If you are enrolling your child for the first time, look out for advertisements in your local paper or shops for details of dates and times of enrolment. These normally take place in January, before the intended start in August.

If you are seeking a place for your child in DUNROBIN PRIMARY SCHOOL, please telephone the Head Teacher who will arrange a time for you to visit the school, discuss any queries you may have and if necessary, arrange to give you a tour of the school.

The Education (Scotland) Act 1981 gives you, as parents, the right to choose a school for your child.   The law applies if you want your child to change school as well as when he/she starts Primary or Secondary school.

PLACING REQUESTS

You have the right to make a placing request for your child to be educated in a school other than the local school. In December each year, the authority will advertise its arrangements for Placing Requests. There are sound educational reasons for trying to ensure that the transfer or admission of children to a school takes place at the start of a school session. Other than those who are moving home, to a new area, parents are advised to time any placing requests so that they take effect from the beginning of the new school session. Every effort will be made to try to meet the parental wishes, but you should note that it is not always possible to grant every placing request to a particular school

Placing requests to Primary School does not necessarily ensure that your child will have a direct entry into the associated Secondary. Advice on this must be sought from the Primary School Head Teacher.

Further information on placing requests and procedures is available from the school or the North Lanarkshire Council website.

Parents and Young People have a right under the Additional Support for Learning Act 2009 as amended by the Education (Additional Support for Learning)(Scotland) Act 2009 to make a placing request for their child or young person to attend a nursery (including partnership nursery), special school, special class managed by the home authority. In the event of a successful placing request the authority are not required to provide transport. The Act also enables parents and young people to make a placing request to attend a school/establishment belonging to another authority.