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Looking for a school place - useful tips

Thurrock School Admission Pages: https://www.thurrock.gov.uk/education-and-learning

You can find out more by:

  • visiting the school - most schools have open days
  • reading the school’s most recent Ofsted reports
  • checking school league tables, which include exam resultstalking to other parents about
  • what they think of the school

What schools must publish on their website, Schools’ websites must include:

  • the amount of money they get from taking underprivileged children (the ‘pupil premium’), what they do with it and the effect it’s had
  • details of the curriculum
  • admission criteria
  • behaviour policy
  • special educational needs policy
  • disability policy
  • links to Ofsted reports
  • links to performance data
  • the school’s latest key stage 2 and 4 attainment and progress measures

The gov.uk website has lots of information on the following topics:

Types of schools
Admission criteria
Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Complain about unfair criteria
Delaying when your child starts primary school
When applications open
Deadlines to apply
How to apply
When you’ll find out
Appealing a school's decision
Appeals for infant classes
Help preparing your appeal
When the hearing will be
What happens at the appeal hearing
Complaining about the appeals process

Home education
School Term & Holiday Dates
School attendance and absence
School Uniform
Find safe walking or cycling routes to your child's school
Help with home to school transport
Free school transport
Help with school clothing costs
Apply for school transport for a child with special educational needs and disabilities
Apply for free school meals
The National Curriculum

Dealing with your child's school
Appeal an exam result
Bullying at school
Health and safety for school children
School closures
School discipline and exclusions
Illness and your child's education
Complain about a school or childminder

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