Information for Parents

If your home is more than 1 mile from Free home the catchment school and your child is to school transport under eight years of age or your home is The Council has a more than two miles from the catchment policy on free home to school and your child is eight years of age school transport. Please or over, your child may be entitled to free contact the Travel and home to school transport. If you think this Transport Team for is the case, please contact the Travel and further details. Transport Team (details overleaf). Cross boundary If you move to a new home and there is placing requests no place available at the catchment area both into or out of school for your child, the Council will Services to People provide free home to school transport to the Council area receive nearest suitable school, until such time as a no financial assistance Education and Community Services place becomes available at the catchment with transport or other area school, subject to the normal distance associated costs. entitlement criteria. usefuL contacts b) You can choose to keep your child at his/ her current school. To do this you must Facilities schools make a special kind of placing request & welfare team for “continued attendance”. You can get Tel: 01259 452499 a placing request form from your child’s [email protected] school, from the Facilities, Schools and Moving Home and Welfare Team (details overleaf) or at travel & transport team Your Child’s Attendance at School www.clacksweb.org.uk. Because your child Tel: 01259 452359 Information for Parents will be attending school as a result of a [email protected] placing request, s/he will not be entitled to September 2008 free home to school transport. Clackmannanshire council Tel: 01259 450000 However a “concession” may be granted www.clacksweb.org.uk when there is a place available on a contract hire vehicle and there is no additional cost to the Council. If the seat is subsequently needed for a distance entitled child, transport for the oldest non-entitled child will be withdrawn. BED116/Sept 2008

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MOVING HOME AND YOUR CHILD’S Each address in Clackmannanshire has Although most children attend their catchment ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL two catchment area schools, one non- school, parents have a right to ask the Council denominational and one denominational ie. for their child to have a place in any of the Roman Catholic. For example, children living Council’s schools. This is called a placing in have the catchment primary schools request. If you want to make a placing of Menstrie Primary School and St Bernadette’s request, you should submit your placing R.C. Primary School. In the secondary sector, request in writing using a placing request form. their catchment schools are Alva Academy and This form is available in all schools, from the St Modan’s R.C. High School. Facilities, Schools and Welfare Team (details overleaf) or at www.clacksweb.org.uk.

Secondary Schools and Children who attend a school other than their Associated Primary Schools catchment school, as a result of a placing request, are not entitled to free home to school transport. Claremont Primary, Park Primary, St John's Primary, Sunnyside Primary. At the end of P7, a child automatically transfers to the secondary school serving their alva academy home address, even if they have attended Catchment areas Alva Primary, Primary, Menstrie a different primary school as the result of a and placing requests Primary, Primary, Strathdevon successful placing request, so a further placing Every primary and secondary school in Primary, Primary. request may be required at this time. Clackmannanshire has a catchment (or zoned) area. Lornshill academy Moving Home If you move home, it is important that you let Abercromby Primary, Banchory Primary, your child’s school know your new address and For a primary school, this is always a Clackmannan Primary, Craigbank Primary, contact details. geographic area immediately around the Deerpark Primary, Fishcross Primary, school site. Generally, main roads, settlement St. Serf's Primary. If you move home from one school catchment boundaries or other geographic features area to another, you have two choices. will bound catchment areas. A secondary st modan's RC high school school has a catchment area made up of the St Mungo's RC Primary, St Bernadette's RC a) You can choose to move your child to the catchment areas of its associated primary Primary. school that serves the catchment area schools. Normally, children living within a in which your new house is located. If school’s catchment area attend that particular If you have access to the Council’s website, you choose to do this, simply visit the new school. When a child completes primary www.clacksweb.org.uk, you can use the school to enrol your child and let the old education, s/he will normally transfer to the postcode finder to find the catchment school school know when your child will be leaving. secondary school with which his/her primary for your home. This will ensure that his/her records are school is associated. quickly transferred.

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