalf of the Chief Education Officer, to all parents of the children due to transfer the following September, giving them full details of the transfer arrangements. Each school has a defined catchment area and this enables children to be allocated a place at a school in accordance with the place of residence of the parents. As part of the 1980 Education Act parents have been granted the option to apply to any school of their choice for the admission of their child.

LIAISON

Most of the children move on to the local middle school and there is close liaison between not only the middle school but the other lower schools in the area as well. Staff from the lower and middle schools meet to discuss areas of the curriculum and common links have been established.

Transfer Programme - Alameda Middle School

December - Christmas Celebration for the lower school Year 4 at Alameda

July - Head of Year 5 visit to discuss individual children with class teachers.

All day visit to Alameda to meet new teachers and class.

School Project Book to be started at Lower School and completed at the Alameda Middle School.

August - Reports and records transferred to Alameda. 

October - Year 4 and Year 5 teachers meet to discuss the progress of the pupils who transferred in September.