Rmds Pre-Enrolment Application Form (Page 2 of 4) in pdf

• A child must be at least 4 years of age before 1st September to start school.

• While recognising the right of parents to enrol their child in the school of their choice, the Board of

Management reserves the right to determine the maximum number of children in each class subject

to Department of Education and Science policy and the RMDS enrolment process.

• Since RMDS receives more applications than we can accommodate, parents seeking to enrol their

child in RMDS should submit a completed pre-enrolment application form for their child as soon as

possible after the child is born/ adopted/ fostered. Children are placed on the pre-enrolment list

based on date of receipt of pre-enrolment application. A separate application form should be

completed for each child.

• Junior Infant places will be offered in the following order:

1. Places will initially be offered to children on the pre-enrolment list who have a sibling in the

school – in order of their place on the pre -enrolment list.

2. Remaining places will be offered to children on the pre-enrolment list, in order of their place on

the pre-enrolment list.

3. If the incoming Junior Infants class based on steps 1 and 2 above would fail to assist the school’s

commitment to an ethos of diversity and inclusiveness, the Board of Management has the discretion

to offer up to three (3) of these Junior Infant places within the class to children further down the list

who would assist this goal.

Where Junior Infant places that have been accepted are subsequently cancelled, they will be offered

to the remaining children on the pre-enrolment list in accordance with the prioritisation above.

Where a child is offered a place in Junior Infants and entry is deferred, the child’s name will be

placed on the pre-enrolment list for Junior Infants for the following year on the basis of the date of

the original pre -enrolment application. There is no guarantee that a place will be offered in the

following year.

Once all places in the incoming Junior Infants class have been filled (which is usually shortly before

or during the summer break), a letter issues to all applicants on the pre-enrolment list whose

children cannot be offered a place:

(i)

Informing them that their application for a place cannot be met by the school;

(ii)

Informing them that in the event of any late occurring places in Junior Infants, places will

be offered to children in order of their place on the pre-enrolment list.

(iii)

Inviting them to inform the school in writing if they want to put their child’s name on a

waiting list for places in that class that may arise in future years.

If a parent/guardian feels they have been refused a place in the school, they have a right of appeal

to the Department of Education and Skills under Section 29 of the Education Act 1998, details on

Rmds Pre-Enrolment Application Form Page 2