{"id":165,"date":"2021-02-23T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/fifeschoolps\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:21:09","slug":"school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/parents-carers-2\/enrollment\/school\/","title":{"rendered":"School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ENROLMENT<\/strong><br \/>\nChildren who reach the age of 5 on or before 17 August 2021, must normally start school in August 2021. Children who reach the age of 5 after August 2021, but before 29 February 2022, may also start school in August 2020, though parents are not obliged to send their<br \/>\nchildren to school until the first entry date after their fifth birthday.<br \/>\nParents of children in either of these categories are asked to enrol their child at their catchment school before Friday, 31 January 2021.<br \/>\n<strong>Choice of School<\/strong><br \/>\nParents have the right to make a placing request for the school they wish their child to attend. This applies whether the child is about to start school or whether he\/she is already attending<br \/>\nprimary, secondary or additional support needs school. Parents wishing to send their child to a school other than the catchment school should apply to the school of their choice as soon<br \/>\nas possible and, in any case, before 15 March 20201. Parents must also enrol their child at their catchment school to ensure a place is available if a placing request application is refused.<br \/>\nHeadteachers must provide information to parents on how to make a placing request for the school of their choice. In the case of children starting school for the first time \u2018Choosing A<br \/>\nSchool \u2013 A Guide for Parents\u2019 is available online at www.scotland.gov.uk. Individual school<br \/>\nbooklets will be provided by the Headteacher of individual schools and can be accessed online at www.fifedirect.org.uk. School catchment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENROLMENT Children who reach the age of 5 on or before 17 August 2021, must normally start school in August 2021. Children who reach the age of 5 after August 2021, but before 29 February 2022, may also start school in August 2020, though parents are not obliged to send their children to school until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/parents-carers-2\/enrollment\/school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21452,"featured_media":0,"parent":161,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ceresps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}